Major leaders in temperance movement/their accomplishments

Mary C. Vaughan

"There is no reform in which women can act better or more appropriately than temperance... It effects fall so crushingly upon her.. She has so often seen it's slow,insidious, but not the less surely fatal advances,gaining upon its victim. ...Oh! The misery,the utter, hopeless misery of the drunkard's wife!"

Mary had spoke at a temperance meeting in 1852 and attested to the evils of alcohol. Strongly believed that alcohol ruined people and their minds.

Lyman Beecher

Lyman was a prominent Connecticut minister who begun lecturing agains the use of alcohol. Had teamed up with Mary C. Vaughan to protest agains the alcohol use in America.