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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1845
Page
2
In 1845 guidance notes that post masters may remit subscription payments for distant newspapers like the Washingtonian by delivering funds to the publisher, avoiding extra postage costs for distributing papers to subscribers.
Mr Holmes presents the March issue of Simms Monthly Magazine with notes of its engaging content. A correspondent Sickie suggests an aceuent plan to boost debate and participation at meetings, hoping temperance speakers will engage more often and attract new members from the Franklin debating Society. The article urges Society officers to consider the plan and its potential for lively discussion and social warmth.
The society saw Dr Joseph Eve resign as ex president due to professional duties. Dr D Hook was chosen as new president and gave an inaugural speech thanking the late presiding officer for his temperance work. The group pledged to advance the reform under new leadership.
The passage extols benevolence as essential to any virtue and argues that selfishness hinders generous acts. It suggests people claim to value doing good yet avoid real sacrifice, noting churches and institutions resort to indirect means to obtain funds, revealing a widespread lack of true benevolence.
The Augusta Washingtonians Society, facing debt, resorted to a fair to cover expenses. The piece questions the community’s benevolence and urges readers to support benevolent works rather than rely on minimal contributions from members. It urges cultivating generosity and opposing selfishness.
The piece argues for practical and scientific agricultural education in the South, urging farmers to adopt specialized soil analysis, proper manuring, and crop culture. It praises the Cultivator by Messrs. Jones of Augusta and notes the editor Mr. Camak as capable, suggesting broader Southern agricultural writing.
A letter suggests publishing a week ahead the temperance topic for Society meetings to boost interest. It urges debate on whether the groyseller who sold liquor to A B, leading to disability and death, should be reported to the grand jury as a criminal transgressor. Signed Sickie.
The Washingtonian cause rests on immutable moral law rather than statutes or court decisions. It trusts conscience as advocate and maker as judge, rejecting reliance on law to reform drinkers. It seeks to awaken families to the harm of intemperance without legal aid or courtroom rhetoric.
The Washingtonian reform urges total abstinence to end crime and pauperism, dismissing fear of Supreme Court action. Leaders call for conscience driven labor, urging citizens to press onward, educate children, and resist license laws, with motto Love Farm and Carry.
The piece praises young men fighting intemperance and lauds those who shun wine at parties and public houses. It notes many still drink but emphasizes moral courage and the influence of the rising generation on the temperance cause.
A portrait of George Washington and Martha Custis showing her choice of a sober, brave leader. The piece argues Washington remained temperate, which shaped his rise to power and esteem. It claims Custis influenced him to wed and serve, making him first in war and peace in the eyes of the nation.
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