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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1845
Page
6
A note thanks Mr. B A Holmes for a January issue. The editor's literary reputation is cited as strong and worthy of comparison with contemporary monthlies. Burges and James publish in Charleston at 3 dollars per year.
The American Phrenological Journal announces receipt of first issue number one of volume seven, describing it as improved and enlarged. Readers are referred to the prospectus and its columns for details.
A temperance reflection argues that drinking fuels many vices and that societal reform grows slowly yet steadily. It notes intoxicants entrench crime and passion, while progress rests on public mindset shifts, pledge signers and non signers alike moving toward total abstinence.
The excerpt warns that there is no point where life becomes safe, urging to avoid taking the downward path at any time. It emphasizes constant vigilance as the only safety measure.
Mr Gough once a successful in New York and other cities now speaks on Temperance to packed Philadelphia audiences. He is a reformed drunkard with little formal education yet his recovery tale moves listeners and strengthens benevolence in the fight against the vice.
Washington readers are urged to extend temperance aid beyond personal reform. The writer insists those redeemed by the pledge should help others still suffering from intemperance, noting duty to rescue all from want and ruin and to support humane efforts. Alasha. ure is often too much bound up
An appeal calls for renewed vigor in the Temperance cause urging adherence to pledges and universal reform. It notes some have withdrawn support, praises noble reformers, and argues for a nationwide arousement to end drink's ruin, disease, and death. Veritas.
A Washingtonian letter urges Augusta Georgia to embrace profitable home industry to boost prosperity. It argues capital and labor must cooperate, warns against sectional fears, and cites a Justice Court example showing local money circulating when factories operate nearby. The piece advocates steam and water power, urging immediate work or risk of decline.
The piece quotes Seneca praising moderation and warning of the harms of intoxication. It notes drunkenness as voluntary madness that emboldens mischief, exposes vice, and robs men of shame. It cites Alexander killing Clytus and laments public chaos and ruin from excess, contrasting honor with excessive drinking.
A Crystal Fount quotation condemns extreme cruelty to children, comparing drowning a neighbor’s child in a stream to making the boy drunk for amusement. It insists such acts render a person unfit to live and calls for an awake moral mind.
Practical advice from the Social Monitor urging a wife to be honest affectionate and respectful to her husband to avoid jealousy and quarrels. It stresses cheerful daily resolve calm demeanor forgiving faults and keeping expenses within the husband’s means while valuing his esteem and love.
A poignant meditation on a lone widow whose husband and all children are gone. The piece laments her loneliness and asks for compassionate support while she endures a life of dark, cheerless days and an eventual peaceful death, trusting she will rest in heaven.
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