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press it by legislative prohibition, but
tho positive absolute obligation resting
upon our legislature to do so ; —said a
gentleman ofinfluenoe, who never had
part nor lot with u in this movement,
having regarded it as fanatical: “ You
have hold of the right rope now. pull
away and Til help you with all my
heart.” And this I doubt not is the
opinion, and when the time comes, this
will be the action of many. We have
reason to believe, that the special and
particular subject of our addresses was
acceptable to the people, for in every
instance we were invited to revisit
them. The evening after 1 had spoken
at Forsyth, I overheard, as we some
times do, some comments made by a
party of gentlemen, upon the subject of
the address; some of them maintained
that the principle of temperance, in it
self was good enough, but that we were
carrying it into ultruism ; well gentle,
men, said another, who, if [ might judge
from his former conversation, did not
belong to any temperance society :
“It may be ultraism, but it it an ullrasim
on the tide of virtue, und as such may
readily be pardoned.” Who that gen
tleman was, l did not know, but I tuko
Otis opportunity to thank him for his
testiiaony.
Yours, Arc.
CHARLESH. DURYEE.
Mr. Editor : — Sir, — With your per.
mission, 1 will put a few plain ques
tions to my brethren of the Church of
every name and denomination :
Ist. The temperance cause is it
from heaven, or from hell ? it from
heaven, is it not every man’s duty to be
a member of some society ?
2d. Can an institution, whose only
aim is to promote the happiness and
good of mankind, cotne from him, whose
only aim is to destroy men in perdition;
“a house divided against itself cannot
aland ?”
Can anything be plainer, than that
the temperance cause, is the cause of
God ? Look around and behold what
the cause is doing ; it restores the long
lost father to his family again, that fam
ily that he has neglected for so long u
time. It restores tho prodigul son to
his heart-broken and bereaved parents ;
it restores peace and happiness where
there once reigned all the horrors of u
(irupkard’s family. O ! what must be
the joy and happiness of that family,
who has been for years under the rule
us a drunken husband ; whose reason
is dethroned; one who is governed by
one of the strongest agents that ever
was, or perhaps, ever will be employed
by the arch enemy of man.
How strange it is that men--good
men—men who are battling for the
cause of religion—men who say that
they are trying to do all the good they
Cn ; how strange Isay, that such men
should be opposed to the temperance
cause. But they will say that they are
not opposed to the temperance cause;
but 1 say that all that are not members
are opposed to us, and I think I can
prove’ it : Christ says, “they that are
not for us are against us, they that gath
ereth not with us scallereth abroad.”
What would you, reader, think of a
minister of ihe gospel, who was spend
ing his time, and talents for the cause
of religion—who wus going from place
to place, warning the people to flee
from the wratli to come, and telling
them to forsake their evil ways and
turn to God and join the church; when
he himself drank of the water of hell,
and was not a even a member of the
church ? Do you suppose that that
man could do any good f Would you
even allow him to preach ? Certainly
not. Why 1 because he is not a mem
ber of the church.
Just so it is with those who will not
give their name and their time to the
temperance cause ; take care you are
not iound “ fighting against God.” In
my humblo opinion, you are fighting
against the best cuuse that was ever
set on foot in this world ; religion only
excepted.
Reader, have you children—have
you friends, who ate exposed to a
drunkard’s death, or a drunkard’s hell?
Then as you prize the happiness of
your family or your neighbors, and the
world at large, use all your influence in
putting down this monster of hell; en
list in the grand army of temperance,
to fight the battle of the king of peace—
it is u duty you owe to yourself, to your
family—the church—the world, nud
above all, it is a duty you owe to God.
Again, 1 wpuld ask, is there not
someone, that is near and dear to you,
that tsexposed to a drunkard’s grave ?
