The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-12-22
ANNUAL MEETING
The VT. Temperance Society

| In the exercise of discretionary power YES
ted in the Central Committee: with refer
ence TO The particular date of the ensuing
general meeting oflhe Vermont Temperance
Society, they have fixed on the third Wednes-
day OF January next Notice is hereby Civ
&c that the meeting will be opened on
| Wednesday the 20Ih, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
and continue in session through that aud the
succeeding day. The usual invitations 10
pledged friends of Temperance from abroad
who desire 10 attend and sit as members is
hereby given.
AT no preceding period OF the moral histo-
ry Of the State has the general welfare ap-
peared 10 depend, 10 so great an extent as
at the present,on the individual exertions ant
combined spirit and energy of the advocates
and promoters OF the Temperance cause.
II is marvellous fact and must needs be ex-
citing, even TO the steady upholder, under the
old License system, Of .judicious restriction,
that the only choice oil the people is now 10
be, by lac, between an entire prohibition Of
dram selling and such an open and universal
liberty thereto as New England. we suppose,
has never witnessed since it acquired name
in the Earth. For if the majority of votes
to be cast on that question, at the meeting
of freemen on the first Tuesday of March
shall not beat least By one-ior No Ii
cense' the statute makes it imperative on the
| Courts 10 grant retail license TO every ap
| plicant OF good moral character that is, in
effect, TO every one who has moi been conric-
ted Of some immoral act SO that it may al
most be said that the power Of dramseling
will be curiailed 10 none except those who
have been, or are tenants, as criminals, of tho
Jails and dungeons. Anomalous as it may
seem that the prohibitions OF the statute
should thus be fastened on the class 10 whom
| the the traffic in alcoholic drink seems by its
fiendish attributes, 10 be most eminently suit
cd, II is an anomaly which we regard as a
favorable one, by reason gifts prese niing the
unmlxed issues OF good and Of evil
in form which makes Indifference, on the
part oil citizens, well nigh monstrous. I'm
der such circumstances the Committee may
spare the labor of special endeavors to AVA
ken any sober patriotic man TO a suitable ac-
licity: the recent legislation will have ava
kened him,-his own premonitions of impen-
ding hazard TO the general welfare will have
awakened him.-togethcr with the warning
sounds Of the fiery ruin that has always ragged
against its restraining barriers, which, VOW,
majority Of single vote for License or
even perhaps the defeat ola majority the 9TH
er way will completely prosrrate-lhe State
over.
II is not alone, an overfowing concourse
and prudent vigor, at the approaching ami
versary ofthe State Society that the present
exigency demands, but an instant and inccss-
ant activity, every where in the towns and
on the part OF local Temperance Societies.
IN orderthat the people may be brought to
understand fully the TRUR ISSUE they are to
make. Let every region be districted pei
sonal labors, in private aud in public, be
undergone-and delegates repair to Spring
field with accounts of measures well estab-
ltshed and advanced for the diffusion ofinfor-
nation and persuasive argument
And, as an indispensable instrumentality |
we hope the PRESS will not be overlooked and, |
especially, the employment: of our valuable |
auxiliary, the Vermont Temperance Her
add The sheets of this useful and. as we |
believe, generally approved publication mer-
il an extensive calculations nor can we fo,-
bear to improve the opportunity, thus incl
dentally offered. of suggesting TO Temper
ance men the expediency, Of doing each, his
part TO establish this Periodical upon foun-
dations Of no precarious stability. As to
what is expedient, in this particular. let each
man be his own judge. and on the subject es-
Pecially, of The great issue not far distant, let
there be no failure, by an united activity, that
Vermont shall have lasting cause OF saiisfac-
ton in our individual influence and 10 the re-
suit OF our ensuing Annual Meeting.
By order ofihe Committee,
Alex. C. Twning. Chairman.
Editors friendly to Temperance are reques-
ted to copy.