abolitionism "national drink" beer whiskey alcohol consumption Germans Irish American Anti-Slavery Society William Lloyd Garrison American Colonization Society concentration of power and wealth limitations on government power Elizabeth Cady Stanton women's rights hierarchy based on sex Horace Mann humane prisons mental institutions public schools "scientific" theories on racial differences social reformers Catholics internal improvements "common" schools tax-supported public schools Declaration of Sentiments treatment for the insane Dorothea Dix immigrant Irish Catholics New York Magdalen Society prostitution prohibition of alcohol temperance middle-class movement agent of moral reform Lucretia Mott female suffrage The Liberator gradual emancipation white supremacy