Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1835-02-04
REPORT.

The Executive Committee OF the alexandra
Temperance Society present their Report Oh
the proceedings of that body, during the year
for which they were appointed to manage lis al
fairs.
At the last anniversary, your committee were
constrained TO approach you with the language
of regret over the small effects produced ny the
labors ofthe year. We are happy, at this time,
to be enabled To assume more cheering tone
not that victory is already ours-not but that the
enemy still presents himself strongly entrench-
ed and defended in numerous forms, amidst
every class of society around US; but our sails
faction arises in a a persuasion that our labors
have not been in vain, but have been crowned
with good degree OF success.
At the last anniversary meeting, the Society
were permitted to enjoy the assistance of the
Hon. Messrs Sou.hard and Frelinghuysen,
whose addresses, to large and respectable au'
dience, we're followed by the addition OF hty-
four members to the Society, and awakened IN
the community more lively and pleasing inter
est in the cause Of Temperance. OF this state
ofthinps the Committee have sought TO avail
themselves; for which purpose they have assem-.
bled often to devise and execute such measures
as they deemed calculated to advance the in
terests of the Society. They have held eleven
public meetings for discussion: distributed tenn
perance publications. and have prosecuted other
means to bring their fellow-citizens TO right
view of and to action upon, this subjects and
thew are happy to repeat not entirely without
effect After an address by the Rev. L. ii.
Stockton on one occasion, thrty-two persons
signed the constitutions; and from time to time
others, to the number, in all, OF l29 individuals;
which, together with 33l members as reported
at the close of the last year. swell our numbers
m a6O persons. But your committee have the
satisfaction Of believing, that not in numbers on
" has the Society ga ned ground, but also, In
generally increased interest and attachment
to the cause throughout
But the labors of our Society have not been
confined to the limits of our own community "a
lone. Committees have visited Dumrles, ms
getaway Fairfax Court House, and Centreville
who have, in each of these places, organized
new societies, or been Instrumental In lmpartIng
fresh impulse tc those before existing. And
whilst they have thus, by the use of these and
other means, sought to penetrate, with the light
Of Temperance, even to the darkest corners
where lurk immortality and vice, they have not
forgotten to unite their voices with those OF as
senbled multtudes, to utter one loud and deep
and solemn warning, whose echo might be heard
to reverberate from one extremity OF our coun-
try TO the other; and whose influence should be
to produce throughout this vast continent and
the world, public opinion in accordance with
the principles of christian Temperance
For this purpose they sent delegates TO the
MARYLAND State Temperance Convention, which
assembled in Baltimore on the 10Th May last;
and. also, to the Virginia State Convention, held
at Charlottesville in October. Steps have also
been taken towards forming an Union Of Tenn
perance Societies Of the District, to which this
Society has been party, and sent delegates 70
several Conventions assembled wllhln lhe iiihils
ofthe ten miles square.
In pursuance of an order passed at an ad-
iourned meeting from the last anniversary, the
Secretary has collected the following statistics,
in relation to the Temperance cause. We lind
from the Inspector, that there were inspected in