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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1845
Page
6
A city census taken by Major Isham Thompson commends his diligence and accuracy in recording the population and keeping the register, noting his thorough execution of the duty and providing a snapshot of the city's inhabitants.
The Coosa River Journal debuts in Rome with iw Dunn and W Brown as editors. The issue features solid content and creditable mechanical printing, aiming to advance Southern prosperity and the state’s immediate interests. Diocesan news notes Rev. Potter of Union College’s elevation to a vacant chair amid praise.
An editorial warns that indulging vice such as gaming and drinking destroys character and prompts ruin. It criticizes ethnocentric societies and urges unity under American national identity, urging elimination of divisions. It highlights a temperance pledge story and introduces the Sons of Temperance founded in 1842 in New York as a notable benevolent order.
The speaker argues there is no comparison between the two evils, declaring gaming the greater vice with ruinous reach and speed. The critique emphasizes gaming’s superior depravity compared with other vices.
A former gambler recounts a black-legs scheme years ago to flood the country with marked cards. A manufacturer was supplied with a pattern. backs were finely checked and each card omits a tiny spot to identify it by insiders. Tens of thousands of packs were produced and sold nationwide from Maine to Louisiana.
A periodical explainer outlines the Order of Yankee Blades with national, grand, and subordinate divisions. Members pay weekly dues, receive sickness relief, and pledge abstinence from alcohol. The piece urges youth enrollment in the Total Abstinence cause and warns of alcohol’s ruinous impact on families.
A murder trial sparks a debate on liquor laws and temperance as a father kills his son after a quarrel over temperance pledges. Onlookers lament social temptations, the hotel liquor trade, and the need for public opinion shifts to end the liquor monopoly. The crowd then learns the father died in convulsions from drink, underscoring Retribution and natural law.
A sobbing young man stands apart from the family as a bereaved girl is laid to rest. He is not a relative but once loved the girl, whose father banished him after a fall into intemperance. Her illness, a wasting consumption, ends in death.
A salon tale recounts Charles’s fall into drink after a beloved woman dies of a broken heart. He signs a Temperance pledge but withers away, his beauty and virtue wasted. He dies in a coffin scene as a sobering parable for society about liquor’s ruin.
The Buckeye Blacksmith in Boston recounts a humorous voyage of temperance metaphors. He describes a ship named Ship of Jolification headed to the City of Destruction, stops at Tipsy Island and Hiccup Island, then ends with a plunge into Cool-off-Beach before reaching Poverty’s Valley near the City of Destruction.
An Odd Fellows lodge in this state faced members drifting to wine drinking and adopted measures by introducing the Washingtonian pledge. Sober members signed and persuaded others to quit, resulting in the transformation of drinking members into temperate fellows within the lodge.
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