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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1844
Page
8
A brief OCR fragment presents poetic lines about tied branches and a singing bird, with no clear narrative or identifiable figures. The readable words suggest nature imagery and spiritual tone but lack context or full verses.
A dying rum seller, racked by guilt over crimes of alcohol, pleads with a doctor as visions of victims and ruined families haunt him. The scene portrays torment, religious despair, and the physician’s attempt to soothe a mind overwhelmed by remorse.
The text urges readers to compare temperance happiness with the misery of drunkenness and blasphemy, warning to flee temptation and seek life and health, lest they be consumed. It frames the message as a moral exhortation from a temperance advocate.
A curious temperance pamphlet episode stresses conscience before the grog shop and a Rumseller’s death bed. It recounts a South Carolina village tavern’s ruinous influence, a young man’s drunken end, and moral scrutiny of liquor selling.
Gen Cass, in Detroit, notes he is over sixty and has never drunk intoxicants after years of service. A letter reveals Father Matthew agreed to a free passage on a Grinnell Minturn line ship to America and plans to visit in June, per sources in New York Eve Post.
The Anti-License movement grows nationwide with activists pressing to test the license question at the ballot. A Saint Louis Missouri meeting is noted as the last local effort discussed. The piece contrasts temperance pledges with public sentiment and hints at broader Republic of Teetotalers figures.
A forecast of a forthcoming multi-volume Temperance work to be issued by the Temperance Advocate under Judge O Neall and others. It lists several titles, contributors, pricing, subscription terms, engravings, and the aim to publish about five hundred pages with steel engravings. Boston 1843.
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