CHAPTER III.

Fifth Epoch-Origin and Cause of Appeals for Legislative Aid in favor of the

Liquor Craft, to fortify the Legal Bulwark against Encroachments, by the Pro-

gress of the Temperance Reformation-The Example of Appeals is followed by

Petitions for Legal Aid to favor the Cause of Temperance-Cause for such

Appeals Origin and Character of the Liquor Law of the State of Maine-The

general Community electrified by the promulgation of the Law of Maine, for

and against it-Hundreds of Thousands Petition for the Maine Law Statute in

the State of New York-Thousands remonstrate against it, in New York City

for Twelve specific Reasons-Three of the Remonstrative Reasons Analyzed

and Answered..
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CHAPTER IV.

Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Reasons of Remonstrance against

the Statute of the Liquor Law of Maine, in the State of New York, Analyzed

and Logically Answered by Appropriate Conclusions
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CHAPTER V.

Tenth Remonstrative Reason considered and reduced to a Logical Conclusion-

Part of the Eleventh Reason Analyzed-Liquor-Dealers' Plea for King Alcohol-

Prospective Effects of the Maine Law, if obtained as a Statute of the State of

New York-Comparative Loss and Gain to the City and State of New York,

and also to the General Community, if the Liquor Law of Maine should be-

come the Statute and General Law of Nations......
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CHAPTER VI.

Further Considerations on the comparative Amount of Loss and Gain Estimations,

at Hazard by the Adoption or Rejection of the Law of Maine, as a Statute of

the State of New York-Importance of Humiliation and Prayer, in View of

this General War of Principle, for and against the Cause of Temperance, in

answer to the Forebodings of the Twelfth Reason of the Remonstrancers

against the Adoption of the Law of Maine, as a Statute of the Empire

State

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THE FIRST TEMPERANCE ADDRESS, verbatim from the original Manuscript, de-

livered August 25, 1808, by the Author of these Reminiscences, before the first

known Temperance Society of our land or world, and repeated, by special re-

quest, before the same Society, at their annual meeting, 1843, in the Church, near

the place of the first organization, at which time the Parent Society reorganized

on the unanimous adoption of the Total Abstinence American pledge. Page 134

CHAPTER VIII.

AN ADDRESS on Temperance, delivered on the East Line of Ballston, February

26, 1833, and repeated the same day, by request, in the Baptist Church in Balls-

ton Spa, on the Breaking of a Rum-jug by a Revolutionary Soldier....... 145

CHAPTER IX.

ADDRESS delivered before the Temperance Society of the town of Malta, Saratoga

County, New York, at their Annual Meeting, March 8, 1834-Anecdote of a

Drunkard's Boy, from his words, "I would take the Whisky"

CHAPTER X.

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King Alcohol's Portrait delineated from Head to Foot, Length, Breadth, Weight,

and Height; comprising the History of his Parentage, Birth, Life, Exploits,

most wonderful Deeds, and the Prospects of his declining Years. ADDRESS,

delivered before the Malta Town Temperance Society, Jan. 1, 1841........ 189

CHAPTER XI.

A SERMON, written by the author, A. D. 1845, in the 70th year of his age, and

delivered before a Temperance Society in Stillwater, Saratoga County, N. Y.,

and was subsequently published by request

CHAPTER XII.

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ADDRESS delivered in the Union House of Worship before the Parent Temperance

Society of Moreau, on the last Monday of Oct., 1843, on their Adoption of the

American Pledge of Total Abstinence from all Intoxicating Liquors; compris-

ing the celebrated Anecdote of Little Mary, a child of seven years old (daugh-

ter of a habitual drunkard), who obtained 151 Subscribers to the Temperance

Pledge, the last of whom was her Drunken Father.......

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CHAPTER XIII.

Reminiscences of Virtuous Females, and the results of their benevolent Influence;

selected from the Days of the Mother of Moses, to the Middle of this Nineteenth

Century, for the Promotion of True Religion and the Temperance Reforma-

tion.

