Excerpt from Temperance Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1834: Being the Second After Bissextile or Leap Year, and the 58th and 59th of American Independence; Carefully Calculated for the Latitude and Meridian of Philadelphia

Society, conveys cheerin intelligence to every beneo voleht and patriotic mint? A million have united in Temperance Societies, 'a'nd ledged themselves not to use it, or to fllrnish it, and n all suitable Ways, to discountenance the use of it throughoutthe community. The numhe r of Socie ties the United States exceeds five thousand, and more than twenty of them are State Societies, at the head of which, 1n many cases, 'are the first men in the community. More than two thousand men have ceased to make it. And more than six thousand have ceased to sell it. More than seven thousand vessels now float o'm the ocean that do not carry it; and though they visit every clime, and at all seasons of the year matte thetto be credited; and yet too accurate tow be' It 13 said that 30, 500 lives are destroyed annually by this terrible evil, and that 400, 000 more are enda'n gared by it: that our country pays at the rate of one hundred and twenty millions of dollars per annum by intemperance. This sum is five times as large as the rve enue' of the United States Government-é-it would' pay off 0111 national debt 1n six months - it would build 12 such canals as the Grand Erie and Hudson Canal, every year - it w'ould support a navy four times as large as that of Guest B1itain - it is sixty times as 'much as the' aggregate income of all the principal re ligious charitable Societies in Europe. And America, would supply every family on the earth with a bible ln eight months - it would supporta missmnary teacher among every two thousand souls on the globe. 1 has recently been ascertained by one of the inem of the British Parliament, from' the treasury itself, that the revenue collected during the last eight years in Great Britain on these poisonous beverages, which are principally paid by the classes commonly denom inated poor, amounted to more than $500, 4111 1828 it was more than 72 000, 000 dollars. To those duties must be added the dost of the poisonous article..

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