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For the Temperance Banner.
Dear Urn. Branlly :—lt will never
do for the friends of temp’ ranee to fall
out about proposed plans for abating
the evils of intemperance. The cjties
tion should be disussed calmly, judi
ciously. In order to maintain this po
sition, [ have resolved not to discuss the
subject with anonymous correspondents.
It places a correspondent, who gives
his name, at n disadvantage, il one who
is unknown should ohooso to indulge in
personalities. I do not conceive it a
departure from this rule to say to
“Citizen” that, if I undeisfand him, I
can have no controversy with him. 1
suppose that ho is for a sweeping legis
tion, which shall pay no respect to the
moral tone of neighborhoods or commu
nities. Now, | believe such legislation
impolitic, and that to ask it, would jeop
ard our cause fatally. 1 remember keen
ly the Waterloo defeat of 183!), and the
reaction in favor of intemperance, and
I am not willing to’ see a great and
good cause subjected to another such
hazard by the impolicy of our demands. I
II 1 could see good policy, or u pros
pect of success, or an assurance that
the moral tone of the people would be
set right by such legislation, 1 would
bo onp ot the first to demand it. I ask
tin* question “what can we get now,
that shall be a step in advance?” and
when wo have taken that step and Oml
it a good movement, then we niuv take
another.
I now turn to my friends, Heater and I
Reneau. In their communications, they
each propose a plan very similar, they
would leavo the question of license or
no license to a vote of the people in each
Militia District. 1 sec no fundamental!
objection to their plan, hut do not con- j
c five that it will work as certainly and
as silently for the cxtincli nos the evil
as mine will. I proposed to place the
subject in the hands of the Grand Ju
ries, the proper guardians of the morals
of the people. The Grand Jury is
Composed generally of our hi st citizens,
representing every pyrlion of the comi
ty, an: individually interested in pre
serving good morals, und is tlio safest
body to trust, to deliberate on this sub
ject. It is not a matter of course that
every applicant should he recommended
to the court for Ike rise. I would give
the Grand Juries full authority to reject
nil application, if they see fit, and they
can do so with impunity, for they are
under oath of Secrecy, and the protec
tion of law. I would leave it to them
to say, whether the recommendation
presented hy the applicant is of such
weight as to warrant that the petition be
granted, and I think that our grand Ju
ries can he as safely trusted to balance
the rights of individuals and the coin.
munity at largo as any body of men j
which can be found, and 1 hel'evo that
they will honestly do i..
My object in tho outset was to keep!
the subject away from the polls, and
yet so to dispose of the matter that both ‘
individual and social right should he
well guarded. Questions of civil right,
in which each man is equally interes
ted, should he settled at the polls. But
this is not such a question. It is a qm s.
tiou of morals and of policy, in which
every man’s voice should he influential
to the extent of his inters!, and that will
ho determined hy the risk in which a
neighborhood grogshop involves him. 1
Common sense and sheer justice would
say, that Ire who has a half dozen ehil-i
dren who may he corrupted, or twenty
slaves, who may he debauched, ought
to have a more potential Voice in deci
ding as to whether there shall be a grog
shop iti his neighborhood, than the va- j
grant loafer, who is at home anywhere j
after a short residence, who Inis nothing
to risk and whoso vote can be bought
for a dram. Send the 1 question to ihe :
po'ls, and just such vagabonds will de
cide it. l)o they not always vote ? To:
vote is the only badge yf freedom they j
have left, and this they arc ready u> j
display. In the mean while the virtu-i
otis aud temperate are at home attend
ing to their bn-incts, and forget that it is
an election day. What proportion of
the voters of a county ever think of vo
ting at a constable's election ? It’ they
arc brought to vote, there must bo agi
tation, and canvassing, and every ma
lignant spirit will bo aroused. Thus
the entire trouble is thrown upon the
oppose rs of grog-shops, and if they doi
not tally we are defeated. .Mv plan 1
puts tho applicant to all the trouble.
