The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-06-30
SHoREuAM, Sune 20, 1858

CHORElAM, Sune w 1000.
Mr.. ED1ToR-W When Aristides was os-
tracized from Athens q certain Greek
threw in his vote against him, " because"
as he said, "he. could not bear to bear
him called the Just"
Many a school boy has read this story,
and amused himself at the ignorant jeal-
ousy Of this poor Greek while older
heads may have discovered in his mental
composition, merely the counterpart of that
spirit which animates the tiny souls of
many modern chivalric beings who would
fam suhstantiate their claims to high
moral and intellectual position. The world
is full of people, who cannot bear to hear
things called by their right names, unless
those names are found in their own vo-
cabularies. and coincide fully with their
own narrow views II matters not with
them, what principles may lilo at the bot.
tom, or how good may be the motives
which give them life; if tn, y are not per-
fectly concordant with their established
and proclaimed creed they are ever ready
to cry out against them in short they
cannot bear to see justice done, unless it
is purely by aud through their own in
strumentality. If, unfortunately, they
have espoused the side of error, it is of
little avail to prove to a demonstration,
that their position is false and untenable,
for they will never yield the point going
upon the principle, no doubt, that " lie
well stuck to, is as good as the truth"
But it is not often we meet with 4 bet
ter example Of this class OF individuals,
than in recent correspondent of yours,
who signed himself Spectator" and who
proiessed in the communication he fur
nished you, to give faithful account Of
certain rn'nmy proceedings which were
then creating considerable agitation in our
usually quiet community, Now l would
like to PROFOUND one question to that cor
respondent, whoever he may be , Did he
feel, when he had finished the penning Of
that letter, that he had told the truth, and
the ichoie truth, thereby dschargng q
weighty duty he owed to himself aud to
the world If go, his conscience must
have become wonderfully attenuated tc
enable him to simmer down so many i'm
portant facts, 10 such an extent that they
wholly disappear in his communication.
In Justice to him, however, | willf say
that what few statements he made, were
substantially correct but like the un
lucky farmer, he has got the wrong OF
gored, and there is an il about the matter
As he stated it was shown beyond a
shade Of doubt, that there had been al
immense quantity of liquor drank at Q
certain public house in Shoreham, at va
rious times and here he leaves il, with
cut saying one word to controvert the very
uatural supposition of his readers, that
the liquor was furnished by the proprietor
of the house. So stated, our neighboring
town. may well call upon us for better
dispensation of justice, and q more strict
construction and execution of our Prohib'
itory Law. 1t was, however, further
proved by a majority of the witnesses
that they either provided Their own Ii
auor, or obtained it of friends, who pur-
chased it at other places, and brought 1t
there without the knowledge of the pro
prietor. 1t was also shown that liquor
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parts of tho house-not concealed, but
open to all-and Spectator very shreTdly
supposrs it was furnished by the propiie'
tor, although nothing Of the kind was
shown nor does he state that invariably
when rum was found, it was upon some
public occasion, when men came together
professedly to have time" Would II
not be reasonable inference that they
came fully prepared for 1t ?
In fact, not one item OF testimony was
introduced, which went in any way tC
show that the proprietor had ever giyer
or sold one drop of liquor to his guests
With the case thus brought betort
them, what were the jury to decide upon
according to all principles Of law2 wha
commcn report had said, or what bad beei
legally proved before them The case !
too plain to need a word in addition
They were not agreed but the case beinl
referred to the magistrate, it was decide