Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-07-26
To THE FnlrsDs or TEMPERANCE IN Brp.

To THE FRIENDS OF TEMPERANCE IN Bed
FORD AND SoMERsET COUNTIES From all
sections of our State, as well as our common
country, comes the manifestations Of awak-
ened interest among the people in the cause
Of Temperance, and the determination ex-
pressed by renewed labors to lessen the per-
sonal depreciation, poverty, pauperism, and
crime produced by intemperance, and to sup
press the traffic in Intoxicating liquors the
prolific parent Of these evils The
men engaged in the liquor traffic, supported
by appetite, love Of gain, and large pecuniary
resources, perceiving that the success of the
Temperance cause will be the death Of their
business, have convened, and viii strenously
resist the movement 1t has, therefore, be-
come more necessary than ever for the friends
Of Temperance to combine for concerted ac.
ton.
At the State Temperance Convention held
at Harrisburg, on the 18th of February last,
it was resolved that,
WAereas, The Temperance work is now
carried on by variety of organizations and
instrumentalities, acting separately aad in
dependently of each other, but animated by
common faith and lsboring for common
end;
Ind Whereas, It is deemed advisable, for
the utmost efficiency, that union should be
formed, which, whilst leaving each organiza-
ton free to labor in its favorite method, shall
be the recognized representative of all, and
form a common bond and a common channel
through which the influence of all may be
felt in the work of temperance reform.
Therefore, an organization named the Penn
sylvania State Temperance Union was by the
convention authorized and perfected. By
means of Temperance Unions in each coun-
ty, tits intended, to carry with increased vigor
the principles of Temperance to every por-
tion of the State, and submit them to the en-
| lghtened judgment Of the people. The un-
| dersigned, desirous to form a 'Union' that
shall prove a common centre to promote uni
ty of action among the friends of Temperance
in Bedford and Somerset counties, do most
earnestly invite all the Churches, Colleges,
Seminaries, Academies, lodges of Good lem
| plars, Sons of Temperance, Temple of Hon
or, aud all the Temperance organizations
who hold and teach total abstinence from
the use 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 Bedford, on Wednesday, ?, o
clock P. NJ. July, 81, 1867, for the purpose OF
forming a Bedford and Somerset County
Temperance Union, and to consult and de-
wise plans for the promotion Of the cause OF
Temperance in the said counties.
The Churches, Colleges, and Temperance
organizations, &c, above named are request
ed to send delegates from each, not exceed
| ing Ten in number, and all friends of Tenn
| perance whe 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 i'm
mediate steps on the reception of this invita-
ton, to cause delegations to be formed, that
the convention may ftly represent the cause
in the aforesaid county; and "God, even our
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