The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-09-02

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DR.. NJ. Douglas aud SONS Of the North.
field Military School and Rev. Mr.. Wood.
bridge Of Port Henry. formerly of Yer.
gennes. The Scribe desires also to ex-
press his self congratulations at being as
ISOLATED with such genial comrades as the
" Commander" the Commissary," the
" Chief Cook and the Almanac" as
we'll as upon having in the company one
who could strikes with hish pyshtol the
ducks hat he couldn't " shoots with hish
stbick."
And although we /" did the fora, the
fauna, the miueralogy, the geography and
the electromagnetic latter upon Hay.
stack-of the most remarkable region Of
the east, we shall only devote to it what
space is necessary to giveth is brief sketch.
Buffers Celebrated Two-stoois Feat.
From his speech at Worcester.
My friends, your governor said, in his
first inaugural, that he would to God that
his arm was long enough and strong
enough to enforce this law. When | read
it, going over the mountains, | thought l
had lost the brief of my speech. and that
somebody had picked it up and had got
into the inaugural, there were SO many
things that sounded like me.
Well, what was done? The Legisla.
ture gave him all he asked. Forty thou
sand dollars worth of policemen-one
hundred state policemen and he might
have had two hundred or five hundred, if
he had wanted them, because the people
of this commonwealth want this law en-
forced, as l understand it, fairly, justly,
impartlally, so that we can ascertain
whether it is q law or only a %mockery of
a law. 1t never was enforced. The Or
der never was enforced until it was en-
forced In the Butler wards of the city Of
Boston, a few days ago, in the beginning
Of the campaign. One thing is certain
God did not have anything to do with
that movement, making apybody's arm
long enough and strong enough, l am
quite sure. No my friends you will
hear, before you are many days older, that
they do not meen to enforce it. 1t is
kept upon the statute book to be brought
down upon the poor and lowly, and lei
the big criminals creep through. 1t is
true, as l said two years ago, it takes the
Door woman, with her jug Of rum, and
lets the man who sells it by the puucheor
and the hogshead 60.
Now l have nothing to take back
l have nothing to alter. They need moi
send an insane man to question me OF
this subject. There are madmen enough
after me now, without emptying the in
sane asylum upon me. l have nothing tt
take back, and l say again take care yor
} don't tell anybody of it !! that, without
asking God to strengthen my ARM i'm
%piously. as | think, because He expect!
me to do my duty according to tht
F strength He has given me, without claim
ing his direct interposition ,-without ask
ing any such thing, if | have the power
that shall be executed as tho sun shine
or the dew falls, upon great and SINAI
alike, so that the commonwealth shall as
certain Just what sort of law it is, ant
if it will do good and if the people o.
the commonwealth believe it will DO goot
when they see it enforced, they will sus
tain it and make it effective for all time
and the question will be taken out of pol
, itics, as it should be and if they do no
L. believe it will do good, when they see i
) effective, they will sweep it away, aut
!, give us another which will carry forward
l the cause of temperance, which all me,
t desire. No more of this paltering in
: double sense keeping the word of prom
| Use to the ear and breaking it to the heart
r l understand why they say | am playip!
} for both side. l agree that | am--tber'
D is no mistake about that. | think ever,
t man selling liquor would desire to know
/ whether this law is going to staud, and i
S it is, he will get out Of the business.
o He wants to know that he is not doin,
4 an illegal business and every temperate
man that wants to stop the sale of liquo
a use to do it. We have had it here 70
II years, kicked about as a political foot
ball, making trouble only to those VIII
e could not take care Of themselves, an,
a then the commonwealth has had to tax
care Of their children. They said tina
t. rum ran down the streets Of Boston, an
they sent to the coautry-they turned GU
!. the Boston officers. Whether they dc
1t served it or not l do hot know. If the
n did, l am glad they were discharged
:. And they sent to the country for the pur
l.. men; for bright-eyed men-clear.eyc
n men - and they came down to enforce Ih
: law. They could not see any liquor sol
at the Parker house, the fremont house
" or at the Revere house, but they did fin
n it at the Irish shanties in the Butte
l. wards. Very bright-eyed men, some
d them, | know. l know that they coul
p have found liquor if they had not bee
d told not to find it but they 60 down t
the poor Irish novels for their operations
What is a sale of liquor under the law
1t is a high crime, is it not ? And th
k measure of the crime is the amount tina
y is sold. The mar that sells a hogsbeat
E. of course, commits sixty times as great
st crime as the man that sells a gallon, an
i a hundred times as much according to tn
size of the hogshead. Yet that degree c
IS crime is passed by every day, and tn
l. poor man that sells a gallon finds the il
y side of a Jail, and his wife and childre
,r starve Now let me say again that
'e never will execute the law in that way
b, | would not do it in that way to de GOV
ernor OF this commonwealth the remaint
er of my life, with the representatives c
4 your district for my district for my body
lie servant during his existence.
e A SCENE AT Til GRAND CENTRAL Hc
1T TEL, New YoRK.-No one who has eve
&c visited Europe will fail to appreciate th
a following: A prominent Boston gentle
I, man, a proprietor of one of the leadin
n Boston D%ailics, had just arrived in III
Is steamer frem Europe, and met with
H. New York friend, while registering h