Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11
Letter from Boston.
BosroN, March 0, 1874.
TEMPERANCE,


seat reserved for him was the only one not oc
cuped in that vast auditorium, which will
seat about three thousand people. Not only
that, but enough were standing 10 the aises
and passage-ways TO make very respectable
audience in Village Hall. 1t was unusually
crowdcdlas night, however, as the speaker, who
had been announced in the public prints, was
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Whether he was inspired more by the subject,
or by the large audience or by the necessity Of
speaking in higher tone in order to be heard
| don't know but his lecture contained more
oloquence, and fire, and vim, than any one
had ever heard him deliver before lie said
that If the American people hadn't wit enough
to solve the temperance problem, then the re-
publican theory was failure. lie believed,
however, that they had, and advocated prohi-
bition as against license-saying that If the
former had partially failed, the latter had been
written all over with failure for two hundred
years
| The lecture was an houra a half long, CON
tinuing until halfpast nine o'clock, with no
appreciable diminution of the number Of listen
ers, not even those standing in the passage
ways. heappause which greeted the speaker
at first was somewhat faint owing, perhaps, to
a feeling which many have, that it is not quite
appropriate in Sunday evening meeting, but
as speaker and audience warmed with the sub
ject, the clapping Of hands became enthusiastic
and frequent, and so continued until the close.
] see by the WATcHMAN that the other side
have got the best Of the temperance people in
the recent election in Montpelier, notwithstAnd-
ing your two years revival which has so glad
denod the hearts Of the friends OF temperance
all over the State and that you are now spec
ulating az 10 the causes which produced such
an uniavorable result. | have heard Of an old
man who had 80 much confidence in the speed
Of long-legged colt Of his, that he was willing
to bet small sum that he could trot him
mile in four minutes. But when he came TO
try it, he found that it required four and
half And when, after he had lost his money,
somebody asked him how he happened to get
beaten, he quietly remarked that " the distance
was leetle too great for the time"
And so if were to try to account for the fact
that the prohbitioDists got whipped | should
say the principal reason was that there we're
rather less Of them than Of their opponents
But with all the temperance organizations and
temperance sentiment Of Washington county,
with a Commissioner Of the true-blue stripe of
George o. Boyce, the cause there will not be
allowed to suffer for the want Of vigilance
on the part Of its friends, who have an abid-
ing faith that their principles will eventually
triumph
CAMILLA URso AND uER FIDDLE.
: / remembered that when this distinguished
, knight Of the bow came to Montpelier year
! or two ago, and entertained the grateful citi-
zens thereof, with seventy five cents worth Of
. violin-paying they all seemed to think that
- the money was well invested. ! was not pres
I cat then, bu. when ii was announced the other
o day, that she would give " Concert Clas-
y sique, in Horticultural Hall, felt inclined 10
= go and see what scientific performance on a
classical fiddle might be. Il was late when
went for my ticket, and the seats were all sold,
except in the galleries, but there | found a
n good seat and plenty Of room. 10 fact, had
b., three chairs all to myself besides heavy rail
ing just high enough to rest my head upon,
u and there, having little company, reclined as
D leisurely and gracefully as a lawyer in court
II when his case has gene to the jury. From my
e comfortable perch, looked out upon the ires-
coed walls of the brilliantly lighted hall. or
down upon the well dressed audience under
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entertainment might have fallen - - 80 &c.,
sleep as to have forgotten il altooetbe,
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I'D unon the st,ge and sonc ~ a sill b;ahlv a.,
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programme said. Nv heart il ever faithful ,,
he She sang with a sweet. uelodious voice bu,
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he cred it looked as clear as alabaster.
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he ia the second These two bsvs dr,wr Lara,
,ro bouses and doub,Iess tho o,bsrs w;Il In cc,
No the amusemcnts Of Boston do not seem 10 hay,
Ter suffered or lessened in any degree on account
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