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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IIL Second National Convention at Saratoga Springs, 1836?Appointed first Secretary?Adoption of Total Abstinence from all Intoxicating Drinks ?Organization of American Temperance UnionGen. Cocke, of Virginia, President?Located at Philadelphia?Appointed Corresponding Secretary and Editor?Mr. Delavan's Gift of Ten Thousand Dollars ?First Issue of the Journal?Second Visit to Washington?Reorganization of the Congressional Temperance Society?Great Progress ?Issues of the Press. So great was the demand, in all the States, for taking high ground, that a second National Convention was called, to be held at Saratoga Springs, in the summer of 1836. Many, were strongly opposed, doubting the wisdom of including fermented drinks in the pledge; some believing beer essential and useful to our laboring foreign population, and some dreading all conflict with the Bible on the use of wine at weddings and the sacramental table. But a very large gathering was witnessed from the States and from Canada. Chancellor Walworth was again appointed President. I was made first Secretary of the Convention. The great point, the introduction of the pledge of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors, was at once reached by a resolution to that effect by the business committee, of which Dr. Edwards was chairman. It was sustained by Dr. Lyman Beecher, and others, and unanimously adopted. A subsequent resolution, giving the reasons why all men should unite in total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors, fermented as well as distilled, as of hurtful and deleterious tendency, drew out severe COMPBOMISE PBEVAILmQ. 45 conflicts; Professor Potter, Dr. Reese, and others, denying the correctness of the classification, and believing that vinous and malt liquors might be harmlessly used; but as th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217881081 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217881084 |
| Weight | 0.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $20.86 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 256 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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