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abstinance (2)

Speaker or Author: editor
Newspaper:Colored American (1837 - 1842)
Date Published: 1837-05-20
Notes: The writer recommends that the subject of temperance be included in upcoming conventions held by the Methodist Church. He went on to express his beliefs in the benefits of a life devoted to the abstinance of alcoholic drinks.
Speaker or Author: Smith, N.
Newspaper:Palladium of Liberty (1843 - 1844)
Title: Temperance Address Delivered at a meeting of the Temperance Society at Circleville, by N. Smith of Lancaster, May 27
Date Published: 1844-06-19
Notes: Temperance speech comparing the addiction to alcohol with slavery. Emphasis is place on the idea that slavery is just as much an enemy to human health as alcohol is. (Last page of speech is missing in original and therefore in this version.)