Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-07-16
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We condense the following from the Yer
mont Chronicle:
Vermont State Temperance Society.
The State Temperance Society met at West
Rutland, July :. Rev. S. CHAMBERLAIN,
President, in the chair.
The following resolutions reported to the
| Society by the Committee on Overtures Hon
VIM. c. Kithelg e, j. S. Adams, Esq, Rev.
II. F. Leavitt, Rev. C. C. Parker, and Rev.
A. Walker, were scverally adopted.
Whereas, The State Temperance Society, at their
meeting in January last, passed Resolution,
" That the sale Of Alcohol, am of its FORMS ouyht
not 10 be sanctioned by iaw for any purpose wlat-
erer J. and wtereds, in the judgment of this Soce
ty, said Resolution conflicts with the original de-
sign OF our organization as expressed in the first
article of the Constitution did not at the time of
lts passage, and does not now correspond with the
sentiments OF the sentiments of n very large ma
jority of the pledged friends of Temperance in this
state, and Is moreover, calculated to impair the
efficiency and endangcr the permanency of our
PrOhibtory Law therefore,
!. Resolved, That the Resolution aforcsaid should
no longer be regarded expression of the opin-
ions, or rule Of duty action of this Society.
= ReSoiued. That we feel deep interest in the
success of the movements now in progress in Great
Britain and designed to secure the passage of pro-
hibitory law there similar to the law of Vermont,
and tender to the temperance there our cordial
sympathy with them in their abors and for their
encouragement would say that the Prohihitory
Law OF Vermont is not dead letter, but is, as we
believe, correct in principle and practically well
adapted to the suppression of the traffic in intoX-
icating liquors beverage, and the experience
of Vermont shows concusively, that all the good
effects that may reasonably be expected from the
operation of prohibitory law, have followed from
the enforcement Of the Vermont prohibitory law
just in proportion to the energy, and iruness and
prudence with which it is enforced.
3. ReSolue1 That the prohibitory law, while Of
inestimable value to the cause of temperance is
ehcacious rather in occupying and safely holding
ground that may be by other means than in
making new advances, and ought not to occupy
our attention to the exclusion Of other instrument
talitics indispensable to the continued growth and
increase of temperance.
4. Resoiued, That to reclaim the unfortunate to
strengthen the faltering, to guard the young and
to win those who oppose should still be considered
the great object of exertions as temperance
men, and we earnestly invoke the attention of the
friends Of temperance to the resuscitaton of soce-
ties that can be revived and the organization of
new ones, both for the young and DID, as the only
reliable means of recruiting the ranks of the Tenn
perancc army, and filling the vacancies caused by
death and strong temptation Adopted.
The Constitution Of the Society was amend
ed SO as to read as follows;
ART, |. This Society shall be called The YER
MONT STATE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY, and shall be or
gained under the following pledge Owe the
members of tho Vermont State Temperance Society,
do agree that we will not use intoxicating LIQUORS
beverage, nor traffic in them for that purpose.
that We will not furnish them article of en-
tertainment, or for persons in our employment;
and that, in all suitable ways, We will discounten-
ance their use throughout the community"
ART. 2. This Society shall be composed of all
1a hall a,,lr IL A. Il.
Constitution, Of tho officers of County and Town
Societies and Delegates therefrom, and of all other
pledged friends of Temperance, whom the Society
may invite
Arr. 3. The Officers of this Society shall be
President, three Vice Presidents, an Executive
Commit # five, Recording and Correspond
ing Secretary Treasurer and an Auditor. The
President Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer
shall also be, er-otieio members Of the Executive
Committee.
Am, /. The Executive Committee shall consti.
tute Board Of Managers, whose duty it shall be
10 devise measures, to employ agents, to raise aud
disburse the requisite funds to be the directors Of
the state correspondence, and transact in general,
the business OF the Society, during its recess The
Corresponding Secretary shall be the Secretary Of
the Board. All collections and disbursements hall
mittee.
ART. .. The society shall meet annually on the
third Wednesday Of December, at such place as
shall have been dcsg nated at the last adjournment
The officers for the following year were APP
pointed, n:
ProsdeRi-kLy. ;. CHAMBEELAIN.
Vice Prcsdems-IIon. ZnRI Howe. Rcy.
Ii. =. liicRoS, JJ+Epu BRocKwAY, Esq.
Rcord'Hy amt Corresponding S.cr.taV-
Kov, II. +, CUSHING.
IrcdSW,r-Roy. l.. ii. SroAL.
AUd'for-Rcv, ALoNzo WEBSTER.
Efocai'r' CoDmanee-Rey. {. &. P.rker.
W Waterbury lion. F F. Merrill, Montpelier
Hon ii. Carpenter, Rev, l.. H. Stone, North.
Held and D. o. Stimson, Waterbury.
The next annual meeting is to be held at
Bradford ON the third Wednesday of Deem
Der.