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ed, you II think that there’s ali these fellows a looking out, and that il you do it, there’ll he such a fuss raised, as no man on earth can stand. (Cheers.) And so you’ll wish not only to avoid the evil, but to avoid even the appearance of evil. Put your bond and seal to the thing in the eyes of ■all men, and friends and enemies will applaud you. it is a perfect talisman against all harm. I wish Mr. Briggs was here: I hoped he would be here to tell a story—which is too long for inc to tell. (Cheers, and cries of go on.) No —I’ll not tell it—but i’ll just say that I signed that pledge just at the time—and the first time—when 1 felt that craving which physicians lell us is the sure forerunner of confirmed drunkenness. And from the moment that I {Hit my hand to that pledge I was reliever! from any such feeling, so that I not only never drank again, but I never warded t» dfrirtk. (Cheers.) I can’t see, then, 'vhy every bofly don’t sign the pledge. [Cheers ] They ought to do it, (Cheers.] I’ll toll you a story about its cffects—whcther true or not I can’t say, but the story is told. A Washingtonian, a short time since, met a moder ate wine-drinker, and he was rather disposed to taunt the Washingtonian with carrying things to excess, and so on. He said he cared nothing about wine, and could leave it off any time, and therefore would’nt take the pledge. The other used tobacco. Now, said lie, that tobacco is just as bad as wine No, said the other, it don’t make a man drunk. But, says he, I’ll tell you what I’ll do, if you’ll agree to give up wine and sign the pledge, I’ll throw away my tobacco. And •he put his hand to his mouth, and was about to sign and seal the bargain by throwing away hts <1 ui<l, when, do you believe, the wine-drinker made off and cleared out. (Cheers and laugh ter ] But see what it does. The Washingtonian is willing to quit a comparative evil that he has loved dearly trom his youth, to prevent another from that, the consequences of which he has so much reason to dread. There is another branch, among many, that I ought to have touched upon, and that l will touch upon before I leave New-York, if 1 shall have the honor and pleasure of being invited to sjieak again in this city, as I understand I ain. There is this difficulty, however, in goin j over this whole subject. For our friends here, the Reporters, takedown and publish every thing a man has to say, so that every body reads it, and he can't say it again: and that’s what I call tak ing a man's sjieech clean out of his mouth. And then his mouth is stopped for a second speech on almost every thing he had to say. For when he s got hold of a few bright ideas, as he thinks, and a few good things, which he concludes he can speak two or three times, he fouls that it’s published next day and read hy every body ; and '■’-then he's compelled not to touch any thing he touched upon before. But there’s one subject 1 must speak about before 1 leave the city, and that is the importance of the ladies taking it up. One woman can do more than forty men. I once heard a great and good man say, that few tilings were rarer than conspiracies or combinations among woman for a common object —that such things were more rare than almost any occur rence on earth. But that if ever we did find it, they were sure first to he in the right, and they were then dead certain to conquer. [Cheering.] And the reason why I wish to speak of this, is not because any of the ladies are likely to suffer in their own persons from this sin. Thank Heaven, this vice is unknown among the gentle sex. [Cheers.] W'ser and better than man upon tliis subject,—they, amid the vice and crime, and suffering, and despair, by which this evil surrounds them, neither the vice, nor the crime, nor the suffering, or despair, which have torn to pieces their own fond hearts, has ever tempted them to flv to this accursed source for relief.— [Cheers.] But 1 shall speak again on the ex ceeding importance of this point—and if the ladies do take this in hand, it will fall to the ground. And not a quarter of a century —aye, not ten years will elapse, if the ladies of the United States take it in hand, before every trace of intemperance will have been swept from our I and. Tub Issue at Hand. —The abolitionists arc about to hold a great meeting in New York at which the repeal of the Union is to be openly and fully discussed. One of the new Judges has lately given it in charge to the Grand Jury of his Court to have them indicted for high treason, if they dared thi s to strike at the constitution of the country. Without venturing any opinion on the particular point in question, we will say that it is high time that these mad and mischievous mpn should be brought to their senses. The laws y ought to be vindicated; for without it liberty de generates into licentiousness. These men, a few years since, affected only to aim at abolition by ;moral means. They are now the open advocates ofa dissolution of our noble Union. The sacri fice of the past, thcTpeace of the present, and the interest of the future demand that they be arrest ed in their wicked and reckless crusade. If a few of their leaders were hanged, the rest would prehaps learn to attend to their own business, and leave their neighbors at peace. We trust that the most prominent amongst them may yet he brought to condign punishment.