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Journal of a Washingtonian.
If any one wishes to know how a Washing
tonian does up his work, we refer him to the lol
lowing account which Mr. Vickers, one of the
reformed Baltimoreans, gives to his Western
tour; and if any persons are at a loss for enter
tainment in a temperance meeting, wo recom
mend him the reading of this paper:
Before I commenced with Kentucky, vou will
recollect that I had already visited Pennsylvania,
0 or partially so. On my route I went to Harris
burg, where I found a Washington Society flour
ishing astonishingly ; they heard ofmy being at
York; that 1 was coming on ; so as soon as we ar
rived, some one put his head into the stage and
cried out, 11 Is Vickers here? ” Yes, said F, he is
—so off they carried me to a temperance meeting,
and what astonished me more than anything else,
they opened it with singing a temperance song;
they al ways do it. and it does sound most delight
ful. Every member there, while in the meeting,
wears a badge of the society on the lappel of Ins
coat, so that any stranger can tell who are the
members. I went from there to Westmoreland,
and according to the good old principles of the
/ w ashington Society, I went to see a distiller;
an I offered him the pledge to sign. “.No, sir,”
saitl he; “ 1 manufacture the article, and do you
suppose I would sign 1 I'll tell you what I’ll do,”
said he, “ I have a son, and 1 should be right
glel if you could get him to sign; and you mav
* toll him, if he will, there are five hundred dollars
in the hands of Mr. Taylor, and the home farm,
and he shaft have them both she signs it”—like
many a fuller, he was willing to give any thing
but the influence of example. So off I went in
'j search of the son. 1 told him what his father
said. “ Well now,” said lie, “how can you ex
pect inc to trot when daddy and mammy both
paces ?” 11 urned round and went right oif after
the old man—now said I, what do you say to
i that? “Well, sir,” said lie. “I pledge you inv
% word 1 never saw it in that light before, and I
never will drink or manufacture another drop as
; long as I live;” and he put down his name upon
; the spit.’ I took tiae pi dgc to the young man
i with his father's name to it, and he signed it di
u rectly. I found some men in that part of the
U country who were sacreligious enough to take
the Bible in order to justify drinking. ~ One man
■% who had not courage to come out himself picked
1 out some passages of scripture, and sent a parcel,
about thirty rowdies, to propound them to me- -so
j the whole gang came up with sticks in their
f? hands, and the foremost bully among them came
Jm up close to me, and said he, “ Sir, do you say
" whiskey is my enemy 1” Yes, replied 1. “Well
then,” said he, “does’nt the scriptures say we
I must lore our enemies?” At that moment it
( seems to me, as though by a kind of inspiration,
j an answer came into my head, and I replied to
him, Yes, sir, it does; but the scriptures does’nt i
tell us we must tat ox drink our enemies! At
| this they all burst out into a laugh, and the whole !
I band signed upon the spot. I never let old King
i Alcohol run me off the ground if I can help it.
When I arrived at Pittsburg, 1 heard some
I good news about the reform there. There was a
man there who had been a senator, but before
any of these temperance efforts had reached
there, he had become so low from drink that no
man would give him a sip to buy segars, because
they knew before ever he’d get to a tobacco shop
he’d spend it for liquor. That man is now may
or of the city—Alleghany city; and another man
who was a “notorious drunkard, is now chief mar
shal of the same place.
I next went to Cincinnati, and there has been
a mighty work going on there—lsay there has
been, since I was there before, a mighty work—
why they have had meetings every night, except
Sunday night, since. It’s a rare chance that
ever you’d see a drunkard there, I assure you. I
thought, however, there might be some few left,
so I thought it would be as well to hold a mcet
ing down on the river—accordingly I gave out on
Saturday, that the next day there would be a
fe meeting between Main and Sycamore streets, on
the river bank. It rained nearly all dav Sunday;
however, I mounted an old box and there soon
mustered a large crowd. Before the meeting
was over about thirty persons signed, and a whole
steamboat’s crew—captain, mate, all hands and
cook too. And now they won’t have any hotly
AUGUSTA. GA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1842
about that boat who is not a total abstinence man.
and there is no danger now, hardly any where
upon the Ohio; a great many of the hands, and
the ofiicers ot many ot the boats, arc temperance
men.
