For the Gazette & Courier.
TEMPERANCE & ABOLITION CELEBRATION AT NORTH LEVERETT, JULY
5, 1841.
A meeting of the North Leverett and Montague Temperance Society and the Leverett
Abolition Society was holden at North Leverett, at 11 o'clock, A.M.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
1. Singing voluntary hymn.
2. Reading extracts from Speeches on the Declaration of Independence.
3. Prayer by S. Everett.
4. Singing.
5. An Address on Temperance, by Mr. Merrill of Montague.
6. The following resolution was offered by D. Eastman of South Leverett, in
behalf of the children, belonging to the Sabbath School.
As the rising generation is the hope of our Country and the pillar to support
our Republican Institution, therefore Resolved, to recommend that measures be
taken to form Juvenile Temperance Societies in each of the Religious Societies
in this town. Adopted.
7. Voted, to recommenced to get 12 signers for the Temperance Journal.
AFTERNOON.
1. Singing voluntary hymn.
2. Prayer, by S. Everett.
3. Singing.
4. An Abolition Address by D. Eastman of South Leverett.
5. The following resolutions were read by Doct. E. Willmarth, and, after remarks
from Rev. S. Everett, adopted.
Resolved, That the present aspect of the Anti-Slavery cause should inspire
us with faith in God, decision and patient perseverance till our brethren in
bonds are freed from bondage and raised to the condition of citizens with their
fellow man.
Resolved. That American Slavery, when viewed in the relation to the light,
and knowledge of the age, is a system of wrong and outrage unparalleled in the
annals of the World, and loudly speaks to every Christian philanthropist and
patriot to use every righteous effort for its immediate abolition, till every
yoke shall be broken, and all the oppressed go free.
Voted, To publish the proceedings of this meeting in the Greenfield Gazette
and Courier and Christian Reflector.
OTIS HEMENWAY, Sec'y.
North Leverett, July 8, 1841. |