BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSE2^ IIsrSTITTJTE. 



Vol. 1. Salem, Mass., September, 1869. No. 9. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 



NOTICE OF THE TEMPERANCE ORGANI- 

 ZATIONS IN SALEM. 



BY DAVID R. PEABODT. 



In the accompanying paper it is the intention of the 

 writer to give a brief history of the several temperance 

 organizations wliicli have appeared in this city, commenc- 

 ing with the Wasliingtonian movement. 



On the 5th of April, 1840, six persons inaugurated, in 

 the city of Baltimore, the Washington Temperance Soci- 

 ety. These men were from among those who were daily 

 in the habitual use of intoxicating liquors to excess. 

 To whatever may be attributed the motive which induced 

 them to break loose from the fetters of intemperance 

 which so long had bound them, certain it is they were the 

 progenitors of one of the greatest moral movements of 

 the age ; and the enthusiasm with which this was greeted, 

 in a short time extended to nearly every city, town and 

 village in the land. 



The Washington Total Abstinence Society of this city 

 was organized on the 9th of June, 1841, in a small hall 

 on the lower floor, in Mechanic Hall building. Subse- 



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