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TO LEGAL VOTERS.

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tution is a providential help in time of need. And while God is entitled to all the glory, the great family of Temperance in this and all lands, who stand pledged to Total Abstinence from the manufacture, traffic, and use of all intoxicating liquor, as a beverage, by the signature of their names to the American Pledge to that effect, have reason to rejoice that such well-timed providential help has come to the rescue of inebriates from destruction, by such well-concerted array of the power of the ballot-box for the security of the Maine Law Statute, for the destruction of the liquor traffic, the last strong-hold of the CITADEL of drunkenness, which has so long been pouring a tide of emigration of human beings into the vortex of hopeless perdition. And, while we bid all members of the Maine Law Association "GOD-SPEED," the universal spread of their principles, and the effectual overthrow of the God-provoking, nation-reproaching, and soul-destroying liquor traffic, may prayer be made and hope be cherished, that not one of the number who have, or shall become members of the Maine Law Association shall ever inherit a drunkard's grave.

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