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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1845
Page
4
A nostalgic poem reflects on childhood summers and the light in the heart that banishes tears. The speaker recalls springtime joys, singing birds, and home echoes while noting memories, dreams, and the pull of adult flattery. A closing line hints at a broken link in affections.
A South Carolina minister of a church of drunkards changed his path, signs a total abstinence pledge, and inspires four hundred members to follow. The reform spread to other churches, with the pastor cited as a powerful example.
The ninth anniversary gathering in New York featured Rev John Marsh presenting the annual report. It states Temperance journals circulate widely with 20 000 children supplied by Youth's Advocate and 320 000 tracts in regular receipt. Agent J P Coffin led efforts including 11 000 pledge signatures. Last year executive expenditures reached 28 206 supported by sales and donations, with part of a 1 600 debt repaid. The report notes 40 000 seamen engaged on the coast, 8 000 added last year, and New York marine society numbering 17 000.
Shipping losses drop sharply after temperance drives while naval crews tout grog abstinence. A Columbia crew of 450 sailors and 5 officers renounce grog, Capt. Smith’s 1200-men unit reports no shoredrinking, Cumberland crew petitions Washington to end spirit rations. A Amherst blacksmith’s temperance tale ends in fatal relapse.
Bro Bonner of the Cataract breaks down a rum shop into its original elements. He argues taverns reduce to ruined houses and the odds and ends of other men’s miseries. He claims a liquor dealer’s funds symbolize disease crime and headache.
Excerpt laments the grog shop’s ruin as a pen casts awakening light upon its history. It condemns the draughtery and calls the wretches cursed, their blessedness extinguished in eternal darkness.
An 1848 letter from Crystal Fount raises ethical challenges about drink sellers, poison providers, and accomplice liability. It argues whether supplying alcohol or poison makes one guilty of harms, including suicide, death in rivers, or theft, and leaves the questions for proponents of rumsellers.
Yale College figure Mr Potter recalls three early friends harmed by intemperance. One, a brilliant mathematician who outpaced an Automaton chess player, died a drunkard's death. Another skilled accountant, commanding salaries, met the same fate. The third, equally gifted, vanished into mire and filth of vice.
The piece argues that physiology governs health and morals and that education should integrate phrenology and magnetism. It promotes a forthcoming monthly journal by O S Fowler at 131 Nassau St New York, offering low subscription rates and highlighting a department on women and practical phrenology for the millions.
A prospectus outlines a Southern literary magazine to defend Southern literary position, encourage original thought, and publish Georgia Historical Society materials. It pledges nonsectarian discourse, coverage of Army and Navy topics, and aims to foster native genius through monthly issues starting October, with a $5 annual price and subscriber drive from Savannah.
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