Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1854-12-07

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Art ~ The object 81 this Society shall
Be-. While Ne may SEQ all others faults. 70.
feel and correct our own. To suppress,all
nanner Of deceit and hypocrisy, SANDER
and defamation, backbiting and evil-speak-
fne, with an that tends to iniuro or defrand
our neighbOE, either Of his property or
Art. III. This Society shall be free and
indepondent from all other societies. Each
member shall be vested with full powers
and privileges to attend to his own con-
Germs, and he shall make It his duty TO mind
his own business, and let others alone sind
Presidents, Vice Presidents, Secretaries.
Spies, Infofmcrs, Committees, or Delegates,
shall never be chosen by this Society, to
watch over the. conduct of others, or make
reports Of their neighbors' misdoings, until
such work Of charity shall have begun at
home. ~
Art. w. There shall he no public or
private meetings of this Society on any APP
pointed days, to manage their own con-
Germs, or to hear lectures delivered before
IL; but it shall be the duty of every men,
Der to meet himself alone every day, and
listen to the lectures of his own conscience.
Art. v. No money shall be raised from
time to time, nor funds to support this So
ciety, nor to circulate self-examining tracts,
or self-cxamming almanacs or to pay min
listers or lawyers for delivering addresses,
to convince us how much easier it is to. ex-
anime others than it is to examine our
selves.
Art. vi. Every member of this Soei-
ETY. shall pay due regard to temperance in
eating and drinking, and in every thing
else; but he shall be his own judge what
he shall eat, and what he shall drink, and
wherewithal lie shall be clothed while glut-
tony, drunkenness and tight-lacing, shall
be left to the cravings of conscience and
consumption, with all that popular reproach
they deserve, without the benefit of the
clergy. or the votes or lectures Of q Tenn
perance Society.
Art. VII. Every thing shall be called
by its right name. Men shall not put Bit
ter for sweet, nor sweet for bitter, nor call
for beer when they mean rum, nor for cider
or wine, when they mean brandy or gin
and no Innkecper shall put new wine into
old bottles Of French brandy, for the use Of
his Temperance Customers, and no grocer
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