If there is, and you do not do all in your
power to save him ; w ill your skirts be
alear ? - Perhaps you ntay say that you
can no do good by joining in the temper
ance campaign. How do you know ?
did yon ever try it J or perhaps, you
will point to some fallen brother, who
has so far wandered from the path of
truth and virtue, that he has again tast
ed of the accursed tiling, and he is
again with the unbelievers; and now,
although he i9 drunkard, wallowing in
the mud and ntire of the streets, and
you perhaps, dear reader, feel yourself
far above the poor deluded being who
is reeling past you, but did it ever oc
cur to you that you are in precisely
the same road ; he is opposed to the
of temperance, and so are you.
You go to that place brother, and talk
to him in leference to returning to the
cause of temperance, you might talk to
him till doom’s day, and you would not
change him; why, the reason isobvi
ous; you would have to way go, when
you ought to be enabled toaay coni.—
Away with all you’ subterfuges, and
ORGAN OF THE SONS OF TEMPERANCE AND STATE TEMPERANCE CONVEMIQN.
come out and tell the plain truth, like u
brother of the church I was talking with
the other day, after giving a great ma
ny excuses, well, says he : ‘‘the truth
is, jus: this. I like to take a ‘horn’ when \
I feel like it,” and like a great many
others, he feels like it pretty often.
Those watchmen who do not warn ;
the people of the approach of an ene. !
mv. Os how much soreer punishment (
must he be thought worthy, who cries!
peace, peuce to the people, when their
greatest enemy is in thoir midst.——
More snon.
DUTY.
For the Temperance Banner.
_
No 1-
A voice to the Young-
In considering the destructive ten.
dencies of intempeance, we are com.
polled, in imagination, to go down into j
the dark haunts of t ice, disease mid j
death—where men, like worms on a*
carcass, bathed in pollution, fight each
other like infuriated demons, cursing
their existence and their God. Such
men are the daily companions of the
drunkard. They are his friends! —
And ycl they would not cheer his dying
agonies, with one word of hope. They \
will not weep when he is gone, or send
one pitiful scrap to his desolate family.
They would carouse at his funeral, and
curse over his very coffin. “If one
more flush of pleasure were to be bad
by it, they would drink shame and rid
icule to his memory, out of his own
skull, and roar in bacchanal revelry
over his damnation.”
To the young, who would avoid such
friends ns these, I would’ raise it warn,
ing voice: “Look r.ot upon tho wine
when it is red ,M It is a mistake to
supposo that tippling is harmless in its
first beginnings. It is the light wind
that brings up the storm. It is the
white frost that preludes the winter. —
It is the outer ring of that great maels
trom which at every turn sweeps you
farther and further in, until you aie bu
ried deep, down in those depths from
which you can never rise. Hear the
voice of one whose grey hairs entitle
him to respect: —You may think it
harmless, but it only appears so to lead
you astray. You see a pleasant path—
paved with tho flowers of heaven, and
covered with innoceneo und virtue.—
There is no ominous bird to hoot a
warning there—no echoings of the
wuiling pit—no lurid gleams of distant
fires—no sounds of coining woq. You
go on. And as you look upon the flow
ery scene, you whisper: ‘ls it not
harmless?— "Harmless,” responds the
serpent from the grass: “Harmless,”
echos the sighing wind: “Harmless,”
re-echo a hundred airy tongues. Ob !
that God would break the power that
chains the blasts of hell, and let the sul
phur stench roll up the vale. How
would the vision change ! The heav
ens would become a lowering storm ;
the balmy breeze would turn to distant
wailings; and all the flowers would
sweat drops of blood upon their poison
boughs. “At tho last, it bitetli like a
serpc'iit, and stingetli like an adder.”
ALPHA TAW.
The Lightning. — A Few Hints. —lt
may be well to encourage timid peo
ple who are religiously or constitution
ally alarmed at lightning, to state the
doctrine of chances. Asa general
thing, the lightning does not strike with
in a space of a square mile, more than
once a year. If the person is a rod
distant, he is seldom if ever killed.
Now there are 70,400 square rods in a
square mile, und if the lightning struck
rod after rod, it would take 100 years
logo over it; but it smites here and
there, and that it will smite any speci
fied roJ, there is not more than one
chance to a hundred billion.
