PERMANENT 68769 TEMPERANCE DOCUMENTS OF THE Alpha I'm Society AMERICAN TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. VOL. I. BOSTON: SETH BLISS, 5 CORNHILL; AND PERKINS, MARVIN, AND CO. NEW YORK: J. P. HAVEN, 148 Nassau STREET; AND LEAVITT, LORD AND Gal. Gal. Gal. Gal. D. C. D. C. D. C. CORRALE Six cents per day for Twelve cents per day Fifteen cents per day D. C. D. C. 43 80 54 75 65 70 87 60 109 50 65 70 98 55 131 40 164 25 175 20 219 00 day for liquor, Twenty-one cents per day for liquor, is D. C. 65 70 131 40 197 10 262 80 328 50 394 20 9 99 414 513 819 98 55 197 10 295 65 985 50 1.182 60 1.379 70 1.642 50 832 20 1.040 25 1.248 30 1.456 35 1.733 75 876 00 1.095 00 1.314 00 1.533 00 1.825 00 919 80 1.149 75 1.379 70 1.609 65 1.916 25 963 60 1.204 50 1.445 40 1.686 30 2.007 50 This table is designed as a help to all classes of spirit drinkers, from the man who uses his gill per day, to the man who uses his pint, and the one who uses his quart, and closes the day in a state of intoxication. Each of these classes may, by inspection of this table, see the quantity they will drink in one, two, or five years, and so on to thirty. We have also calculated the expense of drinking, from one to thirty years at different sums per day, from three to twenty-five cents. Few persons who spend three, six, or twelve cents per day, are aware how fast the amount increases, or of how many comforts they deprive themselves, by their habit of small expenditures. One thing, however, must be noticed in the expense part of this table; no interest is added to the principal, and no calculation is made for loss of time, &c. These would greatly increase the respective sum total. — Temp. Rec. All communications, relative to the general concerns of the American Temperance Society, may be addressed to the Rev. Justin Edwards, Corresponding Secretary, ANDOVER, MASS. Donations and the payment of subscriptions, and all communications with regard to money, may be sent to Hon. GEORGE ODIORNE, Treasurer of the Society, 97 Milk Street, Boston. CONTENTS. Connection between Error in Principle and Immorality in Practice, 1; Consequences fatal, I; Testimony of Physicians, Jurists and Divines, 3; State previous to the Temperance Reform, 4; Great Change, 5; Origin of the American Temperance Society, 6; Testimony to the Ben- efits of Abstinence, 7; "The Well-conducted Farm," 8; Formation of the American Temper- ance Society, 11; Address of the Executive Committee, 12; The Infallible Antidote, 14; Na- tional Philanthropist, 15; Temperance Association in Andover, 15; Agents, 15; Temperance Publications, 16; Resolutions of the Massachusetts Society for Suppression of Intemperance, 17; Testimony of Kittredge and Beecher, 18; Testimony of Medical Societies, 21; State of Things at the close of 1827, 22; Operations and Success in 1828, 23; Kittredge's Address at the Annual Meeting, 24; State of Things at the close of 1829, 27; Decrease of Mortality, 28; Increased Success of the Gospel, 28; Commencement of the Temperance Reformation in Europe, 29; Operations and Success in 1830, 30; Testimony of Members of Congress, 32; Testimony of the President of the United States, 32; Testimony of the Secretary of War, 32; Desertions from the Army, 33; Reform in the Army, 33; Reform in the Navy, 34; Reform in Merchant Vessels, 35; Effects of Ardent Spirit on Seamen, 36; State of the Reformation at the close of 1830, 38; Effects of one Man's using a Little daily, 39; Effects of another Man's using None, 39; Drunkards reclaimed, 40; Great Benefits from small Expenditures, 41; Tes- timony of Physicians, 42; Persons prevented from becoming Drunkards, 44; Expense of per- suading Men to abstain from the Use of Ardent Spirit compared with the Expense of taking Care of those who use it, 45; The Good which may be effected by $10,000, 45; Reasons why more Drunkards are not reformed, 46; Established Principle of Law, 47; Testimony of Mer- chants, 47; Principle of the Divine Government, 48; The great Hinderance to the Temperance Reformation, 49; Belief of the Churches, 50; Success of the Cause, 50; Publications on the Immorality of the Traffic, 51; Progress of Reform in Foreign Countries, 52; Prospects of Extending through the World, 52; Things to be avoided, 53; Dealers in Ardent Spirit in four Cities, 53; Benefits of Temperance Societies, 55; Character of those who continue in the Traffic, 56; Testimony of the New York State Committee, 57; Objections stated and answer- APPENDIX.-Nature and Origin of the Use of Ardent Spirits, 63; Lunatics in Dublin and Liverpool, 64; Statements in "The Well-conducted Farm," 66; Origin of the Massachusetts Society for Suppression of Intemperance, 68; Error corrected, 69; Judge Parker's Letter, 70, Judge Hallock's Decision, 70; Desertions from the Army, 71; General Jones's Statement, 71; General Gaines's Statement, 71; Lieut. Gallagher's Statement, 72; Dr. Sewall's Letter, 72; Dr. Warren's Remarks, 74; Letter from a Gentleman of the Army, 75; Judge Cranch's State- ment, 76; Connection between Temperance and Religion, 81; The Iniquities of the Fathers visited upon the Children, 85; Testimony of Dr. Sewall, 86; Testimony of Forty Physicians, 29; Dr. Hosack's Statements, 91; Dr. Hale's Essay, 91; Dr. Alden's Address, 95; Testimony of Physicians in Scotland and Ireland, 97; Dr. Cleland's Tables, 97; Deaths by Ardent Spirits, 98; Judge Cranch's Statement, 98; Barbour's Statement, 99; Resolutions of Ecclesiastical Bodies, 99; London Temperance Society, 100; Virginia Association to abstain from Tea, 103. Truths established by the Fourth Report, 111; Opinion of a Member of Congress, 111; Cir- |