Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-10
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.
PROSPECTUS Or TIE PROHIBlYIOSIsT.

"If any State deems the retail and informal traffic
In ardent spirits Injurious to its citizens, and cacu-
lated to produce ideness vice, or debauchery see
nothing in the Constitution OF the United States 10
prevent il from regulating restraining the traihc,
or from prohibiting it altogether, II i thinks proper
Cltef Justice Taney.
ON or before the LIST of January 1854, tho Execu-
~ tive Committee Of the New York State Temper
Society will issue tho FIRST number Of Month
~ Temperance Journal, under tire title OF InE Pao
HIBIrIoNIsT.n
Irs SIzE--It will BIO printed on double medium
sheet, making eight quarto pages OF four columns 10
a page; and excluding advertisements, each number
will contain an amount Of reading mattor equal nj
least to that furnished by our argersizod uaiy jour
mails, or to that Of an ordinary duodecimo volume OF
$50 pages.
ITs 0RJEcr-To advocate the Cause of Temper
generally and especially the Legislative Prohibits
ton Of the Traffic in Intoxicating Beverages to pre-
pare tho minds Of the for such Prohibition by
showing its oxpedency and Necessity, and TO secure
by all the influence il may legtilnateiy exert, tho
vigorous enforcement of Prohibitory Laws when OBJ
tanned.
Irs FrELD--Dealing with general principles, with
arguments like applicable to every community where
tho traffic exists and with facts lustrative of these
arguments and principles the paper will DO Nattoh
in its spirit in its scope in its purposes and, we trust
it will BIO National in its circulation and influence
Such is our aim and expectation Wo desire 10 SEQ
the Principle of Prohibition established in State after
State, till IL becomes the recognised policy OF the Ma
work, and to this end The PaonIsrloNIsr is estab
lished not tho organ OF society merely, but OF
GREAT REFoRMAroRY MOVEMENT.
ITs NECEssiry.-The existing Temperance Jour
mails have little, il any circulation outside OF tho Tenn
pcrancc Ranks. Their price almost necessarily re-
stricts Thorn to the friends of the The PRo-
nIBIroNisT is designed for circulation lnstead OF
tracts among the Indifferent and the hostile. For
this purpose it is put at price so low as to enable
the friends Of Temperance in every school district by
combined action and Mt an uncomfortable expense
to place copy in each family that will consent to re-
ceivc it.
f. Irs PRICE.--One copy for one year so SO
Three, to address, oneyear 90
Seven do do. 90
And for each additional four copies, $l00 will BIO
added, for any quantity less than fifty copies.
For fifty copies to ono address Sll %
For 100 do. do. 20 90
No subscription received for less than one year
and in every the order must be accompanied by
the money.
the Executive Committee, who have received ample
assurances of literary aid from not few OF the abes
and most eminent writer's in tho temperance ranks
throughout the Union.
The work will be stercotyped, and back numbers
DO supplied to subscribers mt any time during
the year.
All orders should be addressed to 0. Scovill, Pub
fishing Agent, Albany.
Communications for tho paper, or in relation to tho
interests OF the cause generally should be directed to
Vim. ii. Burlogh, Corresponding Secretary.
In behalf of the New York State Temperance So
cicty EDWARD Q. DELAVAN, President
Eaecutire Commiffee.--H Henry Vaudeville, Reuben
H. Walworth, John O. Cole /. N. Wyckof, William
Richardson Edgar b. Day, ucrmon Camp, b. p
Stats, Oliver Scovill.
Uy Tho Committee request all editors in the Uni
tod States to give tho above ono insertion in their
columns. To all who comply with this request We
will send the Prohibtionist for year, scfthoM an
exchange unless they choose to add TO obligation
by sending their papers also, which wond of course
be most thankfully received. Jan. 2-dH