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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC04006
From Archive Folder	Documents Relating to 1833
Title	Temperance document
Date	ca. 1833
Author	Madison, James (1751-1836)
Additional authors	Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
Document Type	Miscellany
Content Description	Also signed by Andrew Jackson, and John Quincy Adams. Urges Americans, especially young men, to refrain from drinking alcohol. Document made of parchment paper.
Subjects	President Reform Movement Temperance and Prohibition Alcohol
People	Madison, James (1751-1836) Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845)
Theme	Health & Medicine; The Presidency
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information	Signer of the U.S. Constitution. Many of the propagandists of the temperance movement urged the public, particularly young men, to take a pledge of abstinence from alcohol. Some of these advocates included Edward Delavan and John Bartholomew Gough.
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Transcript	Show/hide Being satisfied from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony that ardent spirits as a drink is not only needless, but hurtful, and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote the health, the virtue and the happiness of the entire community, We hereby express our conviction that should the Citizens of the United States and especially the young men discontinue entirely the use of it, they would not only promote their own personal benefit, but the good of our country and the world. [Signed:] James Madison Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams

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