Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-03-17
The vote on the License Question.

The Woodstock Temperance Herald contains
the returns from I23 towns, and gives the re-
suit as follows
In IA towns No License majority, 1873 $50
Loss 4126
The entire vote of is47 was 81 505
The vote in the above ia towns in 1917 was, sO799
1913 is Is sos
! ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Highgate IrushurCb Alba
ny, Craftsbury, Elmorc Morris,own Hydepark and
Cambridge, give license mai ory OF 2f5. Add cor
rcctons in the above given Is in favor license
and the No License majority is reduced to $50
These returns render it tolerably certain that
the vote Of the state has been cast in favor OF
granting Licenses vote Numerically the re-
verse of that of last year. 1t is apparent, we
think, from this result that public opinion, thai
potent fundamentally in the making and sus
tanning of Law, is not yet settled as respect.
the expediency or efficiency Of the existing Ii
censc System.
! The Herald, in commenting on the probable
vote in favor of Licensing, says:
ave gricve at the straits to which the cause
is driven-its friends with few exceptions, can
claim no sympathy from God or man. They
are the destroyers of their own hopes, the worst
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efforts and desires We have not one word of
consolation for them, nor do we wish them any
relief but in repentance, both of heart and life. y
| We think our friend permits himself to be cast
down without good reason. "THE CAUSE" of
temperance, in our judgment, is above and in
dependant of, the enactment or defeat of any
statute law. 1t has far higher sanction than
/ "a mn lou lativ i'm
part to it, and can only be "driven into straits =
by the total suppression of drunkcnncss-not by
vote of town meetings.
Nor do we think that the CAUSE of Temperance
has any legitimate connection with the vote on
the License question that has just been taken
Those who insist upon, and compel, such an in
congruous connection, may choose to regard
themselves as defeated, but we beg leave to say
that the good "CAusE OF TEMPERANCE" in our
deliberate opinion has suffered no reverse. Tie
moral and numerical power of this State is over
whelmngly on the side of Temperance. Pre-.
sent the issue to her voters, and she will display
an unbroken font in its favor. That public
opinion is not yet settled in respect to the expe-
dency or nexpediency OF any given law con.
trolling the sale Of ardent spirits, can by nc
means be taken as an indication of hostility to
TEMPERANCE. The proposition is obviously
absurd!
The Herald says further:
Sand here we are, with returns from III
towns with paltry majority Of only $50 and an
absolute certainty, that, at the same rate of loss
from last years vote, the State is sold to Rum
Sohi-yes, SOLD"
Now, to say nothing of the simple untru,h Of
the gross and disgusting charge that "the State
is sold to rum" or to any thing else, we submi,
in all kindness to the jealous Editor of the Her.
aid, that there is as little of the spirit of temper
ance in calling hard names there is in hare
drinking and that the former is as little ikel,
to win men to our own way of thinking, as the
latter is to lead them to the kingdom OF Heaven
Love one human being purely and warmly, and yol
will love all.-Richtsr
The foregoing rather tender specimen of Ger
man sentimentality appears hcice, in the columns
of the last Sentinel and Democrat. 1t affords
strong presumpive evidence that our neighbo
has at last encountered that zone human being
(more commonly called an angel" in the by
perbole of the occasion) who is to enlarge hi
philanthropy to the comprehensive extent sug
eestcd. We hope our subdued friend no longe
feels the desire he once expressed that Genera
Scott would "hang up by the necl," "the who'll
Wing anti-war party of the United States" a
he hung the deserter, Riley Richer is a mil
der philosopher tina. hi. pupil was.