Reasons for Taking the Temperance Pledge From National Intelligencer
The writer, a member of the Freeman's giant Total Abstinence Society, lists reasons for pledging temperance. He argues alcohol saps health and finances, erodes self control, and harms character. He urges young men to join, adopt the pledge, and strengthen the movement for societal benefit and personal reform.
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Keer
the Freeman’s Giant
Tempérance Society
Alexander
Horzon
Christendom
Chaile
The Tem per ance Pledge urging public signers
A fragment urges subscribing to the Temperance Pledge as a shield against temptation. It claims public pledge signals moral recognition and personal conscience, urging readers to sign for their own sake.
Temperance Reform Overcome Apathy in Bear Gap
In Bear Gap Pa the letter notes apathy hinders temperance work more than rum sellers. It denounces inactive former activists and self styled supporters who do little yet claim virtue, calling for concrete action, lectures, and funding to revive the cause.
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H. M. Bear Gap, Pa
The Operation of Ardent Spirits
The passage describes alcohol as a powerful, stimulating agent causing a range of bodily effects. Moderate use excites the stomach heart brain and senses, while excess leads to fever boisterous pulse and intemperance followed by languor debility and delirium. Repeated drinks progress to senility and brutality.
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Jace
Ardent spirits classed as a deadly poison in medical discourse
The text argues that large and regular intakes of alcohol can cause immediate death and long term harm. It cites experiments and a Kentucky anecdote of a widow whose barrel of whiskey led to multiple deaths among workers. It compares alcohol’s effects to poisons like stramonium and prussic acid, emphasizing prudent avoidance.
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Phus
Brodie
Frederic Ridgely
Kentucky
Lexington
Let Every Man Mind His Own Business on Temperance
A long temperance parable condemns the motto let every man mind his own business. It recounts drunken violence, gambling, and family ruin, urging action to root out taverns and grog shops and warning that intemperance destroys lives and families.
Let Every Man Mind His Own Business
A Kenebec Journal reflection on a poor family in a local circuit of poverty. The narrator notes a drunken husband and destitute wife and children fed by a kitchen fund. They survey debt records of locals, many ruined by drink, and question who will pay their own bank note.
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Friends of Temperance
Blacklegs
Shel
Rim
Tom Nokes
G. T
Texas
Bill Swizzle
Ezekiel Swig
Benjamin Burster
Sam Cocktail
Kenebec Journal
Horrific dream spurs decision to quit rum business
Wife laments a nightmare filled with dead bones, murderers, screams, and hellish imagery while fearing to continue selling rum. Her husband consoles her as she declares she cannot endure the horror and contemplates leaving the trade. She vows retirement from rum selling.
Rum seller dream drives man to quit liquor trade
A Middlesex Washingtonian recounts a nightmare vision of hellish imps and legions of rum drinkers after being tempted by alcohol. He vows never to sell another drop of intoxicating liquor, saying the dream convinces him to renounce the trade.
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Sam
Dea
Ram
Tom Wilson
Joe
Middlesex Washingtonian
Curing Pea Vines Across the Southwest Farmer Style
A correspondent explains a traditional method for curing pea vines as fodder. After wilting, vines are stacked into tall pen ramps with rails, straw layers, and occasional salt to prevent spoilage. The article notes wilting preserves leaves and sap, yielding sweeter stock feed and preserving the vine’s toughness.
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C. M
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