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YOL. XIX.
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SONS OF TEMPERANCE.
IMetLjjo oC tSa Sms of Tenipe- i
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my hnor asu man that I will neither make, buy, [
S ,U nr use, as a beverage , any Spirituous or!
Malt Liquors, Wine er Cider.
Officers of tJieOriiiitl Oivisiou.
E. H. Myers, G. W. P. Macon.
B. Brartly. CL W. A. Penfield.
W. 8. Wii.uf*rd, S. Scribe, Macon.
E. C. Granniss, G. Treas. Macon.
D. P. Joses, G. Chap. Palmetto.
Wm. Woods. G. Con. Madison. ;
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MORAL AND RELKHODS.
What is Happiness?
Every thinking man will look round
him when he reflects on his situation in j
this world, and will ask, what will
meet my case ? what is it that 1 will
want * what w ill satisfy me ? 1 look ,
at the rich, ami 1 see Aliab, in the midst
of all his riches, sick at heart for a gar
den of herbs. 1 see Dives, after all
iiis wealth, lifting tip his eyes in hell,
and begging for a drop of water to cool ;
the rage of his sufferings. 1 see the ,
rich fool summoned away at the very
moment when lie was exulting in his
hoards. If 1 look at the wise, I see
Solomon with nil his wisdom, acting
like a fool ; and 1 know, that if I pos
sessed all his wisdom, were l left to
myself, 1 should act as he did. I see
Ahilhophel, with all his policy, hanging
himself for vexation. If 1 turn to men
of pleasure, 1 see that the very sum of
ail pleasure is, that it is Satan’s bed,
into which he casts his slaves. 1 see
Esau selling his birthright for a mess
of pottage. If 1 think of honor, take a
walk in Westminister Abby—here is
an end of all inquiry. There I walk
among tlie mighty dead ! There is the
winding up of Inman glory! And
what remains of the greatest men of
my country ? A boasting epitaph ?
None of these things can satisfy me. ! 1
1 must meet death—l must meetjudg-j
inent —1 must meet God—i must meet
eternity !— Cecil.
“I Lost It ”
With what cool indifference the law
yer speaks of a case which lie has ar
gued in court, saying, “I lost it.” The j
fortunes of a family may have deoeud- j
ed on the result—a prisoner’s liberty or j
even life may have been at stake—but j
wiiat of that ? The lawyer sums up
the matter —“I lost it.” He stops not j
to weep that a man who may have been
innocent lias gone to prison or to the
gallows —he stops not to weep for a
| stricken family, or that a family are un
justly deprived of property and reduced
to abject poverty. No, he has lost iris
! case, and far that he is sorry, it is no
! benefit to a lawyer to lose a case. He
i tells hi# professional friend, “I lost my
! case ; hut w iiat of that ? Belter luck
j next lime.” “Next time” never comes
Ito the starving family, the bankrupted
I merchant, the dead criminal; for the
| truth is, that it was they who lost, riot
! the lawyer,
] “1 lost it,” sighs tlie mother, “the
j fiist and finest flower of my garden, my
| sweet babe,” clasping nearer to her
j breast those which are left, “it was a
lovely child, quiet as a lamb, meek aad
|gent;e; it was endeared to our very
(souls, but I lost it.” And the mother
| refuse* to be comforted because it is
] not.
In one of those dens which are the
( curse of our large cities is a youth. It
j is past midnight, bul no sleep lias come
i to his eyes n >r slumber to his eyelids, j
( Pale and haggard, excited with wine, 1
he gazes with wild inlentness on a ta-!
ble around which sit a company.—
There are others in the room, but lie
sees them not; the table now claims’
hiss entire attention. All of his own;
[ money and five thousand dollars be- ;
S longing to his employer lie on it. The i
! cards are dealt—he suddenly rushes
from the room, exclaiming, “I lost it.”
I Aye, lie lost it. Not only money, but
character, social position —aye, every,
i thing which makes the man. But a;
| few years at least, and tie may be found
in prison or the grave.
