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Elusive title focused in temperance...
Elusive title focused in temperance...
Item # 701283
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October 05, 1827
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIST, Boston, Oct. 5, 1827
* First temperance publication ?
* Anti alcohol - liquor - beer
This elusive title lasted just 3 1/2 years, and this is the first issue we've located in our 50+ years. The masthead notes: "'Devoted To
The Suppression of Intemperance And Its Kindred Vices; And to the Encouragement of General Morality". As this note would imply, this newspaper was focused on the prohibition of alcohol.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, scattered foxing, very nice condition.
background: William Collier (1771–1843) was a Baptist minister originally from Scituate, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University in 1797, was ordained in 1799, and spent many years preaching — including a long pastorate in Charlestown, Massachusetts. In 1826, he founded and edited the National Philanthropist, which is often credited as the first temperance newspaper. Under his leadership, the paper focused on total abstinence (“Temperate drinking is the downhill road to intemperance”), moral reform, and social virtue. He eventually sold the paper in 1828 (it then involved William Lloyd Garrison). Collier also published sermons, hymn books, and other religious writings, and remained a committed social reformer until his death in March 1843.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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