Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-06-01
The Liquor Business.

4 y tft FONtfs tou1h N INV hAi@ u n
rum pamphlet just published. The writer
has a great horror Of the fana,icism of
temperance" as exhibited according TO this
pamphlet) in the late proceedings at North
field. Never was the ianaticism Of intcm-
perance more sttikinlly exempl,fed than in
these very proceedings, and il those which
have followed il at Montpelier; yet the au.
thor has not word Of condemnation for Mdl
sort Of fanaticism. 1t strikes rs that he has
a badly balanced mlnd--decldedly leaning
to rum. The pamphlet is dated West Ran.
dolph, and Lieut.. Gov. Klddcr may be con-
sidcred as its putatlye faiher-nothing else
lie never wrote 1t.
The Great .Norilfeld Liquor C..se has
been postponed TO July. In the mean time
there will perhaps be some more interesting
by play. We learn that Justice Lyman
has decided in the riot case that there was
no riot. Also that another tap is set.
Give it up, Jack; much better that than l.
" three times and-our."
Rutland, Tho Rutland IIo.ald records
something like dozen more liquor cases, in
all of which the law was rigdly enforced.
ST. Adams Mrs Dillon has been found
guilty of % offences, fined go each and
costs, g. sentenced to 9 months Imprisonment
The old woman sent petition for pardon to
Gov. Royce; protesting her conversion to
the liquor law, but Ills Excelency was too
sharp for her. Let her serve her time ;,
scid the Governor and in day or two his
sagacily was abundauly proved. Mrs. Dll,
lon was detected in selling liquor in jail,
through an outside agent
Personal. Three weeks ago the Patriot
published an ATTRACTIONS article, suggesting
that about two editors in Montpelier" uugh,
to be lynched or driven out of town, for in.
juring the town by supporting the cause of
We responded, that the Patriots
violent course, as a rum organ, had injured
the town more than any and every body else.
Evidently stung TO madness by this truth, the
editor Of the Patriot last week vented his
spleen in one of the mcanost and most mali
cious pieces Of personal scurrliiy that ever
defiled even rum-hoc organ. As the ad-
yertisements in the Waterman, TO which the
Patriot alludcs, they speak for themselves as
advertisements, and nothing else. To the
following ice shall speak,
awhile the private jug OF the editor (of
the Watchmanl is making its regular trips
between his Office here at Montpelier and
the rum shop OF Fostor g. Taylor, at Boston,
we very quietly leave the public to Judge
with how much show Of consistency that
paper talks about any paper, except itself.
being the "organ Of the Rumselers Of Bos-
.on." Patriot.
For nineteen years into n week the editor
Of the Waterman has supplied a small fdmi-
ly, of from two TO six persons, with as good
liquor as he could get, whenever necessary.
In that time l'e has purchased, in Boston,
exactly four gallon dcmijohns of liquor, two
Of which were furnished by Foster g. Toy-
lor at the recommendation of an acquaint-
ance as being PROFESSIONALLY superior ar
liclc. .Noia demyohn or jug o. liquor has
erer been purchased eisc,ohere, nos has one er-
o been seni 10 Boston or any ,chere else 10 be
refAed. Other liquor has occasionally been
purchased by the quart or pint, and the
whole amount purchased in nineteen years,
including cider, we believe will not equal the
number Of gallons Of rum required dozen
years since for gang Of halfa dozen " tom
perate drinkers in one hayinz season. IL
every instance of purchasing, we supposed
that both the seller and purchaser we're act.
ing lawfully. The purchase Of Foster &
Taylor was previous TO the advent Of the
Maine law" either in Vermont or Massa.
chuscits. So much for the private liquor
business of the editor of the Waterman
the Patriot is welcome to all lie can make
out of 1t, and we hereby give him leave to
scruiinize all the liquor dealers in creation
with whom we have ever had the slightest
connection. A few words now for the Pat
riot BY publishing the sale of Foster g.
Taylor, II prores the perfect truth of the po-
sitlon We have given it as "organ Of the
Boston rumsellers !" and by adding DOWN
right lie to that item, las to "the regular
trips" TO Foster & Taylor's,l it proves that i
is Just mean enough for such station. As
10 the denial of the Patriot, respecting money
Of Boston rumse Hers We made the sur
gcstlon on the authority of one who acted
with the Patriot in the rum contest Of 1853.
That authority, we are further informed, has
been backed up by an employee in the Pat
riot Office. We leave the Patriot and its
eonlreres to settle that question Of yeraclty
as to 1853, making now two distinct char
ges. We charge, first, that large ndroe-
nen's, either by way of cash or sharing in
the profit Of liquor sales, were made by rum
mes IN 1854, to the Hon. ISRAEL GoopwIN.
Commissioner for Washington County and.
second, that in 1855, bnbe was offered 10
The present Commissioner the Hon. ALoNzo
riAReE' to appoint a leading opponent Of
inc liquor law agent for Montpelier. II the
ralr'ot wishes this matter probed, lot il 20
ahead IN any way ii pleases.
u The BraiIlsbOrO' Republican fear,
that our opposition to X. Nism will no, tent
to harmonize the Anti>Nebraska STRENGTH
That Is Just the fear We have had of Know
Nothinsism, of which the Republican is
reported organ this yeat. Last year il ori
ginated the 18th of July convention. WI,
did the X. Ms. attempt disturb harmony i
Vermont, which so happily prevailed las
year' We never could understand the ne
cessi,y or propriety Of that disturbance. B
We way, there are many men in Vernon
VINO are In the same condition ave, an,
VINO cant tolerate that disturbance. WI,
should no, the Waterman reflect their sen
umen's' Have no, the anti now Nothing,
. right to be heard