Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-02-02
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INC ppofuoninebt as ABOVE.
I'd. That each County, by the
agency of their Society, organized
or to be organized, he requested to
collect and transmit TO the State
Treasurer the proportion OF the sum
falling within their limits proposed
to be raised last year on the Carson
League principle and distributed 10
Counties as above Provided, and
the State Society hereby consent,
that each county may retain, to pro-
mote temperance, all excess Of their
subscription over and above the
sums assigned TO them and request
ed in the first article Of this report
and any County, on paying over to
the State Society the sums assigned
them ia full, may retain ten per cent.
towards paying expenses in the
County.
3. 1t is further recommended that
each County, in addition to the sum
requested for the State, raise an
equal amount on such sum as their
circumstances may require for coun-
ty purposes.
The report, after much discussion
by Messrs. Merrill, Howe, Patterson,
Newton, Brockway, and others, was
adopted.
The committee on the place OF
meeting next year reported Ludlow,
II being left with the Central Com
mltlec TO appoint it elsewhere should
II be found desirable to do so.
Empowered Executive Committee
To fill vacancies.
REVOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
RtsolUcd. That all law must have
lis origin in the principles that 6irec
and control the action of sociei,
or individuals, and therefore il il
Of the first importance that the prin
cIples of individual action should bt
enlightened and philanthropic il
their influence and right in the sigh
OF God.
ReSolred, That law is the express
ed will of the State, and can be onl,
Just and safe when founded in the
eternal principles of moral right
and has for its object the highest el.
ovation of man as an immortal be.
ing.
ReSolued, That the cause of tenn.
perance has suffered greatly by the
course of is professed friends in sup
porting FOR Office opponents of the
Liquor Law, and that it should be
urged as duty oil the freemen oI
the State, TO return Ia the Legisla.
ture none but men Of tried integrit.
and Just views upon the subject Of
temperance.
Resolved, That we are grateful
for our liquor law as it now exists
but that those men, though some oil
them protested temperance men, who
asserted in our last Legislature that
the friends of temperance desire no
further legislation on the subject, did
not correctly represent the views Of
the temperance men Of the state.
Resoiped, That in order TO give
proper efficiency to our prohibitory
law, a penalty should be attached to
officers for neglect of duty; tina,
drunkenness should be punished a:
a misdemeanor that the bill passed
by the last State Senate should be.
come a law; and that the Executive
Committee be directed to circulate
petitions TO the next Legislature
embodying the above and such Other
improvements as they may deem de-
srable, in all the towns for sigma
lures.
ResolUed, That Temperance free
men have the same and equal right
with other freemen of the State to
know the sentiments of nominees
for office on every great subject oI
public interest, and for this purpose
are entitled to explicit and unequiv-
ocal answers TO proper questions OF
such subjects.