Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-06-28

ALCOHOL ike slavery, is the lHfiuloue lug VI
the race Their effects are evil, and only evil,
and that continually, and all their efforts to
check them, to confne them, to hedge them in,
will never do. The only true ground is to de-
clare war of determination on them both.
Slavery has o rightful existence no where. 1t
has no more right in Virginia than in Vermont
no more right in Carolina than in Kansas
and every man and woman is bound, by every
principle of Justice and humanity, to do all in
their power to Danish it from both and, for
aught am able to discover, would be justified
in making use of the same means, though per-
haps circumstances might render it inexpedient.
But if it is right to fight to prevent the extern
sion of Slavery in Kansas, it is right to light to
abolish it in Carolina-circumstances being
equally favorable for efecting the object by it.
But fighting is practice | never advocate
War, like Slavery and Intemperance, is foe to
the race. Its consequences are evil, and cannot
understand how the prolcssed believers in the
great and sublime philosophy taught and prac-
ticed by the Great Reformer, can advocate the
doctrine of human butchery under any circum-
stances. But here the true friends of humanity
differ, and SO each, in opposing these evils, must
be allowed to choose his own weapons. Ii it is
right to fight anywhere, it is right to fight for
the slave. But pardon this DEPRESSION.
Alcohol, then, s'ioHlI be hnised from the
State. Yea! wond it were baniShed from
the world and the art of manufacturing it
lost, n,vr to be rcgaincd. But, says the OBJ
jector, have mot | a right to use Alcohol for my
benefit Must be deprived of the use of it as
0 medicine, because my ncighbor abuses it! J.
CLEARLY SO, If, in consequence of ysur. using it,
4 your ncighbr, your neighbours children, and
community at large, are being injured more than
you are benefited, (if, indeed, you are benefited
at all And who doubts it! Who doubts but
what alcohol, under all the restrictions it has
ever been under, or slikcly to be, has done and
will do more, yea infinitely more, harm than
good!
Talk of the benefits of alcohol, as compared
with its deadly train of untold evils, which defy
the world for II parallel Put the few mcagre
benefits resulting from its use for mechanical
purposes, and possibly sometimes as a medicine,
against the mighty, fearful aggregate of paupcr-
ism, wrctchedness, crime, disgrace. disease and
death! Place the few scores it has saved, its
best friends being judges, beside the countless
myriads it has sent to an untimely grave Talk
of the benefits of the accursed monster, while
at every step we take we are compelled to wit
ness its damnable devastations; and the cries Of
the widow and the lathcrlcss are waited to our
ears on every gale, till our hearts sickcn and
bleed at the sight and the recital ofhuman woe
Away with such fallacy. Its benefits compared
, with its evils, under tho best restrictions we
have ever had or are likely to get, are but as
drop to the occdn.
Danish alcohol, then, at once from the State,
, and save all trouble of commissioners and
agens-all this complaint of monopoly, of cor
ruption. of bribery, of deception, of evasion
and host of concomitant evils necessarily and
unavodably resulting from its SALE
But do not suppose community is prepared
for this at present. hope and trust it soon
will be. Till then, would do all | can to
check this deadly monster in his course. If
could do nothing more, would throw the lasso
and arrest him in his rapid strides, and just as
soon as true men can be rallied who are not
5 afraid to beard the lion in his dcn,' would
; seize him and cut the jugular vein, and thus
put him to death at once, without the benefit of
clergy.
"Tell me hate the bowl!
Hate ID feeble word
loathc, abhor, my very soul
With strong disgust is stirred,
Whenever see, or hear, tell,
Of the dark beverage Of hell"
| remain yours for the destruction Of Alcohol
, and the Freedom Of Man. SINS
William H. o,pn, June, 1855.