Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-22
Tsyp. RANCE. - The very full meeting c

TEMPERANCE - The very full meeting on
Sunday evening was pronounced one of the
-, hist Of its kind. Rev. Newton Glazier
r-e.jded offered prayer and spoke briefly,
oi,i.in, th4. 10 all aggressive work temper
.o.s peopIe should make no provisions for
..,reat. but rather, like the Roman conquer
,.,fod. burn their ships when once they
1.oj On the enemy's ground 1t should
,.rer be forgo ten that all this warfare, how
sr,r much like aggressIoI upon aud hostility
=, r7e vi5latJrs of law it may appear, is
--,;.c,ed With a view to their highest inter-
.s,soI the interest of all humanity
The R Y. j. L. Clark of Lancaster, N. H.,
ess invited to address the meeting. A
-5,u N this WAS no part of the work he had
named for in spending the Sabbath in town,
i WAS none the less pleasure to comply
with the request. The pleasure of the
s,s, ker must b ave communicated itself to his
hearers. for, although relating several very
n,inlul incidents, showing very fOrcibly the
oiten terrible results of intemperanc4, he
interested the n deeply.
Mr.. Clark appealed strongly to all for a
rlej,e of total abstinence - total abstinence
from wine, cider AMI bee, as we'll as from
the stronger liquors. Prohibition was an-
other a tiee in his te nperancs creed, aud he
WIS ,al to learn of the effJrt here for it's en-
orcement.
The Rev. John Currier a venerable
,sF.slec in israel was invited to speak
Hsr.pled he had but little to say and was
hardly abe to say even that, but he consld-
er.d n invitation from lady co speak in q
temperance meeting too great an honor to de-
cline. Although never 4 hard drinker, since
1925 he had been teeto' aller. Pied lying
himself to total abstinence before he had
ever seen written pledge, and refusing to
furnish liqlOr to those unier his com mad,
he lost his ofi &c in the State militia "a loss
he had ~ reIsJn to regret, for he sOoa en-
tered a different army-she itnerancy of t he
Methodist Episcopal Chnrch-whose Com
m4nder Issues no 9 prohbltory orders -
AGAINST the workings of an awakened con
science.
Mr.. Currer warm ly commended the in
teresu and zeat of the ladies of Montpelier III
th, work. He also addressed some compli-
mentary remarks to the younger ladies,
which, at the time, amused them, bat they
will linger in their memories, and we hops
bring them to realize where responsibility
falls upon them.
Col. IL D. Hopkins followed, speaking o.
the duty Of the hour for our own locality
that all our tie n2erance people sustain ano
carry forward the work from the point t,
which it has attlinei, and for which attain
ment the Temperance people are not alon'
rcsponsib bic.
Rev. L. D. Burrows Temperance Lectur
on tuesday evening, Oct. 14th, was still an
other sjunl and p)g.r al ar5I n ent for bott
prJhibtio and total abstinence. To show
that the oft-charged accusation that all ef
flrts of reformers, whether legal or moral, II
~ LflL 6slS dIA pllOL VI lhHCA'SeA "a
Ian RS hal not, during half C injury, pro
ddced the desired effect, but Oh the contrary
an increase of the same, was false, DR.
B.rr9ws gave the census of the United State
then I'll 900 Geo and now (40 coo, 100,
rro7tn, thereby that the 50 QUO drunkard
NV diving annually, are but as one to six o
tie victims in the population of that time
Satisfies taken fro the books of revenue
Collectors were proiucel to show that The
manufacture and sale of these articles, IL
view Of this great increase of population
were not prop0rtonally increasing, but rath
e., were far less than at that rem0ter period
cures which DO not lie, were also gwen a
te.tiu nv 10 favor of prohibition, as oppose
t. license. and taken from the same authorl
ties.
DR.. Barrows does not consider the inter
ests OF this cause as outside the dom lin o
plirics \ distinctive feature of his address
was fearless charge upon the Republlcaf
party Of a tdI from ITS first estate. ii
charged it with hlvlng forgotten the princi
pies vi its institution. Although Originatin-
asa reform, on acquiring power it had com
70 ignore all the reformlrory movements .
tie tins-plttfJrm promises Of respectful
Consideration - of such movements, still re
naming On fulfilled.
Neither did be deem the Democratic part,
more worth?, as that had uniformly advoca
til 4lm st InImte license.
Hence, the speaker reasoned, no politica
party should be supported by Temperance
men ualess giving uueq1ivocl pledges c
carry on. their wishes in this matter. L
Vermont, he ad ntted this extre ne measure
Or the formation of third purity, unnecessi
~ he4lse the party here in power ar
doog al that temperance people ask
large audience was iu attendance and man
tested an absorbing interest through th
entire lecture.
NExr SABBATH AT THE METHODIST CHURc
-BShop l. W. WILEY, d. D., Of the Met