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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1843
Page
8
The text notes a ceremony at the Blind Institute with a poetry piece by Frances Jane Crosby, a pupil blind since age one. It contrasts the sighted world’s beauty with the blind students' inner vision, praising religion, knowledge, and gratitude toward benefactors while acknowledging their limited sight and reliance on touch.
A German drinker Bonnard sinks into ruin by frequent toasts and quarrels. Two friends stage a hoax, faking a broken leg with a surgeon to frighten him. He vows to reform, marries Laura after probation, and later learns of the ruse. Through years he stays sober, then regains his old habits but remains prudent.
The Spartanburgh Temperance Convention met at the Methodist Church on Wednesday the 2d inst organized then moved to the Grove near Colonel Thomson. The president gave an eloquent address and resolutions were adopted. Delegates numbered 350 with many visitors. meetings continued daily through Friday adjournment sine die. Reports listed numerous shipwrecks and temperance work. the navy sloop Levant under Hugh N. Page is to sail with temperance ban on grog except surgeon’s department.
The article presents an outline of a Maryland temperance speech by John Mason urging temperance as a great good and true cause. It argues temperance uplifts humanity and will prevail through public opinion, likening its progress to liberty after historic battles, and cites losses from rum tied to British maritime casualties in an 1838 39 period.
A Middlesex Washingtonian excerpt contrasts a reformed man rising from drink with a former tippler dying in a poorhouse. It features a lecture on self control and the group’s zeal, noting the paradox of reform and relapse and the difficulty of stopping once drinking begins.
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