A poor boy is run over on the rail- i
; road and shockingly mutilated. He is
carried to a neighboring house; tlie
1 surgeon summoned ; he decides that it
is a desperate case ; amputation is com
i menced; the poor boy groans and
■ shouts, but no one conies to his relief;
he is answered by tne grating of the
! ampulatoi’s saw on the bones of his
‘owning; he cries again, but feebler
than before ; the saw still grates away,
the leg drops, the boy swoons, revives
! for a moment, and then dies. The sur
! geon simply says to liis assistant, —
“This is, indeed, a bad case, I have
lost it.”
Less than half a century ago, an en
(thusiastic army of 70,000 men crossed
the French boundaries shouting to the
; returned exile commander, “Live the
Emperor.” In a few days, that Empe
ror and that army stood tace against the
allied armies of Europe. It was a ter
rible moment. Either Napoleon should
march over that field as Emperor of the ,
whole world or retire an outlaw, in
danger of life. The deadly clash of
arms kept the termination in doubt.—
Soon lie was seen flying from the field;
tiie game of the world hud been played,
and he had lost it.
Ah! tiiis loosing it is a sad, *ome
times an awful thing. Look at that old
man tottering along; his form is bent, ‘
iiis step unsteady, his speech not clear.
Let us talk to him—nay, lie is old, let
us hear him talk, lie tells a sad story.
“Once I was as young and joyous as
j you, my friends. I had wealth, a lov. j
PENFIELD, GA. MARCH 26, 1853.
| ing, happy family, a pleasant home. —
Misfortunes came ; my wealth van
ished— 1 lost it. 1 strove hard; 1 la
| bord incessantly to retrieve my broken ;
, fortunes; but when 1 lost my money I
: lost my influence and rny business fa
cilities. A few years, and the cursed
wine cup, the gambler’s den, ware my
i only friends. My reputation —that
priceless—O! God, l lost it, never to
be regained ; for the broken vase may
, indeed be mended, but it still leaves
marks of its fracture which tells oh
i .ervers the story ofits breaking. That
i loving family were lost not to them
selves, but to me. They no longer
claim me as tlu irs. My mind, my
health, my energies, rny very soul is]
lost, irrevocably lost ! And soon I,
too, will be lost, not misssd, from earth;
and the only fruit of repentance which
1 dure leave behind is, though 1 am lost,
learn of me.”—American Artizin.
From the Constitutionalist.
Tho Suppression of the Retail Li
quor Traffic-
NUMBER TWO.
In a former article, we have shown
that according to the most liberal theory
of popular government, the legislature
of any Slate, has a right ot itself to
pass a law, to eufirce it, interdicting
the retail of spirituous liquors with
in its limitt: in other words, to put down
the retail grocery system. But the
action of the Atlanta Convention, does
not look to this. As clear as the right
is to effect the ultimate object of the
Convention, through this mode, yet in
accommodation to any possibly just de
j mand of public feeling, and as a more
j practicable method, it proposes simply
I that the Legislature should authori;- >
the people to determine this question for
themselves. They desire that majori
! ties should govern, and all they ask is,
that the majorities in this case have the
power to govern.
The llessolulions adopted by the
Convention, ask of the next L“gislature
ot Georgia, Ist, to pass a law, authorizing
each county to determine by popular
; vote, whether there shall be any re
tail traffic in spirituous liquors within
! iis limits, and ‘2d, to pass a further law,
| authorizing each Militia District, in
the event of a failuro of its county to
vote against retail itself, to determine
by popular vote, whether the traffic,
shall be carried on within its limits.
It is thus perceived that the Convert
lion does not ask the Legislature to deter
mine whether retail groceries shall be
put down, but simply to give the peo
ple themselves the power to determine
this question. Nor does it ask even
that t ho people throughout, the State,
in their aggregate capacity, shall be
allowed to determine the question fir
the Slate; hut with more fairness still,
to any interest opposed by the contem.
plated action, it proposes that the coun
ties themselves, and us a last resort,the
Districts themselves, shall decide the
j question, not for others but for them
j selves alone.
