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TWIHT V fKARS lfo •
fcY FANNY FALEB.
Once more, once more I lave my brow.
Where oft I laved it, here;
Ye cannot know, ’mid water drops,
Ts I let fall a tear.
Aye, from this hollow, moss-grown rock,
I lave beside the way;
And dream I am a boy again.
And twenty years—a day.
Here is the school house where my feet
Trod lightlier out than in;
And, there, the brook where holidays
I angled with a pin.
Ah, me! I've played at marbles oft,
At recess, in yon glen ;
And some are standing by roe now
Who frolicked with me then.
?on>e are in Heaven that I knew,
Aral some grown old and gray;
And some I left as blossom-buds,
Unfolded to life’s May.
I wander to each cherished haunt;
On things remembered, gaze;
And, lying ’neath the butternuts, dream
These twenty years but days.
There is the orchard where I filled
My pockets many a noon ;
This school house bell I sometimes rang—
It always rang too soon.
The Summer sun shines where the nuts
In Autumn time were brown ;
I used to shake the trees, and laugh
To see them scamper down.
The little, rosy-dimplcd girls,
Who danced across the green ,
My boyish heart held every one—
’Tis now as large, I ween.
Yet nought I see stirs me like this—
• The basin by the way,
Where oft I bathed my heated brow,
When bounding in from play.
Methinks I feel the master’s hand
Upon my head in praise;
I see the school let loose, and shout -
These twenty years are days 1
Once more, once more I lave my brow,
Where once I laved it, here;
Ye cannot tell, ’mid water drops,
If I let foil a tear.
For the Banner.
PROHIBITION IV NORTHWESTERN bF.OROIA.
Mr. Seals —I propose to drop you an occasional
line to inform your readers of the progress of the
Prohibition movement in this part of the State.—
Thus far, we have no reason to complain. Mr. Over
by has fairly opened the campaign He has already
made addresses in Coweta, Cobb, Fayette, Newton,
and some other counties, and aims, I ur.d rstand, to I
visit every part of the State. If many of us in this ;
section are not much mistaken, the signs are all right.
The number of persons who have attended these ad
dresses is very large; in some instances overwhelm
ingly large, and in all cases comprise the honest and
intelligent bone and sinew of the land. 1 atn told
by those who have heard Mr. Overby, that his rea
soning Is irresistible, and his eloquence worthy of
the great cause in which he has embarked. On one
occasion, when he had finished hi* address, an o! 1
weatherbeaten, hard-fisted politician sung out, “Gen
tlemen, I have been a party man all my life, I have
stuck to my party, fought for my party, and voted
with my party through thick and thin, and confound
me if I don’t want to give one honest vote before I
die; I am going to vote for Overby because he goes
in for what is right.” This, lam told by those who
have been present, is but a specimen of remarks that
are made on such occasions. However rough this lit
tle speech may appear to some, it contains the sub
stance of thousands of speeches that will be made,
and obeyed, on the first Monday in October next —
There are thousands too, who have not heard Mr.
Overby, have said and will say and stick to it, “Gen
tlemen, I love my dram, I visit the grogshops, I have
spent hundreds of dollars there, but I shall vote for
PcOotti) to (Temperance, literature, (general Intelligence, ant) tlje fatest Meins.
’ Prohibition, becau.-c I want the grogshops put outo
the way; I want the temptation out of tny sight.” —
Such expressions can be heard in every village ii
Georgia, every day,’ and is proof that these gates oi
sin, tli*. grogshops, are ruining many good hearted anci
honest men in our country. Their honesty in ibis mat
ter, is worthy the imitation of others that might b
specified. Those men are capable of setting, aiv>
will set an example worthy of being followed by par
ties in higher places.
