Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-04-02

Will the time ever come, when the powers of NOR
al suason can be applied to greater advantage? They
entrench themselves behind the law-they say ''they
are engaged in lawful calling-that it is no
2of ours-they have paid for license and we have no
right to interfere in the If business" &c. And what
can we say? 1t is lawfu!--awfu to make drunkards,
beggars and manacs lawful to SOW the seeds of vice
and crme and deal out poison which produces DEATH
temporal and eternal And do we not need the aid of
law here? But how oft has wretched woman plead in
vain with the rum-seer that her husband may no lon
ger be supplied at his bar with spirits? And would
he not relent when he beheld her surrounded by her
starving children, clothed with rags and shame, and
perhaps turned out of doors in the dead of cold win
ter night Would he not weep when he their
distress, and heard their petition? No With a con-
science personating mmoveabity, he points them to
the door and orders them out! And have not been
"flled with Indignation" at such conduct? Have we
not wished for power to compel him to listen to her
cries and comply with herrequest?
But the license system was his effectual shied-lyou
could do nothing but stand by, while he supplied the
wreched husband and father with the bottle of woe,
and feel that you had power or right to prevent it.
And the anguish of that mother must burn like fire
mnquenchable by mortal hands, until natures last
struggles are ended. Has she not cursed the license
laws? Has she not cried for help to remove every
gbog-shop in the land? Has she not felt that until law
puts down this traffic, power short of miracle,
could afford prospect of relief this side of the grave
When once temperance men numerous enough
to control Legislation, they act consistently with
their professions if they refuse neglect to prohibit
this trafhe2 Must they spend all their time in trying
TO persuade men to stop drinking when they have pow
er to put the bottle out of their reach? Would this
course be eeopomiea? While we we've persuading men,
how many would be rnined Who if the bottle were
taken away from them at once, might be saved? Eve
ny days delay in such case would be giving the en-
envy the advantage. lie would have every facility for
regalnng his ground and the battle might need to be
fought over and oyer again on the very same spot
The truth is, the enemy has made tue license system
his strong hold. The only vulnerable point where
this fortress be assaled to any purpose through
the polls. The few straggew and deserters we may
pick up without the walls or persuade to Join stan
dard, do not batter down the walls, Or dsodge hin
from bis position. His main army entrenched Sc
curely within his works, and not materially weaken
cd These walls must be tumbled down, and the tren
ches filled up.
At this age ofthe world, when the love of money is
such an absorbing passion and when moral depravity
exhibits tselfin such odous forms many will be gui
ded by avarice, appetite, and sefwill, in defiance
their own, their neighbours good unless restrained
by powerful arm We may as well expect that mel
will cease to need the restraints of law in all other ca
SEES, as in this.
But some contend that it would be of no use to pas
prohibitoy laws because they would be broken Me-
will make and sell, in spite oflaw. We'll, so do me
steal, rob and murder, in spite oflaw. This argumen
lift proves any thing, proves too much. It would ove
throw all laws, human and divine; for all are dali