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Página 4 - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are oot of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Página 13 - Notwithstanding it has been subjected to an opposition more persistent, unscrupulous and defiant, than is often incurred by an act of legislation; and though legal and magisterial influence, often acting unofficially and extra-judicially, have combined to render it inoperative, to forestall the decision of the courts, wrest the statute from its obvious meaning, and create a general distrust in, if not a hostility to, all legislative restrictions of the traffic in intoxicating liquors, it has still,...
Página 1 - Believing that the use of ardent spirits is not only needless, but hurtful ; that it is the cause of forming intemperate appetites and habits ; and that, while it is continued, the evils of intemperance cannot be prevented ; we therefore agree that we will not use them, that we will not provide them as an article of entertainment, and that we will, in all suitable ways, discountenance the use of them in the community.
Página 53 - So that by the death of 20,000 persons yearly, (and this computation is far under the mark,) the Revenue loses far more than it gains. But I may urge another consideration to you. You are a man. You have not lost human feelings. You do not love to drink human blood. You are a son of Lord Chatham. Nay, if I mistake not, you are a Christian! Dare you then sustain a sinking nation ? Is the God whom you serve able to deliver from ten thousand enemies ? I believe He is.
Página 15 - That the proceeding in a Court of Special Sessions authorized by the said Act, is unconstitutional and void, on the ground that the party accuse/I is thereby deprived of the right to trial by jury, guaranteed by the Constitution.
Página 29 - This opinion has been strengthened and confirmed by the hard labor of more than twenty years in the Temperance cause. I rejoice in the welcome intelligence of the formation of a Maine Law Alliance, which I trust will be the means under God of destroying this fruitful source of Crime and Pauperism.
Página 61 - Societies, and more than seven thousand associations in counties and smaller districts of country. The American Temperance Society, is composed of a number of known and influential friends of temperance in various parts of the United States.
Página 1 - DO AGREE THAT WE WILL NOT USE INTOXICATING LIQUORS AS A BEVERAGE, NOR TRAFFIC IN THEM; THAT WE WILL NOT PROVIDE THEM AS AN ARTICLE OF ENTERTAINMENT, OR FOR PERSONS IN OUR EMPLOYMENT, AND THAT, IN ALL SUITABLE WAYS, WE WILL DISCOUNTENANCE THEIR USE THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
Página 15 - ... 2. That inasmuch as the act does not discriminate between such liquors existing when it took effect as a law, and such as might thereafter be acquired by importation or manufacture, and does not countenance or warrant any defence based upon the distinction referred to, it cannot be sustained in respect to any such liquor, whether existing at the time the act took effect or acquired subsequently...
Página 14 - I have succeeded, and then these accursed liquor bars, like so many man-traps, have effected my fall. For this reason I have labored for the prohibitory law. Your decision is, with me, a matter of life and death.