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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1844
Page
6
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A Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society meeting is scheduled for Monday evening, with a call for a large enthusiastic turnout. The piece notes past political excitement and urges renewed commitment to temperance, hoping for broad participation including women and fair members of the public.
The Floral Wreath and Ladies Monthly Magazine offers new original matter and an illustrated engraving. A Charleston composer contributes a music page by a young lady. The editors appeal to Southern readers for support to sustain Southern literature. Price per annum $1.50.
The article praises temperance influence at polls, contrasts past riots with Monday’s order, and argues Washingtonian temperance dates to 1788. It cites The American Museum pamphlet, details costs of spirits, and warns of British debt and degeneration from alcohol. It includes an anecdote about a tradesman failing to pay rent due to rum use.
The piece praises the redeeming influence of principled governance and reveals pride in Washingtonians backing Temperance. It asserts the people are choosing temperance as a practical evidence of good work, regardless of political outcomes.
A tradesman compares yearly rum costs to rent and concludes temperance pays. He quits spirits, pays rent, buys clothes, and soon becomes thriving, respected, and trusted by acquaintances. The moral highlights savings from abstaining and improved fortune.
A Cataract news vignette notes a young man forfeiting his betrothal by drunken spree in Albany. His fiancée rejects him, choosing remorse over misery and public shame, praised for sensible virtue. The piece urges women to value temperance over romantic folly.
In this Washingtonian piece from January 1844 Promier presents a verse praising a divine craftsman who formed the night light and skies. The speaker exhorts reverence and enjoyment of nature as a gift from the gracious heavens, addressing the insect and the world with devotional tone.
A writer urges editors to oppose election processions arguing they are useless expensive and degrading. He questions voter enlightenment from parades and transparency displays and calls for parties to forego them to avoid waste and public unrest. He compares modern campaigns to ancient Roman excesses urging restraint and economy.
A reader condemns cultivating children’s party enthusiasm and appeals to passion over reason. The piece argues such methods degrade American character, insult intelligence, and threaten familial and civic harmony, urging calm reflection on the influence of political ideology.
An afflicted man long treated as hopeless is cured after a friend urges a remedy advertised as a catholicon. The tale underscores the power of the sacred Pledge as the antidote, with the reader left to infer the disease and solution.
A renowned intellect renounces long habit of intemperance after a severe downfall. His wife and children endure poverty and sorrow as the drunkard descends, then, a year later, a modest home returns with wife and children thriving while he battles the urge for brandy. The narrative contrasts genius with the ruin of vice and its redemptive moment.
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