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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1845
Page
8
Poem recalls childhood joy and memory, the light of heart banishing tears, and nostalgia for early home and nature. The speaker contrasts youthful innocence with modern vanity, noting a lingering fragrance of memory and pure thoughts despite longing for one bright link in affection.
A South Carolina minister, once a drinker, becomes pastor of a teetotal church after pledging total abstinence. He gathers his 400 member flock to reform the parish, and many follow his example, slowing the drink plague.
The ninth anniversary event in New York featured Rev John Marsh presenting the annual report. It notes broad circulation of Temperance journals, 20 000 children supplied with Youths Advocate, 320 000 more receiving tracts and small books, and 11 000 signatures to the pledge obtained by Agent J P Coffin. Expenditures for the year reached 28 206 funded by sales and donations, with part of a 1 600 debt paid. The report adds 40 000 seamen employed along the coast with 8 000 added last year and estimates the New York Marine Society at 17 000 members.
The temperance movement shows results at sea with reduced losses and temperance ships like the Columbia and Cumberland reporting abstinence and petitions to end spirit rations. A Virginia blacksmith, moved by a temperance meeting, dies after hiding whiskey from a grog-shop, illustrating the deadly danger of alcohol and a warning against resisting moral appeals.
Bro Bonner of Cataract critiques rum shops by dissecting them into their original elements. He argues taverns reveal ruined houses and worn belongings from failed households. Each dollar of a liquor dealer’s funds symbolizes a disease and a crime, with every shilling a headache.
Fragmentary archaic prose laments the grog shop’s ruin and curse. The text envisions writing on plaster of the wall to reveal calamities and the downfall of the wretches tied to the drink, in vivid apocalyptic imagery.
The author questions moral and legal accountability for drunkards and those who profit from drink. They compare roles in poisoning, drunkenness, and theft to urge moral scrutiny of alcohol dealers and enablers, challenging readers to consider responsibility.
Mr. Potter of Yale College laments temperance in New Haven recounting three early friends whose brilliance failed to alcohol. One excelled in mathematics and chess and beat an Automaton. another was a skilled accountant who vanished into ruin. the third, equally gifted, sank into mire and filth through intemperance.
A prospectus for a monthly journal by O S Fowler promoting phrenology physiology and animal magnetism as tools for improving health morality and education. It argues the mind is shaped by bodily laws and urges widespread access to the science through affordable subscriptions and public essays. It promises content on women education magnetism phrenology and practical guidance for readers.
A prospectus from Southern originators outlines a monthly magazine to champion original Southern thought, defend regional literature, and promote native talent. It seeks broad support, emphasizes non sectarian scope, and plans to publish Georgia Historical Society material, with a publication start in October and a five dollar annual price. Returns and agent commissions are requested.
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