Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-09-24


: ,b.n stolen from starving children and hear
broken wife and without blush or mnrmur
conscience or the fantest sensation of homo
sees him reel ont under the black midnigh
knowing that he will be as likely to make h
bed on the railroad track as any where else A
aud when the morning train whistled in his de-
eals and he heard not, but was crushed and Sc,
cred, the rumyeIer does not start at the news
1t is no concern of his at all! He sells on, as j
nothing had happened
And ten thousand times more astonishing
still the coroner summons his jury to enquire
into the cause of the death, and as if an inky
cloud of Egyptian blindness had settled upon
them, they never inquire where the man got has
liquor, but return verdict that he came to his
death by being run over by the cars. Inquest,
forsoothl A Jury of blind horses might know
that the man was killed BY The wheels Of the To-
comotlye And they might know what put him
there Is Be killed The only qaest0nfor ra-
tonal jury is, who sold him that which put him
there? Gu bono? Who got the benefit Of his
dying! as the Roman jurist asked.
Now, ye neither millstones, who, knowing the
inevitable tendencies Of strong drink, freight
your ships with it, fill your stores with it, and in
palaces deal it out to fashionable and brai e
young men, the sons Of our great men, judges,
lawyers, divines, doctors and gentemen-hand-
ing it over marble countess to the clink of silver
because travellers must have what they call for,
aud no distinction can be made between our
own respectable citizens and travellers, and none
that can pay your price are yet very poor come
here all of you, and look at one of V0ur vic
Tins
Mr.. Wesley Woodwork was one of the finest
young men in Albany. He was the son of
Judge Woodwork. Noble in his mein, high
in his intellect, warm in his heart, "a brilliant
and happy life was before him. You sold him.
the ''social glass" lie was brave customer
of yours. You soon saw it was all over with
him 1t was but little that he had dealt with
you, before he was no longer hlsown, but yours
The day before yesterday he came to the New
York police office, linking he had thousand
devils after him. He begged to be taken in and
protected. They took him in, with their IRON
hospitality, and at night locked him into CO.
The accounts say that on opening the celPin'
the morning it was found he had commite SUI
eide You know it was no such thing You
know that you murdered him! You turdered
him by the most horrible Of all deaths fire and
deUiiA In that deep, hord cell, thFpoor man
lay, the devils tearing him with hot pincers' I'LL
in one of the intervals of his torture when rea-
son returned, to save himself from further endu-
rance, he drew knife blade and slashed across
The veins and arteries ofhs arm. The deVilsre-
turned, he threw the knife from him, and raVng
and tossing gfs Anasiiae fufy, spai4esed ,a rtFa'
wallgaad i6eNsiHa9 pallet with his boad, aoa
save up tiie Ghost What death t6 die and n"'
hnmau eye iqsSnshn1. Not drop of pi,y--nol
a soothing word. He.was only forty yeas old
Yesterday the news went upto his aged molIie.N
whose support and Joy and crown he ought 70
have been She hardly knew he was drank
ard probably What stroke!
Now We gentry Of the neither mstone-hearts,
do you expect an outraged public will always
stand this! Do you suppose in the simplicity
of your devotion to the "almghty dollar" that
you can mus OurueI Oh TIC !Out''Vl JO"i lohu
and an INDIGNANT public will not rise and tear
YOU limb from LIMB! Would you have one
word to say for Yourselves, if the people who
have borne thousands of such cas{s should TO-
morrow take yon in hand by Summary process
make bonfire OF your liquor, distribute your
goods and chatels among the WIDOWS ana OF
phans of your customers, and branding the ',a'N
Of Cain ON your oreheads, let yop 80! Muf
derous outlaws! If you have any thing to say
for yourseyes-our columns are open to YOU