The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-12-27

inals to extent NJ the tables show beyond all 9th
or causes united 10 be estesmed productive of pros
p@ityt Ia Vermont our poor being supported by
town taxation, and not by county tax, Is an impac-
tcahle thing 10 obtain those salsiics drecily,Dor
Is II In fact necessary just such we'll authenticated
statements AS Those from N. York have been poured
out by the press not from state alone but from
many do the men who counsel yon 10 cast your
votes for licenses 10 afford conveniences TO dram
drinkers and 10 make temptations public, think we
cannot TeAdi
Again II has been estimated ms large numbers of
you already know, by men Of high standing, that the
Union would gain, every thing considered, ONE HUN
pred and FORTY MILLIUNs, annually, by the aho-
lIon Of that uafic which opponents desire 10 he
pronounced legal NJ your ballot boxes The lion. b.
Butler, late Attorney General of the u. States, nf
Ter careful estimate OF tho wasle Of bread stuff, of
time nnd labor Sc Sc , states thu injury 10 the Snte
OF New York alons to be, in round numbers. eight
cen millions nf dollars .. NY
Now employ your own judgments TO the sound-
ness VI these dala-remenber that the present pop
uaiion of The Union ia, say twenty mlIinns, and Of
Vermont, say three hundred thousand - make your
own allowances for differences of habits and oc NOR
ais, and say whether Vermont does NOT suffer in her
Industrial prosperity, the amount Of from one mil
hon 10 one million and half of dollars annually,
What say our opponents TO those thing, --the men
especially whose agency, direct indirect, Clstens
invisible letters on the limbs of those who cannot
walk steadily in consequence Of lntoxicaIion, and Is
wives whose natural protectors ruined IVY alcohol
Why they guess these exaageratinns! They
think (ahd with You II rests 10 annu or confirm their
thought THAT you will receive their guess good pm
per money, AT easl, in remuneration for superhuous
poor taxes and the burden upon productive labor.
| The entire wool crop Of Vermont was, at the last
census, 100000 pounds, of which the presen, val
! ne would be little less than million s. a quar-
! ter of dollars Think now Of one to one ADD half
! millions of dollars annual useless outgo But YER
h,an 4,
No doubt; but is she willing to sustain tall for no
usetu! end, unless to crafty, at once, the paates s.
the ptejudces Of part Of her body poIhicl But IT,
most unndlurally, she Is submissive all this "A
I MERE WASTE, can she bear il as an immoation by
the liquid fire poured into the vals Of her people?
| What time or patient industry spring Of vigorous
Intellect and enterprise can repuir the loss to
monweath Of her own children--her strong men and
her youth! The sophistry which merely fIches from
us a. unjust amount Of taxes-the ires, the
| nolicaI nggling and senseIess (asehoods which
! merely entail Uses, curailments and accidents in a
! hundred forms can ;e borne calmly, so long the
run interest is strong enough to impose them. But
/ tn know and seethe consequent depraVaton OF IN
dIvduals TO be cognzant of the domestic sutierngS,
TO number tie four Thousand six hundred druGkards
| which (by our own home -gahered sutistcs) exist
within her borders, and TO witness, in scanty mum
ber of instances, their pangs Of mortal delirium, -
/ sophistry reconcile her TO all this? Perhaps it
! can, her lreernen TO decide. ~ ~e
Fellow citizens, the law which, after the ordeal oil
new and prGtracted scrutiny, was lef by your beg
islature, at their last session, untouched upon the
statute book, and which empowers you to throw of,
you prefer it, the burden of these grievances, rs
| by ballot, and next by insisting OH the execution o.
! the statute IN its penalties passed subsequently
| 10 the fluctuations in Massachusetts and Connecticut
which established their legislation aa suppose, up
| on stable basis, and made the PEOPLE the arbite
! of their own civil condition. II preceded the sims
legislation Of New York, and 1t ought 10 be an ex
thaf de FfninH ia
in the body of these counties ii has, with
wheinl:ng forge 10 the two sister states first nauie
will give an impulse Of encouragement, in the thr
State to all III. sober minded and the prudent Of tina
great population in their anxious coming trial. Thos
who favored the passage Of our own truly republican
statute known you, in general, As those
who opposed Bnt now that the law has sustained
unshaksn all attacks upon it,our opponents benz
ing their efforts TO make appear, in conirarety &c
an elementary principle Of society, that restriction,
upon licenses have increased the consumption, that
the removal Of temptations, from open shops and put
lie bars to the secret recesses in which the laws
ola,ed has increased the force Of temptation
lfdny consideration at all were due TO absurd
| idea, we would oppose to il such testimony as that o
DIR. A. Allen, who volunteered to the County Con
veution lately assembled at Middebu,y. the declara
t0n that in the range of his practice during the yen
past in this region, where licenses for dram drink
| ing were admitted, there hid been an I'M
| procedentsd absence or "lnania pofu'' and othe
| diseases which originate 10 the use Of alcoholic
stiDuiants In short, the fmsy pretence, To which
| we have alluded, ia only one of the many links
| in tue strong, but trust Intellectual endea, Of
! to chain down the vue and independence Of th.
! commonwealth to the bondage Of antqualed and
4 ruiuous ideas and practices.
Go, therefore, to the pills we entreat you, FREE
! MEN, who know how exercise the reality Of con
scientious voting When such cause that OF the
afckers and drinkers hangs in suspense the endea,
TO sustain it is always vigorous aud united II j.
time, therefore, to unlerrate the value o: your
individual activity. You draw sword--you wave
no hag-but you do cast vote which may be tie
| turning point in your county, of this whole contest
| ALEX. G. TWiNING,
THOS. A. MERRILL, '7''
WM. NASH, Central Committee.
! AARON ANGLER,
S. STUDDARD,
E. W. DRURY,
Mddlebury, Dec IS, Is45