Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-23

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drunkard is that of death and ruin. The
ruler of nation in its executive and
legislative capacity, is generally correct
type of the people. A drunken executive,
legislator or judicial officer, is the result
of corrupt state of society.
The effects upon nations welfare un-
der the control and direction Of drunken
men, are most disastrous. The temper
ance movement is therefore highly essen
tial to freedom and happiness. A sober
people cannot be controlled by civil or
religious tyrant. The temperance move
ment is az essential to the nations life, as
was the uprising of the hosts of freedom
in the late war essential to the continued
blessings of freedom, from slavery, and
the perpetuity of the great chart of our
liberties, for the glory of our country to
all coming time. The State is under the
most imperative obligation to pass strong
laws to suppress the growing evil of in
temperance. Moral suasion is powerless
for drunkard makers. Bring the law to
bear upon such men, for in this way only,
can this unhallowed traffic be broken up.
Victorious legions in their power secure
concessions from the enemies of God and
HAIL. IL tac tIdilC Al AutOAASnl1AS A1AoAS
is to continue, our liberties are in danger
of being destroyed. Let, then, this &C.
cursed traffic be overthrown and destroy
ed. God and humanity demand it.
REMARKS OF HON. GEORGE W. GRANDEY.
Hon. Geo. W. Grandey was called upon
and responded as follows:
He said he had not ose word to say in
addition to what had been so we'll said.
Here are strong and wise temperance men,
and he had much rather hear them speak,
than speak himself. He said he repre-.
sented one of the great organizations in
the temperance movement, that of the
Good Templars. It has good men and
women in its ranks. he remembered the
early pioneers in the temperance cause in
Addison county. He remembered that
in 1888, it was seriously debated, whether
we had right to ask the Legislature to
give us law, restraining the sale of in
toxicating liquors to prohibition. The
prohibitory law is glorious law. We
want, however, also more moral suasion,
more appeals to the conscience and heart.
1t requires labor to educate the people
to work in the temperance cause. To
make any law effectual, we must bring
the people up to it, thus it will be power
to be obeyed. The Good Templar organi-
cation is educating the people, that the
prohibitory law shall be fully sustained
by a high moral sense of obligation and
duty. 1t is educating men and women
to love each other socially, in the cause of
virtue and temperance; to hate the sale
and use of intoxicating liquors; to i'm
prove the amenities of life, and give full
expansion to the nobler powers of the hui
man mind and heart. The leaven of Good
Templarism, is yet to leaven the whole
lump. He hoped to yet see the whole
State brought under the wholesome prin-
ciples of the Good Templars. The next
great question that is to agitate this ma
tion is the power to control by national
legislative action, the sale of Intoxicating
liquors. He would have Vermont on the
right side in the great struggle for a
national prohibitory law, to suppress this
unholy traffic. The amount annually ex-
pended in New York city for liquors, is
eighteen millions of dollars more than is
expended for breadstuffs and meats. How
the traffic strikes at the happiness of the
people? As slavery was wiped from our
land, so he hoped to zee the unholy traffic
and use of liquor destroyed, and prohibit
tory law become the law of the nation.
He would have all parties acknowledge
the temperance reform as one of over
whelming Importance. In New England,
this good and holy cause of temperance
was first organized, and now it is spread
ing far and wide, and is destined to tri-
umph over the foe to mans happiness and
redemption.
REMARKS OF REV. L. II. STONE.
Rev. Mr. Stone, State Agent of the
Vermont Temperance Society, was by the
President introduced to the meeting, and
spoke as follows
He said he was happy to see the county
so we'll represented. Truth is ultimately
to prevail, and error is to GO down. The
cause is yet to triumph, tri-
umph most gloriously. Slavery was
overthrown and intemperance is yet to
suffer an overthrow most signally and
effectually. Sixty thousand human beings
go annually down to drunkards grave.
How shall we stop the human sacrifice.
Only in the combination of law and moral
suasion. He described most graphically
the effects that flow from the sale of in
toxicating liquors upon the young and
all classes of society at large. He COM
pared the attacks of the Indians upon the
homes and lives of defenceloss settlers,
with the attacks of rum-sellers upon the
happiness and dearest interests of society.
We are surrounded by the awful demon
of intemperance that seeks our ruin. Ifl
we cannot completely suppress the traffic
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ready great deal has been done to sup
press the traffic in Intoxicating liquors
Let the work &c on then. The aim Of the
Gospel is to save men spiritually. The
aim of the temperance movement is to
save men from the curse of intemperance,
and fit them for the reception of Divine
truth.
REMARKS OF REV. MIR. SMITH.
Rev. Mr.. Smith of Vergennes was next
announced as a speaker, and responded as
follows:
He said his subject was "Drunkards |
and Drunkard Makers" There is a host
of drunkards in our land. We hear that
less liquor is sold by town agents, but is |
there not more liquor sold by the grog
shops that infest our towns? A man that
thinks and acts under the influence of in
toxicating liquors, is more or less drunk. |
Common sense gets out, and nonsense
gets into the mind and heart, as the effects
of liquor are felt. 1t is not the man that
drinks to insensibility that is only drunk.
but every man that drinks to any extent
is more or less drunken. Drunkenness is
a curse to any man, family, community.
state or nation. How it brushes out re-.
spectability and self-esteem, and receives
the demon into the heart. How it strikes
horror to the soul of the boy or girl of
fine sensibilities, that have drunken
father or mother O thu curaa of a..