Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-08-10

FIRST mortgage II is-to the rumseller,-
Another third has gone TO sustain this
nation. Two thirds OF the property Of
the nation, except what the shoddy con-
tractors had lily acquired, was thus
! gone, MIR. ID, was very severe upon the
medical profession, and made the rather
startling announcement that the doctors
were killing more men than all other
classes, rumsellers not excepted. He
was sorry that his friend DR.. Jewett had
let the bars down by admitting that al.
cob Ollie liquors might be used as q med
icine. He also came down heavily on
the use Of Intoxicating wine at the
sacrament Of the Lords Supper
He said that his Irish Coachman con-
verted him from his wine drinking.
This Irlshman sometimes got drunk,
and once endangered the lives of his
family on that account, When be be-
came sober he begged most earnestly not
to be turned away, and promised never
again to drink, and he was retained.
Some time afterwards, said Mr.. D, /
directed Pat to go and tap barrel OF
cider which had just arrived, taste OF
1t and if 1t was good put it into
the cellar With great earnestness
he exclaimed, 20, cannot, 1 dare not"
why not" 90, reformed drunkard
cannot taste or even smell cider or wine,
or anything Of the kind "What do
you say, WINE 2" 20 yes, l am afraid to
smeR your wine" This set me to think
ing. l locked up my cellar containing
thousands Of dollars worth of the
choicest Of wines, and was not very
long in coming to the conclusion that
would destroy them, but | first had
them analysed and found that they con-
tanned forty five per cent. of alcohol.
The venerable DR.. Pierpont now took
the stand, and the whole audience arose
to greet him. He is upwards of eighty
years Of age, as straight as an arrow.
His voice is clear and sonOrous, his eye
40 ICp NAiiT LOL MO hdLuIdA lOJCG dDlIGUs
He spoke of his experience as a chap
lain in the army on the Sacred soil"
and on his return he saw in Boston three
Union soldiers, one in the middle very
drunk, and one each side sober enough
to hold him up. Said DR., P. thought
this might be type Of our army. One
hundred thousand officers and soldiers
drunk require two hundred thousand to
take care Of them, and the question
arises, who is TO do the fighting?
Doubtless the rebels thought we were
doing good job for them in furnishing
rum to make Col Miles drunk, thereby
giving them the victory at Bull Run.
Some of these reflections said Dr.. P.
took the form Of rhyme as follows
Secession stauds behind HE bar;
And fires his many barrellei gun
Laughs at the fate of Beauregard-
30, kill ten where he kills one!'
Or, wiser, holds his traitor tongue.
And pours in poison at the bung
The speaker proceeded to rem ark that |
In respect to governmental action there
were only three branches:
No legislation; permission or license;
and prohibition.
l. No christian nation allowed this
matter to be let alone
2. The idea of licensing men for a con-
Sideration to do wrong thing, was as
absurd as II would have been for God to
say, Thou shalt not kill, and afterwards
say thou mayest kill by paying so much
money.
8. Prohibition is therefore the only
logical, as it is The only effective meas
ure. The remarks Of DR.. P. were listen
ed to with great interest," and frequently
lpplauded.
Gerritt Smith was now called for, and
inally came forward, We may remark
hat this gentleman having once got his
mouth open found no difficulty there
lfter in speaking sufficiently loud, long
md often to satisfy and satiate the pub
ic demand. He commenced by saying
hat inasmuch as he had declined to
peak the day before, and had announced
lis intention to be listener, not an
lctor, he wished to make his grateful
acknowledgements TO the convention for
heir courtesy in thus calling him out.
He had often asked himself why 1t
vas that all the great attempts at re-
orm were great failures. The Anti
slavery reform was q failure, and the
reform has been an equal
allure. Cries of "No, no." Mr.. S. am
rove it," He proceeded at considerable
ength to point out what he considered
he short comings of leading temperance
cen, in not voting as they should; Zone
1an here said loud enough for Mr.. s. to
lear, that means that they gave him
nly 5000 votes for governor, when he
expected to get at least 10000 in toll
rating the liquor practice of physicians,
nd in using intoxicating wine at com
1uuion. His remarks were eloquent,
is manner impressive, his voice deep
nd sonorous, and he is in all respects a.
cry effective platform speaker.