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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1845
Page
6
A Camden Journal excerpt discusses temperance reform, urging community support and youth involvement. It criticizes liquor trade impacts, cites pauperism data from New York, and argues for school based temperance efforts and juvenile societies to foster lifelong moral discipline.
Fragmented text discusses moral suasion in regulating intoxicating drink sales, aiming for consistent patronage guidance. It references legal and monetary influence tied to alcohol policy and mentions opposition and control efforts within a historical context.
The article praises New England for rapid temperance progress. It notes formation of Juvenile Temperance Societies among children and Martha Temperance Societies among women, efforts to withdraw support from liquor traders, promotion of temperance boarding houses, exposure of corrupt groggeries, and eventual moves to influence license laws.
Reports from England note petitions to ban Sunday sale of intoxicants and temperance meetings in Cambridge aiming to boost local efforts. Dr Grindroite delivers lectures in Leicester and Nottingham with 100 large drawings to eager crowds, including about 4000 youths in Nottingham. Dr G authored Bacchus prize essay, awarded 100 guineas, widely read in the country.
The article discusses chiefs pledging teetotalism in the Sandwich Islands while noting continued rum availability under treaty terms. It condemns drunkenness among natives and contrasts island societies with others where alcohol use is widespread, urging anti rum influence and cultural purification.
A persisting call for teetotal pledges spreads from France to Idaho chiefs urging public leaders in the United States to sign a universal pledge. The author argues such a stand could curb drunkenness and shift international trade away from brandy, appealing to presidents governors judges and officials to act.
Conclusion of Russell T. Trall M D prize essay urges revolutionizing public sentiment against drinking through argument exhortation and song led by the Total Abstinence Pledge. It details convention rules boards officers and missionaries to promote temperance work with pledged teetotalers expanding across states and halls.
The document outlines the name of the body as the Southern Baptist Convention and its mission to promote Foreign and Domestic Missions within the Baptist denomination. It details a biennial convention with representation based on contributions, specifying tiers of delegates per amount and first-time applications by individuals for representation.
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