The Litchfield County post., 1827-02-02
From the Boston Recorder and Telegraph.
AMERI CANSOCIETY FOR THE PRO
MOTION OF TEMPERANCE.

AMERI CANSOCIETY FOR THE PRO-
MOTION OF TEMPERANCE.
Inquiries having been made from various
parts of the country concerning the plans,
and operations of the American Society
for the Promotion of Temperance, the
Executive Committee deem it proper to
state, for the information of those who de-
sire it, that their first object is, to obtain
means for the permanent support of man
of suitable qualifications, who shall devote
his life to the promotion of the momentous
| objects of this society. This is in accord-
ance With a resolution which was adopted
at the first meeting of those by whom this
society was formed which is as follows
viz. That an individual of acknowledge
ed talents, pety, industry, and sound judg-
ment, be selected and employed as per-
manent agent, to spend his time and use
his best exertions, for the suppression and
prevention of the use of intoxicating liz
quors." This man it is expected will ulti.
mately become the Secretary Of the socie-
ty; and, under the direction of the Execu-
tive Committee, make appropriate COM
munications by pamphlets, correspondence
and personal interviews, to ministers of
the gospel, physicians and others: that he
will consult and cooperate with them for
| the purpose of guarding those under their
influence against the evils of intemperance;
that he will take pains in all proper meth
DDS to make seasonable and salutary ina-
preston in relation to this subject on those
who are favoured with public and refined
education, and are destined in various
ways, to have a leading influence in socie-
ty; that he will make it a serious object,
as Providence may permit. to introduce
into the publications of the day, essays and
addresses on the subject of intoxicating IL
quOrs and to induce teachers and those
concerned in the support of schools, to la
Dor diligently to impress the minds of the
young, with the alarmingan dreadful evils
to which all are exposed who indulge them
! selves in the use of strong drink to make
affectionate and earnest addresses to Off
GERS and members of Christian Churches,
to parents and guardians, to children and
apprentices, and servants, and to all in the
various departments. of life, and to set be-
fore them in plain and forcible manner,
the effects of spirituous liquors, on the
health, reputation, and all the temporal
and eternal interests of men; and to urge
all by the most weighty arguments drawn
from the present and the future world, to
keep themselves at the greatest distance
from this insidious and destructive foe -
and in general to labor by all suitable means,
in reliance on the blessing of God, to fix
the eyes of all persons of both sexes and of
all ages and conditions, on the magnitude
OF the evil which this society aims, to pre-
vent, and on the unreasonable good which
it aims to secure and bya clear and for
chile exhibition of well selected facts held
up continually till they shine with the light
of demonstration, produce an entire change
of public sentiments, and practice, with re-
gard to the use of Intoxicating liquors, and
seek renovation Of the habits of individu-
ais and the community, that intemperance
with all its evils may be banished from
our land land temperance with its attendant
blessings of body and soul universally pre-
vail.
1t is expected that the permanent e
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