Indian letter.... [with:] An Address to Drunkards [temperance broadside]

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GLC#
GLC05667.01
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
1795 ca.
Title
Indian letter.... [with:] An Address to Drunkards [temperance broadside]
Place Written
Boston, Massachusetts
Pagination
1 sheet Height: 27.2 cm, Width: 21 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

Temperance broadside printed by N. Coverly. The broadside (possibly playing-off recent news relating to Indians?) quotes an excerpt from a letter of Capt. Hendricks of the Stockbridge Nation to Col. Pickering, 1794 in which he says that the enemy of the Indian "is named RUM! and he is your son, and begat by the white people; and we believe you have the power to control him...." The lower half of the broadside has a general Christian sermon against rum entitled "The Address to Drunkards," which concludes with the admonition, "Reader, art thou guilty of the sin of drunkenness?"

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