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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1843
Page
4
A poem written by Frances Jane Crosby, a pupil blind since age one, reflects on sightless life and gratitude for education. The piece contrasts physical sight with inner illumination, praising the lamp of knowledge and urging benevolence from others who can see.
A tale of Bonnard the drunkard ends with friends staging a fake leg injury to scare him into reform. He vows to avoid excess, reconciles with Laura on probation, and later remains sober, while a Virginia public prosecutor cites temperance as reducing prosecutions and crime over decades.
The Spartanburgh Temperance Convention met at the Methodist Church on Wednesday and marched to the Grove near Colonel Thomson's. Addresses were given by J. F. Carey and H. A. Jones, with numerous resolutions and reports adopted. Delegates numbered 350 with about double that many visitors. The Navy reports temperance progress aboard the Levant with grog banished and wine usage abolished in messes.
The article quotes a speech by John Mason of Baltimore praising temperance as great good beautiful and true. It argues public opinion will drive the cause, likening it to liberty’s struggle after Bunker Hill. It notes temperance’ s reach and calls for persistent advocates while citing losses from rum per the British Sailor's Society report.
A Middlesex Washingtonian excerpt contrasts a reformed man rising from poverty with a former moderate drinker who ends in the poor house. The dialogue underlines the difficulty of self control and the lure of alcohol, noting how reform can lift some while others decline.
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