Again, other things being equal, the
chance diminishes as it regards a low
object, as the diiference between the
square of its height and that of a lower;
so that with a person six feet, and a
tree sixty feet, th- re is but one chance
out of 3501 ofthe person’s being struck.
If he will go close to a tree, or in a
house without a rod, bis danget is pro
portionally increased.
Again, objects non conductors when
dry, become good conductors when
wet. A dry silk umbrella, if not tip
ped w ith metallic substance, will ward
otf the lightning; but if wet, not. Get
lightning rods for your houses and
see to it tiial tlie fastenings be much
smaller than the rods—that the rods
enter the earth, and fear not the “red
artillery.”
It is well for persons who are natur
ally timid to get electrified a number
of times. It renders them less electric,
and therefore less in danger. Finally,
a death by lightning is the easiest of
all deaths. An electric enters wo are
instantly filled, and life is gone without
a pang. “Ah! but the hereafter!”
Well, live right here, and it will be
all right with you there—if it must
be so.
True Greatness. —It is easy in the
world to live after the world’s opinion;
it is easy in solitude to live after our
own; but the midst of the crowd, keeps
with perfect correctness the indepen
dence of solitude.
There is one disease that a miser is
pretty certain never to die of—ar.d that
is, “enlargement of the heart.”
“1 wonder what makes my eyes so
weak,” said a loafer to a gentleman.
“Why they are in a weak place,” said
the latter.
The Skv.—lt is a strange thing how
little in general people care about the
sky. It is ilip part of creation in which
nature has done morn for tho sake of
pleasing mail—more for tho sole and
evident purpose of talking to him, and
teaching him—than in any oilier of her
works; und it is just the part in which
we least attend to her. If in our mo- j
merits of utter idleness and insipidity
we turn to the sky as a last resource,
which of its phenomena do we speak
of? One suys it has been wet, another
it has been windy, and another it has
been warm. Who among the whole
clattering crowd can tell me of the
forms and the precipices of the chain
of tail white mountains that gilded the
horison at noon yesterday? Who saw
the narrow sunbeam that came out of
the South, and smote upon their sum
mits until they melted and mouldered
away in a dust of blue rain? Who
i saw the dance of the dead clouds when
| the sunlight left them last night, and
the west wind blew them before it like
withered leaves? All has passed un
regretted or unseen; or, if the apathy be
ever siiaken off, even for an instant,
it is only by wiiat is extraordinary.
And yet it is not in the broad and
fieice manifestation of the elemental
energies— not in the clash of the hail,
nor tiie drift of the whirlwind —that the
highest characters of the sublime are
developed. God is not always so elo
quent in the earthquake, nor in the fire,
as in “the still, small voice.” They
are but the blunt and the low facu'ties
of our nature which can only be ad
dressed through lamp black and light
ning. It is in quiet and subdued pas
sages of unobtrusive majesty, the deep,
and the culm, and the perpetual—that
which must be sought ere it is seen,
and loved ere it is understood—things
which the angel’s work out lor us daily,
and yet vary eternally, which are nev
er wanting and never repeated, which
ure to be found always, yet each found
but once. It is through these that the
lesson of devotion is chiefly taught, and
the blessing of beauty given.— John
Ruskin.
There is nothing like courage in
misfortunes. Next to faith in God, and
in his over.ruling Providence, a man’s
faith in himself is salvation. It is the
secret of all power and success. It is
the secret of all good luck, so called.
It makes a man strong as the pillared
iron, or elastic as the springing steel.
It opens the gate of enterprise and
wealth. And while others bow to
chance and accident, lie makes chance
and accident bow to him, and he moulds
them to his purpose and harnesses them
to the car of his fortunes.
Washing Clothes. —We learn from
the Baltimore Times that an extensive
laundry is established in that city, and
that, by the aid of a thorough and pow
erftil steam apparatus, several thous
and pieces can be washed in one day.
We shall be glad to be assured ot its
success; for washing is too hard work
and pays too poorly tor the welfare of
those who now work it. The first es.
feet of the new mode may appear ad
verse; but the permanent results of such
improvements are always beneficial to
all parties.— Telegraph.
jSEm
SONS OF TEMPER ANCE 7
Pledge of the Sons of Tempe
rance.-I, without reserve, solemnly pledge
myhonorasa man that I willneithermake,buy,
sell nor use, as a beverage, any Spirituous or
Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider.
