Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . not until 1808, was there anymovement of an associated cliaracter, for public or indi-vidual abandonment of the use of intoxicating drinks. But it sounds somewhat strangely, in these later d
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . not until 1808, was there anymovement of an associated cliaracter, for public or indi-vidual abandonment of the use of intoxicating drinks. But it sounds somewhat strangely, in these later days ofradical reform, that the initial movement referred to, andwhich was entitled The Temperate Society of Moreau and Northumberland, (townsin the county of Saratoga, N. Y.) originated by Billy Clarke, should be based uponregulations like the following :— No member shall be intoxicated, under penalty of fifty cents. No member shalldrink rum, gin, whiskey, wine, or any distilled spirits, or compositions of the same, orany of them, except by the advice of a physician, or in case of actual disease ( wine at public dinners), under penalty of twenty-five cents; provided thatthis article shall not infringe on any religious ordinance. No member shall offer anyof said liquors to any other member, or urge any other person to drink thereof,under penalty of twenty-five cents for each EFFECT or KEFORMATION. 394 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—1776-1876. But the day of small beginnings, in ahumane cause, is never to be despised,and, in a few jears, tlic reform hadenlisted the earnest co-operation of law-jers, divines, and other eminent men, suchas Carey. Palfrey. Iluniplirey, Dexter,Marsli, Edwards, Jiecchcr, Iorter, Leavitt,Hewit, Daj, and Kittredge. In 1813,there was formed the Massachusetts Soci-ety for the Suppression of Intemperance ;one in Connecticut, in 1829; and, in 1826,the Ameiican Temperance Union. Thestatistics of this period present the calcu-lation, that, out
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