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G.  ODIORNfe,         (  ^<«»"««e«-
S.  V.  S.  WILDER,  )
•*  Boston,  Afarchy  1826/*

On  the  1 6th  of  January ,  Rev.  Calvm  Chapin,  D.  D.,  ofWethersfield,
Conn.,  commenced  the  publication  of  a  series  of  thirty-three  num-
bers, in  the  Connecticut  Observer,  entitled  "  The  Infallible  An-
tidote."   His  motto  was, "  Entire  abstiftencejtom  ardent  spiritit  is


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Ai  only  certain  preveTUive  of  intemperance.^^  This  was  strikin^y
illustrated  in  the  various  numbers,  aud  strongly  urged  upon  all  as
an  indispensable  duty.  He  had  himself,  as  had  a  number  of
others,  practised  it  for  many  years,  and  urged  it.  as  the  duty  of  all
men.
In  April,  1826,  the  National  Philanthropist,  a  weekly  paper,  de-
voted to  the  cause  of  teni]>e ranee,  was  established,  in  Boston,  by
the  Rev.  William  Collier.  Its  motto  was, "  Temperate  drinking  ts
the  downhill  road  to  intemperance,^^  This  paper  has  been  con-
tinued, and,  with  some  modifications,  is  now  published  by  Messi'S.
Goodell  and  Crandall,  in  New  York.  It  is  an  able  and  efficient  pa-
per, and,  under  its  successive  editors,  has  been  a  valuable  auxiliary
to  the  cause.
In  September  of  the  same  year,  an  association  of  more  than  fifty
heads  of  families,  and  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  young  men,
vras  formed  in  Andover,  Mass.,  on  the  plan  of  abstinence,  with  the
rollowing  c(xistitution,  viz.
