Temperance controversy between Washingtonian and Banner explodes
The Augusta Washingtonian Society's editors defend their stance in a heated exchange with the Temperance Banner of Penfield. They deny provoking conflict, condemn the Banner's accusations, promote harmony, and urge publication of cooperative temperance information while defending their right to discuss convention plans and gather data.
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Friends of Temperance
Banner
Penfield
Augusta Washingtonian Society
Georgia
It Is An Easy Matter To Become Drunkard
A maritime metaphor warns that a temperate drinker and a mariner face inevitable ruin if they submit to passive vice. The text suggests that repeated, slow habits lead to swift, destructive outcomes, describing drinking as a silent, controlling force.
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Grand Island
The Drunken Drift at Grand Island
A narrator compares a man drifting in a frail canoe to the fate of drinkers. The tale ends with the man’s plunge into the river after a final drink. The piece warns temperance readers that apparent strength masks danger and urges caution against alcohol.
Temperance publication appeal and editor’s defense
A letter from J. H. Campsbet of Clinton Aug 21 1843 defends the Augusta Washingtonian and promotes temperance literature. He recounts a citizen’s reading habit, argues for affordable family papers, and explains a convention item about pledging subscribers to temperance publications while praising the Washingtonian and urging broad support from a virtuous public.
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C. S. Dod
Pendfield
Mercer University
Temperance
Canve
Penfield
Augusta
Washingtonian
Convention
Augusta Washingtonian
Lam
Spontaneous combustion cited over convention dispute
A political fracas is described as a hidden hostility from the Banner left unspoken until public and private notices revealed it. The piece contends the Banner’s fire is confined to narrow limits and will soon die, to be remembered as a simple case of spontaneous combustion.
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Banner
Editor of the Christian Index Seeks to Reassure Washingtonian
The editor informs readers that the Washingtonian’s non arrival at his office was accidental and quickly corrected by the publisher. He expresses deep respect for the Editor and the Index and regrets any impression of neglect toward the gentleman who leads the Editorial department.
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Banner
Ives
Washingtonian
Brother Brantly
Christian Index
Index
Ruth
Plates attract attention in Europe to Emperors set
Mr. Delavan prepares with care a set of Dr. Sewall's Plates depicting the Emperors of Russia and Austria to be sent to the Ming of the French s to Prince Albert and to the Kings of Sweden Prussia Belgium Holland and Greece. J. A. T. Union.
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