AN ESSAY

ON THE

NATURE, CAUSES, EFFECTS, AND CURE,

OF

INTEMPERANCE.

BY RALPH BARNES GRINDROD.

FIRST AMERICAN,

FROM THE THIRD ENGLISH EDITION.

EDITED BY CHARLES A. LEE, A. M., M. D.

"The land mourneth because of unkeialess."

STOR LIBRARY

NEW-YORK

NEW YORK:

J. & H. G. LANGLEY, 57 CHATHAM STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840,

By J. & H. G. LANGLEY,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

STEREOTYPED PY J. S. REDFIELD.....H. LUDWIG, PRINTER.

THIS WORK

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE

OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF

THE AMERICAN TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES,

WHOSE UNPARALLELED EXERTIONS

IN THE

CAUSE OF MORALS AND RELIGION,

AND WHOSE EFFORTS TO EXTERMINATE

THE

MOST FRUITFUL SOURCE OF HUMAN MISERY,

THE USE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS,

WILL EVER ENSURE THEM

THE GRATEFUL AFFECTIONS OF MANKIND,

AND THE

REGARD AND ADMIRATION

OF

POSTERITY.