The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-07-23
For the Organ Of Temperance Reform.
Mahoning County.


MahOning county, was held at Can
field, June l7th, 1859. The Conven.
ton was organized, by appointing
Rev. John Norris, Of Garfield, Chair.
man, and John Scott, of Poland, Sec
retary.
On motion, Messrs. Atkins, Rand,
and Montgomery, were appointed a
business committee, and Messrs. Cum.
mings, Chandler, Remsburg, McNabb,
and Frithee committee to report res
olutions for the consideration Of the
Convention.
a.a.a 2 o'clock P. NJ.
Convention met and was called to
orderby the Chairman. The commit
tee on resolutions made the following
report, which was unanimously adopt
ed.
Whereas, the history of legislation
in our State has demonstrated the flu
tility Of all attempts, either to restrain
or regulate the traffic in Intoxicating
liquors, by laws which authorize or
permit their sale as a common drink;
and whereas, the citizens of the State
of Maine have, for one year, enjoyed
an almost entire immunity from the
evils ofintemperance, under the pro-
lection of a law entirely prohibiting the
manufacture and sale Of alcoholic
drinks, to be used as an ordinary beY-
erage, therefore,
lst. Resolved, That this convention
regard the following positions, as es-
tablished by unnumbered and incon-
troVertible facts:
1st. Alcoholic liquors as abeverage,
are never necessary or beneficial 10
man, but indulgence in them is al
ways injurious, and tends to ruin.
Cd. lntemperance has been the cause
or occasion of pauperism, social de.
basement, crime and wretchedness in
community beyond all other influences
whatever.
Sd. Individual and public safety
demands the Punishment of such bev.
erages from community by the per-
sonal and C mbined efforts of the peo-
pie.
Cd. ReSOlufd, That this conven.
ton believe the following practical
principles are established in the con.
victions of all intelligent Temperance
people, and even in those of the whole
community:
lst. Total and perpetual abstinence
from all that can intnxicate, is the only
safe and right course for persona
security.
Cd Experience has shown tn,
value of a public pledge of persona
abstinence, as giving strength anC
confidence to him that makes IL; a
being sufficient answer to ever
tempter and as a testimony and ban,
of union in community, by which per
nicious customs have been extensivel,
banished, and false maxims exploded
Sd. The voluntary reIinquishmen
of the manufacture and sale, by man,
persons, is an achievement of Temper
ance truth, whose power we wOulC
be happy to see acknowledged by all
who are still implicated in the nefari
Gus business.
4th. But those, who pursue the bu
siness, against all the light and inhu
ence of the present day, give lis strong
reason to believe, that they will yeil(
only to the determined manifestation
of the public will, and the strong arm
of the law.
Sd. Resolvedp That the presen
mission of Tenn erance Reformers, i
not to portray the evils and ravages o
Alcohol, except in some Uery dark cor
aers; not to teach Temperance princi
pies and practices, but to extend thei
influence by moral suasion, incitinl
men to act on the principles the
know and acknowledge, and by procur
ing the enactment and enforcement
of efficient laws, which will be an ir
resistible terror to evil doers.
4th. Resolued, That, wisdom die
tates to us, the propriety of abandon
ing the attempt to regulate the trafi
in Alcohol, which the experience {
years has shown to be an impossible
ty, and urges upon us, that we at ono
by the legislatiOno of our State, prohit
tits further existence.
9th. ResOlUed, That in that featul
Of the Maine law, which authorize
the seizure and confscation Of Ii
property Of the wrong doer, we r,
cognize the old and well establishe
principle OF our penal code, by whic
the individual, risking his property
undertakings prohibited by law, 70
feits that property to law.
9Th. ResoIued, That while we r,
ioice in the mighty poWerofthe plede
to save from the woes Of intempe
ance, when preserved unbroken, tt
mournlul instances all around US
broken VOWS, and violated pledge
tell us Of the stronger force of habi
and the difficulty Of saving the temp
ed, while the tempter stares him
the face at every corner.