Report of the Executive Committee of the American Temperance UnionAmerican Temperance Union., 1844 |
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Página 67 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Página 34 - I believe moral suasion alone, as a means of ridding the world of drunkenness, would prove about as effectual as a bulrush for the stoppage of the Bosphorus. In spite of the expectations of the most sanguine suasionists, unless opposed by some more powerful barrier, this river of rum and ruin will flow on to eternity.
Página 5 - The great discovery," says a European writer, " has at length come forth like the light of a new day, that the temperate members of society are the chief agents in promoting and perpetuating drunkenness. On whose mind this great truth first rose, is not known. Whoever he was, whether humble or great, peace to his memory. He has done more for the world than he who enriched it with the knowledge of a new continent ; and posterity, to the remotest generation, shall walk in the light which he has thrown...
Página 45 - Few indeed can bear more impartial testimony to their merits than myself, inasmuch as that, for a considerable length of time, I was opposed to them, on the supposition that they were visionary and impracticable. I have, however, long since been a convert, from a conviction founded on experience and observation, that they are most instrumental in raising thousands, and tens of thousands, from a degraded profligacy, to virtuous and industrious habits, and converting sinners from the ways of vice to...
Página 21 - ... expressly prohibited from selling alcohol on the Sabbath. When the subject was brought before the legislature and the ayes and noes were taken, not an aye was heard in favor of repeal. The Committee regret the failure, through an informality, of a passage of a bill in the legislature of New York, by which the question of license or no license should be submitted to the people of the towns, to be decided in special town meeting. Had this become a law it would have created an annual temperance...
Página 14 - would be a benefit to the Commonwealth. We shall not do so much for the public good by legislating as we should by contributing to the temperance reform. If we should all lend our exertions, we might soon say, there is no drunkard in Massachusetts- -there is no wretched family in our State. We could live then with but little legislation.
Página 16 - The folio wing pledge was then adoptel by the meeting: " We, the members and officers of the legislature of Pennsylvania, for the session of 1844, pledge ourselves to abstain entirely from the use of all intoxicating drinks as a beverage ; and with an humble dependence upon Divine Providence for success, we will exert our influence in promoting the success of Temperance in all time to come.
Página 66 - We have some excellent speakers; ft would do you good to see the gold bands and epaulets standing in the midst of four hundred men, and persuading all hands to sign the pledge. Our society met in the sail loft at Malion Navy Yard, January 27, 1844, the President in the chair. The proceedings of the last meeting were read, and a short address was made by GEORGE SMITH. Lieut. FOOTE then took the floor, and for twenty minutes addressed the meeting in his usual happy way, and concluded by inviting all...
Página 54 - I will drink no more. How can I, when I see the effects of this habit on the constitution, and when I remember that I must give account to God at the judgment for the manner in which I deal with my body as well as with my soul.