COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN.

TEMpERANCE.
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LEGAL SyAsioN PROPOSED IN l772.-The
following resolution was adopted nearly three
quarters ofa century since. Had the recon-
mendalion contained in il been adopted by the
several legislatures of the United States, and
the pernicious practice of dis,illing grain, then
been arrested, we should have been blessed
with moral resolution bearing date, Febru-
ary 81, IVA, which might have been nobly
placed by the side OF the Revolution OF July 4,
l776, as the elder born.


Noble band, temperance men, freemen. BIZ
bic men! when SHALL we see your like in
Congress Halls?


Resolved, That il be recommended TO the
several legislatures Of the United States, imme
diately 10 pass laws, the most efiectual, for
putting an immediate stop 10 the pernicous
practice of distilling grain, by which the most
extensive evils are likely to be derived, II not
quickly prevented.


Adopted by the Continental Congress- Feo'
27, l774.-Gardiner Fount.