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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1844
Page
8
A temperance address argues the rum trade must be destroyed through moral force and legal measures. It condemns rum sellers as harming families, cites vast casualties, and calls on citizens to support sober leaders and enforce prohibition via law and public opinion.
A speech extols the temperance reform as divinely guided and vital to the republic. It recalls the 17 year progress, praises Philadelphia’s first National Temperance Convention, and urges citizens to extend love to humanity by ending intemperance, freeing debtors, aiding the poor, and restoring families. It envisions a future without drunkards or drunkard-makers and invokes divine aid.
The Temperance Advocate publishers under Judge O Neall and committee members announce a five hundred page work. It will gather Dr Samuel Dickson s address reports from Columbia formation and state temperance society debates plus circulars and legislative Memorials. Subscriptions at 1 per copy due by May 1 with press target after 1000 subscribers. May 1844.
Prospectus for the Washingtonian announces a second volume to be published every Saturday in sheet form, 20 by 26 inches, at one dollar per year in advance. It seeks capable editorial leadership, aims to be a moral family paper promoting temperance and morality, and offers clubbing rates for multiple copies. Postmasters urged to act as agents. June 6, 1843.
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