As I was going from Pittsburg down to Cin
cinnati, 1 foundevery man on board a temperance
: man but two, and one ot these was an old pledge
> man; the other, who was a fine fellow, but loved
a little occasionally, allowed that he was a free
man and did not intend to be bound, and that I
was a slave, I could not do as I pleased; but 1
i proved to him before we got to our journey’s end,
that he was the slave, anil I the free man. lie
wanted to drink, but was ashamed to go to the
| bar; so when the boat stopped at a small town
I this side ot Marietta, he ran up to a little tavern
on the hill. When ho came back—Now, said I,
which ot us is the slave ? lie lives in Louisville,
and when I go back there 1 expect we shall get
| him.
; While about Cincinnati, I visited a small
town called Mount Vernon, and 1 must tell you
ot a certain class of folks I met with there. The
temperance cause meets with more opposition in
that part ot the country from u certain class of
: Christians who hold up the idea that tiic church
is temperance society enough—that if a man's a
Christian lie’s a temperance man. They arc
called Campbellites; and there are a good many
of them hold up that doctrine. One of these
men, a very line man too, got right up in a meet
ing where I was speaking, and said, that as lor
bis part, lie could’nt see any use at all for a tem
perance society, that the church was a suflicicnt
salegu ird; he could take care of himself; and
that a little, lie had found out, did a man good.
Up gets a little fellow, who was pretty well corn
ed “That’s right, old fellow,” said he, tapping
him on the shoulder, “give it to’em; you meet
mv vi ws exactly.” “ Well,” replied the Camp
bellite, “it I do, I’ll nop meet them any longer.”
And so we got him, mid nearly the whole town,
ministers and all, except one; at last he came in
and said that he had always thought the church
1 'emperanee society enough, and now hehad dis
covered that the church was & subject between
him and his God, but this was between him and
his fellow man.
There was a poor little fellow near that place,
who was almost dead; he was drawn double al
most from drink; lie lived in a poor miserable
hovel out of the town, with nothing but a dirt
floor. They told us about him. Well, said I,
1 let’s go and see him. O, said they, it’s no use ;
you can never do any tiling with him. We
went to see him. I asked him if he would not
like to become a respectable man once more.
*' es, 1 w,.u!d,’i said he. M ell now, said 1, you
can live to be a respectable man yet. “ Well, if
you will show me how, 1 will try,” was his reply.
Now, said I, in the first place you must get your
own will to d» it, and then you must sign the
pledge. Well, lie did. And I told some of the
gentle i.en then that he must have some clothes—
second hand clothes, said I, will make this man
look first rate. Next thing J told them to make
warm soup —I’m a great advocate for soup, there
is nothing like it in such cases. Next we got a
tub of warm’ water and some soft soap, and then
went to work; forthe little fellow was amazingly
dirty—it was ground in his very flesh, like.
W hiie they were washing him we’d occasionally
give him some soup; and it appeared to me that
I <>t every spoonful you could see a joint of his back
j bone slip into its place. Weil, we dressed him
I up, and on the fourth night he give in his expe
! rience.
I next went from Cincinnati to a place called
Portsmouth, where there is one of the largest
iron works in the western country —they employ
120 men, and every man of them signed the
pledge. I left in that place a flourishing society
of upwards of4oo members.
From there I went, according to a previous in
vitation, to Kentucky. Perhaps you would like
here to know something of Mr. Brown, the gen
tleman that went with me from Cincinnati
Well, he was the man that signed on the last
night that I was in Cincinnati before; poor fel
low, he was almost dead ; one foot in the grave,
he was so low. In the first place he has a good
experience, ho was a regular drunkard, and is a
pretty smart fellow, and speaks off hand. He
was once deputy U. S. Marshal—l found him a
good help-mate; he is a noble hearted fellow,
and I like him. We first went to Maysville.