It sets him to work to get n recom
mendatiou. Hi* goes to his fellow-citi
zens. He of course applies to nil if he
please. If they are true friends to the)
cause, they will reject every such ap-1
plication. lam not afraid to trust the I
truly interested parties, though Bin.’
Hester may he. 1 believe that they
will hr’ true to themselves. 1 have pro
posed to give property.holders the right
ofrecominendotoiti. Ido not insist up- 1
on, though, there cun be no good reason
for having it otherwise, except to open
the wav for irresponsible tijiplars and I
their sympathizers to take ‘ho matter
out of the bunds of ffiuse truly inters .s-1
ted in putting down grogshops. For!
no friend ot’ the cause, who is not tv
property.holder, will claim a right t**l
sign a petition to'set up a grog-shop.
He wilt not feci ‘it a grievance, never’
to be asked to put his name to the me
omnvndation. But the irresponsible!
opponents of all restriction are the very
persona to clamor a front placing the au
thority in die hands of the property
holders, and to arrange it otherwise
than as I propose is to place the* cause
in tho hand* of our ti>. s.
lint 1 will not contend fur this feature
ORGAN OF TIIE SONS OF TKMFKUANCE AND STATE TEMPERANCE CONTENTION
I strenuously, if 1 enn only secure that
the Grand Juries may ultimately dp.
I I ile the question, not by the number of
i the petitioners, but by the .weight, which
from tin ir character should be attached
1 to the recommendation.
Now Bro. Reneau has said a good
deni about rendering the traffle reapec- 1
i table, and about monopoly,—nnd lie
; would have every district decide for it
iself, and where the vote is *‘fer li~!
i cense,” fie would have every man, who j
| pleases, keep a grog-shop without any
license. 1 hold to no such opinion. If;
I cannot get all I want, 1 will tuke what
! f can get. If 1 cannot extirpate the:
traflie, 1 will restrict it. If I cannot get
my neighbors to say, “we will have noj
grog-shop,”—l will try to get them to ;
say, “our grog-shop shall not he in the |
hands of the vilest and lowest man in
the community, hut we will get the
i Grand Jury to confer the right of sell-!
ing on the in >st ri -pcclable man who
will have ft.” I’ll not drop the meat)
to catch at the shadow, like the dog in !
the fable. If f “an do no better I’ll i
make a monopoly of grog-sdling. If’
! this will reduce the number of grog.
| shops, it goes just so far toward# effect
| ing the very end 1 have in view,—and
! when we have by any means, reduced
j the number greatly, we can raise a so
ber generation, and then exterminate
the trnllic.
If it he n question in the legislature
“shall we abolish the traffic, of shall wo
permit it , for the sake of revenue, nnd lay
ja In ivy lurid’ on the sale ?”—then I
should say, by all means, abolish the
Iratfic, —bring not the price of Idopd in
to the treasurv. But so long as our
legislators have not tlio most distant
idca'ofaho.ition hut the only question’
; is, “shall we let every liQfly sell with
juiit license, or shall we restrain the
traffic in some sort hy a tariff;” then I 1
! say lay on the tariff; for it is a less evil to
make money for tlio public treasury out
of tlic vices of men, than it is to per-mii
an uncontrolled licentiousness—without j
placing ai y check upon them. I;
would take the money just ns I would
the fines which’ are imposed in criminal
suits, lor intimidating men, ami restrain
ing ciime. I would place the license
fee so high, that only one man in a
county could afford to sell, and would i
thus shut tip hundreds of grog-shops,’
und 1 am for closing grog shops, not
lighting for shadows.
There is a great clamor made about
tlic repeal of the present license laws.
