Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-20
PROSPECTUS OF THE PRoHIBITlONISr

IF any State deems tho retail and internal traffic
In ardent spirits injurious to its citizens and cacu
lated TO produce ideness, vice, or debaucbory see
nothing in the Constitution Of the United States to
prevent il from regulating restraining the tratc
from prohibiting it altogether, if Ii thinks proper
Chief Justice Iaaey.
nN or before the LIST of January, 1854, tho Execu-
~ tive Committee of the Now York State Temper
Society will issue the first number Ola Month
ly Temperance Journal under the title Of" Tue Pro
HIBITIoNIST.n
IRIS SrzE--It win BIO printed on double medium
sheet, making eight quarto pages, OF four columns TO
n page; and, excluding advertisements each number
will contain an amount of reading matter equal at
least to that furnished by daily jour-
nails, to that of an ordinary duodccimo volume OF
$50 pages.
generally and especially the Legislative Prohibi-
ton Of the Traffic in Intoxicating Beverages TO pre-
pare tho minds of the for such Prohibition by
showing its expedicncy and Necessity and to secure
by all the influence Ii may legitimatcly exert, tho
vigorous enforcement of Prohibitory Laws whom OBJ
tanned.
Irs FIELD.--Dealng with general principles, with
arguments alike applicable to every community 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 we trust
It will 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 tho Ma
tion. 1t is ambition to boar part this great
work, and to this end The PRonrBlTIorlsT is cstab
shed, not as tho organ OF society merely, but OF
| GREAT REFoRMAToRY MOVEMENT.
ITs NEcEssITY.-The existing Temperance Jour-
mails have little if any circulation outside OF the Tenn
pcrance Ranks. Their price almost necessarily rc-
stricts them to tho friends of the The Pro
HIBITIoNIsT is designed for circulation Gnstoad OF
tracts among the indifferent and the hostile For
this purpose it is put at price 80 low as to enable
the friends of Temperance in every school district by
combined action and at an uncomfortable expense
to place copy in each family that will consent to re-
ccye it.
ITs PRrcE.-Ono copy for one year SO so
Three' to ono on address, % ono year J 90
And for each additional four copies, $l.00 will DO
added, for any quantity less than fifty copies.
For fifty copies to ono address ST 10
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.
Tho paper will be 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 sterootyped and back numbers
be supplied to new subscribers at 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
VIM II. Burleigh Corresponding Secretary.
In behalf of the New York State Temperance So
cicty EDWARD C. DELAVAN, President.
EzecutiUs Coamittee.--H Henry Vaudeville, Reuben
II. Walworth, John 0. Cole I. N. Wyckof, William
Richardson, Edgar b. Day, Hcrmon Camp, b. p.
Staats Oliver ScoviIl.
GZ The Committee request all editors in tho Uni
ted States to give the above one insertion in their
columns. To all who comply with this request, we
will send the Prohibtionist for one year, acsth0m
exchange unless they choose to add to our obligation
by sending their papers Also which would of course
bc most thankfully received. Jan. 2-dtf