in its train.

_Resolved_, That we adjourn to meet at Old Kennett, on Saturday,
the 8th of December, 1849.

HANNAH M. DARLINGTON, _President_.

ALICE LEWIS }
}_Secretaries_.
MARY S. AGNEW, }

NORTH AMERICAN AND UNITED STATE GAZETTE, FEB. 6, 1852.

The ladies of the City and County of Philadelphia, and all other
persons who feel impressed with the importance of PETITIONING THE
LEGISLATURE TO ENACT A LAW PROHIBITING THE USE OF ALL
INTOXICATING DRINKS as a beverage, are earnestly requested to
attend a meeting to be held at the CHINESE MUSEUM, corner of
NINTH and GEORGE STREETS, on SATURDAY EVENING, Feb. 7th, at 7-1/2
o'clock.

The meeting will be addressed by the REV. ALBERT BARNES, REV.
JOHN CHAMBERS, JUDGE KELLEY, DR. JAS. BRYAN, and WM. J. MULLEN.
JUDGE ALLISON will preside. The LADIES' TEMPERANCE UNION is
particularly invited to attend. Admittance five cents, to defray
expenses.

Two weeks after this, Feb. 21st, a Woman's Temperance Mass Meeting was
held in Philadelphia; an immense assemblage of both sexes.

_The Pennsylvania Freeman_ of March 4, 1852, says: "A large number of
petitions from various parts of the State, most of them numerously
signed, asking for the passage of the Maine Anti-Liquor Law, have been
presented in both Houses. On Tuesday, in the Senate, one was presented
from this city signed by 15,580 ladies; and another in the House,
signed by 14,241 ladies. What the Legislature will do we shall not
venture to predict."

It is interesting to note the same successive steps in every State,
and how naturally, in laboring for anti-slavery and temperance, women
have at last in each case demanded freedom for themselves. In the
anti-slavery school, 'mid violence and persecution they learned the
a, b, c of individual rights; in the temperance struggle they learned
that the ultimate power in moral movements is found in wise
legislation, and in graduating on the woman suffrage platform, they
have learned that prayers and tears are worth little until coined into
law, and that to command the attention of legislators, petitioners
must represent votes.

A moral power that has no direct influence on the legislation of a
nation, is an abstraction, and might as well be expended in the clouds
as outside of codes and constitutions, and this has too long been the
re