Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-02-14

has failed in the hour of need,-"sport to
us, death to them" Confident still that
the right of property held in slaves
would enable them to coerce them back
into servitude, Notwithstanding their deri-
liction in love, the tyrants were next COM
PEELED to accept the stunning blow of the
great proclamation, ,"-"sport to us"
Yet lower must the master stoop; even to
make contract, with his former chattel,
now that he is free '.Oh, Lucifer how
art thou fallen" But plucky still with
rage for pelf, the masters plot "appren-
ticeship," and swear, by slow degrees, to
bring thcm back to service ; but by proc
lamation again, they are told that three
fourlhs of the states, have forbidden it
forever, by the great "Amendmant" What
then shall be done with the freedman,
'for there is no room for him in the line"
The voice of wisdom crieth again, "give
him suffrage, for suffering" Already the
popular branch of the National Congress
has declared for suffrage, and the will of
the people sustains the measure, and who
but knows that kings, potentate and presi-
dents must bow to the mandate: Voa
populi, coz Des." Universal suffrage, is
as "lnaljenabe right of all men as the
right to breathe
Now that slavery is sent on its way to
destruction, sharp lookout is bept for
its twin relic,"-Rum. There is new
idea on temperance, gaining ground in
Massachusetts, tased on the "irrepressi-
Bile conflict" principle, viz that every
great reform must first pass through the
school of moral suasion, and then through
the trial OF legal suasion, and horne on
to victory, by military suasiom Slavery
has just gone over the course, full tilt,
and has run evidently down steep place
| into"--perdition as a military necessity.
Rum is next to be put on to the course,
and commanded to 60 and do likewise. "
Indeed, already The rum cause has passed
through two of these stages. Moral sua.
sion" has been applied to the rum traffic,
in the form of temperance societies, and
temperance principles, until all men OF
reason and conscience are numbered in
the ranks of opposition to this lonesome,
last relic of barbarism." Legal suasion'
has also been applied to the disgusting
nuisance of rum selling, until temperance
men are satisfied that victory cannot be
obtained by prosecuting rumseller, so long
as they can find whiskey attorneys, who
will sell themseles to pettifog, cavil, quib-
Bile, sleek, thwart and quash every suit
brought against this horde of "rot. gut
peddlers.
In a recent Massachusetts court 80 of these
scapcgoats were "hauled up" for keeping
Iliauor nuisances their own request,
they were recorded guilty, and then ap.
pcaled up (or DOWN to superior court
rel ying upon some sharp sprig of the law,
to find rat-holc-too small for the cat
through which they may creep to day,
light again. The same court, at the same
session, had before it loyal man, who
was charged with assisting others in rid.
ing coppcrhead on rail April 10, 1865
I 10 profoundly was the court impressed
with the enormity of that act, that il
fined the man nearly $500 on the spot
Copperheads and rumsellcrs, were pro.
tectcd patriots and temperance men pun
ished. But the time is coming In
another case a Massachusetts constable
seized over $1,000 worth Of liquor kept as
a nuisance, whereupon the banditti of a
secret rum.lodge known as the "PublC
Safety Association" seized the state Off
Ger for trespass, and in default of bail tc
to the amount of $4,000, started him fol
iail, while the rumseler was discharged
4 Thus the end of hope has come. (unlest
it can be pieced out with hemr,) of ef
fecting any reform by legal suaslon among
goddess rumsellers, and dishonest petit
fOggers. "they make void the law" 90
What is the remedy? Military sua'
sion, nothing short of it will avail any
thing AS soon think of smotbering Q
} volcano with cotton night-cap, as persuade
rumsellers to quit their degraded avoca
tion by moral suason.
!. The new Massachusetts idea contem
plates the total abOtttton Of the rum traf