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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1843
Page
8
A lament voice pleads for help amid poverty and stigma as orphans ask why society shuns them for their father’s drinking, insisting they are not to blame for his faults and pleading for compassion from the world.
A devotional verse asks for protection and cheerful light through the night and morning. It prays for a guardian angel’s keeping and strength to rise free from pain, to press through life’s thorny path with daily divine care.
A fragment from a Cork city milieu depicts a haggard man and a battered wife pleading for understanding as a secretary recalls pledges and reform. An exhortation on moderate drinking condemns genteel intemperance and urges abstinence.
An Albany Evening Journal editor's letter from Ireland extols Father Mathew noting his gentleness and benevolence and praising the temperance leader's virtues. An Irish speech by Father Mathew urges action to end drunkenness and its victims from prisons and brothels to hell.
A dramatic testimony from an Ireland piece shows a husband confessing his drink problem and seeking help for his broken family. His wife and neighbors respond with compassion as a pledge to overcome addiction is formed amid communal prayers and support.
The Honorable T F Marshall, congressman and temperance lecturer, travels Kentucky on a tee-total temperance pilgrimage. Reports say audiences from all ranks unite in admiration, offering generous hospitality and greetings on roadside routes as towns dispatch congratulatory deputations.
An exchange argues wine and cider acid cause gout. It claims meat and luxury eating do not trigger gout in water drinkers, while abstaining from wine and cider has helped gouty men despite heavy meals. It notes many gouty individuals are male and that females show near total exemption.
A report notes the Washingtonian Army of Michigan comprising over twenty four thousand men in active service described as sturdy and loyal. The piece emphasizes broad enlistment and readiness across the state for potential conflict.
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