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The Organ of the Temperance Reform Archive

  • Cincinnati, Ohio
  • 18521852

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In 1852, Caleb Clark launched the Organ of the Temperance Reform at Cincinnati, the seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Samuel F. Cary, a significant leader and orator in the 19th-century temperance movement who would later serve in the United States House of Representatives, was the paper’s editor. As its name indicates, the paper advocated for the legal prohibition of alcohol. It was also considered to be the leading Maine Law paper of the state. This 1851 law was one of the first in the United States to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages for anything but “medicinal, mechanical or manufacturing purposes.”  According to its inaugural issue, the Organ “was designed especially for circulation in Ohio, and written with reference to this locality." The demand for it from other States is so great and constantly increasing, that Bro. Cary will re-write it, and adapt it to any latitude. In the course of ten days, any reasonable demand, from any quarter, will be promptly supplied.” Its establishment filled the void left by the suspension of the Western Fountain, a temperance paper that had served Cincinnati from 1846 to 1852, but closed due to a lack of patronage. The Organ’s mission was to “sustain the cause of Temperance and enforce its claims against all classes.”

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  • 204
  • Cincinnati, Ohio
  • 18521852

Source Information

The Organ of the Temperance Reform, 1852–1852 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: May 13, 2016

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Archive Info

  • 204
  • Cincinnati, Ohio
  • 18521852

Source Information

The Organ of the Temperance Reform, 1852–1852 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: May 13, 2016