How is this to close the grog-shops? It
is said now to be a monopoly ! Five
dollars create a monopoly ! especially,
when scores of retailers never puy
the license fee ? You might as well
expect to stop marriages by abolishing
the marriage license, or to exterminate
physicians hy repeuliug the license
j laws made fur tlu ir benefit. I say this
: is false reasoning, to assume that the li
j const! law is the parent ot tho mischief,
1 unless in repealing it, yon abolish the
j traffic. But you can only lat
ter hy positive legislation ; anil repeal
will do no good, if it gives facilities for
opening one additional grog-shop, then
repeal will do harm.
My Bro. Reneau is afraid that my ‘
plan will make grog sellers respectable.)
1 have no more idea of doing this by !
i giving the power of license to the Grand
Jury and the Court, thnu I have that be
I ing hung or scut to tho I’enitentiary has j
! been made respectable because llu* Ju-’
: ry and Court have been required to do j
! these kind offices for an offender. My
only object is to place the traffic in tiie:
i hands of respectable men, if such can
| be found who will take it, —ifthey uun- j
not hu found, then we will have no traf
j lie ut all. It they can, it will tie saftii
j iri their hands, than it will he with those )
ot opposite character.
But I have written enough for the
present. If necessary you shall hear
from me again.
Very irulv yours,&o.
K. H. MYERS. (
For the Temperance Banner.
Men Murdered for their Money.
if a high-way robber ware to shoot
down-one of our neiirhbors and ritle his
pockets, we could hardly wait for the
lardy process of tlio law to punish the
offender; yet the liqu r traffic mur
ders its hundreds of our citizons for’
their money every year, und we sutler
the offenders to go unpunished, and
give them License to continue thier rob
bery and murder. When a man en
gages in the liquor traffic, ha. does so
knowing that his business is to kill some
person, and perhaps a score of persons, ‘
yet he desires their money, and hardens!
Ids heart and conscience against all tiie
consequences, that will inevitably re
sult Irom ins business; besets his snare, j
Gaits il temptingly, and does all he can
to decoy the young und unwary into!
its meshes, that he may not only get
ih, ir money, hut rob them of ruputn
ion, health, end lili.* itself, and send them
into eternity with an accumulation of
debauchery und guilt.
\Vi Imvi! tried Moral Suasion, but i
M >rul Suasion cannot reach the heart
ol the mail who has sit all morality and j
,aw a; defiance, resisted all the tears ol |
’ heart-broken wives nod mothers, and
! tho cries of suite ring, degraded child
ren, and will never let a victim go-while
j tiiero is hopo of wringing from his suf- j
1 tering family the last dime that the
! husband and father can raise. We
nave tried temperance associations of
i various kinds, but they cannot influ
ence the heart of a heartless liquor so),
ter. Community groans under the tyr
anny and oppression of the liquor sellers,
and when we :■■•gm to call fir *• The
. *
• Slairfq Liquor Lw,” these men are the,
.. first In cry out, “tyrunny and qppres
r himi.’’ N j they are not the first, the
i editor of the Federal Union devoted ail
editorial in his* week's paper in crying
00l tyranny and oppression, against the
M due Liquor Law. .Vo person would
think of calling the law lyrnnical arid
■ oppressive, that prevents high-way rob
bery and murder; yet high-way rob
! bury und .murder is innocensy itselt
, when compared to the robbery and
murder of the liquor traffic,
i* i The high-way man shoots down his
victim, rifles his pockets, and sends Ids
i soul into eternity, cither prepared or
unprepared us the case may be, and
, j leaves him with an untarnished reputa
| lion, so far as his acts are concerned,
; and leaves his other paaessions and
; friends uninjured otherwise. But not
so witli ihe liquor dealer, he drags his
victim down, and down, from one de
'greeof debauchery, degradation, sul
fa ring, crime and wretciu diir >s to an
other, and sends him into eternity to
meet tho ceituiti doom-of U,< drunkard;
nor does he spare his fundi v, but en
tails upon them disgrace, poverty, and ;
blighted hopes; and then as apt as not ,
calls upon the widows and orphan-- of
his victims to s, w, tu pay him for the
means he had contributed towards
killing the husband and fulle r.
