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Resolved, That in the conflict of moral ideas, we look to the pulpit and the press as our strongest earthly allies, and that we will, by our influence as
Christian women and by our prayers, strive to increase the interest in our cause already manifested by their powerful instrumentalities, gratefully
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Resolved, That as the
National Temperance Society, and Publishing House in New York—J. N. Stearns, Publishing Agent—presents the best variety of temperance literature in the world, consisting of books, tracts, The National Temperance Advocate and The Youth't Temperance Banner, we hereby recommend the
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Resolutions were adopted, embodying a sufficiently exhaustive "confession of faith": Whereas, Much of the evil by which this country is cursed comes from the fact that the men in power whose duty it is to make and administer the laws are either themselves intemperate men or controlled largely by the
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Resolved, That recognizing the fact that our cause is and will be combatted by mighty, determined, and relentless forces, we will, trusting in Him who is the Prince of Peace, meet argument with argument, misjudgment with patience, denunciation with kindness, and all our difficulties and dangers with
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presided, and to whose efforts this national organization is chiefly due. At this convention a constitution was adopted, and a plan of organization projected, which was to reach every city, town, and hamlet in the United States. Appeals to the women and girls of
America, a letter to other countries,
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Resolved, That we respectfully ask the
President of the United States, Senators, Representatives in Congress, Governors of States, and all public men, with their wives and daughters, to give the temperance cause the strength of their conspicuous example by banishing all wines and other intoxicating
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In the spring of 1874, the women who had been crusading in half a dozen States, notably in Ohio, Indiana, and
Pennsylvania, called a convention for consultation, which resulted in State Temperance Leagues. The name was, however, soon changed to “Union," the latter word better emphasizing the
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were appointed to send out the invitations. Martha McClellan Brown, who became known as the "prime mover," and Mary
Bigelow Ingham combined their efforts with those of Jennie Fowler Willing and Emily Huntington Miller. With temperance women from all over the U.S. embracing the idea,
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Resolved, That we will endeavor to secure the co-operation of great manufacturing firms in our effort to pledge their employees to total abstinence, and that we will ask these firms to consider the advantages to sobriety of paying their men on Monday rather than on
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Association shall be known as the "Woman's National Christian Temperance Union." Thereafter, an election was held for the first officers of the WCTU. The newly elected officers were:
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Constitution for National Temperance League—Mrs. M. M. Finch; Annie Turner Wittenmyer; Mrs. Runyon; Lydia M. Boise; Mrs. J. Dickey; Susan A. Gifford; Mrs. J. A. Brown; Mercy Ann Mann Kenyon; Judith Ellen Foster; Mrs. M. Davis; Lizzie
539:(Chief Knight of the new Crusade), presided at the first of these. It was an exceptional honor as no other man was allowed to speak throughout the whole convention. Abbie Fisher Leavitt conducted the second; Mrs. Dr. Donaldson, of
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Resolved, That we will appeal to the House of Representatives, by petition, for their concurrence with the Senate bill providing a commission of inquiry into the effects and results of the liquor traffic in this
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The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers: An Illustrated History ... with Over Twenty Portraits of the Chief Reformers, and Characteristic Selections from Their Best Writings and Addresses
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On Establishing a National Temperance Paper—Annie Turner Wittenmyer; Susan J. Swift Steele; Abbie Fisher Leavitt; Susan A. Gifford; Elizabeth Eunice Smith Marcy; Emma Janes; Mary Coffin Johnson
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conducted the third; and Auretta Hoyt, carried on the fourth. Crowds filled these meetings, and Crusade hymns were interspersed with the music furnished by trained singers of Cleveland.
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conventions were held and delegates were appointed.
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397:; Mrs. J. A. Brown; Mrs. M. Davis; Mrs. J. Dickey
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717:(Mrs. Dr. Lorenzo Marcellus Kenyon of New York)
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572:Mrs. E. R. Backus (Springfield, Vermont)
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609:Mrs. J. A. Brown (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
513:Recording Secretary—Mary Coffin Johnson
510:Corresponding Secretary—Frances Willard
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743:Mrs. A. M. Noe (Indianapolis, Indiana)
645:Mrs. Joel Foster (Montpelier, Vermont)
480:Constitution and election of officers
389:On Constitution—Judith Ellen Foster;
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1016:Willard, Frances Elizabeth (1888).
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506:Caroline Batchelder Thompson
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316:Elizabeth Chamberlain Gibson
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636:Mrs. J. Dickey (Illinois)
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583:Lydia Marie Kellogg Boies
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575:Mrs. Black (Pennsylvania)
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654:Harriet Schneider French
569:Mrs. J. Backus (Vermont)
251:Harriet Schneider French
225:Representative gathering
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739:Emily Huntington Miller
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304:Mary Torrans Lathrap
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1037:Women's conferences
726:Abby Fisher Leavitt
710:Mary Coffin Johnson
699:Mary Bigelow Ingham
681:Harriet Maria Haven
649:Judith Ellen Foster
498:Harriet Maria Haven
284:Abby Fisher Leavitt
243:Judith Ellen Foster
239:Presbyterian church
131:Mary Bigelow Ingham
127:Mary Coffin Johnson
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752:Mrs. Runyon (Ohio)
626:Fanny DuBois Chase
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