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The Temperance Cause and Public Morals in Our Time
A broad critique of vice and crime in the nation, praising temperance as a revival of republican virtue. The author links drunkenness to moral decay, praises the temperance movement’s rise since 1840, and urges perseverance with prudence and persuasion. The piece cites alcohol’s harms, national progress, and calls for hold fast that which is good.
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Union
Croesus
Elysium
Simeon
Desert
United States
Ames
Friends of Temperance
Scotland