Is there no help JbrlhT tynwnrtv and
oppre-sion ? Is there no remedy for
this evil l Temperance associations
cannot arrest it, moral .suasion cannot
cure* the evil, and nothing short of a
| clean sweep, like lire Maine Liquor Law,
will ever effect the cure. But the mod
erate drinker says, if you prohibit the ]
; manufacture und sale of intoxicating!
tdrinks, except for medicinal and me-j
, chuuicul purposes, you will consequent- j
’ !v deprive me of my rights in a social )
! glass. To such I would reply, it is
true this will be the result, but where
is,your patriotism, can you not give up
1 your social glass for the general good,
lor rather 1 might say, can you indulge
I iu your social glass- when your right to
; enjoy the liberty is the only bar tf> the
removal of so great an evil; can you en
joy your social glass when it costs the
| lives of your fellow-citizens? when il
costs tße reputation of your neighbors,
j the groans and tears of poverty-strick-
I (> n women aud children ? Look abroad
in the world and see the crimes, the
debauchery, the misery, the untold suf
fering and heart aching, that your
rights to a social glass cost your fellow. |
creatures, aud then say, can you enjoy
a social glass at so dear a price ? 1
- think not, I hope not; I pray you to re- 1
fleet, and join in one united call for the
Maine Liquor Luw.
Walton county, April 12th, 1852.
CoLUMjius, Ga., April 13th, 1852.
Lnc/e Ben :—lt has been a long time
since 1 have hel 1 sweet converse with
you and the thousands ol Sons und
Daughters, who read our Banner, and
even now 1 have not much of impor
tance to write. Our co use here is mov-1
ing on very well, redeeming some from)
their bondage to alcohol, w ho have been !
; doing him service for the past ten, fif
teen and twenty years; tiffs is all done
:by the Sons. Our ladies, who are ever
! ready for all good and noble works,
-strange to say, seem to take but little
interest in our cause. Whenever we
iiave a public lecture in our beautiful
hull, they turn out enmasse, and when
j.ever there’s a political speech they turn
I out ditto, and to church ditto, and when
there is u supper to be given, wheresyl- i
I labub, cake, jellies, &e. are in demand,
j }' ou W ‘H set ’ oar shop-keepers run down,
drinking fine wine & brandy. I have no
objection under the bright canopy above, j
for all men, und women particularly, to
| think, speak and act, just as they please,!
hut ill the name of all that’s reasonable,
i let there he consistency of action, il
you are friends of the temperance cause, i
I “the cause of all mankind,” coin&out’
and array yourselves under thy pure
i white banner, which is floating so mass
’ j -Btically on the breeze. Ladies of Go-!
| luinbus, go to work, organize a Union
jof the Daughters, and assist the Sons,’
not only with approving smiles, but
with “material aid,” in the form of la.
bor. The temperance cause is not so ;
inuoli our cause as yours; the blight-’
ing cause of intemperance has ahvavs
fell heaviest on you; you, mothers, sis
tors, wives, and daughters have borne
all the heat ar.d burden of the slavery
of your sons, brothers, husbands, and
fathers to alcohol. Thank God there
are some few (spirits among you who
are joining hands with us in this greut
and good work, “go ye and do likewise!
—why stand ye idling all day ?”
I am glad, uncle Ben, to find thut a)
portiou of the Sons are for making short
work of the siege, which lias been
raised against our enemy. For one, 1
am decidedly in favor of making a des
perute charge on the enemy’s ranks, j
True some may falter and desert us,
but what of that > Gen. Taylor, when
at Buena Vista, stopped not to see if all
were ready. Gen. Washington tirst
, sought the blessing ot his God and wenti
ito battle against fearful odds. My iet‘l
- to throttle the enemy at once ;
we have got him weakened and now’s
our time; it is no time to stop by the
way side and parley about the proprie
ty of this way or that, to put dowu thus
monster. The only question for us lias
been asked and answered, years since,
by the pecs le ol Georgia,—that is, that
whiskey is ruinous to our race and
must lie put out of the gauntry; and
the only way to effect tins object, is to
prohibit ns manufacture and sale by
Uiw.
