Litchfield enquirer., 1833-09-26
THE ENQUTRER.
LITCHFIELD, SEPT. %. 1888.

e"eSs S No lear@ oy some or our nelghborPs t0r we did "Ot the article ourselves ausoa was made by ths Troy Frees to Temperance pledge by some OI She people of this village great many years anterior to the commencement of the Temperance RefOrma- HiOn, though believed that the original or even copy of the pledge eOuid be Gound among the records of the tOwn. But in looking over some old papers which fell into his hands upon the death and au adminis,rator of the late E7hraim Kirby, Esq the Hon. Seth P. Beers the identical original doeumen signed in the hand writing of each of the persons who composed the associaon-aGd to him we are indebted for Obiging with it for pu6licatio6- large proportion of the persons who signed the pa per arc now dead-eome of them we are sorry to say died intemperates-and of inc living (ony l3) all ex cept three still reside tn this town. Those three David Buel, now residing in Troy, N. Y. and who at that time kept tAvernin this village James Ssone at Watertown, N. Y. and Thomas Collier, al Bing. hampton, N. Y. The facts regarding the association were undoubtedly furnished to the Troy Sentinel by Nr. David Buc of Troy, who at the advanced age of nearly 90 is a zeaOus advocate of temperance. We hereto annex ihe document, with the signatures Those marked with an aeierick (#) are dead. Se many are the Avenues leading to human misery, ahat il s impossible guard them a Such evils as are s,sodsc ed by our folly and weakness are within our power to avoid. The mmodera,e which the People of this State make of Distilled Spirits is un- soaedly Evil of this kind. It is obvious to every serson ol the smallest observation, that from this per- nicious practice fow train of Evs dfficuH 10 be enumerated. The morals are corrupted property is exhausted, and health is destroyed. And it is most sincerely to be regretted, that from mistaken idea that distilled Spirits necessary to abouring men, to connieraci the influence of hea and give relief
 from severe fatigpe, that most valuable class of Cit izens have been ted habit of such dan Rerous tendency. Hence arises the inability to nay public taxes, 10 discharge private debts, and to sup port and educate families Seriously considering this subject and the frowns of Divine Providence, in de. uying many families in this part of :he country the means of comfortable subsistence the present year, by failure of the principle crops of the Ear,h we think i peculiarly the duty of every good Citizen to unite his efforts to reform practice which leads many to poverty, distress and ruin.
 Whereupon, we do hereby associate and mutually agree, ,ha, hereafter we will carry onr business without the use of distilled spirits article of re- fresment either for ourselves those whom we e'- xloy; and that in stead thereof, will serve our workmen with wholesome food, and the common sim ule drinks of our own Production.
 !. Enhraim Kirby~ Archibald McNeil" Y,.m,,hy Skinner Abraham Bradley David Bucl Isaac Baldwin, Jr." Juiius Deming Tapping Reeve Reniamin TaIImadse Collier & Adam TJrsh Tracy@ TObias Ceavcr EheReger Marsh~ Anos 1alp" Moses Seymours Thomas TroWbridge Samuel Marsh" Samuel Shehar@ James Stone Norman bueti Samuel Seymour Brian St0dard" Daniel Sheltlon Abraham Peck" # (lzias Iewis* Frederick W0Icott N Lawrence Vessels" Nathaniel Smith" "a Eliiat Wadswor,hs John Allen~ Alsxasaosa aCa,Eia" Joha Welch ReuheM Smith" Arthur Emmons" d Lynds Lord"
 By Necessity aad on Principle in Consequence of lis,e Experiment and auch Observation haye efec- aaay adopted and adhered to the sausary Plan here ia proposed during several Months past, and am still sesolved to persevere until convinced that an Aera- Mon will be protlc,se oi some greater Good whereof at present have no Approximations whilst Human Mature remains the same. JED. STRONG.
 Lachfeid, 9th May. l789.
 # Ths G0sersnnent Deposits.-For some weeks past ahis subject has engrossed the attention of he public n .e great cities and tOwds; and rumor upon runor has been put in circulation. having the tendency 10
 slude he public and put into she pockets ofspecaa-
 rs few thousand dollars hy the rise and Gall of the xzpck of the United States Bank. decision however
 ss a, length beea made by the administration to with
 4Aw the deposits from aha. Bank. and place them in IS local ins,tutons-with how much benefit or how $ Ach evil will be better known in few years. Upon fls receipt of this iGopmaiion in New-York, U. $. Bank stock decliaed ahoat l-2 per IL is sad lf new Secretary ofihe Treasury is dissatisfied with xke measure and that he probably will resign his of- zke 10 make room for some more plan, ins'rumeni-- seubaby Amos Kendall, of the hack door cabinet. 34a Washington Globe thus announces the facts { neeting the withdrawal
 From the Globe, Eeps. 20fh.
 #He are aaahesized to state that e dcposits of iie su1lic money wiIbe changed from the Bank of the U @kes the State Banks soon necessary arrange
 aehas be made Tor ;he psrpoae, and that 1t s be- lesed, they be eogpesed in Baltimore. Philadel #s.ssn. New-York and Boston, in sime to make the ehAnge by .herst of OcsSber, and perhaps sooner. n ssseamsaaces should renSsr earlier action Aafv on the part oi GovernAent.
 Hf is contemplated, undea aSand not to remove, s5Ee the whole of the public Mapey, SOW deposit ~ 1hs Baak of the Unted S.aAGs, but iO suffer a to & Ain there ua il shall be gradaNlly withdrawn, by z8N asual operations Of the Govefknent. And lhis
 .ss E adoEled n order p event Aw necessity, on
 sa ars Oflhe Bank 0fthe United SsaAy for pressing .anss the commercial eommaai.y: and eaa5le i to ws#d if n think proper, the usual iac1iies ie the nskehants. lt is believed, that ny this Npeans she akzARe need not produce any iRcOnvenieAse to the &Asslnercia community, and that circumslaNces will
 ae sequire sudden and heavy cali the BaAN ofthe z8Med States to occasion embarrassmenteO eO the shMs nieN