Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-04-18

ty, Sunday Evening Temperance Meeting
10 The regular Sunday evening temparant
he meeting was held at Village Hall, on Su
he day evening last, the hall being filled
IN its utmost capacity. Hon. Charles
Up Heath presided, and spoke of our duty Il
h. temperance people to steadily uphold OF
rs cause and to be faithful to it; and til
n, duty required us to uphold, according
W the truth, those persons who are cnlisto
!" in and are or have been laboring for ten
pcrance One of the methods of our OF
ponents was to claim to be friendly to OF
% cause, but to be constantly finding fau
re- with its advocates and to hold them up t
s derision and scorn on account of errors j
e other matters, and so to break down tn
i i cause itself by destroying the reputatlo
v and influence of its advocate. He urge
e upon all true temperance people every
IF where, in whatever station or position t.
o stand by,uphold and defend the champions
q advocates and friends Of Temperance
a wherever, whenever, and by whomsoeve
@ attacked. lie said such attacks had beer
o made upon Mrs. Molloy, the lady whC
had lately done so much for us; THAI ht
believed She was injustly maligoed. ant
-, we ought in justice to ourselves to fairly
" expose such ISLANDERS and her sande crs
and 50 to defend the temperance cause
:, And as all present were impatient to heal
, what the people mt the home OF Mrs
, Molloy think Of the gallant little lady, he
would call upon Col. A. G. Brown to come
forward.
Col Brown said that it was pretty gen
orally understood in this community that
attacks had, in the columns Of the Argus
of This place, been made upon Mrs Emma
Mollov, who. under God, as he believed,
had recently been instrumental in efecling
a glorious reformation in this town on the
, subject of temperance. He was prepared
to attempt to vindicate Mrs. Moloy from
the unjust attacks which had been made
upon her character and integrity, insigaL-
ed rs he believed by no Other motive than
to inure the cause of which she was so
brave champion He said the principal
cause of the attacks upon Ms, MoIloy was
on account of one expression made by her
in one of her lectures, in which, referring
10 the temperance crusade in the West
some two or three years ago the Christian
women of EIklart, Ind, where she then
resided, found that in tbat ptdcc they had
four enemies to contend With" The
world, the flesh, the devi! and the Episco-
pal cIcrgymen. She stated, in proof Of
her assertion that the Episcopal clergy
there were opposed to them that some of
them were not temperance men PracttcHlH
and that one of the Episcopal clergy had
signed Il liquor dealers petition to the Ii
censing authorities for II license to sell
liquors in certain quantities, and that one
Clergyman had been deposed from his pas
torate by reason of his drinking habits.
This statement had been caught up by the
editor of the ArqHS, and so br0Hicned and
enlarged rs to be construed into an at
tack upon the entire body of the Episcopal
clergy throughout the country, and so up
on the Episcopal church, Of which the edi
tor of the Arg@s happens to be IL member.
Col. Brown claimed that Mrs. MolloY
statements were not susceptible Of SO broad
in application us had been made of them,
and 50 the complaints against her on the
part Of the ArguS were without any foun
dalton in fact. Mrs. MoIloy distinctly
stated that in England the Episcopal
church, and especially the clergy, had be-
come thoroughly aroused in regard to the
eV'io OF lh'empefa,lce' ana ha' laAcn very
aecluG" steps IN advance Oh IHo Su'gecl'
anu sue was Si'o 10 say "lso I.''V '!c s"ll'c
lscr - ,hn Fn , cIor " ' ,nJ rromi
nent members of th,t church were among
the earnest workers in the temperance re.
10 IN, Inc broadening by 'lc argus OF
cali,cs Sna - ~ cavS,. M - entira anJ w.
Specialize body of the Christian church.
was Misrepresentation of what she said,
ana tAe "noIe case on lne p'r' Oh 'hat
Eager to prove something bad against
Mrs. MollOy, the editor of the ArquS wrote
to EIkhart, Ind, and another gentleman
d" '''' "" " '"'0 " 'N"''i ~ nN' t',''' ~
evidence to prove lCr statements lalSG. In
dine timn a Irttnr was received nv t.n ndi-
tor of the Ar1Us from Il gentleman now
l.,
living IN Toledo, ONO, VINO signed hIln-
snlf I, Arnnll C.,rs,unenn. ,norLo,. l.tto,.
7o'i We ~ hu'u C'il9''ii''lli "H0''l0' lrIlcI
was received BIZ the other gentleman from
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Il ?ehIie'han now IlVlhg IN Manh'Io' MINI,
"" nv 'iS"I" H''ll9c'l w. IVY n'i'o,'"' uoIH
denying the statements made by Mrs Mol
10Y, as meg Wt0 OtcN Ycp0UC1 10 mem
Thprpnnon and nurn thn hYsis nf tLns,
l h'' o"PU"' anu up 'H' o"9'9 VI uicsc
GttrrS, the SQlare lie WAS piVeu TO Mrs |,
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MOlIOy statements by the argus.
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Col. brown lntn pro lUCru letters ana ,
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