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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1844
Page
2
The Washingtonian asks the Augusta Society officers if they are "dead or asleep" as temperance work wanes. The piece laments lack of meetings and public remonstrance while urging renewed effort against drunkenness and electoral corruption.
The Society urges officers and members to prepare delegates for the November 21 Forsyth convention. It emphasizes renewed zeal, outreach to backsliders, converts, and active enlistment to prevent dwindling membership and discouragement.
Advertisers urged to place notices in The Washingtonian to reach our wide city circulation. Paper promises low terms and a broad audience as readers seek updates on removals, new goods, school activities, boarding houses, and local developments. The Laurel in Charleston promotes fellowship with teetotal supporters.
The text states a yearly subscription of 1.50 and urges cold water members and friends of a worthy cause to support its future existence. P. C. Tallman Jr. is listed as editor, emphasizing community backing and continued publication.
A Washingtonian poem recounts Ferdinando de Soto leaving Spain in search of the legendary waters of youth. It follows his journey to the Mississippi, his death on a riverbank, and his soldiers weeping as his body is laid to rest beneath the stream.
The piece argues that total abstinence will prevail and end liquor evils. It lauds reformers as educated, prudent leaders who face opposition, social habits, and insults with faith that God supports their benevolent, long battle.
A Middlesex Massachusetts column urges relentless moral suasion to crush rum power. It portrays temperance workers as a vast, determined host fighting a subtle, powerful enemy, claiming divine sanction and promising a future when intemperance is scarcely known. The piece celebrates reform, calls for broadside advocacy, and envisions a global temperance jubilee.
An essay argues that rich citizens have a stake in temperance, noting that tax resistance by the wealthy supports vice. It urges the wealthy to devote effort to temperance, claiming progress would reduce jails and alms houses funded by taxes and safeguard property.
A brief note highlights the long standing Temperance Reform movement during a period of social change. It reflects on civic duty and moral import across communities, signaling ongoing debates about alcohol use and public morality in the era.
A Kentuckian recalls his wife urging whiskey over cider to avoid drunkenness and family chaos. Separately a Boston distiller failed three times to join the Mechanic Association, rejected on grounds that molasses distilling conflicted with the group's aims despite an unimpeachable character.
A harsh dialogue scene shows a boy answering questions about his parents. The exchange reveals the father drinking, the mother drinking, and finally domestic violence as the boy describes fights at home.
The author argues frugality begins with canceling newspapers but notes the broader risk of sacrificing essential comforts for mere savings. He questions who would live only for money, suggesting most seek some enjoyment of their labor before death.
The article traces how ancient Greeks and Romans trusted oracles and omens to shape rulers and empires, noting priests' influence and later exposure of oracle fraud. It describes methods of deception from hollow statues to ventriloquism and Kircher’s automaton, and recalls Cyrus turning a thunder omen into a show of leadership.
The passage extols newspapers as essential for understanding world affairs and shaping youth into mature citizens. It argues they justify expenditures by yielding lasting benefits, calling them engines of moral and political life that preserve liberties.
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