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Your little town has an honorable history. Your gray-haired people well remember your hard and long-continued struggle to shut up your dramshops, and the victory, which crowned it in the Spring of 1842. Even harder and longer was your battle for the slave. It was not until the Town Meeting of 1843 that a majority of your voters came to his side. Happy was your town in both these triumphs! - and happy was their influence upon multitudes beyond your limits!
A new honor, now, awaits you ! A political party for shutting up the dramshops of the nation was organized in Chicago last September; and a political party for shutting them up in our State was organized in Syracuse last mouth. So, here, you have the opportunity of adding another to your past honors. Here, again, you are to act worthily of yourself. Here, again, as before, you are to set a brave, beautiful and blessed example.
There let them look to God for guidance : there let them converse about the million of drunkards in this nation, and about the constant falling away from the ranks of the sober to the ranks of the drunken : and, there, let the voters nominate candidates for the approaching Town Meeting, not one of whom will be in favor of dramselling in any part of the world.
We do not invite the people of other towns to attend this proposed meeting. We greatly prefer that they should be at work in their respective towns to bring voters from the side of drunkenness to the side of sobriety; from the side of vice, riot and crime to the side of purity, peace and safety; from the side of "the Devil and his angels" to the side of God and man. In every town of our County from Sullivan try Brookfield let there be a full Anti-dramshop ticket, at the approaching Town Meeting.
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