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Boston, Samuel H. Walley.

John C. Warren, M. D.
Nathaniel Willis.

Rev. Benjamin B. Wisner.
Brookfield, Rev. Thomas Snell.
Cambridge, Levi Farwell.

William Hilliard.
Charlestown, Rev. Warren Fay.
Danvers, James Brown.
Dedham, Rev. Ebenezer Burgess.
Jesse Wheaton, M. D.
Dorchester, Joseph Leeds.
Duxbury, Hon. Seth Sprague.
Lee, Rev. Alvan Hyde.
Leominster, Hon. Solomon Strong.
Lynn, Rev. John Lindsey.
Marblehead, Hon. William Reed.
Milton, Nathaniel Tucker.
Nantucket, Oliver C. Bartlet, M. D.
New Bedford, Rev. Sylvester Holmes.
Newburyport, William Bartlet.

Hon. William B. Banister.
Rev. Daniel Dana.

Rev. Luther F. Dimmick.

Northampton, Hon. Isaac C. Bates.
Hon. Lewis Strong.

N. Bridgewater, Rev. D. Huntington.
Pittsfield, Edward A. Newton.
Reading, John Daman.

Rev. Jared Reid.

Randolph, Ebenezer Alden, M. D.
Rev. Calvin Hitchcock.

Salem, Rev. Brown Emerson.
Asahel Huntington.

Rt. Rev. A. V. Griswold.
A. L. Peirson, M. D.

Sheffield, Hon. R. H. Barnard.
Springfield, *Hon. John Hooker.
Israel Trask.
Roxbury, Samuel Heath.

Stockbridge, Hon. Joseph Woodbridge.
Taunton, Hon. Marcus Morton.
Westhampton, Rev. Enoch Hale.
West Springfield, Hon. Sam. Lathrop.
Williamstown, Rev. E. D. Griffin.

Rev. Ralph W. Gridley.

Worcester, Rev. Jonathan Going.
Hon, Daniel Waldo.
Theophilus Wheeler.

Yarmouth, Henry Thatcher.

RHODE ISLAND.

Providence, Hon. Nicholas Brown.
William Jenkins.

Rev. Francis Wayland.
Thomas Burgess.

Rev. Thomas T. Waterman.

CONNECTICUT.

Bridgeport, Rev. Nathaniel Hewit.
Colchester, Guy Bigelow.
Farmington, Rev. Noah Porter.
Haddam, Rev. John Marsh.
Hartford, Rev. Joel Hawes.
Daniel Wadswort 1.
Thomas S. Williams.
Rev. Joel H. Lindsey.
Litchfield, Hon. Benjamin Tallmadge.
Lyme, Charles Griswold.

New Haven, Rev. Jeremiah Day.
James Brewster.

Rev. Leonard Bacon.
Hon. David Daggett.
Rev. Chauncey Goodrich.
Norwich, William P. Greene.
Sharon, Hon. John C. Smith.
Weathersfield, Rev. C. Chapin.
Rev. Caleb J. Te mev.
Samuel D. Woodward, M. D.

NEW YORK.

Albany, Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer. Edward C. Delavan.

John T. Norton, Esq.

Hon. Reuben H. Walworth.
Rev. Henry Weel.

Auburn, Rev. James Richards.
Bedford, William Jay.
Brooklyn, S. V. S. Wilder.

Rev. Charles P. M'Ilvaine

Caroline, Joseph Speed, M. D.
Coxsackie, Abraham Van Dyck.
Geneva,* Rev Henry Axtell, D. D.
Rev. Henry Dwight.

New York, Moses Allen.

Thomas Cock, M. D.
*Rev. Elias Cornelius.
Rev. Austin Dickinson.
Richard T. Haines.
Ansel W. Ives, M. D.
Rev. Joshua Leavitt.
Eleazer Lord.

Rev. Cyrus Mason.
John Nitchie.

Rev. William Patton.
Rev. Absalom Peters.
James Phelps, M. D.
Rev. Gardiner Spring.
Thomas Stokes.
Arthur Tappan.
Hon. Smith Thompson.
*John Watts, jr. M. D.
Rev. John Woodbridge.
Penn Yan, Rev. Chauncy Eddy.
Rochester, Aristarchus Champion.
Schenectady, Rev. Eliphalet Nott.

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In addition to the above, Presidents, Secretaries, and Chairmen of Executive Committees, or Boards of Direction, of all State Temperance Societies, in the United States, adopting the plan of abstinence from the use of ardent spirit as a drink, and from the traffic in it, are, ex officio, members of the American Temperance Society.

