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■ From the (Penfield) Temperance Banner.
The Excommunicated.
■ The following sketch is neither fictitious nor
Rextravagant— not a tale founded mi fact; but a
Hrmrrafire of fact. Should any fact be disputed,
Hthe names of persons and places can be furnished.
Hit is thought expedient to use fictitious names, ;
Hexcept so far as to state that the events transpired |
■in Georgia.
The Church, byway of distinction, we pro- j
■pose to designate the Purity Baptist Church of ]
S county. This Church acts “on the prin-
Bciple of non-fellowship with any Convention or
■Church, or member of the Church, that may sup-
S: port, or be in favor of the so called benevolent iji
jp* stitutions of the day, whether Missionary, Bible,
f Tract, Sunday School or Temperance Associa
tions.” No new member can lie received, nor can
| any present member bo retained, who avows hlm
. self in favor of, or willing to countenance and
l support either of the ai>ove mentioned societies.
The history of the excommunicated, one of
it whom we shall designate as Tnebriosirs, and the
fflioiiu’r, his wile, under the name of Sobrietas—
B both members of the Purity Church, shall be
H given in few words. Though we have no eon-
I troversy with the Church, though as Temper-
II ance advocates we do not impugn the motives,
B rules of action, or principles, or even discipline of
|b, any Church; yet matters ot history—statement
p of facts may be within the province of all.
|> Inebriosus was, at the commencement of life,
I what was then termed a sober man. li’ be ever
| erred from tits paths of sobriety, that deviation
• was caused bv his social habits, for the remark
; was often made, that Inebriosus was the must
Baree--hearted man in the village where lie lived.
»|jHis popularity, perhaps, exceeded that of any
■man in the county. He was resjiectcd as a citi-
Eju-n, and more, was received into the Church as a
pPfceliever. His history is much the same as that
t. of other inebriates. He was again and again
\ called to account for his inebriety, till at last tor
» bearance could be extended no farther—he was
excluded the Church for intemperance. Years
away. Inebriosus promised again and
jfugain to himself, to his wife, to his physician, to
but as often relapsed into his former
habits.
A few weeks since, the subject of Total Ab
stinence was presented —he signed the pledge.
Sobrietas, his wife, in her extreme solicitude for
, the reformation of her husband, herself signed
the pledge. For many years she had been a
member in regular standing in the Church—the
same Church trotn which hor husband hail been
expelled for drunkenness. Sister S. is visited by
the deacon, and informed that the brethren and
'sisters of the Church were aggrieved by reason
#of her signing the Total Abstinence Pledge.
4 Hor answer is, that she is sorry to have injured
the feedings of any brother or sister; and that
for the sake of peace, she will request her name
9f erased from the pledge. Not that she can per
§■■ ccive any immortality in the act; and not having
sinned in this particular, she cannot profess re
pentance. The Pastor says she has sinned and
must profess repentence, or be excluded from
Church privileges, which in all probability will
be done. It would be an anomalous case, where
B Inebriosus to apply for restoration to the Church,
and be told he must first renounce all connexion
| with the Total Abstinence Society, by whose in
% fiuence he had become a man of sobriety -
Such are the facts of the case-The husband
, excluded from the Church for intemperance; the
wife for using her influence, in away she thought
i right, to reform her husband! Comment is uti
necary.
Nothing harsh need be said against such mea
sures—“nor railing returned for railing.” “To
their Master they stand or fall.” It, indeed, the
“ Total Abstinence Society is the work of the
devil,” as the Purity Church members pretend,
I then the repentence, is on the side of Sobrietas.
f “If the work of the devil,” then the anathemas
| hurled at the Society by the Church may lie de
served. Though the Pastor may not wish to see
| the “track of a Temperance man about his
' church,” yet Temperance men may have as lit
| tie inclination to visit his Church as he can have
■ to “ sec their tracks there.” No doubt he would
• visit the sins of Temperencc men with inquisito
rial rigor were it in his power. As it is, his an
themas fall harmless at their feet.
An Observer.
All religious men subscribe to at least one re
ligious paper, that they may obtain information
ofwhat are the prospects of their respective sects
and what is the progress of religion in general.
The same anxious feelings for intelligence on the
subject of temperance, ought to exist in the breast
of every temperance man The man who is not
lukewarm in the cause, and is not merely satisfi
ed, with having taken the pledge himself, but
wishes to know how many others are doing the
same thing, will cheerfully subscribe the pittance,
that will entitle him to receive this intlligence.
We are sometimes inclined to think that the
number of temperance papers a man takes, is a
moral thermometer indicating the temperature of
his feelings towards the cause. He who takes I
two at least, is at “ lever heathe who takes one, I
ranges about “ blood warm ” and he who takes j
none at all, has fallen below “Zero.' — Ch. To
tal Abstinence Banner.
The Difference.
A reformed drunkard passed up street a few
mornings since, with a large fine looking ham j
in one hand and a basket of vegetables in the
other,when he met one of his acquaintance, who
is any thing but a teetotaler, with a half gallon
iug filled with rum. The former was decently
attired, his countenance bore the marks of health,
and his step was firm and steady. The latter
was in rags, his face bloated, and he reeled as he
walked. They both entered on the active busi
! ness of life at the same time, and with the same
prospects, and both became poor by their devo
, tions to the bottle.
i “Well, Bill, you look uncommon smart this
| morning, with your ham and vegetables. How
| did you contrive to raise the wind to purchase
! them.’
j 1 Why I’ll tell you. It was done just as easy
jas the boy knew his father; ami if you wish for
| provisions ofthe same sort, just sign the temper- ;
anee pledge, and the thing is done. You now 1
aredomg what I was two months sinco : spen-
I ding twenty-five cents a day for rum. Now just j
calculate for yourself; twenty-live cents a day j
, amounts to the snug sum of one dollar and sev
■ enty-tive cents a week, and the time going after j
; the liquor and in drinking it, may be safely es
. | timated at as much more. This ham cost me \
. one doltar and eighty cents, and the vegetables;
I twenty-five Cents, soyoir see l ain a gaificr. after
* this purchase, of one dollar anil forty five cents
tills week, by signing the temperance pledge,
j This logic was sound mid convincing. The
intemperate man carried his jug home, signed the
~ temperance piedge, ami now bids lair to become
1 a useful citizen.— Chariot.
