For the results of two years agitation and seed sowing were of the most astonishing character.

"The change which has taken place in public sentiment," he continues, "is indeed remarkable ...

incorporated as intemperance _was_, and still _is_, into our very existence as a people....

A regenerating spirit is everywhere seen; a strong impulse to action has been given, which, beginning in the breasts of a few individuals, and then affecting villages, and cities, and finally whole States, has rolled onward triumphantly through the remotest sections of the republic.

As union and example are the levers adopted to remove this gigantic vice, temperance societies have been rapidly multiplied, many on the principle of entire abstinence, and others making it a duty to abstain from encouraging the distillation and consumption of spirituous liquors.