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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1845
Page
6
Our correspondent report notes that Charcoal Sketch No 3 is declined due to its basis on a circulating anecdote and its free handling. The Gambler's Victim is considered readable but disapproved for moral reasons, with the piece Oh mourn not for the Dead also disputed for sentiment.
The Vair calls readers to support the Southern Cultivator journal urging farmers to wake to their interests. It praises the work for developing the Souths agricultural resources and prosperity and notes a back issue gift and a subscriber promotion offering Vols I and II bound for ten dollars with ten new subscribers.
The temperance banquet invites all members and citizens to attend Thursday night at the City Hall. The plea stresses male and female participation and urges families to persuade husbands, sons, brothers, and sisters to join, hoping to benefit the entire community.
A call to join a temperance meeting urges unity and service to the state, praising philanthropic aims and urging individuals to overcome hesitation. It promises entertainment and speeches by local youth, and exhorts attendees to pledge support and fight until the citadel of peace is won.
A local the Thespean Corps forms as a group to improve minds and offer exhibitions. Funds raised would go to a humane object after expenses. The project is defended as praiseworthy, with rules to ensure harmony and moral bearing, and preferred over those who perform solely for money. The piece urges citizens to support amateur performers.
An essay condemns cock fighting as a breach of public morals, noting smug pretensions of respectability by those who defend the practice while urging authorities to enforce decency and curb cruelty in the region.
The piece denounces Hamburg and city residents who fought a cock fight at Lafayette Course last Sabbath. It calls such behavior a desecration of the Sabbath and a breach of morals and citizenship, urging abstention from this barbarous practice to regain citizen respect.
An extract from the Lowell Offering, retold in the Savannah Georgian, depicts a child by a clear stream scattering roses as time passes. The poem warns that moments fade like flowers and urges mercy to send fragrance to Heaven to avert sorrow at death.
An April 12 sermon from Rev. Ramsay in Philadelphia denounces drunkard-makers as society’s scourge. He argues they profit from harm, oppress the poor, and close Heaven to sinners, urging early cultivation of virtue and conscience for citizens and Christians alike. He cites Scipio Phocion Altirius Regulus Epictetus as heathen exemplars of virtuous resolve.
A Augusta letter argues for a temperance fair as a means to reach reformed habits through community concern. It praises neighbors, especially women, for urging moral reform and asks editors to publish the reflection to rally support.
An OBSERVER note urges collective action to combat the liquor trade seen as sinful and ruinous. It argues that citizens, including sons, will be saved from vice and the dangers of profit from intoxicating beverages harming the community.
A Texas Register letter notes Brazoria residents did not visit grog-shops around the election and says alcohol inspiration was not sought to influence voters. The writer remarks Brazoria already has a Temperance Society.
In Brazoria on March 8 1845 the District Clerk race between P J Fisk and J C Wilson ended with a one vote margin in favor of Wilson editor of the Planter both candidates praised for decorum. Voters acted independently amid favorable spring weather and no alcohol influence. The new clerk is described as well qualified and temperance supporters plan a March 22 public meeting.
Monday last a gross assault was made on Mr. David Lesly in front of the Court House by a man named Richardson. The attacker, it is said, was hired for ten dollars by someone of base character. Lesly is a temperance advocate who helped close grog shops in the village, a move that provoked anger among some residents.
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