Now, on what ground, can any op
position be made to the grant of such
authority, by the next Legislature.
| Any possible opposition necessarily
| involves this absurd principle, that a
state of things may exist in a commit
nity in a tangible public shape,
| derogatory to the rights of a mu.
juriiy, offensive in the highest de
gree to their feelings and rights; indeed !
| a public nuisance, and yet as long as
! there are any, however few, who favor
it, that majority can have, ought to have,
;no redress in public law—that u few
indivuals may, in defiance of the feel-:
ings arid views of the mass of the p*o.
| pie, in pursuance of their own selfish
ends, set up and maintain establish
merits, believed arid felt to be injuriiusj
■to the commnity, and yet the people j
incompetent to take legal steps for its
suppression, are, compelled to look on !
it: silent submission. What is this but
| to reverse the order of our government,
; and to say that the minority shall rule
The majority—that a grogocracy shall
prevail, forcing upon the people in de
fiance of the wishes of the majority, a
system of things felt to be inimical to
: their interest.
It is Cicur, that if this law is prayed
for by any respectable portion of the
people, the Legislature is bound to
grant it. In rtiuse to do so, wouid be
to declare that the will of maiorities
shall not be allowed to prevail. I:
would be to assume tho altitude of pro
tectors to this corrupting traffic, arid to
say that tiie people themselves snail not
be allowed to suppress it. Such a law
is all that the friends of this movement
want. They do not ask the Legisla
turc to commit itself, if it he its prefer
ence not to do so, to the merits of the
question itself, of the propriety of tbit
traffic, but simply, tiiat the people may
j have the privilege of its settlement.
J lie friends of this movement can
hardly hope that should t*ie Legislature
allow this question to be submitted to
the people, ail tho counties in the
; State are yet ready to decide against
the groceries: but they yet confidently
believe that many will, and that in
such u cause, with the aggressive, ac
tive power, the movement now has, nnd
is destined increasingly to have,the time
is not far oil’when the people by popu
lar vote, will every where decide n
gainst the abominable traffic. For lei
it be borne in mind, that if the Legisla
ture grants what the Convention prays
lor, even where counties decide ad
versely, the districts have the right,
each for itself, to take favorable acticrn,
and there are now but few, if any coun
ties, in which there are not districts
prepared for action. Cut these dis |
triots will form neucles, around which j
the friends of good order may rally
fountains of light, machinery of organ
ization, by which all the processes may
be carried on, needful for eventual and
speedy success in their respective
counties.
No man who has made himself ac
quainted with the numerical strength,
and character, of the recent Atlanta
Convention, composed as it ws, ol
men of the very first intelligence and
weight of character, from every section
of the State, and with the unanimity of
its cnjnsels, the determination, order,
und fixedness of purpose which char
acterized it, can fail to perceive that
there is a mighty impulse every where
in operation over the State of Georgia,
in favor of this movement. The truth
is, tiie people are awake to this subject,
and it is that portion of the people too,
vho lije in contact will) the masses,
vlio make and control public opinion,
and w&o are prepared under the influ- |
ence of deep conviction, to make this
the leading question in all political
movements, until the result vis achiev
ed of life suppression of an evil they
feel to be prejudicial to their interest,
and ruinous to society.
There is a much wider anil deeper
opposition to this retail grocery systerr
than almost any otio would suppose,
who has not taken the pains to leel the
public pulse upon the subject. The
very general interest which has been
felt in the subject of temperance, has
turned public attention to its evils. I'lie
public mincThus been enlightened, and
1 might say the public conscience has
been sliried in regard to them. And
there are many who, though not inclin
ed to subscribe a pledge of temperance,
are yet ready to unite in any practica
ble plan, fiir the removal of that which
is rewarded as the source of all the
evils of intemperance, the retail grocery
establishments. The people feel they
are deeply injured by those establish
ments, often in their own families, very
often in their corrupting influence upon
their negroes, in their general deleteri
ous elfects upon the communities in
which they live. And this feeling is
not only experience by churches, by the
more sober and quiet, but is shared
very generally by men themselves u<l
dicted to an occasional indulgence in
the use of ardent spirits, and by men
absolutely intemperate. Many of tho
warmest advocates oftliis movement,
ire to be found among these latter clas
ses. Indeed, it is a movement which
1 unites as its friends, men of all ranks,
of all parlies, of all churches, and un
susceptible, jin it is, of being tram
meled by party alliances, and sending
out is it does; on own merits, rallying
toils support, t be parent, the slave
holder, the chris>ian, the friend ofgood
order, and all who have felt, or are
| likely to feel, either in their own per
sons, families, or friends, the corrupt.
