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Excerpt from An Address Delivered in the Court House at Paris, January 28, 1834, Before the Union Temperance Society of Oxford County
IN appearing before you on the present occasion, I bring with me a desire to speak, not so much to you, as with you. I wish to hold communion with your hearts and consciences. Time has taken from our subject the grace of novelty, but has left its importance unimpaired. In common with many greater and better men, I claim to be a friend of my species, solicitous, though in ever sohumble a way, to add something to the stock of hu man happiness. If in placing before you the convie tions of my own understanding and the feelings of my heart, in the most plain and simple manner, I can but inspire one virtuous sentiment, or strengthen such as you already cherish, I shall be richly rewarded for the poor services I have consented to render you on the present occasion. Come then with me, and for a few moments let us enquire, what temperance has done, what it seeks to do, and what means it should employ to promote its objects. It is obvious that any one of these tepics would furnish matter for a long address. I am there fore compelled to remark brie?y on each, leaving it for your own knowledge to fill up the outline which I shall attempt to draw.
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