Hut it i- time l should stop lest 1 wca-
rv your patience and that also of your j
thousands of readers.
CHATTAHOOCHEE.
Dear Bro. Branlly: —l am so far,
behind the times thut 1 could not guess
the moaning of the black mark on my
old visitor, the “Banner,” till 1 read
from one of your low country corres
pondents a loud complaint against you !
for publishing/our black marks against
him. I hope your crusty friend ere j
tiiis has fallen into a better humor, and
will yet make one of your firmest sup- j
porters, and be of himself a very her- J
eulcs in the temperance reformation.’
I don’t think that we on the black lettered
list have much cause of coinplaint,
since we can, with a few dimes, liqui
date our accounts. Now I well recol
lect when a truant boy, that “old mas
ter Thimgumbob” paid off black marks
with a ferula. Asa very small c:m
pensation for my delinquencies I send
vpu the subjoined article:—
An,illustration of the lotos of Georgia,
and moral suasion — ■‘■By an old Hat.”
I; is- sai I why don't you execute the
present laws? This puls me in mind
of an old rat, who, slick and fat, comes
out of his hole and sees anew trap. —
lie walks around it, nibbles at it, and
finds that it is not like the old one, itis
ali wire, and there is no getting out of
it. So lie goes to the keeper of the
house, and says: why are you not sat
isfied with the old trap with the wood
en bottom, through which I have
crawled forty times ? So with the old
liquor ruts, they are good judges of pro-j
bibbing laws; they know how to evade)
them; they can crawl through almost)
anything, but they don’t like the Maine !
Law. These men can tell what the)
law means. The outcry that they now j
make, leads ine to think that they smell
fire. I never was so much in favor of j
the law as when 1 found out how the )
rumsellers opposed it. But ouroppo-j
nents say why don’t you try moral sua
sion ? They like moral suasion very)
well, because no man will sell liquor
until he is past all moral suasion. Mr.!
Ratcatcher referred here to the :noder-j
ate temperance men, whose genealogy
he traced, depicting them as the hang- 1
backs, the very rear of the temperance
army ; busy all their lives criticising )
those that work, and do nothing them- j
selves. He thought moral suasion had j
worked long enough; it was time to try )
law. It may he asked do vou then
condemn moral suasion ? Moral sua- j
sion has slain its thousands, but the)
Maine liquor law has slain its ten thou-!
sands. We must have moral suasion ■
first, to prepare the people for the re- !
ception and maintainance of’law. The
people must see the evil, and be con- :
vinced of the evil, before they will sus- !
tain a law for its suppression. When
then moral suasion has so far availed as |
to prepare the public for the enforce-)
merit of law, it has done much, it has
gained a great victory. But more than
this it cannot do. It may be then
with little restruction be said of all af
ter efforts, though
Loud and long their voices rang,
And ev’ry sentence went off bang-,
That firing ’gainst an iron wall,
Is wasting powder, time, and ball.
/ S. N. .
Gwinnett county, April 7th, 1852.
SONS OF TEMPEKANCE.
of the Soils of ’RVnipc
ratice.—l, without reserve, solemnly pledge
my honor as a man that I will neither make,buy,
sell nor U9e, as a beverage, any Spirituous or
-Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider.
Officers of the tiraiul Division,
G. L. M’Cleskey, G. W.-P. Monroe.
.1.8. PiNoKAKD, G. W. A. Forsyth.
W. S. Williford, G. Scribe, Macon.
E. C. < iKanNish, G. Treasurer, „
J. E. Evans, G. Chaplain, „
1). E. Blount, G. Corductor, Clinton.
J. D. Havis, G. Sen. Houston, Cos.
CAPETS OF TEMPERANCE.
PLEDCiE.
No member shall make, buy, sell or use
!as a beverage,any spirituous or malt liquors,
I vviue or eider.
