majority excluded the sale of intoxicating liquors amongst us?
Did not our petitions last winter cause a bill for its
prohibition to be reported in the Legislature, which was lost in
the House by a small majority? True, the law we desire may not
entirely prevent drunkenness, but it will certainly act as a
restraint. It will make drinking less reputable, and thus prevent
drunkard-making. It will have the moral influence of a State
verdict against the practice. The dread responsibility of this
traffic must rest upon you, if, through silent acquiescence, you
permit its ravages. Do what you can, and peace and prosperity
will soon sit where the blackness of ruin has brooded, and the
sweet reward of approving consciences and the blessings of joyful
hearts will gladden your pathway.

The following resolutions were adopted:

_Resolved_, That petitioning the Legislature is the most definite
and efficient means at our command, whereby to obtain a law to
abolish the sale of intoxicating drinks, as a beverage amongst
us.

_Resolved_, That the following persons be appointed to obtain
names in their respective neighborhoods, to the petition referred
to: Sarah Evans, Grace Anna Lewis, Jane Kimber, H. A.
Pennypacker, Catherine Hawley, Deborah Way, Sarah Wood, M. B.
Thomas, Anna Parke, Margaret Lea, Susannah Cox, Elizabeth Evans,
E. Garrett, M. Darlington, Eliza Agnew, M. P. Wilson, Eliza Pyle,
Mary Chambers, H. M. Barnard, Mrs. Jefferis, Alice Speakman,
Sarah S. Barnard, Susan Fulton, Mary W. Coates, Millicent Stern,
Mrs. Ramsey, Mrs. Hamilton, A. E. Valentine, Ruth Ann Seal, R. W.
Taylor, M. K. Darlington, Lydia Agnew, M. Taylor, Alice Lewis,
Ann Barnard, Rebecca Pugh, Lydia Jacobs, Margaret Ross, Rachel
Leake, Ann Preston, M. W. Cox, Ann Coates, Rachel Good, Esther
Jane Kent, Ellen Wilkinson, Mary Pugh, Sarah Ann Cunningham,
Eliza Lysle, Beulah Hughes, Sarah Ann Conard.

_Resolved_, That we urgently solicit those having care of
petitions, to make use of every opportunity to obtain men's and
women's names in different columns, or on separate petitions, and
thus aid the Chester County Temperance Society in procuring the
names of those favorable to obtaining a prohibitory law.

_Resolved_, That Hannah Cox, Sidney Peirce, Ann Preston, Mary