1855 INDIANA PROHIBITION. Rare Letter Celebrating 1855 Indiana Prohibition. Close the Grog Shops!

A rather interesting February 12, 1855 letter with detailed account of the passage of the 1855 Act of Prohibition in Indiana, passed after the Maine Act, and here declared to be even more severe. The act would go into effect on July 4th of the same year and impose severe financial fines and imprisonment for producers and distributors. 

Extracts:

"We are enjoying good health and have plenty of mush and milk, so you see we have no reason to grumble. I like the country very much. It is a better one than my old home. We are still very well satisfied. At any rate the neighbors are very clever and we have preachint ev'ry Sabbath. Once in two weeks we have Our Minister, Brother Holliday. Then we have Methodists and Baptists preaching. We need not spend our time idly."

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"We have had no schools in our school house this winter. It is not finished yet. Consequently we are with out any. It will be finished as soon as the weather will permit. I think we will have a summer School."

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"ALL HAIL INDIANA. Our Legislature passed the Maine Law; or some says a better one, at eleven o'clock last Friday. I was on my road to town. When I got in sight I heard the bells ringing and the Flags flying and the Canon roaring. They had a joyful night I tell you. They had a torchlight procession and fired a gun for evry member that voted for the Law. It passed by a majority of Eleven in the house and twelve in the senate. A pretty respectable majority. It is reported that your Bob voted for it. He told me that he could not go against the Ladies of Brookville. So he went for the law. It takes effect the first of June next, then the Grog Shops and Distilleries has to cave in. 

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