The Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana Temperance Protest appeared in:
The Weekly Reveille – 11 June 1856 – Page 3, Column 2.
A PROTEST.
WE, the citizens of Patriot, having for a long time witnessed the evils resulting from the free use of intoxicating liquors, and as law abiding people, wishing to promote the good of society,–do solemnly protest against the selling of all kinds of intoxicating drinks, to be used as a beverage; and ask the retailers, in the name of virtue, and everything dear to society, to desist from such an unholy and demoralizing business, and engage in some calling less detrimental to the inhabitants of our town and vicinity;–and, as forbearance has ceased to be a virtue with us in this matter, we are determined, for the good of our town, to abate this evil first, and then attack others, which some of us think are of greater magnitude. If the vigor of the law should fail to protect us, we must protect ourselves.
- Sylvanus Howe
- W. P. Campbell
- E. H. Johnson
- Wm. A. Johnson
- Solomon Hicks
- B. F. Herrick
- Asahel Carpenter
- C. W. Munger
- Wm. R. Vandorin
- S. R. Bradley
- Josiah Herbert
- Reuben Berry
- Ira Keeney
- S. J. Herrick
- Geo. Werkerly
- A. Gazley
- Wm. Mead
- H. R. Herbert
- Bela Herrick
- Mrs. Ellen Wade
- Elizabeth Gazley
- Amanda Faulkner
- Phebe Fletcher
- H. D. Gibson
- C. C. Johnson
- Frances Larison
- M. N. Scott
- Elizabeth Fortune
- Ann Love
- M. O. Watts
- Sarah James
- Ann F. Carpenter
- Charlotte Hedrick
- Ann Johnson
- Sarah E. Herrick
- Sarah B. Bradley
- Julia Scranton
- Eliza A. Gale
- Ann M. Ormsby
- S. A. Coffin
- Maria Hicks
- Mary E. Chandler
- S. A. Campbell
- Eliza Vanhouten
- Emily Mead
- L. Dean
- Miss Mary Baxter
- M. Donaldson
- Ellen Herrick
- Fannie G. Hoyt
- Polly Vanhouten
- M. A. Carpenter
- S. Q. Howe
- Andrew Hobbs
- Jesse Brookway
- Wm. Gibson
- Charles Carpenter
- A. G. Herrick
- E. H. Vandorin
- Jabes Vandorin
- James Buck
- Cheney Munger
- Jacob Hunsiker
- John Allen
- Samuel Wade
- S. B. Baxter
- Wm. Taylor
- Collin McNutt
- E. S. Gale
- James Faulkner
- Mrs. Amy Emerson
- Lucy Gill
- Margaret Heston
- Esther E. O’Brien
- M. J. Wiley
- A. S. Reidell
- Pallace Green
- Catharine King
- M. A. Facemire
- Mary Taylor
- Hannah Watts
- Elizabeth Ross
- Alice Herrick
- Elizabeth Yarnell
- Mary J. Moredock
- Mary Newton
- Hannah Munger
- Rachel Deewese
- N. Tait
- Polly Gray
- M. A. C. Jackson
- S. Lee
- Sarah A. Herrick
- Sarah Gage
- E. F. Campbell
- Abigail McHuron
- Martha M. Keeney
Charlotte S. Foster - Miss Hattie Emerson
- M. A. Hutchinson
- Martha Herrick
- Grinke Gage
- M. W. Carpenter
- Lizzie Mead
- Mary A. Tait
Patriot, Ind., June 2, 1856.