Officers of tlie Grand Division.
G. L. M’Cleskey, G. W. P. Monroe.
J. S. Pinckard, G. W. A. Forsyth.
W. S. Williford, G. Scribe, Macon.
E. C. Gbanniss, G. Treasurer, „
J. E. Evans, G. Chaplain, „
D. E. Blount, G. Conductor, Clinton.
J. D. Ha vis, G. Sen. Houston, Cos.
CADETS OF TEMPERANCE.
VLEDVE.
No member shall make, buy, sell or use
as a beverage,any spirituous or malt liquors
wine or cider.
Officers of the Grand Section.
J. W. Benson, G. P. Macon.
B. Burton, G. A. P. Pondtown.
L. C. Slmson, G. S. &T. Atlanta.
Rev. J. S. Wilson, G. C. Decatur.
S. M. H. Byrd, G. G. Oxford.
SV. P King, G. W. Thomaaton.
I. O. of Rcehabitcs.
Officers of Georgia Dial. Tent, No. 28, loca
ted at Washington, Wilkes Co.,Ua.:
John R. Smith, D. P. C. R. Washington,
C. R. Hanieiter, D. C. R Atlanta,
Rev. G. G. Norman,D. D. R Washington
A. 11. Sneed, D R. S. „
EH O’Neal, D. F. S.
L. F. Carrington, D. T.
C. W. Hancock, - D. L. „
Rcchabite’s Pledge.
I hereby declare, that 1 will abstain from all
intoxicating hqtiora.and will not give, nor offer
them to others, except in religious ordinances,
or when prescribed, in good faith, by a medi
cal practitioner ; I will not engage in the traf
fic of them, and in all suitable ways will dis
countenance the use, sale and manufacture ot
them ; and to the utmost of mjr power, I will
endeavor to spread the principles of abstinence
fyom all iatetitaiing l.qucu.
toe iMHimiR. _
PEXFIELD, OCT. 3, 1853.
To Correspondents.
The communication of Mr. Thaddecs
Oliver is in type, and will appear io our
next.
The accoout of a recent meeting of Glade
Division is received.
Also, an account of a Temperance meet
ing in Bulloch county, shall appear next
week. Old Bulloch is rising.
A Leaf from the Life of a Practising Phy
sician, or a Day in the Practice of Medicine,
by an Old Doctor, is deferred till our next.
An earnest appeal to the
Young.
We love youth ! We love all its kind
ling associations ofhopeand promise. We
love to contemplate it in the beauty of its
freshness and in the glow of its sunshine. —
There is a nameless charm, an indescriba
ble fascination connected with it, which
renders it the most attractive and interesting
period of existence. It is the season of
buoyant anticipations—of golden dreams—
of glittering visions. Hope then waves her
magic wand, and a fairy coloring of rich and
brilliant hues gilds the horizon of the future.
Disappointment has not yet touched the
spirit with its withering blight—misfortune
and adversity have not yet thrown their
gloomy shadows around it—lite, with its
sober realities and perplexing cares, the
world, with its conflicting claims and clash
ing interests, have not yet dispelled the en
chantment of the seene.
But, though the most attractive, youth is
also the most critical period of human life.
A thousand insidious temptations encamp
themselves around it. Its steps are encom
passed with danger and with peril. Its
pathway is thickly sown with seductive
lures and treacherous snares. In the reck
less vehemence of its impulses, and the
vivid ardor of its sensations, before the pas
sions have been tamed, the will subdued, or
the judgment matured, the youthful charac
ter is most fearfully exposed In its first un
suspecting embrace of a world of abound
ing evil. Fortunate, thrice fortunate is lie,
who issues forth upon the great theatre of
human action foriitied with the teachings of
wisdom, and the counsels of experience.