I know that the press, in any reading community,
has great power and influence. But in our country
itis neitherornnipotent or despotic. The party press
es in the State may rant and ridicule as they please,
but when a question comes clearly before the people
which appeals to their consciences, and which, !ik<
this, has a clear and indisputable right and wroiif.
side—when it comes to the touch-stone, which is tin
honest and which the dishonest side, and thosi
two sides are clearly and indisputably distin
guishable, parties who stand on the wrong side
may stand from under. Politicians of both sides
and all parties have said that the people are honest;
and so they are. They have said the people wish to
do right; and so they do. When a question or a
measure is proposed which every body knows to be
right, and proper, and just, and necessary, it will
find friends and supporters, because the majority el
mankind, like the (Cherokee hard-fisted politician,
as well as thousands who spend time and money at
grogshops, are honest and in favor of the right, and
opposed to the wrong, a thousand presses to the con
trary, notwithstanding.
I do not write this, or shall I indite any other ar
ticle, to crown or excite false hopes, hut I write sim
ply to give information to the friends of the cause in
other parts of the State. And Ido now most em
phatically assure you that the signs in this section
are right. While’ the Whig party saints and the
democratic party saints are pouring out their advice,
their pity and care, for the temperance cause ; while
they are so piously telling us that we are ruining the
cause by making it a political question, let us remind
them that it is beginning to walk alone; and that we
know, and that the}’ know, that it was dead and
would have, ere this, been buried, had it not been
for the life blood infused into it by the Atlanta Con
vention. The truth is, the people were worn out
with all talk and no cider at that. We now have a
new era, anew phase, and something to do worth
doing, and a reward ahead worth obtaining.
FULTON.
Atlanta, March 31.
For the Banner.
THE CAUSE TRIUMPHANT—GRIFFIN A TEMPERANCE
TOWN.
Mr. Editor: —As one of “the Old Guard,” I have
desired for years, to see the Liquor Question brought
to the bailot-box. This long cherished desire has
been gratified at last, and “Old Jones” has had the
privilege, this day, (the 2d of April, in the year of
our Lord, 1855,) to vote a, genuine Temperance tick
et. Our City Uouneillately passed an Ordinance,
putting the License to SSOO, to be carried into ope
ration soon. Many of our citizens are opposed to
this Ordinance, and nominated a ticket for city au
thorities, who, it was understood, would repeal it, if
elected. The Temperance men, who, of course, were
in favor of the Ordinance, also nominated a ticket,
and then came “the tug of war.” Seldom, perhaps,
has an election excited more interest. The issue
was one of life or death to the Traffic in this place.
But the people have proven themselves true to their
interests, and the whole Temperance Ticket is elect
ed by a respectable majority. Griffin is “right side
U P-” OLD JONES.
INJUSTICE IS TOLERATED IN THE LAND.
The man is branded with infamy and pronounced
I an outlaw, who would rob a family of their hard earn
ings. Let him dare to steal their property or pilfer
a few dollars, and justice clamors against the offend
er; no man sympathises or lib s his voice in defence.
Rut the rurnseller can rob the family of their daily
bread, take all their hard earnings, destroy their
peace, make a drunken maniac of the father, break
the heart of the mother, pauper the children, and
sunder, knowingly and wilfully, every holy relation
known to man, and the license law legalizes the
damning outrage, and actually protects the perpetra
tor in his foul and inhuman work. Injustice is tol
| erated in the land.
Senators, Representatives, Aldermen and Judges,
j for a stipulated sum, which is often never paid !i
----cense hundreds of men to carry on this robbery be
fore their faces; they behold the reeling sots, the
: poor families; hear the cry of the orphan arid the pe
titions of mother - for r< dr< s; and with stony hearts
; lift their hands to strike down the only protection
■ j that some noble spirits would throw around them
and then, with a disgusting, hypocritical cant, cry
out, we have a “binding contract ’w ith these men—
“vested light-"—“trade legitimate”— “ must not
trammel commerce’' —“constitutional scruples,” Ac.,
frill in rapid succes-ion from ;heir lips, in deep sym
pathy for legalized rumscllera.
