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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1845
Page
6
The Augusta based Washingtonian notes the Baptist Convention in session decides on a Southern Board of Missions, marking a division between Northern and Southern Churches over church government. Readers are informed of editorial issues and misprints from the previous issue.
A compilation from the Washingtonian paper in Augusta Georgia 1845 features editor changes and reader letters on temperance, parental duties, and moral reform. It includes a plea for stronger attendance at temperance meetings, criticism of absenteeism, and warnings about groggery influence, with letters from Amy Hotty and other residents.
The speaker argues for temperance societies to prevent crime and promote virtue, condemns hypocrisy, and defends abstinence from all fermented liquors as a true measure of temperance, citing history like the American Revolution and urging consistent use of abstinence as the path to social improvement.
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