Young men! one and all! by whatever
circumstances surrounded—however exalt
ed or obscure your origin—whatever be
your position or occupation—whether for
tune has smiled, or poverty frowned upon
your birth—we desire to address a serious
and earnest appeal to you. We have no
interests to subserve, but your chief and
lasting good. We are influenced by no
motives, save such as look to your true and
permanent welfare. We arrogate to our
selves no arbitrary right of dictation. But
in a spirit, far removed from all censorious
ness, we would affectionately exhort you to
the practice and observance of a virtue,
which stands intimately connected with all
that can refine, and elevate, and dignity hu
man life.
Standing where you do upon the thresh
hold of that life, with the bloom and fresh
neßs of youth yet about you,you are the ob
jects of the liveliest interest, and the most
tender and anxious solicitude. A thousand
bosoms, allied to you by the strong ties of
natural affection, or the gentle sympathies of
social intercourse, are beating with high
and eager expectation at your entrance up
on that solemn stage where you are soon lo
assume a part. Parental fondness is watch
ing you with a sleepless eye and a throbbing
heart for the realization of all those proud
and brilliant hopes it has centered in you.
The community is gazing upon you as
those to whose hands must shortly be dele
gated that most important trust, the conser
vation of its great and vital interest?. The
old have well-nigh accomplished their mis
sion—their career of active usefulness is
closed, and they are fast leaning to the
grave. Age has overtaken them with its
infirmities and decrepitude, and soon they
will forever pass from the scenes of time
and the pursuits of earth. You will suc
ceed to the places they have filled—and the
l stations they have occupied. Upon you
| will devolve, and especially the more edu
cated among you, all those grave responsi
bilities, those impressive obligations, and
those weighty duties, which the complica
ted relations of society impose. Your
country, too, is anxiously looking to you,
for your ranks must shortly supply those
public characters, to whom her destinies
will be committed—the future legislators
and statesmen who are to direct her coun
cils—to guard her rights—to preserve her
liberties-—to guide her fortunes. Yea, and
the world is fixing its eye upon you, to see
if it will derive a blessing, or incur a curse
from your example.
You are now, young men, laying the
foundations of that character, the super
structure of which coming years will cotn
j plete. The habits you now cultivate—the
sentiments you cherish—the opinions you
j form—and the principles you adopt, will im
part their complexion to the future of your
! life. They will cleave to you tor weal or
. woe through the maturity of your manhood.
| The present with you is the season of that
| preparatory discipline, w hich is to qualify
j you for the coutests of life. You are now [
adjusting your armor and forging your
weapons for those struggles which await
you pit the battle-ground of the world. On
the proper disposition of that armor, and
the felicitous selection of those weapons,
will depend ia a great degree your triumph
| or defeat.
From the point where you now 6tand,
two channels run, in one of which the lines
of your destiny will lie—two paths diverge,
tit one of which your fortunes will be found.
The one is a course of active industry, of
j resejutt ucdcv'iitipg integ r 'ty.
and will conduct you by sure gradations to i
honorable usefulness, to independent com
petence,and to viituous fame. The other;
is a career of inglorious indolence und prof
ligate excess, and’will terminate in disaster,
1 degradation and infamy.
Young men, as we would rejoice in your
1 prosperity, and mourn vour overthrow, we
1 entreat you, above all things, seriously to
I ponder the words of this timely counsel. In
whatever pursuit you may engage—in what-
I ever enterprise you may embark, ever re
member, that there is one great virtue,
which from its alliance with almost every
other cannot fail to facilitate your progress,
and ensure your ultimate success—and that
i there is one great and damning vice, which
! breeds a fearful progeny, that will inevita
; bly blast your prospects and seal your irre
| trievuble ruin. Let the golden rule of Tem
! perance preside over and regulate your
lives. Let its precepts not only be written
on the palms of your hands, but graven on
your hearts, and stamped upon your minds.
