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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1844
Page
4
A temperance address denounces rum selling as a national evil, urging public sentiment and legal action to remove the trade. It claims prohibition will curb poverty, crime, and ruin, calling on citizens to support sober leaders and reject any who drink.
A passionate exhortation urges Christians to extend love to all and work for abolition of intemperance. It recalls the first National Temperance Convention in Philadelphia, praises reform as divine aid, and promises to end drunkenness and cruelty, restore families, and lift republics from debt and crime.
The Temperance Advocate under Judge O Neall and other leaders announces a set of permanent documents including Dr Dickson s address, reports from the first Columbia Temperance Society, discourses, circulars, legislativ e memorials and letters. The work spans about five hundred pages and will be sold to subscribers at 1 per copy once 1000 signups are reached, with a May 1 deadline for subscription lists.
The Augusta Society editors join the Washingtonian project to publish a temperance focused weekly. The paper aims to be moral, useful, and accessible at one dollar per year, with club subscriptions and postmaster agent support. Editors seek reader aid for broader circulation and enduring quality.
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