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Temperance Movement In Franklin

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
January
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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There has been quite a Tomperance revival in this town. The school districts have been visited, and 114 names obtained to the pledge whlcb had never before been enroiled in the Temperance cause. An all-day meeting was beid tb,ere on the 8lh inst., W. Camburn in the cfwir. ït was adeüressed by Dr. Weüs of Clinton. Rev. J. M. Barrows, Rev. Mr. Tripp, and other gentlemen. The full proceedings have been forwarded by the Secretary, Alr.Keyep, but we have room for only the following resolulions: Whereas the cause we advocate has for its object the salvation of our country and world from the degradation and misery produced by the use of Alcoholic drink, and whereas, the lovers of Temperance, for want of due considation, are doing much to obstruct its progresF: Therefore, Resolved, That it is contiary to the spirit of our pledge to sell our grain for distillation when we have leason to suppose tbat the products wil! be used as a beverage. Wherpas, the laws of this State, regulating the granting of ücense for the sale of intoxicaXing drinks as a bevera;-?, pi rmit each town board to grant so many licenses as they deem ecesaary, in each town, and whereas, the said board, even when composed of Temperonce men. do not feel safe in taking the reaponsibility of denying all who apply for itcense under tbe present law,Therefore, Resolved, That the Temper - anee reformation in this etate meet3 wiíh a perioua impediment in.the present forra of the exclse luw. Resolved, That Moral Suasion cannot Iiave its legitímate efíbets on the Ru.in-seller whose conscience is coveted with the broad JEig'is of the law. Resolved, That we petition the legislature of this Statë.that the law be so alleredas to eubcnit the question to each town at the anIftual town meeting to be decided by ballot, acense or no license, and that the existing penalty for sellmg without license be continued. Resolved, That we recommend the co -opera tion with us, in this measure of every town in this state.CC53 We find in the Detroit Advertiser n letter of a column and a quarter in length from J. M. Howard to Mr. Birney, in whicfo the writerbestows on Mr. B. the usual amounl of personal abuse and violent invective, becaue Mr. Birney had published in the Signal a recent letter from Mr. Howard to himself and re-publiehed Mr. H's. famous "vse-it tíieri' letter to Mr. Wmthrop wilh remarka. Mr. Howard has good reason for feeling uneasy in nis present eituation, and it is nol surpruing thathi8 feelings should find vent in expreesions of bitter hostility, and in the repetition. of Etale, unfounded" charges. Such h production may confirm Ihe credulous parlizan, or excite the political bigot; but with the bober and candid it will carry its own antidote, and will require no comnient from us.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News