As I came back, I found in the places which we
had passed through societies as follows: Mays
ville Society 1700; Washington 350; Mayslick
700; Lexington 2300; Frankford 900; Nicho
lasville GOO; Georgetown 500; Versailles 400 ;
Midway 250, Crossings 100; Stamping Ground
(the place where the buffaloes stamp) 150; Lan-1
caster 400; Canville 800; Laurenceburg 200;'
Hogshead Church 100; Harrodsburg 600’; Per
rysvillc 150; Hustonviile 250, Stanfrom 350;
Syricia 100; Richmond 100: Bryansville 100—
All Washington total abstinence pledges—no
variation—would’nt allow any—making in all
While we were holding meetings at Maysville,
there was a poor fellow put off of one of the bftats
I going down the river. He had no money, no
friends, no clothes, and was very siek. Some
■ one told us of him and we went down and found
him. I spoke to him, and told him that I knew
; how to feel for him in his situation, and asked if
he would not like to sign the Washington pledge
—and what do you think were the first words he
said 1 W hy, that he was not going to sign away
; his liberty ! 1 told him that lie would be fej anil
j clothed, and work would be found tor him ; that
j there were plenty o. Washingtonians there rea
dy to assist him if he could only get his own con
| sent to reform. I then told him that his situation
was precisely as mine was once in Charleston.
Said he “ \V hy 1 used to live there, and 1 carried
on the largest saddle and harness factory in the
place.” i At last lie consented to sign; we sent
for soma clothes, had him doctored up, and he
was getting along finely. Three days afterwards
I was relating an account of this poor fellaw in
Washington. A gentleman who heard the ac
count rode flown to .Maysville the next day, and
discovered him to be the very man he had served j
his time with. Ile took him home, and he now 1
has a comfortable home as long as he lives.
There were not many drunkards left before we;
left .Maysville; however, there were some old 1
fellows we could never get into a church. Let
us have a meeting in the market-house, said I,
that’ll rcacli them. So we had it cried about
town that Messrs. Vickers and Brown would
hold a temperance experience meeting in tile
market-house. The market-house was so near
the coffee-house that we had all the eofi'ee-housc
men and haul cases in the place. At this meet
ing, after I had done speaking, a brewer who
carried on a pretty large business, commenced
replying to me. While he was speaking, the
people began to come up on all suits. Go on,
said I, there’s three now signing under your ad
ministration to every one under mine. The same
night we had a meeting in the Presbyterian
church, and it was crowded—they flocked to it
from tile market-house and every where else;
almost every one came forward ; the brewer see
ing them all agoing, and iiis custom going, tho’t
he might as well go too; so down went his name.
A Large Throat.
The Morning Star, published at Cincinnati,
relates the following anecdote of a young gentle
man of the South who had expended a large for
tune, —money, lands, negroes,—every thing, in
a course of intemperance and profligacy.
lie had just paid a last year’s grog bill of $800;
one day he was walking in the street very leisure
ly, when seeing a physician on the opposite side,
he called out to him, said he wanted him to come
over. 1 Doctor,’ said lie, ‘ I wish you'd just take
a look down my throat. ‘ 1 don't discover any j
tiling sir,' said the doctor, after looking very care- !
fujiy. ‘ You don’t!’ said lie, ‘ why that’s strange; j
will you he kind enough, sir, to give another look.’
■ Really, sir,’ said the doctor, after a second look,
‘ I don’t see any thing.’ ‘ JSTo! why doctor, there
is a farm, ten thousand dollars, and twenty ne- j
groes gone down there!’ And it was a fact too,
he had really swallowed the land, negroes and all.
This young man acquired the habit of drinking 1
at college from a fellow-student from Mississippi,
who it was said, had actually, out of one hun- 1
dred and twenty companions made the majority I
of them drunkards, hy his example. They at!
first used to smuggle wine into their rooms, and \
afterwards they drank openly at the hotel. All
this from the influence ofone young man.
The Mouse in Liquor.
Mr. Smith, the reformed drunkard from Lon
don, apologised for much of the folly of the drunk
ard, hy the following story of the Cat and the
Mouse:
A Mouse raging about a brewery happened to
fall into one of the vats, was in imminent danger
of drowning, and appealed to a cat to help him
out. The cat replied it is a foolish request, for ;
as soon as I get you I shall eat you. Tile mouse ;
piteously replied, that fate would be better than j
to be drowned in beer. The cat lifted him out, |
but the fumes of the beer caused pussy to sneeze,,
the mmse took refuge in his hole The cat call- 1
cd upon mousey to come out —“ You rascal, did I
you not promise that I should eat you ?” “Ah!” j
replied mousey', “ but you know I was in liquor
at tlic time.'’
Whiskey and the Gallows.
The Rev. Dr. Yore stated at a late meeting in
Dublin, that he had attended at least lilO crimi
nals to the scaffold, and every one ofthem declar
ed, that intemperance was the means of bringing
them lo that end.
