Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-05-09
For the I.amoille Newsdealer.
BEVERLY FARMS. MASS,
May 5, 1866.

Dr.R FRIENDS Il have heard much'
and favOrably, of your labOrs and success
in the good cause of Temperance A great
revival of religion and temperance Is just
,, what we ought to expect after the close OF
the war. With liking Cotton" destroyed
the next step is to slay king Alcohol
and then to exalt liking Jesus, Lord OF
ALL" Go on, dear friends, in your temper
auce revival, "for against justice, tempe
rance and righteousness, there is no law"
The present is an important time to
both loyal and temperance men. After :
four years war with the enemies OF the
Government, we have them now where they
can be reconstructed" Now is the time
to fix the conditions of reconstruction, SO
that no further pretexts can be found for
another war for slavery. Now is the time
to box up every bono Of that dead reptile
and bury them below the resurrection line
And if we don't do it, posterity will hold
us guilty of the sin OF omission.
So, also, is now, the time to dispose OF
the "worm alcohol" The temperance men
of Massachusetts have been confronted for
year past, with the diabolical intreagues
of company of rumsellers' known as the
Public Safety Association" Their main
and desperate efforts have been, to thwart
all prosecutions for rumselling, by max
ing an appeal of all cases to the Supreme
Court at Washington. But we are having
glorious time now. The Supreme Court
has sustained the temperate men, and
rumseller are on their knees, begging not
to be reconstructed in the "house of
correction" The question is no longer
question, whether prohibitory laws can be
enforced against rum selling, for that is
being vigorously done in. Massachusetts,,
and the same can be done throughout the
country if temperance men will rally
around the flag"
The days of moral suasion" in the
temperance reformation are passed; it has
served its purpose in former days nobly
it laid the foundation of the temperance
cause, which has become a power in the
land. And yet, temperance men began to
feel long ago, that moral suasion alone
would not finish the work, so well begun
for while many were persuaded to aban-
don the drunkard's ways, many abandon
ed men, we're sworn to the business of
making drunkards. Hence temperance
men have been obliged to resort to legal
suasion' to escape being drawn into the
mire of drunkenness. But against legal
suasion, the enemies of sobriety have car
ried on a relentless war, until they begin
to feel, that all is not likely to be we'll
with them.
Now. thtn, Good Templars, is the time
to make the grand charge; the liquor
lines begin to waver,-dash and break
them /; compel them to surrender all the
liquor forces in the field, and then recon-
struct them on basis, that shall EXTERN
mate the entire abomination of rum. sell
ling. and least it into outer darkness"
Don't stop, Good Templars, nor be con-
tent with good Society, and good times
in your meetings, but use your present
good success, to strike heavy blows upon
che enemy. and make surety doubly sure.
Temperance men ought not to be con-
tent. short Of proclaiming a war of aboli-
ton of the rum traffic" Compromises
with iniquity, are curses; rum sellers
will use every means. foul or fair, to drown
the land with alcohol therefore let tenn
perance men with equal persistence labor
to crush the whole scheme of liquor nuis-
anees, under the iron heel of public repro
baton.
Do Good Templars ask, show is this to
be done?"
1t is to be done by educating public
sentiment mp to that point, where laws can
be made and enforced, not to license and
regulate the sale of rum. but to abolish it
." toto as traffic; by making it crime
so enormous and reprehensible, as to be
punished with death. For shooting anoth-
er. we punish the murderer with death !;
is it less risk, to let rumseller 90 in
the world. whose business kills thousands
every year. than the murderer who shoots
his victim with n bullet Q No cr;mo