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CHAPTER XIV.

Effects of the Power of DIVINE PROVIDENTIAL MORAL SUASION, in one Neigh-

borhood, by the Reformation of some Hard Drinkers and Drunkards, and the

sudden and alarming Death of several other incorrigible Drunkards, personally

known to the Author, who witnessed the remarkable Results recorded in this

Chapter of the POWER OF PROVIDENTIAL MORAL SUASION in favor of Temper-

ance Reform

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CHAPTER XV.

TEMPERANCE ADDRESS, delivered by the Author before the Hon. Legislature of

the State of New York, in the Assembly Chamber of the Capitol, in Albany,

on the Evening of March 29th, A.D. 1853, in accordance with a previous pub-

lished appointment by the Hon. Legislature to that effect....
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CHAPTER XVI.

TEMPERANCE ADDRESS, delivered by the Author at several times and places, in

different Wards of the City of Albany, during the Winter of 1853, founded on

Historical Reminiscences of the Organization, Constitution, Principles, and

progressive Prospects of the "MAINE LAW ASSOCIATION OF ALBANY," in the

Winter of 1853..

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HISTORY

OF THE

TEMPERANCE REFORMATION.

CHAPTER I.

Eras and Epochs of the Temperance Reformation-Alarm of the First Epoch by
the encroachment of an Enemy under Banners of Intemperance and Death—
Organization of the First Temperance Society-Time, Place, Number, and
Names of Members, Constitution, Pledge, First President, First Address deliv-
ered before the Society, and by whom-Remarkable Report of a Member of the
Society on their First Annual Meeting-Deficiency of the Pledge, but was the
best that could then be obtained-Feebleness and Trials of the little Temper
ance Band-Second and Third Epochs, comprising a Period of more than
Twenty-five Years, marked with extensive and increasing Influence of the
Temperance Cause, evinced by the Organization of various Town, County,
State, and National Temperance Societies, comprising both Male and Female
Members-Total Abstinence American Pledge, adopted at Saratoga Springs,
A. D. 1836-The American Pledge of Total Abstinence subsequently adopted
nem con by the Parent Society-Addresses on the occasion, and Resolutions
adopted on Reorganization-Important Question settled-"Who is First and
Greatest?"-Answered by an Ancient Rule of Judging.

THE Temperance Reformation, up to the present time,
has had its origin and progress under what may be denom-
inated three eras, comprising five epochs.

The first era comprised a special alarm, occasioned by
the approach of a formidable and destructive enemy, and
measures adopted to arrest his

progress. The enemy was
INTEMPERANCE, in all its grades and forms.

The second era produced a more general alarm, and ex-
tensive combination of effort to extirpate the use of intoxi-

cating liquors, as a common beverage, from the land of freedom, as an enemy to the peace, interest, happiness, and safety of mankind. But the enemy claimed the right of inheritance, till, by wiles and stratagems, he intrenched himself in the fortification of the license law of the land, which he had the audacity to invade.

The third era, which is now pending, comprises the history of the commencement and progress of a war of extermination, to drive the enemy headlong from the land by LEGAL POWER, or abide the degrading consequences of stacking arms, and subscribing the capitulating terms of vassal submission to the sovereign and destructive reign of the powers of INTEMPERANCE, though millions of human beings are degraded, and their souls forever lost by the surrender!

Reader, pause, and think awhile, till the last sentence above is well digested in the mind, and understood in all its important signification and tendency!

The five epochs, comprised in the foregoing cras, will now receive a more particular illustration.

FIRST ALARM.

The alarm produced under the first epoch, was made by Dr. Billy J. Clark, of Moreau, in the County of Saratoga, and State of New York, in the month of March, A. D. 1808. The doctor, at that time a young, enterprising physician, is entitled to the deserved honor of being the first man on earth known to have suggested the idea of organizing a Temperance Society, in opposition to the prevailing evils.