Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-01-29

and kept them about a week, when hear
ing DIR. L. w. Adgate Of this village,
and one oE tie ssaunchest temperance
men in the county, express desire for a
pure article OF gin, we made him pres
ent Of bottle we also gave our moth
er-in-law, Mrs. L. d. Larrabee, another
bottle, and sold to Mr.. L. ID. Wilson, the
liquor agent for Irasburgh, seven bottles
more, which left US three bottles for fam
lily use.
A short time after these facts coming
to the notice of certain walking pestlences
whose business is to villify, traduce and
annoy everything having any affinity with
decency, urged on by the Christian rum
seller of the Irssburgh House, they tho't
it would serve the best interests of the
Green Mountain Express, ia which each
one is stakeholder, to threaten US with
a prosecution under the Excise law il WE
did not take out license rs retail deal.
er in liquors, arguing that if we did take
license they could then shout it all over
the county that "Eare is a rummy," and
thus diverting attention from the real
character Of ifen own organ build it up
on the ruins Of our own good name but
# we did not take out a license, they
would get US prosecuted, saddle us with
a heavy fine, and thus SO embarrass US
in our business that the Standard would
topple and fall months sooner than they
could otherwise hope for. In either case
they argued that it would result in a Sc.
we're injury to ia. But for some reason
or other they all at once dropped the sub
ject like hot potato, and have been as
whist az mice until the rum blossom ap-
peared 10 last weeks Express. We are
not such movies as to mistake the intent
of the article, which ID just this it is a
threat to Us that if we do not cease Incl.
ting the people to take notice of the vio-
Iations of the law by the landlord of our
aristocratic rum he'll, or that if we take
any other means to prosecute him, be
will retaliete by prosecuting US for viola.
ting the excise law last spring in selling
our surplus sin TO a town agent, and by
it be also intends to inform 1s that If We
will let him alone be will US. Now wei
wish to inform our illiterate landlord, "a
Townsman," and all other rumies where
soever disposed round the globe" that we
are the very last man on the face of the
earth that they need undertake to scare,
coerce, or intimidate. II any of the gen
try wish to take, or cause to be taken,
any measures against US for the above
cause or any other, let them proceed
We defy them. If we are liable to
fine fer what we have done we will pay
it, but we shall not take license. So 20
ahead. Bot how beautifully !. avauld a P
pear in these men TO prosecute us for
selling liquor What a majestic princi>
pie there would be exhibited to be sure Il
How they do love the law, every one OF
them How much confidence a Judge,
a justice, or q jury, must have in their
honesty, knowing all their antecedents,
to see them who have ever been associa-
ted With the Keeling fraternity, prosecute
us who have never had anything to do
with the traffic with the least intention Of
the law! 1t is not the law that
they wish to see executed, but the editor
of the Standard. Let them try it; we
stand upon our integrity.
Perhaps some Of our rigid temperance
friends would like TO know why we need
liquor in our family. We will tell them.
Our "better half is at times afflicted
with severe disease of the throat, and
it is often necessary--though not always
for her TO use it, and che has orders
from physician 10 do so.