Excerpt from An Address in Behalf of the Temperance Society, Norwalk, Connecticut, February 26th, 1833 We disavow every thing like Coercion. We want no conquered allies. We are engaged in breaking fetters, not in forging them. Neither unsound reasoning, nor crafty management, nor coercion can accomplish what we wish. What we want, is the spread of such a sentiment as will bear the severest scrutiny, and the test of time. We want no law, save that which shall take hold on the hearts of the people, and maintain, and execute, and perpetuate itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.