Officers of the Graiul Section.
| J. W. Benson, G. P. Macon,
jB. Burton, G. A. P. Pondiown.
L. C. Bu\ison, G. S. &, T. Atlanta,
i Rev. J. S. Wilson, G. C. Decatur.
S. M. 11. Byrd, G.G. Oxford.
: NV. P King, G. W. Thotnaston.
I. O. of KerliahiteN.
Officers of Georgia Dish. Tent, No. 2?, loca
ted at Washington, Wilkes Co.,Ga.:
i Washington, Rev.G. G. Norman, D. P. 6. R.
~ J. D. Burden, D. C. R.
Atlanta, C. R. llanleiter, D. D. R.
■ Washington, John R. Smith, D. R. S.
„ George DySfln, L). F. S.
„ St. John Moore, D. Tree.
>. R- H l.ynn, D. Levite.
Kerlialiitf's Pledge.
I h>reliy declare, that I will abstain from all
intoxicating liquors,and will nol give, nor offer
them to others, except in religious ordinances,
or when prescribed, in gooii faith, by a medi
cal practitioner; 1 will not engage in the traf
fic ol theta, and iu ail suitable wava will dis
countenance the use, sale and manufacture of
them ; mid to the utmost of my power, 1 wdl
endeavor to spread the principles of abstinence
ifotn all intoxicating liquors.
PPS MMfIIBR.
P£MFlJ£lml> il’KlL 2!, ISM.
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To Correspondents.
The Addresses and Responses from
Burke and Franklin counties, with the ad
dress before LallerstedtDivßion,nt Augusta,
would about till a whole issue of the Banner.
If published at nil, our friends must have pa
tience till, in our judgment, the space in our
columns can be afforded for them.
“Tallulah” is received and will appear.
Several other communications are post
poned till our next No.
New Subscribers.
By one Mail this week, we received ten
new Subscribers to the Banner. One friend,
ih forwarding a name or two, remarks, that
he has “no doubt each one of our present
patrons could, with but little effort, procure
from one to ten new Subscribers during the
year.” lie promises to forward twelve.
Something tVrang.
Our respected correspondent, Dr. T. W.
Ellis, of Troupville, Lowndes county, is
informed, that neither the letters nor money
referred to in his favor of the ] 2th inst, ev
er reached our hands. Our losses from the
South Western part of the State, in the
same way, have been considerable, and very
annoying for the last two or three years.
Mercer University.
From the Catalogue of this University,
for 1851—1852, which has just been given
to the public, we learn the following facts:
There are in the theological department 2
students; in the college proper, Senior,
9; Junior, 20; Sophomore, 27; Freshman,
33; Scientific course, 2; total in college
91. In the Academy there arc 43 students
preparing for college. The whole number
of students in the University are 136. We 1
are pleased in seeing the Alumni of this
University in the present issue of the cata
j logue.
Southern Editors and Bonk
self ers—Abolition if. ite rat it re.
Tin* prevalence in the Southern States
| of an uncommon social organization has at
| once constituted a destine!ion between them
: and other States and produced an identity
jof interest which underlying all local and
! party differences, pervades the whole com
munity. An attack upon Southern intitu
j lions, particularly, if it be ot a political or
! religious character, will set all the newspa
pers in commotion, and through these dis
) tirb the equanimity of the quiet public.—
j But there is, in reference to Abolition Lit
erature, a strange negligence. Why is this?
Is it only the political hack that can influ
ence public opinion, or have an effect upon
the destinies of the Commonwealth? Are
we forgetful that the Bai lad-maker of a peo
ple has influence ns well as the Law-maker?
Or are we to be compelled to the belief
that Party drill and Political promotion are
more active motives and more powerful j
agents than Patriotism and Truth? While J
we but do our duty in opposing political j
Abolitionists, are we not highly criminal or
grossly negligent when we welcome to our
firesides and homes the productions of our
Literary Abolitionists.