Suffer not the sparkling bowl to defile and
pollute your lips. Beneath its roseate hue
is concealed the scorpion’s sting. Eschew
! strong drink as you would recoil from tho
venomous fang of the serpent. Shun its
approach, as you would flee from the em
brace of some fair but destroying fiend.—
Let the enticing voice of the tempter be a
forbidden sound to your ear. It is the
treacherons note of that Syren who flatters
to betray, and allures to ensnare. Under
the guise and mask of friendship, he will
prove your deadliest enemy. As you val
ue that priceless treasure, a pure and spot
less reputation—as you estimate that rich
est of all earthly possessions, an unblem
ished character, and an honorable name,
yield not to his persuasive tones. One in
cautious step may plunge you into that
seething gulf, from whose fiery billows
there is no escape. You are now in that
season of life, over which this unpitying, re
morseless enemy achieves his easiest con
quest. The mercurial temperament of
youth —its quick, impulsive nature —its ar
dent, and excitable disposition, fall a ready
prey, and a speedy victim to the potent in
cantations of this sorcerer. With a thou
sand infernal arts he vvoos you to the sac
rifice. With a thousand perfidious allure
ments he seeks to fascinate you for destruc
tion. Amid the sportive scenes where
pleasure holds her festivals, he proffers you
his enchanted cup, and invites you by the
poetry of its exhiltrating visions, and the
witchery of its golden dreams. Again, in
those moments of lonely depression, which
at intervals come over the gayest of us all,
he insidiously approaches you, and whis
pers of an antidote to every care—a reme
dy to every pain, and a balm to every sor
row. With mocking tongue and malignant
heart he tells of a magic charm that will
chase away the shades of your sadness, and
dispel the gloom of your melancholy. Oh !
if you would not be entangled in the meshes
of his fatal web, hoed not these soft and
winning blandishments. Be not seduced
by these skillful wiles of the spoiler. Per
haps this appetite has not yet acquired the
mastery over you, and you fondly imagine
I you are secure. Oh! the ground beneath
your feet may now be Arm, but what, if your
next step finds you on the yielding quiek
; sands! Alas! thousands, who once in
dulged the same confidence, are now filling
with their horrid wailings the gloomy pris
ons of the lost , while others are lingering
out a wretched existence upon the earth,
sunk in unmitigated debasement, and aban
doned by the sympathies of the world. Be
hold that miserable and revolting object who
hangs from hour to hour about the door
ways of yonder filthy haunt of vice. Once
the light of intellect beamed in that counte
nance—the fire of genius shone from that
eye—the gentler affections found a lodge
ment in that breast. Ask of him the histo
ry of his dreadful fall. This is his confes
sion. Over the social board I first partook
of the intoxicating cup—soon the midnight
revel, the drunken carousal, the obscure de
bauch found me in their midst—and then I
bade “farewell, a long farewell,” to purity,
to virtue, to reputation, and to honor.
Be admonished, then, young men, before
it is forever too late with you. If you would
avoid the loathsome life and escape the aw
ful end ofthe Drunkard, make no comprom
ise with the tempter. Wait until coil after
coil shall have been wound around you, and
you are irrecoverably lost. Then, the fear
ful, heart-rending catastrophe will soon ar
rive, The consummation ofthe tragedy will
soon be reached.
Sweet Cidar.
A brother in Lester’s District, Burke
county, requests us to answer the ques
tion :—“At what age can a S. of T. contin
ue to drink the ‘juice of the apple.’ (us some
are pleased to call il for the purpose of eva
ding their pledge) after it has been pressed,
before he violates his pledge ?”
52T” Our answer is, that a true S. of T.
will not begin, or “continue to drink” the
juice of the apple at any age. This matter
has long’since been settled by the National
Division, and no S. of T. can, it is presumed,
bo ignorant, at this day, of that decision.
Grand Division. 8. of T.
The annual session will be held at Tem
perance Hall, Macon, Ga., commencing at
10 o’clock, on the fourth Wednesday (27tli
day) of October.
55T” The conclusion ofthe. story, (the
greater portion of which was published in
our last) may be found on the P.r?t page of
this issue. Accident occasioned the orais-,
sion last week.
Rock mountain Baptist Asso
ciation.
The Minutes of thi-- Body have been prin
ted and forwarded tf>. the Clerk for distribu
tion.
