New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-18
81 ,o-rho Rev E A Manning Of Cnloopeo; s E Howe,

Tho report was accepted and adopted unanimously
The Convention then took recess until o'clock
AFTERNOON SESSION
During the afternoon the attendance OF delegates was
much larger than In the morning and the gaehes were
flled with spectators The Convention was CaHeu u
Sorder shortly after o'clock The frst business trans
acted was the acceptance OF the report Of the Committee
on Credentials which announced that laps delegates
were nren representatives Of 2il cities OF towns
THE Hon Mr. Teednai Senator from MiddleseH OOun'y
sead the report of the COmfittse on an Address ana
Resolutions. 1t was follows: 'iTssf--e57i& y
FKLLow.ClrIzENs The cause that has called us 70
Rether, ana which 10 brought so pronluen'lS
before boS you not Unknown SSBSSgI YOU We
urge you TO consider reform against the evils Yhieeyou
princples You have frequently and largely supported
For more than thirty years you have approved the pro
beverage. The Legislatures by you elected have Win
out TWO e1o5ptlOhe supOIeo ol elaotu ~ tb AZ
oson of the people The year after they occurred so that
your sober and eaDes, purpose has been steadasuy IN
one direction From the beginning Of the history Of
Our commonwealth this principle has been rec9g-
drst Governor, John winthrop clearly dlscerned
and approved the right OF promotion. IN laws
prohibiting the drinking OF healhs the most injurious
tS Tc5issd from he start tbat what Is Clearly iDn
70 the State be forbidden by the state When this
assumed legal less than moral and social charae
1er It's advocates claimed that what manifeSty IN
furious the welbeing the people could be extrpaed
by the people The first attempts control this
yil by Furnishing those who should indulge II mani
Where Should 6e sod as we as the
SS3 govern 5s sB tSe e6 asb
fo-caed was q great stride in the direction OF prom
btiOn. But in the growth Of public sentiment u was
BOon seen that the Furnishing Of the while oens
ing under circumstances those VINO made them su
the root Of the real tree plucked the fruit and
allowed the tree 70 grow. Therefore the next the new
Fable step taken, aud the drunkard maker was con
sidsred criminal the and grogshop extrpated and
the sale OF liquor for beverage proh'oitea inat law
wealth In its rural towns and larger villages
of the baefu presence Of the bar the tavern and the
grOggery and made the drunkard, before so common,
almost extinct creature except as ne was introduced
FROM later cities that copied lite baefu oX
nmpe The relaxed the energies OF the people
An this work and allowed licenses OF every sort Many
OF incoming citizens from other lands brought Win
largely cured Boston thought freedom for this indul
enoe needed 10 attract trade 70 It's market ana
Sndred and not inferior reform who had given the
Btate q Triumphant record and himself an nm
mortal fame III the national conflict, cast hls
great powers and greater In the scale OF rum the
btso went back IL enacted incense Sos i
81 refused enforce H. and rum flowed down our streets
SINGLE yeSr according 10 the declaration OF the State
Board OF Chartes, tceyfOur per ces or almost exact
81 Sis message he IcgisiGe declared their enlargement
,rDd be necessary the license dW retained upon ne
statute books Misery sprung np in many dwelline both
Oi wealth and pSyeGt AG0ns Rnston Id" Con 1pnh
The devastation swelod fearfuy on every side Again
people and restored the law Wch hau Deen re-
tbeT moral sense revived and they that only proh
bition could save State This they have enacted but
throw. Journals Of resPeca6i,y and lnaneaee de-
It, politicians plot against ~ ana rlln pGI
are appealed TO- with nhammatory harangues from those
rv Sersona or political interests you the people OF
this commonwealth against these combining for
lion assembled appeal We not legally, bat We trust
morally your representatives We are OF YOU ana
from you, aud with you IL IS our own geaI state our
common pride and JOY the grave OF our Iathes ana the
cradle OF children, that IS IN perhrough the macm
nations OF evil men For its salvation we appeal Your
Jaw has been by Legislature and approved
be1e has shut up thousands OF bars, and made the
greatest haunt Of ruin the barroom almost an obsolete
to desired contamination, Il is before you to-day Tor
Des in the state Conventions in legislative
nominations the polls VIII be OF the utmost import
ance see 70 u that only prOhib0ry men are cho-
SeR for the nominating conventions Efforts may there
made 70 put nominees and platforms before you that
val approve of license, and overthrow our excellent
law We you 70 send such men o. these eonVen
lions will put in nomination those oauiSaes 'ha arc
true principles Ihe people OF thls St1te nAN.hs
I0r generation declared in favor OF prohibition, the
parties that 40 oeiore tRe Iot tne w6cbysr pSTtT
this az one OF their prlheples, t 6y
ell do this just duty will receive sucn s1ppoTI anu VII
10 elect 70 the legislature Let no party Ieuds
private OF personal ahnUns sI no eefSI Of e
men Send right TO the House. DOth III the
sTecutiye and legislative departments Let not your
SneoX triumph over you This cause felowcitizens is
not confined within our own borders II is reform 70
,,nEHr 10 vow and at this hour every State in EewEn
gland hangs on your decision. The great West IS strug
Sania New York Illinois and Michigan parties being
organized or the basis Of prohibition IN England ana
EnSish Church. tie Archbishop OF Canterbury, makes
n a special tonic consideration at his conventions
sud Archbishop Manning the head OF the Roman Catho
no Church in England has avOWed hinseiI IN us favor
while earnest u every other church are uniting ia
Nus work II this state puts il on her banners it VIII
20 forth everywhere 10 conquer the south IN
righteousness u VIII expel the greatest evil that now
Iuperils our institutions; 1t VIII save our Young meh
nom the ruin that OverhanRs them; II Will upit cur Tor
egn population virtue ana comfort u VIII denver our
Ieaf and growing metropolis from the evil that has
paupersm and misery OF every Sort and advance man
9nd along the path Of Divine progress 10 us destined per
lection. ..........
Tue following resolutions accompanied the report
Whereas, The people Of this commonwealth, through
heir legislative representative nave enacted Jaw pIo
lbuDg the sale OF Intoxicating liquors an DeNeIake'
e the representatives Of the citizens OF the Common
Eealtb IN convention assembled III Oehai OF the people
FIRST: The Of intoxicating liquors as beverage
ever proved an injury 70 manklnd as Is proved Dy
ihe attempts IN al our history as aCOmnonWeath ana
that OF other nations, TO limt and restrict their use
Seco6. This confession Of all ages aud countries IS
strengthened by convictions OF our Own generation.
in the movements IN tins country ana Great
Britain The abandonment OF their use, and the sup
o preston OF their sale.
third. This reform has made progress within the
years IN 0Olshng largely these beverages from
he table the sdebodTd and the social circle in sweep
g them OF the church. and m raising up genera
Ion from childhood to that has been largely kept
habits that had previously been Of universal
Indulgence
ike all others that seek the purity and upbuildng OF
ety, suppress by law the sale OF that which, by
the confession Of phlantopss OF all ages, has been
chief source o. poverty and crime.
Fiftb: Tins mode Of treating popular vice has always
been adopted aud will always be adopted. Thus gam
bling was denounced wrongful and harmful and then
legally suppressed thus lotteries adjudged and
prohibited thus dueling Was condemned aud forbidden
aud thus Slavery arraiRned and eXtripated.
prohibition, therefore, OF the sale OF Intoxicating
liquors beverage proceeds from precisely the same
which an other triumphant reforms that