19 Feb 1869
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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1869
Page
1
The piece reflects on home as a sacred anchor across generations, noting how childhood scenes, family bonds, and memory shape devotion to the home place. It contrasts nostalgia with harsh notes on unrest, referencing Arkansas and Tennessee conditions, jail breakages, pardons, and a Charleston fox sighting.
Hon D P Lewis urges Alabama whites to prioritize state prosperity through strict economy and honest plans. He defends Union party principles, condemns Reconstruction errors, supports universal suffrage, and urges loyalty to Grant's administration. Lawrence County is cited as a model of patriotism and duty.
A poem by Herman B. laments unreciprocated love and farewell. The speaker recalls a failed romance, noting constancy, denied rights to kneel, and a severed bond. A final decree ends with no further affection and a lasting goodbye.
A compilation of aphorisms urging harmony in marriage, urging selflessness, gentle speech, and mutual yielding. It weaves quotes about the virtue of wedlock from Voltaire and other maxims, arguing marriage gentles behavior and steadies a man’s course for social good.
A humorous list titled Wife's Commandments includes playful prohibitions on worshipping servant girls, tobacco, taverns, billiard halls, and late hours, with references to respecting a wife and her relatives. The item also notes a Washington dispatch about Gen Washburne as a candidate for door keeper and a Missouri senator's reverent speech about a Great Deity. It closes with the Luka Gazette reporting all births in luka town being boys.
The narrator recounts a chaotic lodge entrance at room No 66 666 with sksals of skulls and cross bones a goat blindfold and a wild war dance as members test his resolve. He pries at the rituals while noting prior disasters and ends with a moral about true benevolence and wedded life.
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