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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1843
Page
4
Fragmentary verse speaks of mourning and hope as a brother is promised resurrection. A sickly voice and a distant cheer describe suffering and a guiding presence. The poem hints at faith and consolation amid pain with a line about a brother rising again.
An official report summarized convictions across New York in 1842, noting 1602 in state courts with 1491 men and 111 women. Others included 2741 convictions in courts of special sessions, with 2355 men and 386 women. The piece cites temperance reform scenes, admonitions against liquor, and a Bangor obituary praising a former rum seller who quit drinking.
In a Norwich Spectator fragment an account links a murder to a man who drank his rum. The ghosts speculate on horror at his greed, recalling the line There’s the barrel and there’s the man that killed us.
A speaker lampoons rum sellers by linking their barrooms to ruin, poverty, and misery. He cites families broken by alcohol, abused spouses, shoeless children, delirium tremens, and begging the seller to end the cycle by closing shop, insisting “there’s the barrel and there’s the man.”
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