— Sav. Geor. The Postmaster General has issued instruc tions that newspaper postage is to be charged up on newspapers, extra newspapers, supplements to newspapers, anil the printed or written notices sent by the publishers of newspapers to their sub scribers, attached to the margin of the newspaper, stating the amount due for subsbription. [Masonic Register. THE WASHINGTONIAN:| AUGUSTA, JUNE 11th, 184*. U'aa/iington Total Abstinence Pledge., We, ichose names are hereunto annexed, desirous of forming a Society for our mutual benefit, and to* guard against a pernicious practice, which is injurious to our health, standing and families, do pledge ourselves as Gentlemen, not to drink any Splritous or Malt Uiquors, Wine or Cider. O’ A meeting of the Washington Total Ab stinence Society, will be held in the UNITARI AN CHURCH, on Wednesday Night next, at half-past 8 o’clock. Several Addresses may be expected. By order W. HAINES, Jr. June 11, 1842. Secretary. To our Patrons. To-day tve issue the first No. of the Wash ingtonian, and from the very liberal patronage already gi' en us, predict our most sanguine ex pectations will be realized. But a short time ago, and the idea of establishing a publication devoted to the cause of Total Abstinence, in this city, would not have met with the supjiort necessary to insure its success, and the attempt of a work similar to the one we have undertaken, would have lircn deemed fruitless. But, within a few short weeks, an entire change has coinc over our city— the citizens have risen in their might to support the Pledge of the Washingtonians, and are now prepared to sustain us. It becomes us then, as public journalists, just entering upon a new career, in return for the public liberality of the friends ofour paper, so readily evinced towards us, to do our duty in the manner it devolves upon us. We shall steadily observe the strictest re gard for the morality of our paper, its usefulness to society, and the obligations we arc under, to make it worthy the confidence of the people. Keeping aloof from all religious or political con troversies—devoted to no sectarian doctrine— it will be our aim, to impress upon our fellow men the importance of an union on a subject of vital interest totheir welfare—the welfare of our whole country. We have not yet received our exchange pa pers, and arc compelled to make selections for this No. principally from such as our friends were kind enough to loan us. Wc shall be able hereafter, to furnish articles for our paper, from many of the best publications in the country; and ho|ie, through tile assistance of original con tributions promised, and the matter gleaned from such a source, to make the Washingtonian worthy the cause it advocates. O’ The second No. of Thk Washingtonian will be issued on the 20th of the present month, after which tune, our regular days of publication will be the Ist and 3rd Saturday of every month. US’ Wc have issued an extra quantity ofour first No., and left them with many persons who arc not subscribers. We will call on all such on the day of our next publication, to receive the names of subscribers. Those who do not wish our paper continued, will please preserve the co pies, and notify us. It is probable wc may have to supply many of our subscribers with the num bers from the commencement ofthe volume, and in order to do this, we would thank those to retain the Nos. as above requested, that wc may obtain them. Payments. We will call on our subscribers in the city, for their payments in advance, on the day ofour next publication, (the 20th inst.) an acknowledgement ofwhich, and all other payments,will be published in a list, regularly every month. Mr. Marshall’s Speech. The length of this speech, which wc need make no apology for laying before our readers, excludes a portion of matter from this No. which we have in type for our next. We hope its length will not prevent them from giving it a thorough perusal. The arguments are “strong as holy writ”—the speech throughout lively and entertaining, and cannot fail to impress upon them the truth of his remarks. gjf Wc return our thanks to the editor ofthe Hamburg Journal, for the favorable notice given us in that paper, on the 2d inst, as also his kind offer to receive subscriptions for us. Our carrier will deliver the paper regularly to subscribers re siding in Hamburg, if a list of twenty names or more, can be obtained. Temperance Celebration lor the 4th July. At a meeting of the Washington