Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-11-12


Wings had carried more than two thirds.
The result in the % towns is as follows
Wing, SIXTEEN Locofoco, FOUR -
Divided, TWO. Litchheld must be the
Banner County.-Courant of Wednesday.
GOVERNOR OF MoNrEREY.-A correspond
ent of the Baltimore Sun, writing from Mon
terey, says that General Taylor has appointed
| Captain Dixon S. Miles, of the Baltimore
volunteers, to be Governor Of the captured city:
Mr.. ED1ToR,-Will you please give the
following Report an insertion in your pa
per: E
Annual Report of the Secretary of The Litch-
field County Temperance. Society. r
Seventeen years ago the 23d day Of June
last, the Litchield County Temperance So
ciety was organized under the old pledge,
abstinence only from distilled spirit. 1t
went forward upon this pledge for its prin-
cple of action for ten years; doing much for
the suppression of intemperance throughout
the county. .
AT the annual meeting held in Litchfield
in October 1889, resolution was introdu-
ced to change the pledge of the Society SO
as to include total abstinence from all that
can intoxicate; and this resolution was
passed at meeting held in Wolcottville in
| November following. Therefore for the last
seven years we have gone forth to battle
with the enemy under tho banner of total alb
stinence. And by the good providence of
God, we have been brought on our way as
society thus far. Though the last year
has been one in which we cannot report any
great visible advancement of temperance
Though the county; yet we believe there
has been an adva ance princi-
pie. Those days of Washingtonian excite
ment seem to have passed, and the cause is
now advancing, and must in future advance
from the sober conviction that it is the
cause of humanity, of Justice, and of God.
Temperance principles ere becoming more
deeply seated in the hearts of temperance
men, and working like leaven among tho
mass of the community. .,:
The Society during the past year has held
each of its annual meetings at the appoint
ed time, which as d general thing have been
Thirty-1our different. societies have been re-
presented Two ii times each, viz, Wash
ington and Mortified New Preston nine
times; Plymouth Hollow eight times; Ply
mouth Center seven times three have been
represented six times each three five times
each three four times each; FIVE three
times each; seven twice esch; eight once
each, and thirteen not all. At the different
meetings of the society during the year,
forty six new names have been added to the
pledge. .-.t'+ '..
The Society have likewise published and
distributed through the county an edition of
5000 copies of the address delivered by the
Rev. II. D. Kitchel, of Plymouth Hollow, at
its last annual meeting, entitled Gan appeal
to the people for the suppression of the spirit
traffic." This address we believe has done
much to open the eyes of the people to see
clearly the actual and pernicious effects Of
the unrestricted sale Of alcohol in any of
it's forms.
The society, also, by the passage of set
of resolutions at its July meeting have ex.
pressed their opinion that it is the duty of
temperance men to carry out their temper.
ance principles at the polls, by using their
influence to elect to office men whom they
bolieve will vote for law that shall restrict
the sale Of spirit to those who are licensed,
by the proper authorities, to sell only for
scientific and medicinal purposes. u.s
That we fully recognise the right to use
both moral and legal power in this warfare,
and by the faithful ase of these two infuen.
ces, in their appropriate places, we expect to
come off victorious. .'" ..t aa-an. ueu,
But in this as in every other moral refor-
nation, we look to higher Power for help.
We would hold on 10 an Almighty arm. We
believe that God smiles upon US in this
work-that he has owned it, and that he will
continue to own it as his. We indulge in
no gloomy forebodings in respect 10 its final
triumph: We would not sit, raven like and
augur evil for the temperance reformation.
Blu. fixing our eye on the star of TOTAL AB-
srrNENcE, and seeking the guidance Of God,
with full faith in the success of our cause,
| we will labor for the annihilaiion of intern
perance in all its forms. F'-- CA TaE
| J. L. Dickinson, Secretary.
Mortified, Oct. q, 1916. 'a s.. '''"S
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0o-A meeting Of the Wings Of Henderson
c uaty Te ,nsssee, nominated John Mclean Of