Temperance Oration by William McLean in Adams County
The address delivered at a Presbyterian Church before Adams County temperance societies on February 95 1834 extols the temperance reform as divine benevolence. It condemns drunkenness as the devil’s scheme, urges total abstinence, urges youth and women to join, and cites a New York murder linked to liquor as a grim warning.
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Presbyterian Church
Adams County
WILLIAM MCLEAN
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Temperance
New York
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Mordecai
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Nicholas Biddie
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Littlestown Committee Seeks Publication of February Address
A Littlestown committee requests publication of an accompanying address from a February 22 celebration by the Guards and Citizens. Signatories WM. Johnson, F. Leas, H. Dewalt note the purpose as publishing the proceedings of the event.
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LITTLESTOWN
Ma. Mippieton
c. WM. JOHNSON
F. LEAS
H. DEWALT
Notified Proclamation Delivered to Guards and Citizens
Delivered before the Guards and Citizens of Littlestown on February 22 1834 by Tom Bo Bdu.
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Guards
Littlestown
TOM BO BDU
Address on American liberty and unity by a patriotic speaker
A speaker extols American liberty and union, recounting colonial oppression and Revolutionary victories. He contrasts Washington with Cesar and Napoleon, urges civic duty, temperance, and support for a strong general government, and warns against disunion while praising national progress and education. He calls for honest leadership and peaceful preservation of the republic.
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Pennsylvania
Committee of Manufactures
Senate of the
United States
South
Alabama
Franklin
Adamses
Jefferson
Hancock
Julius Cesar
Washington
Rome
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Napoleon
Europe
Congress
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Damages Awarded in Georgia Superior Court Case
A late term jury in a Georgia Superior Court awarded six thousand dollars damages to the plaintiff. The case involved an assault and battery claim brought by a plaintiff against a defendant resident of Millniguite Jew.
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Garatr Damaces
Georgia
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