Total Absti nence Society of Augusta, held on the 10th of May last, the following resolutions were adopted: , Resolved, That there be a Temperance Cele bration on the evening of the 4th of July next, and that there be a Committee of arrangements appointed by the President, to make all the ne cessary preparations for carrying the object of this resolution into effect. Resolved , That an executive committee con sisting of four from each ward, be appointed, to co-operate with the Board of Managers in for warding the objects of this society. Resolved, That the proceedings ofthis meeting be published in the city papers. The following arc the committees appointed: C. A. INGRAHAM,'t ! E. W. TOLMAN, ! Committee of | E. E. SCOFIELD, [ Arrangem’ts. JAMES HARPER, J Ward No. I.—John W. Wightman, W. F. Pepiberton, James Godbee, Samuel C. Mustin. Ward No. 2.—Luther Roll, J. L. Mims, B. T. Nichol, Beal M. Duval. Ward No, 3.f—Wm. O. Eve,C. A. Ingraham, John B. Murphy, E. E. Scofield. Ward No. 4.—Porter Fleming,Hawkins Huff, Alexander Philip, R. P. Spelman. For the Washingtonian. “ th(tt rulelh his spirit, is better than he that takelh a city /” If this proverb of the wisest of men be true, the Alexanders and Bonapartes sink into pigmies by the side of reformed drunkards: These have subdued habits of sell indulgence of gigantic force, by the simple force of principle; while those, have only overcome physical force, by still greater physical force: These, have controlled passion and inclination, while those have merely in accordance with inclination, destroyed every thing in their paths, because they had the means of destruction in their hands. These, from de formity have brought forth beauty, while those, from all that was beautiful and admirable in men, have brought forth all the hideousness of incar nate demons: These, from the feebleness of body, and fatuity of mind consequent upon in temperance, have struggled into that energy of both, which has made them blessings to all around them; while, those, from almost super-human strength of mind and body, have sunk into mad men, whose onward progress is murder and rapine, and whose rear is one scene of wide spread desolation and ruin. It is very doubtful whether the reformed drunk ard has his equal on earth, certainly not his su perior, except in the humble, self-denying Christ ian. The temperance ofthc latter embraces “ all things,” and his heaven descended principle of action, is more comprehensive in every point of view, than that which guides and governs the former—he prefers shame to honour, tributation to enjoyment, and pain to pleasure, when duty requires, while the reformed sensualist may only be seeking honor among men and temporal happi ness by his reformation. But this superiority of the Christian in all true sublimity and moral grandeur of character, lessens not the truth of our proposition in the sense we wish it taken— that among men of the world, the reformed drunk ard has not his equal in true greatness, according to the sense of the motto we have adopted for the caption of this article. He hath ruled his own spirit—he hath subdued his own passions, and he hath conquered his own powerful evil and de structive habits. Who can compare with him 1 Can he who has not, like him, proved victorious in the same unequal combat I—The simple love of good, overcoming inclination, example and habit, when energy of character has been almost entirely destroyed! Do any of the great generals of ancient or modern times, deserve to rank with these greatest of Conquerors ? For truly great men then, we must look to reformed drunkards! In further proof of this fact, we have only to no tice that the really feeble among the intemperate, do not reform—they have not the resolution even to make the attempt—they perish in their own native insignificance. But no sooner is the chord of native greatness touched and thereby made to vibrate, in the bosoms of nature’s noble men who have been overcome by this habit, than they struggle with unconquerable perseverance into light, life, and all other fruitions of sobriety. The fact to which we have just paid respectful attention, is one of the most cheering mental de velopments of the nineteenth century. The en ergies of our race have long been enchained by the unworthy sentiment, that like blocks of wood or marble, we could be influenced to action, nei ther by the power o( truth, nor by the persuasion of love. But as in former times, the great prac tical truth in the moral regeneration of the na tions, was taught by the declaration—“ of these stones, (the Gentiles,) God is able to raise up children to Abraham,” so now, the stupendous falsehood that has disfranchised mankind from the rights and privileges of virtue, is exposed to withering contempt, by the reformation of that class of our glorious race, universally thought to be the most feeble and the most helpless. And that this truth might stand forth in