The Genius of Temperance weeping over modern Degeneracy, and the palsied sluggishness of the Temperance Society

Pages [2-4] blank. Poetry and prose. Printed in one and two columns divided by curvilinear lines on light gray paper. At head of text wood-engraving of weeping woman and boy holding broken anchor. Title from first lines. Compliments Rev. Thomas Tew, agent of the Rhode Island State Temperance Society. Place of publication indicated by anchor which is state seal of Rhode Island and from mention of R.I. Temperance Society; Man published other items in Providence. Date suggested by appearance of item. Includes quotation from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and lines possibly by Man beginning: Survey the world from Lapland to Peru.