Injustice is tolerated in the land. For when men,
urged by noble iinpuis. -and generous sympathies,
I seek to cover the head of the defenceless wife and
‘suffering children from the ruthless onslaughts of the
rurnseller and protect them from absolute -tarvation
j and death, by the only remedy left them, a protec
tive, prohibitory enactment, the judge on the bench
1 decides that it is unconstitutional to shield the fami
lies of drunken men from the remorseless grasp of
the licensed rurnseller. Aldermen, too, professing
: to have hearts that can feel, echo the drunken decie
■ ions of the bench, and wl*L ’
rim. IBM, sinnim. w u, is.
•ounce: “We have contracted with these rumsellers
o do this very work.”
Perhaps they reply with insulted digniti, “we did
lot contract with these mm to make paupers, drunk
ards, poor families, and send men to prison.” Per
lapsnot, but these men are hourly and daily doing
this work, and yot they license them, knowing thai
■ his is the direct result of their abominable traffic.—
They know it does produce crime, riots, bloodshed,
murders and pauperism.
We repeat it, Injustice is tolerated in the land tin
ier license laws which allows a man to use his pro
terty, or rather drugged whisky, rum, gin and bran
iy, to the utter destruction of the peace, health, pro
oerty and lives of thousands of our citizens. If am
ane man can make such a law, or principle appeal
constitutional or benefit-id to mankind in auv form,
ve give him full liberty to occupy tho columns of tin
Southern Organ, in a full and free defence of rutnsel
'ers and their pauper making system.
PROHIBITION 0E DRUNKENNESS.
“Experience has demonstrated what might reftdilt
have been deduced from our knowledge of the pro
perties of alcoholic beverages—that the continuanc.
of the liquor traffic is utterly incompatible with tin
prevalence of temperance, and the thrift, and virtu
which are its attendants.
“Drunkenness, to a greater or less degree, is indis
solubly linked with the traffic. Wo appeal to tin
records of the past, we appeal to the facts of the pre
sent, for confirmation of the verity of this assertion
So manifestly true is this-, that we cannot regard tin
question of license as simply a question of sale or n<
sale; but as involving in its issue the growth of im
mortal men in virtue, or their debasement in vice;
the peace of families; the safety of community; tin
thrift, the usefulness, the honor, the health, and tin
happiness of multitudes of our fellow-citizens, who
are already struggling in tho vortex of the whirlpool,
or, unconscious of danger, an- circling around its
outer edge, their velocity and thoir peril increasing
with every gyration.
“We protest against tho wanton waste of property,
inseparable from this traffic —wasted by the reckless
ness horn of inebriety; by the incendiarism nursed
into a fiendish übiquity in the hot-bed of the grog
shop; by the insanity, partial and temporary, oi
complete and hopeless, which follows ever in thi
wake of drunkenness. We protest against the on
erous taxation to which the industrial portions ol
community arc subjected, in consequence of thi* traf
fic. We protest against the mortgage which it lays
upon every aero of our soil; upon every implement
of our industry; upon every product of our labor oi
of our skill; upon all our natural resources, all our
creative energies, all our public or individual enter
prises. To tax us, as we arc taxed, for the benefit
of poison sellers, when we protest indignantly against
their business, and wash our hands of its unholy
gains, is the climax of meanness and the essence ol
injustice. AVc have a right to demand better treat
ment at the hands of the government; and govern
ment is bound by every consideration of justice and
policy, to protect our rights and interests—the rights
and interests of tho entire community—from the
ruthless assault made upou them by this iniquitous
and anomalous business.
“Wo protest against its ruinous consequences to
the public health, its wanton disregard of human
life; and its war on all the sentiments of virtue, and
all the principles of morality. Government is bound
to listen to this protest, and to give us, not redress
for the injuries already inflicted, for that is impossi
ble; but security against tiieir repetition,
NEW HAMPSHIRE REDEEMED.
The Great Nevs England Grog Shojt to be shut up —
Triumph of Prohibition - -A Maine Law Gover
nor—A Maine Low Senate—A Maine l/iw Coun
cil—A Main- Low House of liepretentatives.