! ing, ruinous influence of an immortal
Ideath.dealing traffic; it is a movement
| which lias all the elements of activity
i and aggression, and must, and will go
■onward, until it has accomplished its
1 intended result, the entire abolition of
j the retail grocery traffic. S.
Nbwton Go., Ga.
I
For the Temperance Banner.
Mr. Editor: —From some of your
remarks, editorial, and several futile
attempts at replies to my auimadver
, sions upon secret societies, it urns
that the vindictive ire of a number of
the mystic brethren has been ex Tied ;i
quite causelessly I think, for it will be
remembered that I explicitly stated in
the ontset of my rernuiks, that “1 had
1 no quarrels with men, but with things ;;
which I honestly believed were evil in;
their nature arid tendency ;” arid I stu- j
diously avoided personal remarks, j
which might wound feelings, designing
J„ri!y to convince. I infer too, that you
have been scolded, and perhaps direst
!ened with proscription, tor giving pub
lieily to my communications ; all of
which 1 take a-. collateral evidence, at
least, oflhe indcfensibilty of those or-I
ganizalions, bv sound reasoning and
logical arguments. If my objections
were not “tmanswei able,’’ why were
they not met in a candid, dispassionate j
and gentlemanly discussion, instead of
vulgar ridicule, base insinuations and
low-life scrurrility, so liberally in-;
bulged in by “Ca-ligator” and “Jacob,” j
especially the latter, who seems to have
a peculiar taste and talent for vulgar S
I slang ? The ebullition of angry fuel
| tngs manifested, reminded me of the
iiubbub raised against St. Paul, at
Ephesus, for preaching the /ruth, by
the ernftamer of that city, who, alarmed
for tiie hope t.'f their gains, and jealous
for the honor of their idol deity, slired
up an excitement among the idol wor
shipers and cried, vocitferously, “Great
is Diana of the Ephesians.” And, sir,
your laudable efforts to appease the
wrathful feelings of the brethren of the
mystic tie, brought also lo my mind the
praiseworthy conduct of the town clerk,
on that occasion, for which 1 tender
I you my thunks, ns well as for your
kindness, liberality in
giving publicity to my article, us “re
luctamiy” as it may have been done.
1 feul confident, sir, tiiat you will be
sustained in your liberal and independ
ent course, as Editor ol m free press,
by every reflecting nnd intelligent pa
triot ; notwithstanding the opposition of
the few or many fanatical advocates of
secret oath-bound inslitu'ions’ Contin
ue to inculcate the noble sentiment you
have advanced, that, “any institution
that cannot bear the test ol scrutinizing
investigation ought go down.”—Stereo,
type it, if posssble, upon the hearts and
memories of your numerous readers,
and with your udvocacy of the great
and holy cause of temperance reform,
you will be entitled to be ranked among
the benefactors of mankind. Woe to I
our beloved country and ‘.o tiie world,
should the lieu newspaper press of this
Republic ever be controlled er suppress
ed by any fanatical combination of men,
to prevent free discussion upon any
subject the people may feel interested
in, especially those of u moral or politi
cal nature. Tho right of speech and
freedom of discussion arc some of the
inalienable rights guuranled to us by (
our Federal Constitution, and they who
would even wish to infringe upon the
inestimable blessing, ure unworthy the
name of American freeman. Andi
unhesitatingly repeat what I have be
fore said, that all organizations that
seek to hide their principles and prac
tice behind the vails of secrecy, ure
dangerous in their tendency to good
government, sound morals and vital
piety, and should bu watched with
sleepless vigilance by every friend of
hi# country.
