Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-15


IF any State deems the retail and internal traffic
in ardent spirits injurious TO its citizens, and calcu
lated to produce idlencss vice, or debauchery SEQ
nothing in the Constitution of the United States TO
prevent it from regulating or restraining tho trafhc,
from prohibiting It altogether If it thinks proper
CHIT J4stice fancy.
(lN or before the LIST of january 1854, tho Execu-
~ tive Committee of the New York State Temper
rance Society will issue the first number OF q Month
ly temperance Journal, under the title Of The Pro
HIBITIoNIsT."
ITs SIxR-It win bo printed on o double medium
sheet making eight quarto pages, OF four columns 70
q page and, excluding advertisements, each number
viii contain an amount Of reading matter equal Mt
least to that furnished by our argerssed daily jour-
mails, or to that Of an ordinary duodocimo volume OF
100 pages.
Irs 0ByEcr.-To advocate the Cause of Temper
generally and especially tho Legislative Prohibi-
tion of the Traffic in Intoxicating Beverages 70 pre-
pare tho minds OF the masses for such Prohibition by
showing its oxpedioncy and Necessity, and to secure
by all the influence 1t may legtimately exert, the
vigorous enforcement Of Prohibitory Laws whom OBJ
tanned.
Irs FrKLD.-Dealing with general principles, with
arguments alike applicable to every community where
tho traffic exists and with facts illustrative Of these
arguments and principles the paper will be National
in its spirit in its scope in its purpose and, We trust
it viii be National in its circulation and influence
Such is our aim and expectation. We desire to soc
the Principle Of Prohibition established in State after
State till it becomes the recognised policy OF the Ma
ton. 1t is ambition to bear part IN this great
work, and to this end The PRoHIBlTIoEIsT is estab-
lished not tho organ Of society merely, but Of
GREAT RRFORMAT0RY MOVEMENT
Irs NEcEssIrY.-Tho existing temperance Jour
mails have little il any circulation outside OF the Tenn
perance Ranks Their price almost necessarily re-
stricts them to the friends Of the cause. THE Pro
HBITIoNIsT is designed for circulation (instead Of
tracts among tho indifferent and the hostile For
this purpose it is put ut price SO low o. TO enable
the friends of Temperance in every school district ny
ri n a.
to place copy in each family that will consent to re-
ceive it.
Irs PRIcE.-O Ono copy for ono year 50 so
Three, to one address, ono year ! 90
Seven do. do. 90
And for each additional four copies, $1.OO will be
added, for any quantity less than fifty copies.
For fifty copies to ono address S ad 90
No subscription received for less than one year,
and in every the order must be accompanied by
the money.
The paper will be under the general direction of
the Executive Committee, who have received ample
assurances Of literary aid from not few of the abest
and most eminent writer's in the temperance ranks
throughout the Union.
The work will be stereotyped, and back numbers
BIO supplied to subscribers at any time during
the year.
All orders should be addressed to o. Scovill, Pub
fishing Agent, Albany.
Communications for the paper, or in relation to the
interests Of the cause generally should 30 directed to
w II. -. ouioBn, hiooPonu'LiS o0OA os"iy.
In behalf of the New York State Temperance So
ciety EDWARD @. DELAVAN, President.
Eaecutius Comniftes.--Henry Vaudeville, Reuben
H. Walworth, John 0. Cole, /. N. Wyckof, William
Richardson Edgar B. Day, Hermon Camp, B. P.
Stats, Oliver Scovill.
10 The Committee request all editors in the Uni
ted States to give the above insertion in their
columns. To all who comply with this request, we
viii send tho Prohbitonist for year, aoitioat
exchange unless they choose to add to obligation
by sending their papers ALSO which would of course
be most thankfully received. Jan. 2-dn