New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-29
VERMONT MISUNDERSTANDING.

Nearly year ago. the then Legislature of Vermont
passed stringent Act to Prohibit the Sale of lntoxca
ing Liquors as Beverage. subject TO the Ratification OF
the People at Special Election which took place in
February last and resulted in majority of oyeT One
Thousand for the Law, which took effect accordingly
soon after And that law, in spite Of Vermont four
hundred miles of border on Rumlicensing States and
Provinces has proved most effectua and benefcent
The public Liquor Traffic has by it been annihilated
The Liquor now smuggled in by boats across Lake
Champaign by Railroads or from groggeries on her
borders. (shame to New-York, New Hampshire and
Canada that such should be bears 10 proportion to
the amount previously introduced and consumed
Hence the People even more industrious and thru
tv than before. Drunkenness has died out. Crime IS
rarely committed. Jas often tenantless for weeks
together Pauperisn and litigation are diminishing
Never did Vermont maintain prouder, more enviable
position than at this moment
The Maine Law its enactment to no Political
Party Its maintenance or overthrow, merits or de-
fects, bear no legitimate relation to Party Politics
True, there was Wing majority in the Legislature
which enacted it, there had been in nearly every
preceding Legislature true, majority OF the wings
voted for it and majority of the Democrats aganstit
but that would have probably been the had the
vice attacked been any other than Inemperance-that
is any popular and proft-dispenslng vice. Not that
the Democrats are favorable to Vice per SCI but their
fundamental notions of Government necessarily lead
them 10 look with disayOr any attempt to rePress
the incipient buds OF Vice rather than the matured
fruits Of Crime The best government is that which
governs least says one OF their axioms; and OF
course one that imposes restraints no penalties on
Lewlness, Gambling and Intemperance, governs less
than one Of the other sort.
The law was enacted sanctioned, enforced, without
reference TO Party Politics. but its enemies early OBJ
served that while TIE PEOPLE voted to raty 1t, TIE
TOuas showed majority against IT. Vermont stili
cngs to the ro;teDbOroueh system which gives eleven
voters residing in locality an equal power in the
House with eleven hundred residing in another, because
each Of these localities is township. The Law was
upheld by a strong vote in nearly all the populoas
towns vi lie most OF the sparsely peOpled towns gave
maorites against IT, And this circumstance has been
profted by TO elect q House whereof majority are
supposed to be favorable TO the reea OF essential mod
feation Of the Law.
The Senate populati0n-each County elect
ing so many Senators as its relative population wa
rsnts-and decided majority Of the Senator's were
elected in the confident expectation that they wogd
clans before becoming Temperance meR-some OF them
are only for Temperance far as that slbservc
their partisan or personal aspirations. Most OF them
are Wings and the thirsty Wings have given them
ioretaste OF That they viii 10 henceforth by voting the
Democratic ticket this year and putting the Wing as
cendancy in jeopardy These say in substance You
see what the Maine Law has done for you; noW re-
peal it, or YOU shall never regain power and this
threat is 10 mere partisans most appalling one es
pecally as some able ana adroi. Whig lawyers have
been chosen by Run voters OF al stripes to enforce
in the House.
| We fear some Temperance Wigs in tie new Legs
lsture may be sedueed by the udisguised prefer o.
al the kingdoms Of this world 10 yield 70 these
menaces and eneryate their glorious Law and n yeN
Of this peril we shall speak TO them very frankly. Cen
tlemen YOU think the votes OF those TWO or three
thousand soreheads essential TO tie Wing ascendanc!
and so they may b.; bur how can YOU 10 without tie
Wbiss who are heartily for Temperance and
the Prohib:ory Law These are At least Fifteen
Thoussnd strong how VII ycu dispense with thef
votes Would not your party without them be the
tragedy of Hsmlet with the part OF Hamlet omitted
They never asked yea pass the PrOhibOry Law iof
partys sake can you expect that tee! VIII tsInely sub
mir 10 lis overthrow 70 win back the three tAoas-
and Thirsty suckers who have asf boiled Ii yOu DO
repeal tie Law 70. their sake you viii wish yOU Ladn
before tbs tue Bezt yeaT We know Something CT tie