Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-08-28
temperance.
A REMARKABLE ADDRESS.

Hon. N. NJ. Hubbard, District Judge
of the Eight judicial District of Iowa,
in passing a sentence upon liquor deal
ers for violation of the prOhibitOry law
Of the State, said,-
"While there are greater crimes
known to the law which are punishable
with greater severity, there are none
which involve more of those qualities
known as despicable meanness and au-
dacity, than the selling of intoxicating
liquors.
There is something in the taking of
human life by violence, so instantane-
Gus. that it shocks and terri6es the mind
Of all and yet, we look upon the man
who takes human life quite as surely,
but by slow, lingering, prOcess-if
not without condemnation, at least with
out horror. You who stand before the
court for sentence, are in every moral
sense murderers. and you are, in the
spirit, if not the letter, guilty Of man
slaughter for the law says, that whose
ever accelerates the death of a human
being unlawfully, is guilty of the crime.
Your bloated victims upon the witness
stand, who undoubtedly committed per-
jury to screen you from the law, not only
abuudantly testified that you are accel-
Grating death, but that you are induc-
ing men to commit still greater crimes
than your own.
You still MAINTAIN the appearance of re-
spectability, but how morally leprous
you are inwardly, the ruin, poverty and
idleness which you are inhicting upon
this community declare as from the house
tops. You are living in idleness and
eating the bread of orphans watered
with widows bitter tears. You are
stealthily killing your victims, and muir
dering the peace and industry of the
community, and thereby converting hap
py, industrious, homes, into misery,
thriftless poverty, and rags. You are
r sowing the seed of ignorance, idleness
and want, among the generations to
] come.
5 lit has, become the imperative duty
4 of the court, to let fall so heavily, the
t arm of the law. that you shall either be
e driven from your nefarious traffic, OF
= be ruined in your fortunes, or wicked
= prosperity. You have become stencil
to the nostrils of the community, and al
c good men are praying that you may be
) speedily reformed,or summarily destroy
e ed. By the Providence of God and ia
6 vor of the court, these prayers shall b.
l. speedily answered by signal and exac
i, Justice for your crimes. This cOur
80 will feel proud satisfaction in taking
s. from you by law, your ill-gOtten gains
is and giving it to the common school fun
D. Of this county, where, let us hope,
in will assist in educating youths, to shu
l your vices and wicked practices.
&c "And finally, let me entreat you,
lg you are not lost to every sentiment
We humanity, to desist from your crimina
1t, vagabond, traffic, and betake yOurselve
its to some honorable calling for liveli
nd hood and you may yet become Writ
of Gus, useful, citizens, and entitled to I'll
tn respect of Christian community viii
if you presist in this way, your own rul
tn is certain, and you will receive, as yC
i'll deserve, the execration of mankind.
lrs "You may think that the sentence
ow the court is harsh and unjustly sever
to- but the court assures you that compare
lay with your crimes, and the desOlati'
y you have already brought upon the col
ce, munity, it is mild in the extreme"
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