Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-04-19
Facts.

subject has attracted some attention
IN the press of the neighboring Re
public. That some of the public mel
OF this Providence are chargeable will
drunkenness can no more be denieC
than that the present President of the
United States both when he made his
inauguration speech as Vice Presi
dent, and during his Western election
eering tour was chargable with the
vice. 1t was sad sight to see and
hear the chief magistrate of a great
nation gesticulating to a drunken
crowd, and giving utterance to the
ideas Of d drunken man, but such is
the stern fact This, however is no
sad1er than the conducG of those
placed in power with US, nearly, if
not quite as high as Andrew johnson.
1t is said we have a drunken minis
ter of Militia, but Of this We caunot
speak from personal knowledge; bat
we do know and say that we have a
Grown Minister who recently took a
tour through the country, occurring on
the culture destinies Of this country
against whom the charge Of drunken.
ness can justly be brought. We have
seen such an one with difficulty got into
a cab by friends and driven off, when
a less important parsonage, far less
drunken, would have been conveyed
to the police cells and brought up the
next morning before the city magis-
trate and mulcted for indqLging his
depraved appetite,
We have seen a county attorney, in
court, so drunk that it was with diff
Guilty he could keep his feet by resting
en- the table before him attempting to
question a witness, in the presence of
a Judge appointed by the crown, and
not rebuke offered for this insult to
the court, We have seen this crown
Office so under the influence of liquor
as to be unable to prosecute the case
intrusted to him, affording vulgar
amusement for the spectators at court,
and a source Of merriment for the
members of the bar. We have seen
a still higher officer than this, a Judge,
in the same state. We have seen him
coming out Of a saloon after the hour
the law says the saloon should be clos.
ed, thus 10 his person, by his counte.
nance sanctioned the violation of the
law he is sworn to observe. We have
seen policemen who were paid from
the hard earnings of the sober, indus
triOus mechanic and day laborer. tC
see that the law was observed, sworn
to see that 1t was observed, frequent
ing these same places at hours pro
hlbited by law, contrary to their print
ed instructions, and that too, for the
purpose of getting a drink, and this
got, they closed their eyes to all in
fraction of law, unless it be by some
poor outcast, made so by the traffi,
thus encouraged.
Is it any wonder that crime and de
bauchery are on the increase, whel
those in authority, high and low, thu
join hands with those engaged in fos
tering these things in our midst? L
this city drunkenness runs rampant
Day and night, night and day, licenses
and unlicensed hellS are open, an
the younger are being corrupted an
! fitted for the penitentiary and the ga
lows, and there seems to be no remt
, dy. 1t is useless to arraign men fo
selling liquor on the Sabbath, or othe
unlawful hours, for if convicted b
the magistrate. the conviction
I quashed by an appeal to the RecorC
! er's Court, and the offenders go sec
free. The why will appear quite plai
to any one at all conversant with tn;
L court. This is the case almost ev
n rywhere. Friends at court are po1
d erfql, and have the management c
l. the law, and those who are engage
, in dealing out damnation to their ft
IF low men thus carry on their trat
y openly and defantly.
The press is silent, the church is
I lent. the administrators of the law a
II worse than silent, for they positive
e encourage the thing. Where is t
u remedy2 We are fast approach
'f that state of things SO fearfully p'
y, trayed by the Prophet. Isaiah, 2s
ID chapter. How long shall these thin
continue? How long shall judgme
d be perverted and evil reign? VIII
y shall the end be, and our sons a
n- daughters be safe from the scour
!" which under existing circqmstan'
d, threatens to destroy them? WI
nu the cherch awakes from its torpid
w and looks the evil in the face, aud
TO- thunder tones speaks out against
drinking customs of the day, b
public and private. When the pr
1e fearlessly speaks out against this e
ed When temperance societies learn
ul- work more earnestly, in unison,
at the overthrow of strong drink.
It's, Then. and not till then, will p
ticians and public men learn to
age spect, at least outward morality,
IAN not be the leaders in the road to ]
for our sons to pattern after.
lii" When this is done, then we may
ioi gin to look for the end. In the m
3 time, let US labor, incessantly la
~ to accomplish this end, trusting
~ Him who giveth the victory to tt
est who endure unto the end.-Messen
be
on An lrishman at the Bull Run b'
,eir was somewhat surprised when
ed head of a companion was taken
the bv a cannon ball. A few momen
he. ter. a spent ball broke the hngel