REPORT OF A COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY, FOR DISCOURAGING THE USE OF ARDENT SPIRITS, TO EXAMINE AND REPORT WHAT AMENDMENTS OUGHT TO BE MADE IN THE LAWS OF THE SAID STATE, FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE AND IMMORALITY, PARTICULARLY THOSE AGAINST GAMING.
Philadelphia: Atkinson & Alexander, 1828. This report also addresses violations of the Sabbath, with the recommendation that those "drinking and tippling on the first day of week" by committed to the stocks. "The Pennsylvania Society for Discouraging the Use of Ardent Spirits changed its name in 1834 to the Pennsylvania State Temperance Society, and upon the resignation of Roberts Vaux, elected to the presidency Dr. Philip Syng Physic, 'the father of American surgery'" (from "Temperance and the Evangelical Churches" by Othniel A. Pendleton, Jr. in the March, 1947 issue of the Journal of Presbyterian Historical Society). Octavo: 17 p. Disbound. Light toning; else a fairly clean example, labeled "Huntington Library duplicate" in pencil on the rear panel. Item #77021
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