“It’s all over with us 1”
feuiil an old distiller in our hearing yesterday.
11 Making whiskey is killed dead—done up teeto
| tally—ruined." “ And what are you doing
now said a bystander “ Why we have rigged
up for grinding wheat tor the farmers.” “ flow
] many barrels of flour can vou grind a day V’
| “Why, we can make about 40,1 suppose, though
I I hardly know'. We have only just smashed
down, and we have turned the old distillery just
in season for the new wheat crop. Since the
. W ashingtonians have killed off our business, we
must make a change and do something for a liv
ing you know.” “But corn will be cheap,” said
the bystander, “why do you not go on making
j whiskey 1” “Oh, hang the whiskey,” said the
I old distiller, “ what’s tile use of making if nobody
will buy 11 would not make if they would give
: me the corn for nothing. 1 must do something
better than making whiskey at twelve cents a
1 gallon.”
Here was an “ old ’un,” really choaked off by
I lie W ashingtonians—could not pursue his call
ing any longer because no money could be made
by it. Let all Washingtonians be encouraged
;to go forward with redoubled energy. We will
pjit out the fires of ths “ old King,” one after ano
j ther, till lie cannot raise a light to show where
he is.— \Morning Star.
Temperance Singing.
An intemperate man, on a visit to his friends in
this place, was persuaded to go to one of our
meetings But, in consenting, he declared he
would not sign the pledge. He went, and was
surprised and charmed with a beautiful quartette
sung that evening. “That’s the right sort of
I toupwance, said he. “If I had not vowed I
would not sign here, I would join.” He went
back to his home collected his tippling associ
■'t's, and termed, without help, a flourishing
temperance society. Soon after this a revival of
religion visited that rural population ; and the
I TwT beCamu a Christian con
fer . When the things of earth shall live only
| m distant memory, he will not forget the simDie
and sweet melody of the “Chrvstal Spring”
even amid the resounding and myriad-fonaued
harmony of the Anthem of Redemption !~W
port of Harrisburg W. T. Soc. r
.... Young Men.
What a pleasing sight it is to see the youth
of our land, the hope of our country, so zealously
engaged in the temperance reformation. Who
can divine the benefits wc are to derive from their
co-operation. Who can estimate the stores of
I prosperity they are accumulating for themselves ?
Uuarding in early hie against the vice from which
al oUiers spring-removing the temptation that
has so often enticed the unwary into the haunts
of dissipation and disgrace—the young hlcn of
| ®“ r natl ”" W'H 1,(1 'veil fitted to wear with manly
dignity the honors soon to fall upon them. We
; believe that in a few short years the whole aspect
ot society will be entirely changed. All who
now oppose the work of reform-all who now
ijuafi the ruby wine when it gives its color in the
tmp —ail who now seek the halls where bachana-
! an r «;velrv drowns, for the moment, every
thought of time and eternity-will have passed
rom the busy scene of life, giving place to the
sober and clear-hoaded men who are rising up to
ill the stations of those who will then sleep with
be generations of the earth that have gone before
them.— Teetotaller.
Cure tor Drinking Spirituous Liqors.
Talee two ounces of the flour of consideration,
j dissolve it in a pint ofthc spirit of self-denial, then
add one quart ofthejuiceofresolutiontoit;shake
it well together, then put it into the golden bowl
—if lll <- golden bowl (memory) be not broken:
then sweeten it with the sugar of high-reputation.
A dram of these hitters may be taken as often as
the appetite craves liquor. A larger portion of
juice may be added ifncccssary, and if one bowl
full should not perfect a cure, it must be filled up
again with the same kind; the longer one takes
these bitters, the less bitter will they taste.
I rifles are not to be despised. The nerve of a
tooth, not as large as the finest cambric needle,
will sometimes drive a man to distraction. A
musquito can make an elephant absolutely mad.
1 he rock which caused a navy to founder, is the
work of a worm. The warrior that withstood
death in a thousand forms, may be killed by an in
sect. Small pleasures make upthe sum of human
happiness. The deepest wretchedness often re
sults from a perpetual countinuance of petty pains.
A single look from those we love often produces
exquisite pain or unalloyed pleasure. The first
glass of wine that was drunk, led to all the hor
rors, miseries and crime that have sprung from
drunkenness, and darkened the earth for centu
ries.
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