Our newspapers have made us all familiar
with the name and opinions, and conduct of
that old political hack, the notorious Joshua
Giddjsgs; but bis name is a name of con
tempt. sre there not some just as decided
ill their sentiments and just as deadly in
their hatred to every interest of the f uutli,
whose names are names of honor ? And
by whose fault ? We answer by the fault
of Southern Editors and Southern Book
sellers. The puff's of the first and ihe ad
vertisements of the last give.reputation and i
introduce the writings of Abolitionists)
to our people. Thus Longfellow’s poems
on Slavery have been introduced, inculcating
false views and sickly sentimentality, in
stead of true poetic feeling.
The most influential newspaper in the
Northern States, out of all question, is the
New York Tribune, and the most deadly
enemy of Southern Institutions is its editor,
Mr. Horace Greely. A freo-soiler in Na
tional polities, an Agrarian and vote-your
selfa-farm-man, u Fourierite, and anti
slavery man in every respect is Mr. Greeley,
He lias lately published a book about his
sayings and doings in Europe, and at once
the Southern puss puff and the Southern
book merchants advertize and sell Mr.Gree
ly’s lucubrations,putting money in his pock
et to enable him to tight us more success
fully. Mr. Dana, of Charleston, has pub
lished a better book of travels, and South
ern Editors do not puff and Southern Mer
chants do not advertize it.
Mrs. Harriet ileieher Stowe, sister
ot Mr. Henry Ward Beecher, lias
lately published an Abolition Novel, called
Uncle i’otn s Cabin.” Avery convenient
substitute for lent and genius is u miser
able contonniiy to a bad popular passion.
And utediocru writers can get up a tolerable
share ot notoriety and pocket some money
by pandering to lire popular taste, lie it
so. If the Northern people are satisfied to
receive Anti-Slavery diatribes as a substi
tute for genius, we have no objection; but
we do object to Southern Critics taking
Abolition w orks on the cr, efit oi Northern
pulls. We hope our brethren of the press
wnl examine Mrs. Stowe’s book before
they puff it,arid we trust that Longfellows
poem's and Greeley’s look may long eon
tinno in adorn the shelves of the Southern
Book-merchant- who h ive them on sale.
A correspondent in Bryan county, Ulu j
date of the lOili inst, writes, “I will just s-,!
there is at this time no regularly
society of any character within this county
though there arc a goodly number who
edge up on the subject of temperance.”
Bex yam Division, S. of TANARUS., No. 312
At a called meeting of this division A,,;i
1 10th, it was ’ r
Resohed, That this Division concur i n
i the proposition by a Charter Member for
| Union Meeting of the Division ofßnrke and
| Scriven on the 3d July, published inth.
| Banner of Feb. 28ili, and that the place and
: time proposed by this Division for the meet,
ing of the committee of the Dfi ision be Ui*
! rard, Burke county, Ist Saturday in Mav
Bros. F. W. B. Perkins, S. M. Perkins
|S. C. Perkins committee. That the K y’
; 1 e instructed to publish the resolution in
the Banner.
MARSHALL PERKINS, A. R. s.
Howard Division, S. of TANARUS., i
Burke county, April 12,1852. ’ (
Will you be kind enough to let me say
to those Divisions in this and the adjacent
counties, which have acted upon the propo.
silioii of “ehaarter member” for a Union
meeting, that this Division has had the same
under consideration, and as the approaching
“Semi-annual” session of the G. D. L nieh
at hand, they propose the 2d Saturday in
May, ut Girard lor the meeting of the com
mittee to consider the propriety of the move
ment.
Yours in L. P. & F.
J. 11. ROYAL, K. S.
Russellville, Monroe Cos., Aprils,
Dear Banner :—l have got very tired of
them long black marks, which I see on ify
paper; ana I don’t like for every body to
| know that I have neglected to comply with
j tiie terms upon which 1 took your most ex
| cellent paper; and 1 hope if any others of
your numerous subscribers have suffered
themselves to be marked as a Cain, they will’
not wish to liee to the land of Mod, but that
they w ill wipe off the blot by forking over
| their just dues, that they may not be afraid
i to seo or face honest men.
