The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-02-23
ADDISON County Temp So
ciety.

N>NrAL NET7iNG.
MunI'rrGy, Feb. l6 %
Meeting t. ',., E" order by the Press.
dent. Hon. l.piyey Munsin. aul Hon. j.
NJ Siade w., roscn Secretary pm '.m.
On motion Of Calvin Squ'er, Of New
Haven, il wa, voted that a committee e
five be appointed by the Chair to present
It list Of oni-,, ca the year ensuing. The
following gentlemen were appointed as
said committee on nominations Calvin
Squier, Ju>tus Cobo H. 5. Gross, l..
Matthews aud + ~. Olmsted
On motion OF MIR. Cobb, voted that
committee of five be appointed by the
Chair to present resolutions for the con-
sideration of the meeting. The following
gentlemen were appointed b. NJ. Hall,
l.. Meacham, s. B. Rockwell, Ward Bull
IA, d and Milton Crane.
The committee on nominations pre-
sented the following list Of officers for the
ensuing year;
PteNjient, Harvey MunsilI.
Tece Presidents, F. W. Omsted, Or.
rn Field, Iliram Meeker. F. K Haven,
and Hiram Allen.
.SecretayY, Justus Cobb.
Treasurer, J. w. Stewart
4 Euecufirr Committee, Ward Billiard
S. b. Rockwell, j. L. EIdridgo l.
Mathews and c. Blake.
| Committees report accepted and a
doptcj.
| On motion, the meeting adjourned un
| Ill halt past one O'Clock.
AFTERNOON
| Meeting called to order by the Presi
dent agreeaby to adjournment.
The committee on resolutions, through
their chairman, Rev. B. NJ. Hall, mad
the following report;
Rcso 'oed, That the temperance caus
invokes and claims the aid of all men VIII
are, or may be elevated to stations Of Of
fetal trust and power--and that it is in
cumbent upon every friend of his race s
to use the elective franchise that tiplin
legislators aud drunken justices shall ney
er be promoted to bring disgrace and ii
jury upon the righteous cause of temper
: ance.
Resois1i, That each successive yea
= increases our conviction of the wisdom {
our temperance laws, and Of the desire {
. the masses to have them sustained and ell
forced.
: Resolved. That while all moral mear
and influences should be used to dissuad
I the young and the tempted from the ut
of intoxicating. liquors, the penalties c
the law should be stringently visited upo
their tempters without Partially an
l. without hypocrisy"
Resoived, That while we should |
: stimulated to strenuous efforts to reiey
l. society from the evils of pauperism an
: crime, we should be impelled by the higl
er motive, to save individuals and fam
:. lies from temporal and eternal ruin.
4 HeSO|ee", mat great responslDlll'
rests upon the town agents far the sale
- liquors. and upon their fidelity to the
e trusts largely depends the success of Il
temperance cause.
h Resolved, That the Pastors of the Sc
q eral churches in the county be request,
W to remember the cause of temperance c
>. ten in their public prayers and addresst
and to preach explicitly on the subject
least once in the year.
rs Resoiped That we request the Sta
l. Temperance Society to publish Dige
g, of our State Laws which relate to Il
lr subject OF temperance.
N The above resolutions were read sep
- ratcly and discussed by Messrs Star
!. Leavitt, Hall, Rockwell, Slade Dou
y Cobb, Olmsted, Meeker, Jennings, al
70 others, and passed.
- On motion the meeting adjourned.
" HARVEY MuSsILL, Pres,