New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-12
THE NEW TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
IN ALBANY
From Tie N. y. Timer.

An extraordinary movement among some men prom
nent in Albany aud u the State is attracting much at
ention On the evening of the I'd Instant, some gen.
temen, who had been partakng Of the compliments OF
the season, rather freely met in one of the OF
Stanwx Hall to make night of IT, and night they
made OF il. While the wine in, and before the
inevitable headache, of the number proposed that
the party should sign pledge not to drink any more
liquor during the year 1860. The proposition ac-
cepted rem con-, with bOsterous shout, and de-
mand that the of the resolution should reduce 1t
writing and present an engrossed copy for sigma
ture, possible This was done, aud the Iol-
lowing pledge was drawn up by Canal Commissioner
Jaycox ard the names annexed were signed at the
first sitting:
Being thankful to an AWe Providence the m,ny
fits the year just past to
in hi own hands to literally true and believing further
that no can be really cspested to exert that uts nfu
that attention to the laws Of health which ordinary foresight and
sassey indicate and knowing full well the cu,om of using
beverage to be perIcCu ard destructive hsppioe
oe s well wicked d.isfG 81 the rights al who are
Gs 70 rely an which d we and Owe o Se.ee.
well to ow friends to resolve, and Wa do hereby
no, @ bi date ppti teT ne eapyon of The Sesf l
drink drinking of Intoxicating beverages
pmpoies January Q, 1860.
T Sanss cqse BslPsr Thomas s% ioa
n. Jayco1, Levi Dimmck, Alex p Ten sroees James Nc
Dodge Holmes George o. Jones h. Loun.beny, w. Nor
cross Martin Holmes &. l.. hvord Geo. h. Maynard H.
slocuu A. o. Wakefield Ogden Edwards, George L. Ames,
G. w. Armstrong Henry c. Rugsl,s, II. w Shipman WIN.
johnson, c. NJ. Schoehed, o w. Candee 4. ii Edwards
This stipulation, though conceived in debauchery
and brought forth Of ibtoxcaion, has been most
strictly observed by tie charter members. Among
hem you will some of the most genial and
clever iello VS." tina, "smiled' over brandy
smash. One said 10 me, "Why, have drank rum
" enough in my day to float twohundred-tun boat
across the long level" and know another who has
for years been diligently engaged in prosecuting the
" search seizure, and destruction clause OF the old
defunct PTohibitory Law. IL is refreshing now to
hear with what apparent gusto they say No 20 the
many temptations and tempters by which they
surrounded. The names | have given are not how
ever those of all who have given in their adhesion
signing for years clear thinking. Copies of the
ORIGINAL draft are in circulation through the Capitol
and the State Hall. The little spark kiDded in revery
is spreading into fame May it not in time become
a conagratiop, sweeping the State, and destroy
ing the passion for and the fashion Of drinking, which,
by The way has been daily increasing since the friends
Of Temperance unwiey sought to enforce reform
through legal enactmens. If the men whose names
are appended TO this pledge should exert their infu-
ence they would do more 70 destroy the Of intox
eating liquor than ali the legal enaclments that the
ingenuity o; man COLD frame.