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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1843
Page
8
Fragmentary verse passage laments death and pain while invoking a sisterly or brotherly hope. A refrain promises that a brother shall rise again, with lines of comfort and enduring faith amid suffering.
Official report notes 1602 convictions in New York during 1842 with 1491 men and 111 women, fines in 670 cases, state prisons in 539, county prisons 244, and 5 executions. Special sessions tally 2741 convictions. larceny and assault dominate. Temperance anecdotes include Adamsville cider stand and a Bangor obituary praising reformer Captain John Pierson.
A fragment from the Norwich Spectator recalls a drunk murder. The ghosts condemn the killer, saying the barrel and the man who killed them stand as stark reminders of the crime and the money-loving soul behind it.
A speaker confronts a rum seller, arguing alcohol fuels ruin from poverty to crime. He lists ruined homes, widows, bearing children in rags, broken limbs, and delirium tremens, urging that the barrel and the man behind it cause the community's misery.
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