Excerpt from Proceedings of the State Temperance Convention: Held at Harrisburg, Penn., January 12 and 13, 1842 Such a law would strictly conform to the broad principles of our government, and inspire a fearless trust in the kno'wl-s edgeand virtue of the people. Let our legislature pass such a law, and we shall speedily surmount the commercial nuea sinessunder which the State is now laboring: we shall ad yance every day in the knowledge, which is power, and which: leads to liberty, safety, and prosperity, and thus establish this great country in the same positionin morals, that it occupies in science and the arts. N ow the march of time is quick! Alike within and around us, centuries are being crowded into brief Zustrums. The spirit of enlightened reform was never more powerfully at work than now; and it goes at once to the heart of those existing evils for Whose extinction'we' have been laboring by a thousand means and devices. Strong as is the moral power attained, strong, too, is the re sistance to be overcome; and we expect every man to do his' duty. _there are thousands nowidle, who are willing and able -to work; Many' remain hopelessly inactive, because their opportunities for exertion are few, or their influence cir-i cumscribed; thus a large portion of the friends of the cause1 are unjust to themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.