EDITH MORETON; OR, TEMPERANCE VERSUS INTEMPERANCE.
BYMRS. MARIA L. BUCKLEY.
"Beware the bowl! though rich and bright Its rubies flash upon the sight, An adder coils its depths beneath, Whose lure is woe, whose sting is death." Street.PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR.
1852.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by MARIA L. BUCKLEY in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY S. DOUGLAS WYETH, AGT., No. 7 Pear Street. PRINTED BY STAVELY & M'CALLA. Philadelphia.
TO THE FRIENDS OF THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.
IN dedicating the following pages to the friends of Temperance, the author feels a diffidence that she may well account for. Many able and talented pens have preceeded her's in portraying the evils of the greatest scourge with which the world was ever infested. That they have done much good is evident; while much yet remains to be done, and in the hope that her simple, true, and unadorned tale may help to push on the reformation, she sends it forth to meet the approval or disapproval of a generous public.
The incidents which she here relates came under her immediate notice but a year or two since, and she has faithfully adhered to truth in her narrative. Save in names, which for various reasons she has concealed, except one, the keeper of the "Gambling Hell," who, but a few years since paid a short visit to the penitentiary as an atonement to offended justice.
With all its imperfections therefore on its head, EDITH MORETON is launched forth, and should it be received as favorably as a former work on the same subject, the author will consider herself compensated for the trouble she may undergo in circulating it.
M. L. B.
PHILADELPHIA, February 1852.