Srlf respect, sir, forbidding, and be
i lievitig too, that tiie sensible, reflecting
and serious portion of your readers do
j not expect mo to offer a rejoinder to the
puerile and contemptible attempts ut
replies to my article by “Gasligutor,” !
“Jacob,” and “Impartiality,” I shall!
let them pass as unworthy of further
notice, except to point out a palpable
falsehood tiie two former have been \
j j'uillv of, and to make a few brief re
mark# upon Mr. Webster’s definition
lofperjurv, quoted by the witling “J&.
1 cob.”
After saying, as he no doubt sup-(
posed, some very smart things, ‘Gastiga
tor,” usks the affirmative question,—
“Why does ho fight the temperance ;
cause so much 1” In answer to his# ;
insidious question, yaukee like, I will
ask him another. Do you know of
your own knowledge, or have you been
informed by any respectable person, j
that I ever wrote or uttered a word
against the temperance cause ? li you i
answer affirmatively, then 1 challenge
you to the proof, for I assert that the
charge is false. If you answer nega- j
lively, which you must if you have j
any the least regard for truth, then, you
are convicted out of your own mouth, I
of bearing “false witness against your
neighbor,” which you know is not a
Christian virtue. But, possibly, you
may be able #o to expluin this ugly af- j
fair to the satisfaction of your truth-1
loving brethren of the mystic tie, in ;
your promised “7/iore anon ” communi
cation, not far distant “in the future.” ;
Until then, \ bid you, in the poetic lan
gunge of free Masoney, “a heurtfeit;
fond adieu.”
Through ignoraace or knavislmess, 1
1 know not which, but fear the latter,
“Jacob” lias perpetrated a kind ofdoue
lo falsehood against me. Ho says, I
“you condemn us,” and then marks;
with inverted commas as quoting my
words, “because we take solemn vows, i
and therefore are perjured ;” and then
gives Mr. Webster’s definition of per
jury, lo Mow, as lie would tiave the
leader believe, the absurdity of the 1
charge. Rut I suid no such thing, as
tne reader may see. My words are, ‘1
object to Masons and Odd Fellows’
oaths, and the Sons’ solemi. pledge of
secrecy, us unnecessary and sinful,
winch often leads to perjury.’ Web
ster's definition has special reference
to wilful false statem uts under legally
administered oaths, and not to violations j
of ( xtra judicial promisory outfis and I
solemn vows, which partake of the nJ
tore of oaths, the violation# of whk h are 1
not recognized und made punishable by I
our statutes, and fur lhat reason are the j
more dangerous to good morals, vital {
piety, and, of course, io the well being!
of the country ; because, impunity from j
punishment often leads to the perpetra-i
tion of crime. If it be morally rightj
110 administer and lake tho oaths nnd
j solemn vow s usejl by secret soctel.es
; generally, which they affirm and I de
lay, then the violations of those obiigft
; lions are certainly moral perjuries,
; which none will dare deßy.
; I lie violations of the Masonic oaths
| and obligations are considered by them
jus perjury, which 1 shall presently
; show ; und every Son, if I am not mis
j token and wrongly iu.forineii, views a
; violation ol tlieir solemn vows in tho
j same light. Rut 1 contend that no one
! has the legal or moral right to admiu
! ister an oath, except an officer of tho
; law, appointed for that purpose, and ha
only in the discharge of his official un
ties; and Christ, the groat moral law
giver, has enjoined that we “swear nt
ut all,” except in obedience to the
“powers that be, ’ aud “for tha end of
strife,”
Permit me just here to give a qirota
tion faom the learned und pious Mathew
Henry, who has given to the world one
ol the ablest commentaries upon God’s
word, extant. On Christ’s prohibition of
oaths, as recorded by St. Mathew, 6.
