Book/Printed Material The Whole World's Temperance Convention, held at Metropolitan Hall in the city of New York, on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 1st and 2d, 1853 ... General Collections copy
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Image 1 of General Collections copy This was virtually a womans’ Rights Convention. HV5009 W6 1853 THE Whole World's TEMPERANCE CONVENTION HELD AT METROPOLITAN HALL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK On Thursday and Friday, Sept. 1st and...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 2 of General Collections copy HV5009 .W6 1853 Compiled from the Reports in Tribune, Times and Herald; principally from the Tribune. E. O JENKINS, PRINTER AND 114 NASSAU STREET, N. YORK.- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 3 of General Collections copy [CALL.] WHOLE WORLD'S TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. Whereas, In response to a call for a preliminary meeting of the friends of Temperance in North America, to make arrangements for a World's Temperance Convention in...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 4 of General Collections copy 1 PREFACE To The WHOLE WORLD'S TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. Call for the Preliminary Meeting. The following call appeared in the N.Y. Tribune, April, 7, 1853: World's Temperance Convention. —The undersigned, in concurrence with...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 5 of General Collections copy 2 continuance of the World's Fair. The meeting was called to order by E. M. Jackson, Corresponding Secretary of the State Central Committee of Pennsylvania, who moved the Hon. A. C. Barstow,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 6 of General Collections copy 3 (Mr. Higginson) would not be pressed. If so, and it prevailed, those ladies, as well as others, should be appointed. Mr. Higginson was proceeding to reply, when he was interrupted by...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 7 of General Collections copy 4 Rev. John Chambers, Hon. Bradford R. Wood, and Dr. Condit were appointed such committee. Rev. Mr. Marsh —Let the matter be referred to the committee just selected, and they can then...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 8 of General Collections copy 5 while speaking. I also move that no speaker be allowed to address the meeting more than once without the consent of the convention. Mr. Armstrong, of Saratoga, wished to know if...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 9 of General Collections copy 6 some further remarks on a point of order, Mr. H. moved to amend the report of the Committee on Credentials. Chairman —The question before the Convention is, first, shall the report...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 10 of General Collections copy 7 and loud cries of “adjourn.”) I move, continued Mr. J., that as the gentleman (Mr. Higginson) has had the floor all the morning, that we adjourn forthwith to Metropolitan Hall, and...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 11 of General Collections copy 8 as well as deceived by this whole transaction, and that he thought the least thing the Convention could do would be to pay their expenses. Col. E. L. Snow, of New...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 12 of General Collections copy WHOLE WORLD'STEMPERATURE CONVENTION.- Morning Session. This convention met at 10 o'clock Thursday morning, at Metropolitan Hall, about 1,00 persons being present, representing different sections of the United States, Canada and England. During...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 13 of General Collections copy 10 Mr. Burleigh took the stand and speak as follows:— I hardly know. my friends, how to begin to address a Convention like this, upon such a short notice as has been...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 14 of General Collections copy 11 end to this traffic; we recognize that alcoholic drinks are not fit articles for commerce, and are not fit to be found anywhere in domestic use. Anything short of this full...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 15 of General Collections copy 12 of a man who begins the work of the destruction of body and soul by all the skill and ingenuity in the power of man be made to occupy a position...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 16 of General Collections copy 13 session of a convention which is to last two days, to see so many earnest faces in attendance as there are now present. I have no doubt but that I shall...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 17 of General Collections copy 14 chains stronger and more galling than iron, and than human laws can put around them, because they are the chains of their own degraded passions and ruined natures. Let us aid...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 18 of General Collections copy 15 that he was in the of disposing of his flowers at the hotels and in public places, and he wanted to make a votive offering on the shrine of Temperance,—thereupon depositing...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 19 of General Collections copy 16 It was well known that the world-renowned Hutchinsons sang “The Good Time Coming.” By your permission we will sing you the “Dawn of the Good Time Coming”. Upon which, there was...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 20 of General Collections copy 17 imitators of Yankee States; not a word about all this. Say nothing about this, and not a breath either about a woman's owing service or labor to her intemperate husband, and...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 21 of General Collections copy 18 A few words in regard to Temperance. The rattlesnake is the father of rattlesnakes,—the crocodile begets crocodiles; and so the drunkard is the parent of drunkards. “Can the Ethiopian change his...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 22 of General Collections copy 19 but they are heirs of the same inheritance, and so, as surely as the cup of temptation is not taken from them, will they thus miserably perish. Has the law nothing...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 23 of General Collections copy 20 Horace Greeley, the Chairman of the Business Committee, then came forward and said: The Committee have instructed me to report a series of resolutions, which we intend to cover, as nearly...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 24 of General Collections copy 21 deadly properties, and do not tempt a depraved appetite or a reckless desire for novel sensations; for, since Satan is only perilous to the peace and happiness of Eden when disguised,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 25 of General Collections copy 22 no effort to procure the general enactment of this law, so modified and improved, according to the dictates of experience, as to render it a most efficient terror to evil-doers, and...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 26 of General Collections copy 23 it would be a valid reason for not enacting the Maine Law. I do not ask what laws are in accordance with public sentiment, and what laws people choose to obey;...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 27 of General Collections copy 24 abstract than the practical question. What is the fact with regard to the proper relation between law and public sentiment? Ought law to conform to public sentiment, or ought law to...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 28 of General Collections copy 25 rest. Where shall they sit down? Why, there is no welcome but the grog-shop, and no man so glad to see them as the rum-seller. Hence there is no class so...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 29 of General Collections copy 26 The following, from Hon. Horace Mann, was next read to the Convention: West Newton, Saturday, May 21, 1853. Dear Sir: I have read the full debate, as reported, of your meeting,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 30 of General Collections copy 27 The President next introduced Mrs. Mary Jackson, of Wakefield, England, a speaker in the Temperance meetings in England for over twenty years, and delegated by five Temperance Societies to attend the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 31 of General Collections copy 28 and women co-operating in this matter to benefit society, an anecdote occurs to me, which I think applicable. It refers to an individual in Scotland, who was, as they term it,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 32 of General Collections copy 29 thing which Michigan has not done, which no other State can boast of; and that is, we have never strangled a man between the heavens and the earth. [Loud applause.] The...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 33 of General Collections copy 30 He referred, for statistics, to Canada. While they had a Queen upon the throne of England, there was little fear of any neglect of the rights of woman. This much was...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 34 of General Collections copy 31 aside all social views of the question, and taking it in a merely pecuniary light, what are the expenses of rum? All statistics prove that in value we pay $150,000,000 yearly,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 35 of General Collections copy 32 must support them. For a long time they have been making regulations upon regulations regarding rum, until they were tired, and began to despair of any good arising from this legislation....- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 36 of General Collections copy 33 the subject presents so sad—sad a picture, that I cannot help expressing the thoughts I have formed in regard to it. I could not help thinking when my friend Barnum was...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 37 of General Collections copy 34 I do not know), but I only desire to propose some thoughts in which I can hope for the co-operation of the son and daughters of Temperance, old and young, that...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 38 of General Collections copy 35 pause before he commits the crime. He will think before he passes that threshold. Look at the spectacle of the young man, too, who gathers to his heart of hearts the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 39 of General Collections copy 36 truth is stronger than either of them. It only needs to be spoken and uttered, and it will ever shine brighter in the world. If my position is true, I do...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
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Image 40 of General Collections copy 37 Friday Morning's Session. At half-past ten, Metropolitan Hall was attended by about 2,000 persons, and the numbers continued to increase during the sitting. The Rev. T. W. Higginson again occupied the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
- Date: 1853