I am yours in the strongest bonds of Love.
Purity & Fidelity.
J. 11. MAYS, Sen,
Bainbhidge, Apr! 12.
| Mr. Edito r :—I discover there is a black
mark on my paper, and 1 don’t like nu such
looking things; and I guess you would like
to getalong without making that unpleasant
looking scratch—l think, it I were in your
place, I should.* So here I send you one
dollar to put out the mark, and one dollar to
continue the Banner to me.
F. G. S.
*isiF = Friend Stanly is about right in that
remark.—Ed. Banner.
Burnt Corn, Ala., April 8.
Dear Sir: —l believe you will admit that
I do not err when 1 shy that 1 have Mfebeen
aery negligent heretofore in paying my sub
scription to the “Banner.” But from the
black mark which shows itself on the Ban
ner on every arrival, there is an intimation
of a want of promptness of somebody lat
terly, and I begin to think myself i\int “there
is a screw loose som.-where” and set myself
about tightening it immediately.”
Those ot your subscribers who are in ar
rears need not he surpised if they are troub
led with the nightmare, non less astonished
it the incubus boa black mark.
Enclosed please find one dollar, I sup
pose that will neutralize the leger. and place
me one- more right side up. Hope every
other subscriber will fork over, and save
you the trouble of making any more black
marks.
Yours, &o.
J. F. BETTS.
; j ’ Ibe last sentence of our friend
Bett’s letter, agrees with our sentiments ex
actly.—Ed. Banner.
Post Office Sandersvill-e, )
13 April, 185:2 £
Sir: —Enclosed you will receive five dol
lars which you will place to tiie credit of
>Silas 1’ I ova s siib.-eriptiuii to the “Banner,”
which is intended to pay his arrearges and
put, him ahead again, iie wishes a clean
sheet hereafter with no ‘'black marks" against
him; please acknowledge the rilbipt of the -
money.
Yours with respect, &e.
HAY VVOOI) BROOKINS, P. M.
I rietid t loyd has taken uader holt
upon us litis time. We shall he in
to August 1, 1855' — Kd. Banner.
Mileedgeville Oa.. April Id, 1852.
Dear iSir: —l Hereby send a mathemati
cal problem, which yuu will please publish
if you have room.
A merchant begins trade with a certain
sum. lie does business three years, during
each year spends tor his support 50 pounds..
lie adds 1-3 of what is not expended to his
capital every year. The last year’s profits
added to the last year's capital makes twice
tiie original stock ; or if the prolits of -the
last year be-taken from the eapitol of that
y eai the lemainder will he the first stock.
What was the capital at first,and what each
year s gam?
_ J. W. H.
i-uok a.t llaiiie.
What signifies the defeat of Mr. Dow in
i ortland, when the iState is so thoroughly
in taVorot the Liquor Haw? What avails
the cry of victory among the rummies,while
we hate such tacts as these before us, vizr*
“1” fde recent Town elections of Maine,
so tar as we have returns, the voice of the
people is as follows:
“i or the Temperance Law, sixty-five towns- ’
having a pupulalion in JBSO of 176,86 L
Against it, fifteen towns, popula
tion 21,663
Majority for the law 155,198
or about eight to one! — Cataract.
\ ALEDt TORY OF AN EDITOR. The
follow ing is tho valedictory article of
ini editor out West: “The undersign
ed retires from the editorial chair
the complete conviction that all is vani
ty. From the hour he started his pa
per, to the present time, he has been
solicited to Ivo upon every given sub
j el, and c.iii t remember ever having
told a wholesome truih, without dimin
ishing his subscription list, or making
an enemy. Uridv r these circumstan
ces of iriai, and having a thorough con
tempt tor himself he retires, in order
to recruit his moral eonsti utiort. •