Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-10-21
TEMPERANCE.
Report ON temperance,

Auopteu Dy rising vote, NJ the Soutn
Eastern Indiana Conference.
The Committee on Temperance would
respectfully present the following report;
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, as Christians, Philanthro-
pists, and patriots, we owe it, as SOL
cmn duty to our Fathers, our country
and our God, to transmit, unimpaired,
to our children, the "priceless heritage"
bequeathed us, and which is, and must
be, mainly supported by the PILLARS OF
Temperance and virtue; and, whereas
the great evil OF intemperance has given
to the world, in the mournful facts of its
history, testimony written, and reported
in thousands of instances, in letters of
blood, Of opposition, bitter and soulless,
to all suggestions and efforts, for the
promotion of mans good; and whereas,
the frequent and united efforts of the
church and Of temperance men, banded
together in societies Of various kinds, for
the sake of strength, and efficient action,
have been rendered comparatively pow
erless, and Intellectual on account of the
encourag ement and protection, given by
the LAWS OF OUR LAND, to the manuiac-
ture and sale of ardent spirits, as bev-
erage-as well as the respectability and
pecuniary inducements which our law
makers have given to the infamous traf-
fc-and whereas the object of all gov
ernment and legislation should be to
secure the greatest amount of happiness
to the greatest possible number, and
whereas, a censure of legislation, based
upon this principle, pursued and carried
out, in several of our sister States, hac
resulted in efiectually breaking down the
hitherto impregnable bulwarks of "king
Alcohol" and in driving him, in utter
dismay, from his usurped dominion:-
Therefore, be it Resolv ed, Ist, That
we. as Conference, are in faver of the
enactment by the Legislature Of Indi-
ana, of law similar in its provisions to
the Maiue Liquor Law.
Resolved, 2nd. That, as ministers of
the gospel, Of truth and righteousness,
we will more faithfully preach, speak,
and write, against the liquor trade, and
whilst we live to pray, we will war
against il, as the great corruPter ofpub-
lie and private morals.
Resolved, Sly. That we admire and
applaud the humane, patriotic, and Chris
tinn conduct Of all Coopers, who refuse
to make whisky barrels, of all farmers
who refuse to sell, or wagon grain to
distilleries; Of all business men, who dis
claim any and ali connection with the
traffic. OF all politicians, who exhibit
the moral courage and patriotic honesty
to advocate the Temperance cause.
Resolved, 4th, That no man, profess
ing christianity, can, with any degree oil
consistency, sell his grain for dstillation,
loan his credit to keep up a distillery, or
touch, taste or handle the unclean thing.
Resolved, 9th, That we respectfully
osk the editors Of the various periodicals
Of our State, in the name of patriotism
and christianity, to strive, less fearless
ly, and more foithfully,to to bear aloft our
glorious standard OF civil aud religious
freedom, and to inform the American
mind, as well as foreign emigrants, that
II Benedict Arnold reaped the requiem
Of infamy, in endeavoring to sell his
country, those who sell their country
men to the drunkard's grave, should take
warning by his fate, for their crime is no
less infamous and inhuman.
J. w. SULLIVAN, Chm.