The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-07-26
ITO THE FRIENDS OF TEN

HNO THE FRIENDS OF TEN
PERANCE IN BEFORD COUNTY From
ali sections of the State, as well as our common
country come the manifestations of awakened in
terest among the people in the cause of Temper
ance and the determination expressed by renewed
labors to lessen the personal degradation poverty,
pauperism and crime produced oy intemperance,
and to suppress the traffic in intoxicating liquors.
the prolific parents of these evils. The men en-
gagged in the liquor traffic, supported by appetite,
love OF gain, and large pecupiary resources, per-
ceiving that the success Of the Temperance cause
will be the death OF their business have convened,
and will srepuously resist the NOV vement. 1t has,
therefore, become more necessary than ever for the
friends of Temperance to combine for concerted
action. At the State Temperance Convention held
at Harrisburg, the 10Th of February last, it
resolved that, WHEREAS, The Temperance work
is now carried on by variety of organizations and
instrumentaities, acting separately and indepen-
IDENTIFY of each other, bat animated by a common
aith and laboring for common end AND WHERE
AS IT is deemed advisable, for the utmost eficien-
CIV. that a union should be formed, which. whilst
leaving each organization free to labor in its fa-
vorite method, shall be the recognized represen-
tative of all, and form a common bond and a COM
mon channel through which the influence of all
may be felt in the work of temperance reform
Therefore, an organization named the Pennsylva-
MIA State temperance Union was by the conven-
ton authorized and perfected. By means of Tenn
perance Unions in each county, it is intended to
carry with increased vigor the principles of Tenn
perance to every portion of the S ate, and submit
them to the enlightened Judgment of the people
The undersigned, desirous to form a"Union' that
shall prove a common centre to promote unity of
action among the friends of Temperance in Bed
ford county, do most earnestly invite all the
Churches, Colleges, Seminaries, Academies, lodges
of Good Templars, Sons of Temperance, Temple of
Honor, and all the Temperance organizations who
hold and teach ''total abstinence" from the of
intoxicating drinks as a beverage to be a right
practice and the prohibition in the traffic in such
drinks to be the right and duty of the State, to
meet by delegates in convention, in the Court
House in Bedford, on the 3st day of July, at 2 o.
clock, P. NJ, for the purpose of forming Bedford
County Temperance Union, and to consult and de-
wise plans for the promotion of the cause of Tenn
perance in the said county. The Churches, Col
leges, and Temperance organizations, &c, above
named are requested to send delegates from each,
not exceeding ten in number, and all friends of
Temperance who may not thus be represented, are
also cordially invited to be present and participate
in the convention Let all friends of morality and
Temperance take immediate steps on the reeep-
ton of this invitation, to cause delegations to be
formed, that the convention may ftly represent
the cause in the aforesaid county; and "God, even
our God will bless us
g. D. CHENOwITH, Cor Sec'y.
H. HECKERMAN, b. q. w. REED,
A. w DECKER, JOHN CESSNA,
N .TOUN n Lowry