Public beulimeut.
The Grand Jury of Monroe County, for
the 2nd week of August Term of the Supe
rior Court, made the following Present,
rnent. Our temperance friends, who are ao
fearful that we may run ahead of public
sentiment, would probably do well to re
view their own positions, and ask themselves
if it is not possible that they are behind the
times. Revolutions never go backwards:—
“As the Grand Inquest of the county,
charged for a time w ith its interests, we
feel that we would be recreat to our duty,
if we failed to present as a grievance and
nuisance, which appeals in tones of thunder
to every philanthropist, patriot and Christian
for redress, the many manufactories of
drunkards and loafers which curse our coun
try, where our children are tempted, cor
rupted and betrayed, and our servants are
ruined. Much of the time of our Body and
every similar Body has been taken up in
investigation of violations of the law, which
have their origin at those sinks of iniquity,
whose smell reaches to heaven; and we ask
our fellow-citizens, if they are still willing
to foster and protect them, while they aw
thus spreading their deadly malaria even
amongst our families. But for them litiga
tion would abate, our taxes be greatly re
duced, crime & pauperism would lesson, the
ballot box be pure, degradation, suffering
and death, would in many instances be pro
vented, and we appeal to the sovereign peo
pie to know, if they ure willing for this mon
ster evil to ride roughshod over their dear
est interests and most sacred rights. If these
plague spots cannot be controlled—if our
property cannot ha rendered secure from
their corrupting influence, if our negroes
are still permitted, either by evasions of the
law, or direct perjury, to obtain this bevur
age of hell, we say (we know a correct
public sentiment wilt sustain us) down,
vvitii the liquor traffic.”
Maine Election.
Nt-al Dow, the father of the law, says,
that “every one of the newly elected Maine
Senators, and three-fourths of the House ol‘
representatives, are pledged to sustain the
Maine liquor law.”
BSP* We clip the following paragraph
from the Savannah Journal, of the 25th uli.
We hope the opposers of the netionofthe
Temperance Convention w ill come outand.
meet the advocates of legislation iu open
debate, or cease their opposition:—
“The attendance last evening at the Tem
perance Meeting in Armory Hull, was much
larger than at the previous meeting, and
great interest manifested in the proceedings.
Mr. King, however, had no opposition, the
gentleman who was to have opposed him,
having failed to appear for some reason not
known to us. Tne same subject (the expe
diency of legal prohibition of tiie liquor
traffic) will be continued, at the next meet
ing. We are pleas*d to see ail increasing
interest taken in this subject, and hope it
may be freely and amply diseussed, and the
public become thoroughly acquainted with
it iu ail its various bearings. Its agitation
must bring about good results, in leading
to a final decision upon the merits of the
question.”
The readers of the Banner who are
also readers of the Bible, —and there aro
many such, —will be interested in the arti
cle on our first page, from Kitto’s History
of Palestine.
The Editor of the Southern Patriot, has
recently taken a trip, upon profession.busi
ness, into Pickens and Anderson Districts,
S C. In giving an account of the “hospital- ,
ity” and other characteristics of the good,;
people in those diggins, the following _para
graph occurs:—
“It is very remarkable, and most wonder
ful, how few of the old women in the coun
try can wr.te their names. VVe, took the
depositions of fifteen or twenty,.all worthy ’
and respectable women, the mothers and
grand-mothers of most respectable families,
and families of property, and, only two of
them were able to write their names, or ev
er had been able to do so! One of these
good ladies, and a most intelligent one,too,
who made her mark, was the cousin of John
C. Calhoun, and her uiaide.n name was Cal
houn.”
Grenville’s Almanac for 1853.
A copy ot this annual has been received.
It contains, the usual Astronomical calcula
tions, and a great variety ofTables and oth
er matters useful and interesting. Joseph
A Carrie & Cos., Augusta, publishers.
“Georgia Home Gazette.”
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Health of Augusta.
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twenty.five days, from the Ist to the 35th
Sept, both inclusive, shows that there have
been in that period only thirteen deaths in
Aqgust a—and notone died of fever.
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