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A short cryptic line appears to reflect pastoral imagery with references to boughs, a ging bird, and an unspecified hymn. The fragment offers no clear context or identifiable figures, places, or dates.
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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1844
Page
4
A short cryptic line appears to reflect pastoral imagery with references to boughs, a ging bird, and an unspecified hymn. The fragment offers no clear context or identifiable figures, places, or dates.
A sick man tormented by memory and guilt recoils from death. The doctor cannot ease his mind as he relives ruined lives caused by rum. The tale blurs madness with moral judgment, urging contrition and divine forgiveness.
A sober exhortation contrasts temperance happiness with daily misery caused by drinking. It calls readers to forsake vice, warning of judgment and urging a retreat to safety away from indulgence and ruin.
A temperance number condemns liquor selling as a vice that ruins lives. It portrays a rum seller facing conscience for deaths and injuries linked to his business, recounts a young man who dies a drunkard, and warns youths about tavern temptations in South Carolina.
Gen Cass, veteran leader, notes his sixty years and abstinence from intoxicants in a Detroit lecture. The piece also reports Father Matthew’s likely June visit to America, with Minturn & Co offering free passage on a London Liverpool line ship.
The piece notes rising anti license sentiment across the country with ballot box testing in view. A stinging anecdote from St Louis contrasts with a child’s misreading of corned as salted, then shifts to a Father explaining the idea next day. It cites four million in the United States pledging total abstinence.
A list of permanent temperance works to be issued by the Temperance Ad vocate under Judge O Neall and others. The volume includes Dr Dickson s Address the Report of the Columbia society the Leland discourse and related circulars with a projection of about five hundred pages. Subscriptions at one dollar per copy with engravings and plates. non subscribers pay higher prices. Boston 1843.
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