It is with no ordinary degree of satisfaction, says
the New Hampshire Piuenix, that we are enabled to
announce to our readers the fact that New Hamp
shire, so far as the verdict of her people is concerned
has at last wheeled into line, and enrolled herself
among the glorious list of Maine La w States. The
ong wished for day has come at last. New Hamp
shire is redeemed. The contest has been long and
hard. AVc have had to contend against fearful odds.
Fierce opposition from without, dissensions and mu
tual distrust in our own ranks, the power or party
ties, the want -if systematic action- -these, arid
thousand oth<-r adverse cirriimstaticca, have com
bined to take away our strength, and give our ene
mies the advantage over us. Long after every other
New England State had arrayed herself on the side
of prohibition, lon r after we were hemmed in on
every side by prohibitory law, long after our little
State had become the refuge place of many a miser
able rurnseller, driven from the borders of the sur
rounding States, New Hampshire lagged behind.—
But she has moved at last, and when she moves she
mores. The voice of her people has beeu heard in
thunder tones, and cannot, be misunderstood.
.ai>
STOP THE SAD HAVOC.
Hate, Fear, Pride, Ambition and Power, have each
swept their spoils away, and made havoc with the
human race. Their victims lie broken and shattered
up and down the stream of life. But more than all,
and towering above all, with deep, vindictive pur
pose, intemperance has careered headlong over its
wide path of destruction, counting its Gain by mil
lions.
Its power seemed irresistible; the proudest, strong
est intellects have gone down crushed before its rush
ing car. All over the earth its murdered dead lie
, stran ltd iind^ri""-* 1 — ” ’tie, kind
to the savage beast, tho countless flags which met
us at every step, would strike un dumb with sole mi
fear.
.Stop tho sad havoc, should lie the erv of ovcr\
lover ol human kind.
Stop it, by the strong hand of prohibition; this i:
the only principle that will arrest the fiery coursei
■n his fell havoc among the sons of men.
Put the bit and bridle of law in tho mouth of tin
destroyer and check him in his headlong career.
The remedy is always at hand, use it quickly, us.
t effectually.
THE PILGRIM FATHERS.
The following is from the concluding section o
die hirst Report of the Congregational Library Asso
ciation;
That a handful of nick-named Puritans, fleeing
>efore the scourge of intolerance, could bring will
1 hem to tin’s distant wilderness the germ of civil and
religious freedom, which also they succeeded ii
planting and defending against the strong arm of le
galized resistance on the one hand, and ofsavag.
erocity on the other; that these oppressed and inn
luverished exiles should found institutions, whos.
nlluenee has gone forth in all directions, enteriiq
‘he cabinets of kings and modifying their acts o
•egislation, where it has not overturned their thrones,
i at ini tins, and much more, should have follows*
heir feeble beginnings in 1020, may well excite, a
t does, the admiration ofthe world. Neither ancien
•or modern history can produce a parallel. Tin
wandering of .'Eneas and his comrades, and tin
dory of final settlement in L'llimn; all that is true,
md. all that is fabulous, respecting the subsequent
rise ot the Roman Empire from his descendants,
’oes not furnish a record of events so remarkable a*
the unvarnished story of our Pilgrim Fathers,
The language of Thomas Carlyle on this subject,
is no exaggeration: “Hail to thee, poor little shi|
Mayflower, of Delft llaven—poor common-looking
Hip, hired by common charter-party for coined dol
lars—caulked with more oakum and tar—provision
ed with vulgarcst biscuit and bacon,—yet what ship
Argos, or miraculous epic ship, built by the ten
gods, was other than a foolish humbargo in compar
ison! Golden fleeces, or the like, these sailed for.
with or without effect. Thou, little Mayflower, hud.m
In thee a veritable Promethean spurk, the life-spark
of the largest nation on our earth —so wo tnay al
ready name the Transatlantic Saxon nation. Tli<-\
went seeking leave to hear a sermon in their own
method, these Mayflower Puritans—a most indis
pensible search; and yet, like Saul, the son of Kish,
seeking a small tiling, they found Huh unexpected
great thing. Honor to the brave and true! The\
verily, we say, carry lire from heaven, ami have n
power that themselves dream not of. Let all men
honor Puritanism, since Oml has so honored it.”
