Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-08-18

Z. That il is proved by facts, that in
Itoxicating liquor, as a beverage, is neither
needful nor useful as it produces many
and aggravates most of the diseases to
which the human frame is liable; as it is
the cause of drunkenness and its numer-
Gus and appalling evils we most kindly
and affectionately invite all, by abstaining /
from il, to permit those evils to cease.
That asthe Iprevailingl use of jntoxicat- |
ing liquor. as beverage, tends not only
| to produce and aggravate diseases, but to
render them hereditary, and thus to dete-
riorate the human race; as it often produc-
esq predisposition to insanity, and is in
many cases the manifest cause of that dis
tressing malady; as it occasions an i'm
mense loss of property and of social and
domestic enjoyment; as it weakens the
power of motives over the human mind
to do right, and increases the power of
motives to do wrong; as it tends to blind
tthe understanding, scar the conscience,
tpollute the affections, harden the heart,
and debase all the powers of man; as it
produces most ofthe pauperism and crime
in the community; as it tends to prevent
the purity and permanence fire. institu-
tons, and all the inestimable benefits they
are adapted to impart; as it tends also to
hinder the efficacy of the gospel and all
means for Intellectual elevation, the moral
purity, the social happiness, and the eter-
nal good of men; as it tends to shorten hu-
man life and TO ruin the souls of men, it
: does not appear to US to be right that men
D should so use it, or furnish it TO be so used
by others; and We cannot but hope that
the time will come whenl no enlightened
= friend OF humanity will do either.
9, That we view with special approba-
ton, and hail as token for good, the for
nation, on the plan Of total abstinence
from all intoxicating liquor, as beverage
Z Of increasing numbers of temperance So
+ cieties. especially among young men, and
/ should the example of that most interest
: ing class of our citizens be universally fol-
;, lowed by the you6g, it would make Them
in this respect eminently the benefactors
O Of our country and the world
O 10. That the pToprietors of taverns,
,. stores, stages, STEAMBOATS,, railroads, and
t. other places and vehicles of public accom-
n mediation; and also of manufactures and
o public works, who have excluded from
) their premises intoxicating liquor. have
! taken course adapted to promote the ben,
: eft, and they ought to receive the counte-
l. nance and support ofthe community.
% II. That the practice of excluding In
h toxlcating liquors from celebrations Of the
r anniversary ofour national independence
% and other public occasions, is adapted tc
promote the highest interests of our coun.
s. try, and to perpetuate the blessings of free
10 institutions to all time.
DR. IA. That when the citizens ofthis re-
10 public shall all abstain from the use, as {
as beverage, Of Intoxicating liquor. they viii
s. be more quick to discern, and more able
80 efectually to guard against all DANCE t
ID which they may be exposed, and thus t.
A. transmit unimpaired the blessings which
IS they enjoy. to future generations. =.
re- Is. That the benefits which foreign
90 countries appear to be receiving from tn
7, efforts of the philanthropic men in the U
If States for the promotion of temperance
,r- are adapted to encourage US to make still
greater exeItions, and to perseVere in on
ID efforts for the furtherance Of this cause
re- till its blessings shall become universal.
re- IA. That the sending out of New
IN England rum, and other like poisons, t
In. be used as beverage, to foreign ports
!: especially to the unenlightened and par
tally civilized nations and tribes of tn
human family, is in our view moral
FITS wrong, adapted to ruin the bodies an
oh souls of men, and to rank its authors 6
Tor mong the destroyers of mankind.
Sc Is and l6., Recommending the publ
no. cations ofthe American Temperance Sc
eat ciety, and advising the Documents to b
furnished to all professional men, teach
zen ers and educated young men, and th
I'VE manual" to every family.
al IL. Recommends to each State Socie
en- ~ to take the general superintendent (
sed temperance operations within its own lin
hal It's; to employ one permanent agent, an
ru- more Unnecessary, to form temperance Sc
len cieties in every district, and procure tn
lall regular circulation OF some temperanc
.g, publication to every family that sdispose
sh- to receive il. throughout the State.
bur lS. As universal information is essel
We tial to the triumphs of The temperate
the cause, It is in our view desirable that Il
sed results of all local operations in this ar
3 q. other countries, should be collected ar
ow embodied in some general puh!icatio
hat and through that be transmitted oall par
lily ofthe world; that thus the benefits Of Il
or observation, experience, and efforts {
not each part may be enjoyed by the whole
,ro- I 10. The executive committee of Il
en- American Temperance Union are r
of quested, as soon as practicable, to cor
I'M mence. at some central place, such pu
his lication, to be a depository, as to gre
pc principles and facts, for all other public