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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: following persons as local agents, viz. Rev. Asa Mead for Maine, Rev. Andrew Rankin for New Hampshire, Rev. Daniel (). Morton for Vermont, and Rev. Talcott Bates for Connecticut. Rev: Messrs. Coggin, Barbour, Mann, Shepherd, Clark, Bond, and Woodbury, were also appointed, each as an agent for a county in Massachusetts. Other agents were employed by State Societies; and benevolent individuals performed voluntary agencies in various parts of die country. At the close of the year 1829, there had been formed, on the plan of abstinence, and reported, more than 1000 Societies, embracing more than 100,000 members. Eleven of them were State Societies. Of those known to the Committee, 62 were in Maine, 46 in New Hampshire, 56 in Vermont, 169 in Massachusetts, 3 in Rhode Island, 133 in Connecticut, 300 in New York, 21 in New Jersey, 53 iii Pennsylvania, 1 in Delaware, 6 in Maryland, 52 in Virginia, 15 in North Carolina, 10 in South Carolina, 14 in Georgia, 8 in Alabama, 30 in Ohio, 9 in Kentucky, 5 in Tennessee, 4 in Mississippi, 13 in Indiana, 1 in Illinois, 3 in Michigan, and 1 in Missouri. Societies were also formed in Upper and Lower Canada, in Nova Scotia, and in New Brunswick. More than 50 distilleries had been stopped, more than 400 merchants had renounced the traffic, and more than 1200 drunkards had ceased to use the drunkard's drink. Persons, who, a few years before, were vagabonds about the street, were now sober, respectable men, providing comfortably, by their labor, for their wives and their children. In a number of towns, ardent spirit was not sold, and, in several cases, not even kept at the public houses. And in some places, no person who was acquainted with the subject, and yet continued to use distilled liquor, as an article of luxury or diet, or to traffic in it...
