Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-01-14
Annual Meeting Of the Vermont Temper
anec Society.


ANVxAVAs
In the exercise of the discretionary power vested
in the Central Committee, with reference 10 the
particular date Of the ensuing general meeting Of the
Vermont Temperance Society, they have fixed on
the third Wednesday of January next. Notice is
hereby given that the meeting will be opened on
Wednesday the Goth, at 10 O. click, a. NJ, and con-
ilnue in session through that and the succeeding
day. The usual invitations to pledged friends OF
Temperance from abroad who desire TO attend aud
sit as members is hereby gwen.
AT no preceding period Of the moral history Of the
State has the general welfare appeared to depend,
TO great an extent at the present. on the indiyd
ual exerlions, and combined spirit and energy ofthe
advocates and promoters Of the Temperance cause
It's marvellous fact and must needs be exciting
even to the steady upholder, under the old License
system OF judicous restriction that the only choice
Of the people is now 10 be, by Ic, between entire
prohibition of dram selling and such an open and ami
rersai liberty thereto as NewEngand, we suppose
has never witnessed since il 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
for mo License" the statute makes il imperative
on the Courts to grant retail license TO every APP
plcant OF good moral eharaeftr that is, in effect
TO every one who has not been c0nUicted OF some i'm
moral act; so that II may almost be said that the
power Of dramseing will be curtailed to none ex-
cept those who have been or tenants, as crimi-
nails ofihe jails and dungeons Anomalous as il may
seem that the prohibitions of the statute should thus
be fastened on the class 10 whom the traffic in al
coholic drinks seems, by its fendish attributes.
to be most eminenily suited, il is an anomaly
which regard favorable one, by reason
Of its presenting the unmixed issues Of good and
Of evil in form which makes Indifference, on
the part Of citizens, well nigh monstrous. Under
such circumstances the Committee may spare the
labor Of special endesvors to awaken any sober
patriotic man to a suitable activity the recent
legislation will have awakened him,--his own pre-
monitions oil impending hazard to the general well
fare will have awakened hin,-togeiher with the
warning sounds Of the fiery ruin that has always
ragged against its restraining barriers. which, NOW,
majority ofa single vote for License" or even
perhaps the defect Of majority the other way will
completely prostrate-,he Stale over
1t is not alone, an overlooking concourse and
prudent vigor, at the approaching anniversary ofthe
State Society, that the present exigency demands
but instant and incessani activity every where 10
the towns and on the part of local Temperance So
ceiies,-in order that the people may be brought
understand fully the TRUE ISSUE they are TO make
Let every region be disiricied-personal labors in
private aud in public, be undergone-and delegates
repair to SrmNoFIELD with accounts of measures
well established and advanced for the diffusion OF
Information and persuasive argument.
And, as an Indispensable fundamentally, we
hope the PRESS will not be overlooked, and espcc-
cally, the employment Of our valuable auxiliary,
the " Vermont Temperance Herald" The sheets
of,his useful and. we believe, generally approved
publication merit extensive circulation. nor
can we iorbear TO improve the opportunity, thus
incidentally offered. of suggesting TO Temperance
men the expectancy, of doing each. his part to
establish this Periodical upon foundations OF no
pTecaTious stability As 10 whal is expedieni in
this particular, let each be his own Judge, and
on the subject, especially Of the great issue far
distant, let there be failure by an united activity
that Vermont shall have lasting cause Of satisfaction
in our individual influence and in the result Of our
ensuing Annual Meeting.
BY order ofthe Committee
Alex c. Twining, Chairman