Delivered at the Washingtonian levee in the Universalist vestra in West Cambridge, 1844 February 22.

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Damon, Norwood, b. 1816. Delivered at the Washingtonian levee in the Universalist vestra in West Cambridge, 1844 February 22.

Delivered at the Washingtonian levee in the Universalist vestra in West Cambridge, 1844 February 22.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184901134

An address in verse, given on Washington's birthday, to promote the temperance reform movement in Arlington, Mass. The work is unsigned but attributed to Norwood Damon. The author presents an elegy to the noble culture of the Native Americans of Massachusetts prior to contact with the European settlers and laments their downfall with the coming of the white man carrying disease and alcohol. He offers local references and claims that the condition of the town improved after the sale of alcohol was prohibited.

1 v. (8 p.), in envelope ; 33 cm.

Boston Athenaeum