Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-09-01

Next as to the claims upon you Of the wing
candidate who are not on the Law and Order
ticket Some time ago we expressed the belief
that none Of them would object to let the wings
Of the County exercise their own discretion.
They have not objected-none Of them.
Finally as to the policy Of sustaining the pfin-
cpe Of the Liquor Law-of restraining the traf-
fic to useful purposes, and Of dscoun.e nancing
and, it possible, utterly suppressing it, for the
purpose Of drunkenness. That is the real point.
Who can doubt; Where is the father mother
brother, sister-we appeal to all, drinking people
and sober people alike-where is there one, who
will not confess that this is right j. clearly, en-
tirely undeniably right; Look at the drunkard
not TO despise him, but with the eye Of pity ;
look ct the poor man, struggling perhaps against
an appetite which he cannot control--or plung-
ing carelessly into the ruin from which he has
despaired of rescue look at hopes blighted, at
property wasted, at wives and children neglected,
# not brutally abused remember the poor fell
low crushed the other day at Waterbury by a
railroad train--slain by rum, even in very spite
Of the Liquor Law: is there any man who can
say that the traffic, which has produced that,
should be TOLERATED, and the lawless and care
less seller GO UNPUBLISHED
If there is one, let him vote for the rum ticket,
and let him vote it dretay If you, reader, can
not do that, we think you are the very man to
consider whether you are bound to support three
members on the rum ticket indirectly, you will
do, if you decline to support the law and order
ticket and conclude to vote the regular wing
ticket We confess our obligations to the whig
party and to the whig candidates, and we will
never for moment desert either except for
causes which seem to us to be clearly sutfi-
cient justification. In this case, the rum wings
have forced every wing to this alternative Ell
Their TO elect three rum locofocos by adhcnng to
the whig ticket, or to defeat them by voting for
the law and order ticket, which embraces oniy a
part Of the whig nominees In the first alterna-
tive not a single wing will be elected, and three
locofuco rummies will be; in the last three
wings may be elected and the rum ocotocos be
defeated. We shall choose the last alternative,
and vote the Law and Order ticket throughout
We think it a clear case Of duty, as ichig. We
shall do it as a ,chig and nothing else believing
tito be a duty due to the whig pnriy,--a duty
forced upon us We are sorry to say, by the i'll
Judged course Of wings of the county. To other
wnigs we have only to say act upon your owA
Judgment The case is an extraordinary one,
and If all do not agree, we are not disposed to
censure any body, save those who have made
the Liquor LAW an issue iu he canvass. We
hope they viii be defeated-not, of course, out
Of any personal hostility, but for the frlly Of their
course, and the intrinsic badness of the rum
cause, which they have espoused. They deserve
n sound threshng at the hands of all PARTIES --
We would have them stand for once alone, with
those who are rumsollers aud rum drinkers, in
violation of law and good conscience, in order
that they may see ,oho and chai they are fight
ing for We would have all temperate, respect
able, orderly men, ranked against them, in order
that they may see icho and t0hdt they are fight
ing against The lesson would not be thrown
away upon some of the men already engaged in
the rum cause, and 1t would be intalllble as a
preventive of future disorders of the same sort.
1t is a harsh remedy for wings to use against
wings, we confess, but it is indispensable. Their
disease is fatal, if dallied with.