YANKEE INQUISITIVENESS.
A correspondent relates the following anecdote, il
lustrative ofthe dominant passion of all Yankccdom:
In one of my solitary piscatorial wanderings lust
summer, I passed through a meadow in which a cou
ple of juveniles were making hay. One of them left
Ids occupation and came towards, the brook where 1
was fishing. Ihe followingremarkahle conversation
ensued, we being strangers to each other:
Ihry. —Fishing, an’t yc V
Snooks. —Ya-a-a-s, something of that sort,
iky.—Got many? (he lifts the lid of the basket)
oh, creation! what a lot! Where did ye get them
all?
Snooks. —All up and down the lot.
Hoy- —Guess ye know heow ! what kind of pole’s
that; powerful han’some one, an’t it* What is it
made of ?
Snooks. —(Finding he had awakened an inquisitor.)
Very handsome, indeed—made ol ashwood—twelve
feet in length- in three pieces—mounted with brass
- four inches round at the bottom—tapers gradually
to half an inch circumference at the top—seventeen
ounces weight cost five dollars, and cheap at that!
bought of Martin L. Bradford, in Washington
-treel, Boston, Massachusetts, United Mtatesof Amer
ica, last spring -basket from him too—cost nine
shillings -holds, w hen fuli, twelve and a half pounds
of fish—when half full, or empty, can’t say got
lines and hooks from him, too—lines linen and silk,
various -hooks Limerick, and different sizes—hang
ed on gut —this straw hat cost me two dollars three
i years ago--this old coat twelve, about tho same time
-can't say wimt these ventilating paiJa ami
have forgott* n ivhat the vest came to—-hoots made
for fishing, and cost live dollars—got an old wallet
in my pooket to keep spare hooks and lines in have
a jack-knife also in my pocket and a purse with a
half dollar, a shilling and two cents in it—there was
once a half pintofgood brandy in that bottle—paid two
and ixpence for that pipe got this tobacco at the
store above, a:; part ol a pound weight of very mis
erable stuff—that box I use to keep rnv bait in
which is generally earth-worms; that handkerchief I
got I car t tell when, it is old enough to speak for it
self—l five at the comer above—have been there
two months—rite rid to be there two months longer
—more about myself I shan’t tell you—is there any
thing more in particular you have to ask?
Kustigus, Junior, looked amazed the while I rat
! tied off, with the volubility of a Caleb Quotem, the
above inventory of facts and recollections; and, to
my great surprise, seemed to take the hint that I
w ould deem further inquiries superfluous. Happy
in having furnished one individual at least with a
quantum, svfficit of information, I turned about to
renew my sport.
flcArrvist -WJ...!c oi amidst all other gen- Those
ly, and attractive qualities, tnt y be i
VOL XXL-NIiUKF
‘•Say, stranger, inhere did you dig your in nr\-
I felt completely flummoxed; and I did nr sell
nyeclf time to reflect, and hardly felt mysel nef*
roiii the infliction of another round of mcrclimd
ferrogatories, until at least one-fourth of a neon.
■x-eu measured between me and the insatiable
Jons Qimvrv adams’ monument.
