A PROCLAMATiON
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A PROCLAMATION.


Whereas, it has been satisfactorily ascertain
60 'nat large majority Of the sober and right
IIn; 1lnueu PoIuon OF the sovereign people Of the
and unalienable!right, repeatedly declared ,Iss
by thousand aggressive acts. Of The most
atrocious and revolving character. committAd
by the miserable, deluded, besotted. and insane
subjects Of the Kingdom Of Intemperance
against their peace. prosperity, honor, and hap
piness, state of War exists betweeen that 70
vernment and the United States:


Now, therefore. /, GEORGE SAVAGE.
President of the " Freemen's Vigilant Total
Abstinence Society, do hereby proclaim the
same to all whom il may concern and do sps-
cially enjoin upon all persons holding Office Of
whatever grade under appointment OF this So
cety, that they evince, at this crisis, by dili-
gent and faithful performance Of their sppro-
pirate duties, that conscientious regard for the
public good which should distinguish those
who are elevated to Office by the confidence of
their fellow-citizens, and which the country
has right to expect and demand from them I;
and do moreover invoke the aid Of all Ahs geod
people Of the United States, as they prize the
lnestlmable privileges which they enjoy, ~
they love their country, their altars, and their
homes, as they feel for the peace, the honor,
and the happiness Of their children as they de-
sire their own temporal and eternal happiness,
that they strain every nerve, and to the utmost.
now exert themselves to close the food gaies
Of intemperance which have so long deluged
the land with misery; that they support and
invigorate all such measures as may Be adept
ed by the several organized bodies Of the
friends Of Temperance, in aid Of Religion, the
heaven born principle which enables men to
control and conquer their inordinate desires
and appetites, and that they now, now. when
the exigencies of their beloved country require
" sound minds in sound bodies, !" both in
council and in the field, that they now CONS
up to the aid Of their Country, Of Religion, and
Humanity, enlist for the War, and never
ground their arms until the Demon King shall
have been put to fight, and the foul foot
prints OF his myrmidons no longer polluts our
soil.


Given under my hand and seal, at the City


of Washington, upon this nineteenth Of
4. 8. May, Ammo Domini one thousand eight


hundred and forty six, and of the TOTAL


Abstinence Pledge, the thirteenth.


GEORGE SAVAGE.