Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-02-21

not yet satisfied He continues to exc out his
venomous vitupcrations, by charging this "com-
mttee of three persons" with the backest hy-
pocrisy-with falsely protesting to be temper
ance men and yet drink behind the curtain. So
reckless and devoid of principle HIMSELF like
the wretched inebriate, reeling from the gutter,
fancics all around him to be in the same condi
ton. 1t is not from any apprehension that the
reputation of any temperance man in Whiting
ham will suffer, by anything such specimen of
humanity can say, where he is known, that
am induced to notice his abuses but rather to
prevent false impression his declaration might
make on the minds of strangers, as to the read
character and object of the temperance move
ments here. Ii such unwarrantable and ungen-
erous misrepresentation of the doings and OBJ
ject of an association of about 100 respectable
and worthy citizens of Nottingham, uniting
their efforts for the public as well as private
good, afford any satisfaction TO Mr. "B.," or
his Bacchanalian chronies, let them enjoy it
They are welcome to all honor won by such a
course. The good people of Nottingham are
not yet so lost to a sense of justice as not TO
discriminate between truth and fasehood, or
fail to appreciate the sober, candid intelligent
friends of reform. The principles of morality,
temperance and sobriety must and will prevail,
and the opposition of such men as "B." shows
himself to be will only serve to hasten the tri-
umph.
In the third piece, signed "IIonor," the wri-
ter continues in nearly the same strain with
"B," to stigmatzc all friends of the liquor law,
accusing them of "personal malice" of being
every obnoxious in the eyes of all good citi-
zens," and "a stencil in the nostrils of the COM
munity," and the like. This is very fair spec
linen of that kind of "Honor" that the new
phase of democracy and an uncompromising
hostility to the law of the State, is likely to
create. He must show a contemptuous leer at
the people of Jacksonville, who are endeavoring
to improve the moral and social condition of
society by suppressing the liquor traffic, that is
alike destructive to the prosperity and usefulness
of those engaged in it, and the physical moral
and intellectual progress of our village. He
must give vent to a little more of his slang, by
sneering alluson to "smelling committee "
and by pitching into the illegal aspirant for con-
gressional honors at Bratteboro," as well as his
neighbors and friends generally, who refuse to
worship with him at the shrine of Bacchus.
Smarting under the sore defeat for town rep.
resentative, to which he vainly supposed hi:
devotion to Douglas democracy and the liquor
traffic would entitle him, he is ready to gnast
his teeth at all who do not support his dogmat
ical theories Our Landlords" have not beer
"hauled up" as Mr. "Honor' tells us. nor has
the "heavy hand of the law been unjustifabl!
laid upon them," but that "a day of reckoning
will come" l am fully satisfied. The days o
the ruling dynasty are mostly numbered. Th'
people are fully competent to judge of thei
own interests. They will have little sympath,
with that kind of "Honor," that our friend o
the Argus has assumed to himself. When run
and democracy become the ruling power of tn
town, when the people become so devoted t.
the liquor traffic that all else must be held sub
servient to its interest, then, will "IIonor" b
in fit condition to represent them.
l.. BROWN.
lack sonville Feb q 1851