Wo learn from the Qu : ney Patriot that ad'Cf
■nent has just been placed in the Unitarian
n Quincy, to the memory of John Quincy .-' r &o
by his son, l'harks Francis Adams. It is coiotlw
•f highly polished Italian Marble, and in si
brm resembles the one erected to the mem deb
Ex-President John Adams. It was dcsigne art
xecutcd at the Quincy Marble Works. The* it
vhich rests upon the top, was executed in Itatht
lie great American Sculptor, Hiram Powers, t >.
very perfect and life-like in its resemblance the
v.- norated statesman to whose memory it is emu*
I’he following is the inscription : for*
ALTERI SECULO “>1
A. O. “ m#
Near this Place
Reposes all that could die of 11
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,’”
Sou of John and Abignil (Smith) Adan 010
Sixth President of the United States ’*
Born 11 July, 1767, ift "
Amidst the storms of Civil Commotion
lie nursed the Vigor
Which nerves a Statesman and a Patriot
And the Faith
Which inspires a Christian, ar _
For more than half a Century, s
Whenever his Country called for bis Labo| ( y
In either Hemisphere, or in any Capacity, t |‘ )a
He never spared them in lur Cause. un; j
On the twenty-fourth of December, 1814,g c ,j
lie signed the Second Treaty with Great Bri f,, r
Which restored Peace within her Borders.,),.
On the twenty-thirdof February, 184*, j tIJ
He closed sixteen years of eloquent Defence
Os the Lessons of bis Youth,
By Dying at his Post c ,|
In her Great National Council.
A son worthy of his Father. t( , r ,
A Citizen shedding glory on his Country, un .
A Scholar, ambitious to advance Munkin< ia j
This Christian sought to wulk humbly 3 j ll}
In the sight of his God. t ) 10
inj
Beside him lies ),,,
His Partner for fifty years, Duj
LOUISA CATHERINE,
Daughter of Joshua and Catherine (Nuth) Johmom
Born 12th February, 1775, iful
Married, ‘26 July, 1797, pil.
Deceased, 16th May, 1852, iful
Aged 77. In l
l.iving through many Vicissitudes, and liJ
under high Responsibilities
Asa Daughter, Wife, and Mother, the
She proved equal to all. hit
Dying, she left to her Family and her Sox one
The Messed Remembrance vef
Os a “ Woman that fearetb the Lord.”
“ HEREIN IS THAT HAVINii Till’K, ONE SOWETH
ASO ANOTHER HKAPETM. I SENT TOC TO
REAR THAT WHEREON VK BESTOWED
no labor. Other men LABOR
ED, AND VE ARE ENTERED f’
INTO THEIR LABORS.”
)ia ( __ cr-i
lIAIVbHOMC WOMEN.
For handsome women, Troy just beats the work
—Troy Traveller. 11 *
■n*
That’s pure gammon. We’ll set .Syracuse again
any place this side of Eden, for ‘‘real handsome wj e ,}
men.” Do you want to bet anything on that, the
lover of Trojan calico.—Syracuse Journal.
Indeed w as there ever a place so blessed as Alban .”
With beauty, honored at home, arid famed abroai
we ran easily afford to hear our neighbors boasar.|
standing ready at any and all times to fu-nish i
sight, proof of the impossibility of any and all coo
partaon.—Albany Express. ) 0 1.
Why, Smith, there are gals here, of such lovelines
that it is either paralysis, blindness, or spontaneou
combustion, to look upon them. No bachelors ex o** 0 **
bits in Buffalo. They can't survive the hcauty of ou
womon three weeks.—Buffalo Democracy.
There are a good many bachelors in Milwaukie be
j cause the girls are considered too beautiful to be iuar
! ried. They are preserved for Idols.—Milwauki£°*
j Democrat.
Htarwi back gentleman, and let somebody conn
j forward what can speak. The handsomest wonn r
i m the world are those whose modesty and good sense
! render them unconscious of their own charms.—, j
Cleve'and ladies make no pretensions. (!)—Plain
dealer. f
Stop a moment, gentlemen, as it is evident from
the above that neither of you have ever paid a visit
to the “Athens of America, ” which contains morel**
beautiful ladies than any other city in the Union;’ -
their beauty speaks for itself.-—Boston Olive Branch.
Ntow, giteout! Why, gents, we4tavc gals down
here in Georgia, so handsome, that eten the “man in
the moon,” smiles sweetly, when they come out in
moonshine!
This world’s not all a fleeting show
i .
who think that money w ill do anything,
>uapected of doing anything for money.
| JAMES T. IV
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