conspicuous anti peerless majesty, our benificent Father has so ordered, that, not the eloquence and learning of the wise, but the plain practical discourses of reformed drunkards themselves, should be the in strumentality, by which mankind should learn, t hat obedience or disobedience, sobriety or drunk enness, happiness or misery, was left to their own choice! Mark it well!! Political Journals. —Among the signs ofthc times, which augurs well for our side, we notice the attention which Temperance receives from our political presses. Two years ago they were very chary of their columns. Often were they | solicited for a [dace in their papers, but Temper ance Societies were in such odour, that editors wished our communications should he !t like an angel’s visits, few and far between." Now they need no solicitation. No bread will be ta ken from them—no votes will be lost by publish ing our successes, and wishing us “ God speed.” In the Editorial department we now see the lan guage of eulogy and of benediction. Whence this mighty change! How is it that the power of the press is turned to our support 1 Public opinion is with us, we rejoice in it. How great our en couragement to persevere in our efforts.--Pen field Temperance Banner. Aristocratic Notions. —There exists a great and fundamental error in the education of our youth. Thousands arc permitted by their pa rents to consider themselves of a superior caste to their neighbors, because their situation is placed beyond manual labor—not by any merit of their’s or their forefathers, but very frequently merely by fortuitous circumstances. No other Aristocracy should exist among a Nation of Republicans, than the Aristocracy of personal talent and merit. Our Declaration of Independence most emphatically declares that “ all men are born equal;” and there is no doubt but when the great and noble chiefs of the Revo lution put their lives and every other earthly blessing near and dear to man in extreme jeop ardy, they intended to root out the false notions of Aristocracy, that one man was superior to another on account of his wealth, or that such wealth could entitle him to triumph over the feel ings and situation of his neighbor. These false notions of society, (derived in part from the op pressive feudal system,) should never have found a place in our Republican soil. The atmosphere of Liberty and Equality, should have been con sidered too pure to jiermit a weed of such noxious and uncharitable growth to flourish among us. Much of this false pride has, however, in later years, been augmented in our youth of both sexes, by instilling into their minds wide distinc tions, supposed to exist between them and their poorer neighbors. No such thing as real respectability can exist, unless it be associated with an honorable, chari table, and useful life ; and so far as this is valua ble, every Profession and Trade fairly carried on is respectable, and so is the toil of the laborer, if faithfully performed by the poorest man anion<r us. Having thrown off the yoke of foreign political Aristocracy, should be extremely captious of continuing its moral bondage. It is astonishing how much evil passion is gen erated by an overbearing and contemptuous spirit, when the poorer man considers himself insulted and treated as unworthy the kind notice of his opulent neighbor: the latter should reflect that the former conceives it a sufficient cause for discontent, that he is not able to enjoy the plea sures and luxuries which fall to the lot of him, who insults him, and words of kindness should at least soothe the situation of him, whom fortune has not befriended, although generally, his in nato value is greater than the man who adds harsh language or unfeeling demeanor to indi gence. There is another very forcible reason why the rich should conduct themselves with affability towards the poor. The most opulent knows not a day but his riches may “ make to themselves wings and flee away.” How frequently have we (especially of late years), witnessed the rich, by a sudden vicissitude and freak of fortune, deprived almost of every terrestrial blessing! A fire—the loss of property by debtors—an epidemic—pros tration of health—-the death of those wc value above every earthly boon—all these, and a thou sand other ills which flesh is heir to,” are ever ready to admonish us on what a feeble tenure we owe our boasted Aristocracy—and that nothing is so unstable as earthly felicity—in fact, it hangs on a thread of a more slender tenuity than the gossamer— and yet with the experience that thousands of our once happy fellow mortals are annually brought to poverty and the grave—the affluent survivor (who escapes retribution) con j tinues to treat his indigent fellow citizen with | contumely, even whilst he must be aware, on a moment’s reflection, that any cause for his aristo j cratic superiority is actually most insecure, sha- I dowy and evanescent.— [Amcr. Masonic Reg.