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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1844
Page
2
In Augusta on February 17 1844 the Washingtonian pledge condemns all spirits malt liquors wine and cider. Editorials praise temperance gains warning against broad denunciations and urging public opinion to drive abolition of taverns. The piece reports warming shifts in Washington society with fewer grog shops and stronger moral resolve.
A drunken riot erupts in a theatre with Ming and others causing chaos in the pit. The scene shows how a group of lads scrapes, whoops, and scatters amid the disturbance. Authorities announce that names will appear on the criminal calendar next Monday.
Correspondence from the N. Y. Organ notes a new impulse in Washington with the accession of Hon. Mr. Dromgoole of Virginia to the House of Representatives and the formation of the Congressional Temperance Society. The writer expects strength and active service in the cause.
A New Haven temperance meeting recounts the experience of a Mr. Dicker man who described how rum harmed his life as a mechanic. The speech highlights the destructive effects of alcohol on a Christian by detailing personal decline and moral struggle.
The piece argues death as an unavoidable fate for all, urging temperance and reform. It contrasts the fates of the penitent and impenitent, noting divine judgment and the Bible as light through the grave. Readers are urged to seek moral change for a peaceful afterlife.
A fragmentary reflection questions who harms life and who will face a dying bed. The speaker laments the cruel operate of fate or vice and asks who will escape Hin’s friendship or endure a soft edge of death.
In Augusta a young woman saves her father from the bottle by steadfast faith and pleading. A touching scene unfolds as the reformed father forgives and welcomes his daughter home, restoring hope to a desolate family. The Chronicle cites Burns’s arrest in Memphis for Collier’s murder, per the Picayune.
The Fountain reports Rev Mr Dutton delivering a temperance address at the new Temperance Hall in New Hives. He argues mankind and divine law punish those who enable harm, equating selling intoxicants to slow poison and urging action to curb vice.
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