. Una storia degli Stati Uniti . erano più temuti come un avversario.Henry Clay, l'altro grande oratore di quei giorni, aveva un'influenza personale spaventosa e una voce persuasiva, che, mentre stava parlando, sembrava portare tutto davanti a lui. 238. Riforma della temperanza. (1826-1837.) Tra le altre forme che sono state prese seriamente era quella della temperanza. Nel 1826 la Società americana della Tempperenza è stata organizzata a Boston. Questa società è stata la prima a proclamare la doctrineof totale astinenza, perché finora la moderazione nel bere è stata il punto sollecitato dai relatori sulla temperanza. La nuova società era attiva in

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. A history of the United States . were more dreaded as an opponent.Henry Clay, the other great orator of those days, had awonderful personal influence and a persuasive voice, which, while he was speaking, seemed to carry all before him. 238. Temperance Reform. (1826-1837.) —Among other re-forms that were taken up earnestly was that of temperance.In 1826 the American Temperance Society was organized atBoston. This society was the first to proclaim the doctrineof total abstinence, for hitherto moderation in drinking hadbeen the point urged by speakers on temperance. The newsociety was active in spreading its doctrines by means ofpublic lecturers and in other ways, so that numerous similarorganizations were soon formed. The Washingtonian move-ment was started at Baltimore in 1840; it was primarily aneffort to aid in the reformation of drunkards, and from themembers of the society a pledge of total abstinence was re-quired. John B. Gough, the great temperance orator, beganto lecture under the auspices of these societies.. DANIEL WEBSTER. RISE OF THE ABOLITIONISTS. 217 239. Rise of the Abolitionists. — The very important Anti-slavery movement began about this time. This might per-haps be more properly called the rise of the Abolitionists.It has been seen already that the early statesmen of America, almost without exception, disapproved of slavery and lookedforward to its abolition in the not far-distant future. It hasalso been seen (sect. 159) that the invention and employ-ment of Eli Whitneys cotton-gin had changed the feelingtowards slavery in the southern states. The object of thosein the free states who had taken any interest in the matterhad been to confine slavery within the limits it already occu-pied and to prevent its extension; even the antislavery menhad done little more than support a scheme of gradual eman-cipation, or of colonization in Africa. But in 1831 WilliamLloyd Garrison began in Boston the publication of a papercalled The Liberator^ in which he a

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