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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1843
Page
8
A Camden Journal excerpt extolls the Washingtonians pledge and temperance as a family heritage. It imagines wives signing first, then children and grandchildren adopting the pledge, spreading peace, happiness, and an era free of drink’s harms funded by collective abstinence.
At a Plymouth Supreme Judicial Court term Leavitt, accused of murdering his wife, pled guilty to the indictment but asserted no malice. The court and bar urged a not guilty plea, yet he insisted he killed her and refused to lie. He cited conscience, faced death, and was remanded for trial. records note his intoxication as a contributing factor.
The New York Washingtonian recounts a temperance lecture by Professor Greenbank at the American Temperance Union. A parable about a wine-drinking English merchant ends in death after a single gulp from a quart goblet. The piece condemns educated, wealthy drinkers who scorn the pledge while indulging openly.
The piece contrasts housed and houseless drinkers, urging signers of the Pledge to curb rum. It notes growing public disrepute of rum selling and drinking and predicts a future where public drunkenness is as unthinkable as other guilty acts. The call ends with a rallying motto for collective effort.
At a Faneuil Hall temperance meeting Rev. Mr. Pierpont argued that ornate lanterns for oyster saloons merely mask a failing temperance cause. He likened vendors to a band using rouge to lure the unwary, warning the public will see through such deception and abandon the intoxication trade.
A Boston Washingtonian recounts three cases linked to a dram shop over three months. A penniless youth wanders the streets, a bay drowning, and a family crime ending in ruin. The keeper defends his business as for the public good.
A temperance discussion urges a brother to reform through sisterly love and moral duty, then invites signing the pledge as freedom from oppression. It cites teetotal arguments and a Toronto tavern exchange mocking converts while insisting that sobriety leads to Heaven.
A Boston newspaper excerpt recalls a Cincinnati scene where Judge Wood, condemning Andrew Walton for killing John Carroll, notes that in sixty capital cases most had originated in drunkenness. The jurist rejected the defendant’s drunkenness excuse as explanation.
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