Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22
We condenso the following from the Yer.
mont Chronicle:

We condenso the following from the Yer.
mont Chronicle:
Vermont State Temperance Society.
The State Temperance Society met at West
Rutland, July T. Rev. S. CHAMBERLAIN, Pres
ident in the chair.
The following resolutions reported to the So
ciety by the Committee on Oyertures, Hon.
VIM. G. Kittredge, J. S. Adams, Esq, Rev. 9.
C. Parker, and Rev. A Walker, were severally
adopted.
Whereas, The State Temperance Society, at
their meeting in January last. passed a resolu-
ton, ' That the sale of Alcohol in any of its
forms, ought not TO be sanctioned By law, for anu
purpose ,chateUer " and ,chereas, in the iudg-
ment of this Society, said Resolution conflicts
with the original design of our organization as
expressed in the first article of the Consti-
tuition did not at the time of its passage,
and does not now correspond with the senti-
ments of very large majority of the pledged
friends of Temperance in this State, and is more
over, calculated to impair the efficacy and en-
danger the pcrmanency Of our Prohibitory Law;
therefore,
| l. Resolved, That the Resolution aforesaid
should no longer be regarded as an expression
of the opinions, or as a rule Of duty or action
of this Society.
@ RESOLVED, That we feel deep interest in
the success of the movements now in progress
in Great Britain and designed to secure the
passage of prohibitory law there similar to
the law of Vermont, and tender to the tempe
rance men there our cordial sympathy with
them in their labors and for their encourage
nent We would say, that the Prohibitory Law
of Vermont is not dead letter, but U.s. as we
bslisve, correct in principle, and practically
well adapted to the suppression of the.traffc in
intoxicating liquors as beverage, and the ex-
periehce of Vermont shows conclusively. that
all the good effects that may reasonably be ex.
pected from the operation of prohibitory law,
have followed from the enforcement of the YER
mont prohibitory law just in proportion to the
energy, and firmness, and prudence with which
it is enforced.
8. Resoloed, That the prohibtory law, while
of inestimable value to the cause of temperance
is eficacious rather in occupying and safely
holding ground that may be won by other
means, than in making new advances, and
ought not to occupy our attention to the exclu-
sion of other instrumentalities indispensable to
rance.
| H. Resolued, 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 our exertions as
temperance men, and we earnestly invoke the
attention of the friends of temperance to the
resustation of societies that can be revived, and
the organization of new ones, both for the
young and old, as the only reliable means of re-
cruitng the ranks of the Temperance army,
and filling the vacancies caused by death and
strong temptation. Adopted.
The Constitution of the Society was amended
so as to read as follows:
ART. l. This Society shall be called The
VERMONT STATE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY, and shall
be organized under the following pledge: ave,
the members of the Vermont State Temperance
Society, do agree that we will not use liquors as
beverage, nor traffic in them for that purpose
that we will not furnish them as an article of
entertainment, or for persons in our employ
ment; and that, In all suitable ways, we will
discountenance their use throughout the COM
munity."
ART. 2. This Society shall be composed of
all who shall subscribe to the above Pledge and
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Town Societies and Delegates therefrom, and of
all other pledged friends of Temperance, whom
the Society may invite.
ART. 8 The Officers Of this Society shall be
a President, three Vice Presidents, an Executive
Committee of five, a Recording and Cores
ponding Secretary, a Treasurer and an Aud
itor. The President, Corresponding Secretary
and Treasurer shall also be, er o6fcio, members
of the Executive Committee
ART. 4. The Executive Committee shall
constitute Board of Managers, whose duty it
shall be to devise measures, to employ agents,
to raise and 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 col
lections and disbursements shall come under
the cognizance of the Executive Committee.
ART. 5. The Society shall meet annually on
the third Wednesday of December, at such
place as shall have been designated at the last
adjournment.
The officers for the following year were ap-
pointed, uis
President-REv. S. CHAMBERLAIN
Vice Presidents-Hon. ZMRI HOWE Rev.
Il. r. HIcoCK, JOSEPH BRocKwAY, ESQ.
Recording and Corresponding Secrctwg-Rev.
Fl. P CUSHING
Ireasurer-Rey. L. H. STONE.
Auditor-Rey, ALoNzo WEBSTER.
ETecutire Committee-Rev. c. G. Parker,
Waterbury; Hon. F. F. Merrill, Montpelier;
Hon. ii. Carpenter, Rev. L. H. Stone, North
field and j. G. Stimson, Waterbury.
The next annual meeting is to be held at
Bradford on the third Wednesday of Decem-
Der.