Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-08-19

prevailing sins of the day. 1t brings to light
but ono of the many instances that could be
cited in almost any community, where preach
ing and practice are the very antpodos Of
each other. As such we commond it to the
readers of the Watclmon.
From the Boston Atlas q Daily Bee
WENDELL PHILLIPS TO THE CHIEF
JUSTICE. AND PRESIDENT OF
HARVARD COLLEGE.
To LEMuE1 SHAW, chief Justice Of Mas'a-
chweHs and JAMES WALKER, President Of
Haruard University:
GENTLEMEN Nov that the Press has
ceased its rdiculo Of your homage to Nor
ply at the Revere Housc.--a criticism Of lit
tie Importance wish to present the scene
to you in a different light.
You. Mr. Chief Justice, represent the iqw
of the commonwealth to you, Mr.. Presi-
dent. is committed the moral guardianship of
the young men of her University. Yet !
find you both at a table of jewellers. under
roof whose chief support and profit comes
from the illegal sale of Intoxicating drink,
and which boasts itself the champion and
head of an organized, fragrant and ayowed
contempt Of the laws of the Commonwealth.
No one was surprised TO see at your side
Mayor who owes his office TO the vote of that
disorderly band whose chief is the Revere
House. Few wondered at the presence of a
Professor placed by private munihcence to
watch over the picty and morals of your
College. Mr. President: though manly pro-
test against fashionable vice might do some
thing to redeem the office from seeming only
an oayes-dropping spy on the opinions and
manners of young men.
But you. Mr. Chief Justice, know that
three-quarters. if not four-dfths, of all crime
result from habits of intoxication; that nino-
tenths. at least, Of all the murderers YOU have
sent to the gallows had never been murderors
had they not first been drunkards. You can
look round you and back for fifty years, and
see places at the bar and on the bench once
filled by genius and hope, now vacant--their
tenants in drunkards graves. You know
how fearful the peril which modern cjvilza-
ton and specially popular institutions en-
counter from the cheapness of liquor and the
habits of indulgence in all our great cities 4,
you know the long and earnest labors of
noble men. for fifty years, in both heuts-
phorcs against this evil and the momentous
experiment they are trying of legal prohibi-
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