Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-04-22
THE FREE MAN.
M0NrpEL1ER, THURSDAY, April %, t847.
viii The NO,License Voters Act COnSiS'
tently.

lUHtl1i
In saving that no man shall be authorised for pal
try pittance to continue the sale of Alcoholic poison
and thus perpetuates paupersm, suffering anc crme'
Vermonters have done noble actin meeting this
enemy of our race at the baot-box they have achiev
ed a victory worthy of record on the same historic
page with the story of their bravery in the days OF Col
Ethan Allen But, will they abide by their principles
when applied to another invading foe, or will they in
glorously abandon hem2 'That's the question" Shall
this one noble act be followed by others of like char
octer? Shall the virtue and honor of the State be
tanned?
"There is grandeur in solitary mounton; but the
sustained feeling of submity can only rest upon the
rolling ridges that stretch away as far as the eye can
reach. We admire single noble act, but who does
not rejoice to see it surrounded by groups of noble
principles and lofty achievements"
Aye, who does not rejoice, when he sees man
having once adopted noble principle, coaryh out in
beautiful consistency? His character is then symmet-
rical, his conduct harmones with his principles. If
the "no license" men in Vermont act consistently they
will never again vote for STAKEHOLDER, for the per-
petuty and extensonsof slavery, because they have
once adopted the principle of giving no license to COM
mil CRIME They have decided that the rum traffic
Is crime. Will you now, fellow citizens, cast your
votes for those men TO rule the nation who will dc
their utmost to continue the slave system, "the ves
that ever saw the sum-" Is not this a crime?
You at the temperance election that to vote the
license ticket was giving you aid to continue all the
nd tho Of drunLennnSS Ia II MT the
same thing here? Can you VOTE for the STAKEHOLDER
without making yourself partaker OF all his cruelties
and RIGHTEOUSNESS; in word, all the denominations o
slavery?
You voted the "no license" ticket, because, in ua
lcay you could reach The eu and could do 1t IN no othe
,Day You saw that moral Suasion totally inefec
tual in majority of instances in persuading the rum
seller to abandon his business. A few men you coul
persuade to abandon the traffic. but the great major
you could not. so long as they could make money b.
it, they would continue the traffic. Just so is wit
slavery. The great Of the nation are sustainin
d the burdens which slavery is laying upon them. The
can derive no possible benefit from the system WHIT
, ought they to do? Throw off the burden In the sam
: way that we are doing with the taxes which the run
seller has laid upon US. A few shareholders have bee
persuaded to give up the business of their own choic
C But there are but few Birneys and Brsbanes. Th
s The majority of shareholders will never abandon the
= business in this way;-cerainly not, so long til
d sufrages of the free States unscrupuousy give
to exalt them to the highest posts of honor, which W
h the sovereign people" can bestow
II You were convinced that the appropriate work
moral suasion, to prepare the minds of the Peep
to meet this enemy sterny at the ballotbox and tire
= it as a crime. The same work moral suasion can
r. in removing slavery from the nation. What wou
70 you have thought of minister and church who in 1874
after having preached for years that rumselling al
rum drinking a sin and curse, and after otferir
a thousand prayers that it might forever, shou
then 20 to the polls and all tremendously, VOTE tn
this license Or vILainy might continued Thought Y,
ts would have thought of THEIR consistency just VIII
a. the impartial tribunal ofthe world will think of YOU
of OWN, If you preach and pray for the overthrow
As slavery and then vote for Shareholders and their abe
nv tors
p Such christians would escape the charge of fana
cism coming from the rumseer andhis customers; al
9 so may you avoid the same charge, from the souhe
ogarchy and their northern allies by voting with the
of while you talk against hem but neither you nor tn
is can escape the charge that the civilized world W
n, bring against you of being traitor to your principle