The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-01-05
TEMPERANCE MOVEMENTS IN BALTI.
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The Pilot, N Baltimore, conducted by Duff
Groen gives the reIuarkabls statement ola Temper
sncs SloS sncnt in Baitirnors
COS FndaY evening last, public meeting was
be ID IN ~. JOhns ChaFeh n. Liberty street, by a
- 'ieiy ss'ied tho Washington Temperance Soci-
osy. It's formation and uneKampled su cce.s con-
"a tssz 49, Gal ag tho most remarkable and inter
ssiing occurrences Of The day. 1t appears, that u
bsut uIne months ago, SIX seven men, who had
bscs IN the habit Of thinking, even 10 InIoxicauon,
lr bong series Of years, and who had wasted
heir substance, bruGaiized Themselves, and injured
neir families formed u resolution, while in n dram
.ssoF, and AMID sho tempting fumes of the liquid
P'isou, that had 20 long pajsied their reason, that
hey would never again touch, taste or.handle any
Intoxicating drink. These at formed
themselves into total abstinence society, and
by percussion, coeeded ingetting n few notorious
hard dnn kers to join with Them. Once a week
they held meetings, and at almost every meeting
new applications 70 membership would present
themselves, anxious to secure the power of social
Influence TO AID them IN doing what they had so
often uIed to accomplish by indv idual resolution
Soon the number Of these reformed 6runkards
10 Ghy and every additional member increased the
aggregate strength. lfany one wave,ed, it was at
once scenic the eyes of each were upon his neigh
Dor, and the waNerng one found himself instantly
spppqrtod and brought back 10 bis first resolutions
BY rapid accessons, the society continued to grow,
and it numbers, nine months from its forma-
ton, over two hundred members, the greater por-
lion Of them men, who, for years, had been habit
uul drunkards.
The public meeting on Friday night, was an ex-
Perience meeting of these The histories
given by many of them of the degradation and mis-
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suifeTings to which their families hat been sub
jeoted, was truly affecting. 1t is wonderful. how
much body of men, by aggregnting their moral
force, toe weak, in its individual strength
psh any thing, have thoroughly reformed them
selves. Their MOTTO is, 'We cannot 4ml'-and
they say, 'if we touch not, taste not, and handle
not, how can we ever again become drunka IDS ?
1t is gratifying to know, that this society intends
forming auxiliary societies among apprentice boys
After having reformed themselves, tho members
now determine to strike at the very root of the
ter.
keepers of drinking hou are becoming alarm
ed at this righteous combination against them, and
are daily losing their best customers. Men who
for years have wasted with them nearly all their
hard earnings. The constant and firing activi-
~ Of the members, now wildly conscious Of tIei,
former state of degradation, and possessing hearts
to feel for those who yet enslaved, causes them
not to lose sight of their old boon companions,
these sought out and admon ished- met
their way To the tiplng shops, and persuaded al
TEND its meetings, and thus there is constant end
rapid accession 10 the society.
Drinking Ram like the Rule Of Three. la
boring man, who in the habit Of indulg-
ing occasionally too freely in the use Of strong
drink applied not long since, to one OF our towns
men, for employment. The latter agreed TO employ
him for several months, condition that he would
abstain from drinking ardent spirits entirely
during ihe tme-but should he yield to temptation,
he was to forfeit his wages. The laborer profess.