Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-04
PROSPECTUS or the PRcHIDIlIoslSr.

If any State deems the retail and internal traffic
in ardent spirits injurious its citizens and calcu
lated to produce dleness vice. or dehauchery, i
nothing in the Constitution of the United States to
prevent il from regulating restraining the traffic,
or from prohibiting 1t altogether II it thinks proper
Chie/ Justice 1aaey
ON or before the lat of January, 1854, the Execu-
" tive Committee of the Now York State Temper
rance Society will issue the first number of Month
ly Temperance Journal. under the title Of s The Pro
HiBirIoslsr.'
ms SizE--It will be printed on double medium
sheet making eight quart pages, OF four columns to
page and, excluding advertisements each number
will contain amount of reading matter equal at
least TO that furnished by our largersized daily jour
nails or to that Of an ordinary duodecimo volume OF
l50 pages.
ance generally and especially tho Legislative Prohbi
ton Of the Traffic in intoxicating Beverages, to pre-
pare the minds OF the masses for such Prohibition, by
showing its oxpcdiency and Necessity and TO secure
by all the influence ii may legitmatey exert, tho
vigorous enforcement of Prohibitory Laws when OBJ
tanned.
Irs FiELD.-Dealing with general principles with
arguments alike applicable To every ty where
the 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, trust
it will be National in It's circulation and influence
Such Is our aim and expectation. We desire to see
the Principle of Prohibition established in State after
State till it becomes the recognised policy Of the Ma
tion 1t is ambition TO bear part this great
work, and to this end The PRoHIBlrroslsr is estab
lished, not the organ OF society merely, but Of
GREAT REFoRMAToRY MOVEMENT.
ITs NEcEssITY.-The existing Temperance jour
mails have little If any, circulation outside of tho Tenn
perance Ranks. Their price almost necessarily re-
strcts them to the friends of the cause Tag PRo-
HiBITIoNlsr Is designed for circulation (instead OF
tracts) among the Indifferent and the hostile. For
this purpose y is put at price so low to enable
the friends Of Temperance in every school district by
combined action and Mt an inconsderable expense
TO place copy in each family that will consent to re-
ceiye it.
ms PRIcE--One copy for one year so SO
s gSrss to S on. address, d One year 90
And for each additional four copies LOO will be
added, for any quantity less than fifty copies
For fifty copies to ono address $lI 90
No subscription received for less than one year
and in every the order must be accompanied by
the money.
The paper will BIO under the general direction of
the Executive Committee, who have received ample
Of literary aid from not few Of the abest
and most eminent writers in the temperance ranks
throughout the Union.
The work will be stereotyped, and back numbers
can DO supplied to new subscribers at any time during
the year.
All orders should BIO addressed to O. ScoviII, Pub
fishing Agent, Albany.
Communications for the paper, or in relation to the
interests of the generally, should be directed to
VIM II. Burleigh, Corresponding Secretary.
In behalf of the New York State Temperance So
ciety EDWARD c. DELAvAN, President
Eleenaiue Comnuttee. Henry Vaudeville, Reuben
n. Walworth John 0. Cole, 1. N. Wyckof William
Richardson, Edgar B. Day, Hermon Camp, b p
Stats, Oliver Scovi
10 The Committee request all editors in tho Uni
ted States to give the above insertion in their
columns. To all who comply with this request
will send the Prohibitionst for year. acitho, an
exchange unless they choose to add to obligation
by sending their papers also, which would Of course
be most thankfully received. Jan. 2-dtf