And Presidents, Secretaries and Chairmen of Executive Committees, or Boards of Direction of all National and State Temperance Societies in Foreign countries, are, ex officio, Honorary Members of this Society.

A. (P. 7.)

IT is acknowledged, that three-fourths of all the pauperism in our country, four-fifths of all aggravated crime, one half of all madness, one half of all sudden deaths, and one-fourth of all deaths in persons above twenty years of age, are caused by spirituous liquors. Shall benevolence and patriotism sleep on with such exterminating ruin around them? If an epidemic dis ease appears in a street of one of our large towns, or aboard a single vessel; if a single case of hydrophobia is recorded by any of our public journals,-what trepidation throughout the land, what horror of the evil, what multiplied proposals of remedy! Anc yet, what is one, or what are both these scourges, in their wildest and most unsparing havoc, in comparison with intemperance? In one week distilled spirits fill more graves, than all the cases of hydrophobia in the history of the disease. In the midst of this cruel destruction, the friends of Temperance have looked in vain for some prospect of deliverance. The devouring flood has burst over all the barriers which the pulpit, the press, and the voice of warning, have raised in its way, and the year 1829 shows the abounding increase of four millions of galÍons of ardent spirits above the preceding year. Something must be done, then, more than has been done already; for it is notoriously evident, that the exertions which have been hitherto employed for the suppression of intemperance, have been, to a melancholy extent, unvailing.

Temperance Societies offer to public consideration no Utopian project, but a simple, easily comprehended, and easily applied system, which has been in operation with such unparalleled success for three years in the United States of America, that though it commenced on a population, drinking, on an average, eight gallons a man annually, the consumption of ardent spirits has been diminished three-fourths even in some of the largest towns, and 3000 drunkards have been reformed. I have before me private letters from different parts of the United States, describing, in the strongest terms, the reformation which Temperance Societies have produced. I have before me, also, Reports of the American Sunday School Union, Home Mission Society, Seaman's Friend Society, with the minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and a number of sermons and other publications; and, in every one of these, Temperance So

cieties are spoken of as deservedly ranking among the best blessings which a kind Providence ever conferred upon the new world. Though little inclined to place implicit confidence in any man, or body of men, I should find it hard to believe, that the General Assembly of the United States, consisting of 1600 ministers, were blinded by Antichristian delusion, when at their meetings, in two successive years, they recommended to all the people under their charge, entire abstinence from distilled spirit, and pledged themselves to set the example; and I should find it still harder to believe that God would so bless a work of the devil, as to make Temperance Societies, for three years, productive of a reformation, which, in many respects, stands unparalleled in the history of the world. The abolition of the slave-trade, is deservedly considered the glory of modern times; yet neither in the evils to be removed, in the opposition of difficulties to be encountered, nor in the amount of good done, is the abolition of the slave-trade to be once named in comparison with the Temperance reformation. I ask, then, in the name of common sense, is there any thing in the disposition or constitution of Englishmen, to prevent their following the noble example of their sons and brethren across the Atlantic, in shaking off the vilest slavery that ever degraded body and soul? I was in company, not long since, with a gentleman, who, a few weeks previous, had dined on board an American steam-boat with eighty passengers, (a fit representation of the American population,) and not an individual of all these used one drop of spirituous liquors. Why should it not be so in England too? What ought to be done, can be done, in England as well as in America." (Prof. Edgar's Address.)

Thames Police.-Several persons were convicted in various penalties by Mr. Ballantine for assaults, committed while they were in a state of intoxication. Fagan, the inspector of K division stated, that more than 300 persons had been brought to the station-house "dead drunk" during the last five nights, and many of them would have been suffocated had he not employed several police-men in applying restoratives, bathing their heads with cloths soaked in cold water and vinegar, and using other means to restore animation. A young woman, while in a helpless state of intoxication, on Saturday night last, fell down in Shadwell Highstreet, and cut her head open. A police-man brought her to the station-house, where she was attended by Mr. Belson, a surgeon, and subsequently removed to the hospital. On Tuesday night she died from the effects of the wound; thus adding another to the many victims of gin-drinking. (Morning Herald, Dec. 29, 1831.)

Wealthy Drunkards.-During the last four weeks no less than 4070 drunken persons have been taken to the different Metropolitan Police Stations, and the several sums of money found upon them when taken into custody amounted, together, to £627.

(London Morning Chronicle, Jan. 23, 1832.)

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