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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1844
Page
8
A historic verse contrasts woe and poverty with dawn light and joy. It speaks of plenty replacing famine, virtue prevailing over debauchery, and a grateful refrain praising the Lord for peace, Sabbath, and divine restoration. The imagery blends spiritual relief with social uplift.
A reclaimed taper recalls a scene of cold weather hunger and a mother’s distress. The narrator, drawn to a grocery tied to a rum shop, helps gather molasses that spills on the floor and trades it for a pint of rum. The exchange illustrates the degraded actions born from heavy drinking.
In Sailor's Magazine the tale portrays an English brig bound for Cantania with a Scottish captain who braved a windward path to clear a man-of-war. He later drank while steering, collapsing on deck as the wind blew strong ahead, his crew and passengers watching a rash display of leadership and intoxication.
A narrator recalls a sea voyage ruined by an intoxicated captain whose reckless leadership nearly cost many lives. The episode, though not new, shocks the author as Providence protects the crew. The captain’s farewell revelry near Naples nearly doomed the vessel and its souls.
A fragment argues against indulgence in drinking by seamen, claiming the colony cannot afford to pay for their upkeep or loss of souls and property. It asserts a stark policy motto urging abstinence or rejection of cargo and lifestyle excess.
A reflective note argues a man’s pride should deter drunkenness though critique of treatment tables and laughter from cowards and abuses by law. It frames drunkenness as a moral failing and the need for harsher social response.
The two groggeries in Washington DC are kept for the exclusive use of Congress members. They open with each session and close at adjournment. The piece condemns these establishments as national curses and a scandal to the American name and people.
The writer asks friends and subscribers to supply information on Georgia temperance societies. They seek society names, member counts by gender, and pledge nature to extend a published table and show the movement’s strength in the state.
The Washingtonian announces Volume II of a temperance and agricultural weekly to be published every Saturday. It promotes a permanent, affordable family paper with moral content, aims to advance temperance, and invites subscriptions and club orders. Postmasters may serve as agents. circulation targets a broad readership. June 6 1843.
In announcing the fifth volume the editor urges support to extend circulation and establish the Southern Quarterly Review as a durable organ for Southern literature and federal discourse. It outlines aims to review books, promote knowledge, defend Southern institutions, and publish a quarterly schedule from Charleston with noted contributors and a $5.85 annual subscription.
GREAT NATIONAL WORK P P APPAN AND DENNETT of Boston propose to publish Jared Sparks Life of Washington in fourteen monthly numbers at twenty five cents each. Each issue will contain forty to fifty pages with portraits and engravings and plans from Mount Vernon to Valley Forge. Subscriptions urged with offers of free copies to postmasters and agents who secure five or more subscribers.
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