5. v. 33, io 37th, inclusive, .he remark#:
“Now the mind ol Christ m, first, that
e “swear not at all,” except when du
ly culled to it, und justice or charily to
a brother, or respect to the common,
wealth, make it necessary for tiie end
ol strile, (Heb. 0. Iff. j of which tile civ
il magistrate must ordinarily be iho
judge.” Again, lie says, “We must,
specially, uvoid promisiory oatlm, tor
they are lo be performed. An affirma
tive oath ceases, when wo have faith
fully discovered tlie whole truth ; but a
promisory oath binds so long, and may
be broken in so many ways, bv #ur.
prise umi temptation, that it is mu to be
used, but in great necessity. The fre
queney of oaths among Christians is a
reflection upon tlieir fidelity. Then
word should be ax sacred as an oath.”
Another great man, Prof. Dwight,
says: “The multiplication of oaths,
and the irreverence with which they
ure administered, occasion guilt and
evil beyond calculation.” In all of
which 1 most heartily concur. And
hence my concurrence in tiie opinion
ol Mr. Adams, thut the oaths, obliga
tions and penalties administered and ta
i ken by the Masonic fraternity, ar<*
“double violations of the law of God
and tiie country, which no example can
justify, and no sophistry can extenu
ate.”
Lot us now soo wiiat some of those
oaths, obligations und penalties are, as
’ revealed to tiie public by seceding Ma
| sons of tile highest respectability. Two
| hundred or more of these met in oou
; veution at Lee Roy, in New York, ane
made a formal recantation of tlieir Ma
j sonic oaths, obligations und penalties,
and uliirining the correctness or truth
fulness of Morgan’s disclosure. David
Bernard, u Baptist minister of tho Ga.
| nesee Association, of whom Mr. Ad
ams speaks in term# of high commenda
tion as u man ot integrity and piety,
also published his “Lights on if ,i e,
ry,” disclosing the secrets of the fifteen
degress lie had tuken. Afterward, Mr.
Avery Allyn, who had taken thirty I-•
grevs in Masonry, at the request fhia
seceding brethren and the ant: M r -io
community, published his ‘it u-l of
Masonry,” which now lies be for /)*, ■
from winch 1 make the follow 12 o<-
tracts from outlie, obligations and pen
| allies, administered and taken by the
initiated into the mysteries and fellow,
[ship of Free Masons:
The candidate for tiie Entered Ap
prenfloe’s degree,after being s ripped of
; most of his clothes, and u pair ot draw
ers furnished him, is blind-folded or
hoodwinked, and a rope, culled a cable
tow, tied around “is neck ; at a oortair.
signal is led into the lodge room, ana
there swears, “in the ptesenoe of Al
mighty God, and this worshipful loJgo’
to keep the secrets of Free Masonry as’
shall bo revealed lo him, and bind#
himself “under no less penalty, than to
have his throat cut across, from ear to
ear, his tongue lorn out by, the roots, an -
his body buried in the rough sands of the
I sea, ifC.” “So help me God, and keep
me steadfast in the due performance of
the same.” He then kissss the hi Lie.
i The Fellow Graft swears tiiat lie will
(perform all tiiat is required of him,
I “under no less penalty man to have my
left breast torn open, my heart and vital.s
tuken J ram thence, thrown over my left
shoulder, ami earned to the valley of
Jehosliaphat, there lo become a pr< y to
the wild beasts oj the field, ana vu/luret
oj the air, should I wilfully violate, or
transgress, any part ol this, mv solemn
oath or obligation, of a fellow craft M'a
son.” “So help me God, aud keep inr
steadfast in tiie duo performance of the
I same.”
Every Master Mason swears, among
( other things, that lie “will apprise” a
! brother master Master u of all approach
ing danger.” And, “furthermore, do 1
promise and swear, that 1 will not vio
late the chastity of a muster Mason’s
wife, mother, sister, or daughter, nqf
suffer it to be done by others, if , n
power lo prevent it, 1 knowing them i’ei
Desueh.” “Furthermore do f pro
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