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YOL. XIX. THE TEMPERANCE BANNER IS TIIF. Organ of the Sons of Temperance AND OF THE State Convention of Georgia: PUBLISHED WEEKLY, By Bcujj'.uiiin Bruntly. T ebms— One Dollar a year, in ad vance ; $1 50, if paid within six months; and §2 00 at the end of the year. No sub scription taken for less than a year. Letters must be Post paid, to receive at ention. * K, Banner Almanack, for 1853. N a S’ SI 9| S* ~~ K 3l Si S?| f V 6 ° s11!eiv;r sJi j Hi. ! $ 6 &-;§■“lJi 5 h 9 iy - la. 7S’ B |< ol §V I O 1 1 liillJi ih | ilMminj g—*lsß V ■< ‘PliiSu 29 it 29 22 27:28:29 m j a a:To 1 I nl 1 1 I I. vi Sprt.- -| 1 2! 3 4 5 1 Aug-- -,l| 21 Ml ‘! 6CJ 7l S uuehl 12 7 S ID n *-jl3 => ill H|ls|Hi 17 ISIIO II wl 17|IS *>|\ X ,21.-K,/1 •/.: 2J.S 21 22 23124:25 -’ 26/K V 27 2*l I I I L WW W.'Sli , X Cty-w-c:. ‘.• II 2| 3! 4 A Ser- -I— > , 3•/ \ N 6 7 3 9 lU|U 12 4 5|6 7 8 1 toy | * in 14 15116; l7| IH 14 I UttllilS’ 17:3 I 2# 21 22123.2 I 2S.W Is; 19:20 21122, 17ft I 1.27128 27;,31i i 2J | 26|27 28 ! 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When ho travels. / 17. Onhollidays. \r 8. When he ii v„ heme. ) IS. On Public occasions. Q a \t 9. When he ism company ( 19. On any day: or S lsf~ Every friend to Temperance& should taka the Temperance Banner: O X“lf Temperance nen will not supports Sthe Temperance Press, who will t” SONS OF TEMPERANCE. IMetLjjo oC tSa Sms of Tenipe- i rauc.*d, without reserve, solemnly pledge | 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. ; TSM 3r.ooDWOP.TH,G Sent. Liberty [fill. [ Now is the time! 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Q ur fric; A who have not received a Prospectus of the Banner for 1853, and who are disposed to aid in its circulation, can procure a P. -pectus by application. egp-Fricnds of the Temperance cause in Georgia: let the Banner have a circulation ef Tf.s Thpusxnp copies, before the close of 185S. 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 NO. 13-