Major Leaders in the temperance Movemen

Mary C. Vaughan: Vaughan followed the temperance movement and spoke at a conference to attest the evils of alcohol.
“There is no reform in which woman can act better or more appropriately than temperance...its effect Falls so crushingly upon her...she has so often seen its slow, insidious, but nonetheless surely fatal advances, gaining upon its victim. ...Oh! The Misery, the utter, hopeless misery of the drunkard’s wife!”

Lyman Beecher: A minister from connecticut who had begun lecturing against the use of liquor in 1825. He helped to create the American Temperance society.