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The Earliest Days of the Teetotal Movement § '•' ' ' I Hi i Brock University LIBRARY From the Seagram Museum Library- courtesy of The Seagram Company June 1997 SVCOUEC, fp Si RARY T^s ; Lb? 00 THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE TEETOTAL MOVEMENT. DIALOGUES ON DRINK AMD PHYSIOLOGY EOR THE YOUNG. By WILLIAM LIVESET. 1900. Issued for Private Circulation only. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from Brock University - University of Toronto Libraries http://archive.org/details/earliestdaysofteOOIive EXPLANATORY. It may be necessary to explain the scrap book appearance of this little volume of which only 20 copies are issued. It will be seen that the contents have been extracted from the monthly magazine "Upward" the official Organ of the Preston Band of Hope Union. These extracts extend from the issue in July, 1897, to that of in all January, 1899, nineteen Chapters ; also an additional Chapter from the issue for June, 1900. A reference to the commencement and concluding portion of the last Chapter will explain the long delay in concluding the scries. In addition to the Historical series of Chapters are extracts from " Upward" for March, April, and May, 1898. The prefatory note to the first will explain under what circum- stances the Dialogues first came to be published. « *'1 f; iM.'M,' |A|AIAi*liM''l/iiMA^M'i*l'M4l'*IAL • ^^^y^l^g^.-a^^! e: ** *+• iC Cl tO C4 tr Cl <?i 'b 10 ° — c3 -p *» x D0« rt eo- ^ to U5«3 r- 1 Tl Cl - co f CO Tl O Cl c» CT c* „. n ^ 1— MtO u Cl tO « "** 10 -* Cl <b <* 8 I ^** 10 !>"* r- *" CO •"• _ V 2* Ooooooooooocooo CO o •< CO Cl t^ O CO 1^* 10 00 CO Cl (4 O" a ci tf TO Cl ** 1-1 T r-, Cl C* (£, ^ t^. -. cn O f- CO . 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M H J' J & O u CO J '«»' ffl^"f^?T^ifif^^^^!fif^^;T;*lfRW^ KBIESli — — UPWARD. THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE TEETOTAL MOVEMENT By WILLIAM LIVESEY, Eldest Son of the Late Joseph Livesey. EFORE me is a most vol- my own name along with the rest, and I see one night uminous Manuscript ; if printed I was to be at Lytham, fourteen miles from Preston, it would fill at least 200 pages and another at Longton, five miles, and I have no of Upward. I copy from— its doubt I obeyed the ' call,' for we were very enthu- title-page as follows : " Re- siastic and really in earnest in those days, and often miniscences of the Early tramped the whole distance after our day's work was Temperance Movement, by over. At six places the meetings are in Methodist Myles Pennington, one who Chap 'Is ; two in Church of England Schools ; one in took an active part in the a Temperance Hall ; one in a Temperance Room ; Reformation." in joiner's were p Temperance one a shop ; and one in a barn. We In the next page I find not over particular as to our place of meeting, having " Dedicated with feelings of much faith that our efforts would be sanctioned by Esteem and Friendship to the Almighty whether held in a barn or in a church."— ll"^ William Livesey and Thomas We call attention to Mr. Pennington's remark " We S^rf Walmsley, the Youthful Tee- were very enthusiastic in those days and really in earnest, totallers of '32 and Veterans and often tramped the whole of the distance." The sacri- ' of '95 ; also to the memory of the Seven Men of fice of time and the fatigue of walking to meetings, Preston' and their early Co-workers in the Temper- and also drawing upon their strength by speaking, ance Cause." Both myself and Thomas Walmsley and then having to tramp the journey home, prove had extensive correspondence with Myles Pennington, beyond all dispute that they were "really in earnest," and I was about to return to him his manuscript for and gave unmistakable evidence of their self-sacrifice. publication in Canada, when I received intelligence of The Plan does not include the missionary labours of his death, which occurred at Toronto, on November the Preston Youths on Sunday afternoons, when they 27th, 1896, aged 82. I may state that his History went in groups of three or four to several villages was intended for Canadian and American readers. By Samlesbury, Brindle, &c. the decease of the author I have the privilege of use This Plan contains 77 names of speakers, myself of his manuscript History, it occurred to that and me being placed No. 64, and out of all the 77 none are I might make some extracts from it that would not now alive except myself ; of all the early workers in only be interesting but instructhe to present day the teetotal movement in Preston in 1832-4 I alone teetotallers, who really know very little of the early remain. Indeed, very few of the early advocates who teetotal history of the movement ; indeed, as the early resided in other towns at the time of their early days go back so long as years (1832 and onwards) 65 adherence to the cause are now alive ; there is, how- that information could only be obtained from written ever, one very notable survivor, Thomas Whittaker, history. As I proceed with my labours I shall avail who dwelt in Blackburn at the time of his conversion myself of some of the contents of that little historical to Teetotalism. On looking over the list of names on entitled " work by the late Thomas Walmsley, Gray- the Plan I can count nearly twenty who were reformed lock's Reminiscences of the Preston Cockpit and the drunkards ; indeed, the Preston Society in its earliest Old Teetotallers." Both Mr. Walmsley's and Mr. days published a list of 20 speakers who were refo med Pennington's Histories have this great value, they drunkards.
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