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Domestic News
January 26, 1853
Daily Evening Star
Washington, District Of Columbia
What is this article about?
A committee of ladies from the Temperance Mass Convention in Albany, N.Y., presented a petition signed by 28,000 women of New York State, read by Miss Emily Clark, urging a law to end the rum traffic.
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Temperance Movement.
We learn from the Albany (N. Y.) papers that a committee of ladies from the Temperance Mass Convention, sitting in that city, were admitted upon the floor, and granted the privilege of personally presenting an Address, which was read in a firm tone by the Chairman of the Committee, Miss Emily Clark.
The Address thus formally presented was the petition of twenty-eight thousand of the women of the Empire State, praying the passage of a law to stay the flood of intemperance, by stopping at once and forever the traffic in rum.
We learn from the Albany (N. Y.) papers that a committee of ladies from the Temperance Mass Convention, sitting in that city, were admitted upon the floor, and granted the privilege of personally presenting an Address, which was read in a firm tone by the Chairman of the Committee, Miss Emily Clark.
The Address thus formally presented was the petition of twenty-eight thousand of the women of the Empire State, praying the passage of a law to stay the flood of intemperance, by stopping at once and forever the traffic in rum.
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
Social Event
What keywords are associated?
Temperance Movement
Albany Convention
Women Petition
Anti Rum Law
Empire State
What entities or persons were involved?
Miss Emily Clark
Where did it happen?
Albany (N. Y.)
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Albany (N. Y.)
Key Persons
Miss Emily Clark
Outcome
petition of twenty-eight thousand women presented, praying for a law to stop the traffic in rum.
Event Details
A committee of ladies from the Temperance Mass Convention in Albany were admitted to the floor and presented an Address read by Miss Emily Clark, which was a petition from twenty-eight thousand women of the Empire State seeking a law to end intemperance by stopping the rum traffic.