Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-05-29
NATIONAL TEMPERANCE CONVEN-
TION

SATURDAY morning. - TIC N""'en WV" "'
bed at the usual hour. number oil resolution:
were bros ght forward by members, and reietred
to the General Committee; among them was one
that the members of the Convention should DC
enrolled without official distinctions; another up.
on the eau SEES Of intemperance; others relative
to the circulation OF Temperance A!manacs, the
formation of Temperance Associations by the in
structors and pupils Of Literary Institutions -
Mr.. Anderson. of Philadelphia, presented re-
solution touching the present manner OF ceiebrat'
inc our National Anniversary. Amember, whose
name we did not hear, rose and read an article
from one of the city papers, containing the charges
made by the Washington Telegraph against the
friends of temperance, that there Is deliberate
purpose to organise a society with view to the
Immediate emancipation of slaves; that the Ge
MUS of Temperance, New York paper, is avow.
elly devoted to this object, and is published un
der the auspices of one Of the New York tempe
rance socielies; and that New York temperance
society has published and given extensive circl
a,ion to political tract. The gentlemen said
that these were grave charges, and should be
met al the threshold SINE discussion took
place, and resulted in the reference OF the charges
for the action of tie General Committee. An
Ell ,rt was now made To abolish this committee.
so that resolutions should BE- brought at once be-
fore the Convention, and drini'iveIy acted upon
After a short debate. in whlch Messrs MLane,
Of n. j, Terry of Gem. Brice, OF Washing
ton. Wilkinson. Of n Y. took part, the resolu.
ton to do away with the Committee was put to
the vote, and nrsaived by a large majority.
The remainder of the resolutions reported by
the Commit tee ON Friday, were finally sub.
milted The twelfth. respecting simultaneous
meetings t!rou .hout the Union in February
next vas carried; also, the thirteenth, au.
thori,ing general correspondence to effect 81.
muItaneous meetings throughout the world; and
the fourteenth AMI fifteenth The sixteenth re-
snlutian, stating that SIX thousand temperance
societies have been formed within the last SIX
wears, enrolling a million members, that two
thousand disIlleries have been discontinued, nVe
thousand persons have discontinued the traffic,
Fl We thousand drunkardS have been reformed. &c.
wa, on motion Of Mr. Farley, OF r l.. again re-
ierred 70 the Committee for reconsideration, on
the ground that the Convention should put nnth
Ing fnrth to the world, that il was not prepared
fully TO subStantiate to the letter. The otherre-
solutions to the twentieth, were passed as re-
ported
A gentleman named Collier, We believe the
editor If the Pniianthrops,, proposed the lorna.
ton of general society, on principles ca'cu'at'
ed to work elsewhere than in the Norlh-a So
c.ety that would be equally efficaciou, IN the
South and West, where the differences Of man
ners, feelings, and opinions require different
modes Of action Mr. Gndl. Of Y, coin
cided, and observed that the prrsen: American
Society wanted reformation. that II was not sui
6ciently repubcao. This discussion grew from
the repuried resolution to form AL Union BY means
of the officers Of the State Societies. An amend
ment was offered that a Committee Ut six be ap.
pointed 10 arrapgs plan Tor the formation OF a
general society on proper principles Mr. Graham,
of N. Y. spoke in favor at the amendment but
on motion OF a gentleman from Pennsylvania.
both the resolution and the amendment were laid
upon the table.
The Committee reported in part-offEng
resolution that the associations OF young men
have been powerful auxiliaries to the temperance
cause, and should all the Young men in the Unit
ed States, especially in Iuearv institutions. unite
in so doing, they would confer lasting benefits
on the human race"-adopted. On the subject
of disclaimers. the Committee stated that they
had received letters requesting them To dIsayo"
any connection with masonry, anti masonry,
church and state parties. emancipation schemes;
in short, with every political subject which now
agirates the public mind They thought il un.
tore submitted a resolution that the sole OBJ
jcct of the general. state, and other temperance
societies has been, is, and ought to be-, the pro-
motion OF abstinence from intoxicating liquors;
that they devote all their efforts for temperance
and temperance alone" A member from Wash.
iddston rose, and made a warm and earnest all
iirrss on the subject, specifying that they had no
of meddlng with slavery; he said it
was necessary to quiet the excited feelings Of
the South, where this fear obsti ucted and would
ruin the cause in that section Of the
Union. lie closed by submitting a preamble
and resolutions to that effect, to be added as an
amendment to the above. Mr. Bran.ly, as a re.
preventative Of Georgia, opposed them. lie de-
cIared himself to be a native Of slave holding
state; one who bad resided long among slavery,
and therefore qualified to judge Of What was ne.
cessary. A warm debate now ensued, in which
Messrs Graham, Pitkins, Adams, Of Virginia;
Keener. Of Maryland; Wood. of New York;
Kennedy, Of Virginia; Hunt. Of North Carroll
ma; Samuels, Of George; Crane, Of Virginia;
Breckenridge, Hewitt, Watkins. Of Maryland,
s..L ...t The southa,c cacSi.su.r