From the Organ.
We are Fully Satisfied,
fj" That it is almost useless to hold temper
ance meetings, unless the Pledge is faithfully
| circulated.
' Tlr That rum-sellers who are waiting for the
; temperance excitement to subside, are exhibiting
the same degree of shrewdness which character
ized the Irishman, who quietly sat on the brink
of a river, waiting for the water to run out that
he might walk over.
That the hand of God is distinctly visible
| in some of the reformations which have come to
j our knowledge, and that throughout this move
ment, He has been the great moving cause.
Q‘ That unlessthe drunkard becomes a better
I husband or father, a better citizen, a moie, moral
man, after he signs the Pledge, than he was be
fore; he certainly has not fulfilled the expecta
tions of those who labored to save him.
O* That without Temperance Journals, the
friends of the cause would have looked in vain
for the results which have thus far distinguished
this crusade. The small fire kindled at Balti
more, has been spread by these incendiaries all
over the land, until they have lighted the very
funeral pile ofKing Alcohol.
Hj* That, as the corollary of the above, every
true Washingtonian should feel it his duty to
sustain the Washingtonian Press, and so feeling,
should act.
That no man ever endured the horrors of
dolerium tremens, who drank nothing but cold
water.
I That the number of our recruits would he
| much larger, would every member of our socie
ties act on the old Washingtonian principle,
I “Every man bring his man.
The Towu-Pump.
[Many of our readers have doubtless seen the
story ofthe Towu-Pump; but if so it will bear
reading again.]
Scene —The coiner of two principal streets.
The Town Pump talking through its nose, solus.
Noon by the north clock! high noon too by
these hot-sun-beams, which fall scarcely aslope
upon my head, and almost make the water bub
ble and smoke through my nose. Truly, we
public characters have a tough time of it. And
among all the town officers, chosen at March
meeting, where is he, t.hat sustains tor a single
year, the burden of such manifold duties as are
imposed in perpetuity upon the town pump. The
title oftown treasurer is riglifully mine, as guar
dian ofthe best treasure the town has. The over
seer of the poor ought to make me their chair
man,since I provide so abundantly for the pauper,
without expense to him that pays taxes. I am
at the head ofthe fire department and one of the |
physicians ofthe board of health. As keeper of
the peace, all water drinkers will confess me equal j
to a constable. I perform some of the duties
ofthe town clerk by promulgating public notices
when they are pasted upon my front. To speak
within bound, I am the chief person in the mu
nicipality, and exhibit moreover, an admirable
pattern to my brother officers, by the cool, stea
dy, upright, downright and impartial discharge
of my business, and the constancy with which
I stand at my post. Summer or winter, nobody
seeks me in vain, for all day long I am seen at the ;
busiestcorner just above the market, stretching
out my arm to rich and poor alike, and at night,
a lantern is hung over my heau, to show wiiere i
I am, and to keep people out ofthe gutter. At
this sultry noon-tide, I am cup-bearer to the par
ched populace. Like a dram-seller on the Mall
; of a muster-day, I cry aloud to all sundry, in my j
i accents at the very tip topofmy voice. Here it
is gentleman, here is the good liquor! walk up,
! walk up! gentlemen, walk up! wake up ! Here
|is the superior stuff! Here is the unadulterated
! ale of father Adam—better than Cogniac, Hol
lands, Jamaica, strong beer, or wineof any price;
here it is by hogshead or single glass, and not a
cent to pay ; Walk up gentlemen, walk up and
help yourselves ! It were a pity if all this outcry
should draw no customers. Here they come.
; A hot day gentlemen. <Auaflf and away again,
so as to keep yourselves in a nice cool sweat.
You, my friend, will need another cup full to
; wash the dust out of your throat it it is as thick
there as on your cowhide shoes. I see that you
have trudged halt'a Store of miles to-day and like
a wise man, have passed by the taverns, and
stopped at the running brooks. Otherwise, be
twixt heat without and lire within, you would
have been burnt to a cinder or melted down to
nothing at all, in the fashion ofajellyfish. Drink,
and make room for that other fellow, who seeks
my aid to quench the fever of last night’s pota
tions, which he drained from a cup of wine.—
Welcome ! most rubicund sir. You and 1 have
been strangers hitherto, nor, to confess the truth,
will my nose be anxious fora close intimacy, till
the fumes of your breath be a little less potent.
Mercy on you, man ! the water absolutely hisses
iftwn your red hot gullet, arid is converted into
steam in that miniature tophet which you mis
take fora stomach. Fill again, and tell me on
the word of an honest toper, did you ever, in cel
| lar, tayern or any other kind of dramshop, spend
the price of your childrens’food for a swig half as
delicious 1 Now, for the iirst time these ten
years, you know the flavor of cold water. Good
bve; whenever you arc thirsty remember that 1
keep a constant supply at the old stand. Who
next'! Oh !my little friend, you are let loose
from school, and come hither to scrub vour
bloomin'; tace and drown the memory of certain
taps of the ferule, and other schoolboy troubles.—
Young life ! take it! and may your heart and
tongue, never be scorched with a fiercer thirst
than now. There, now, my dear child, yield
your place to that elderly gentleman, who treads
so tenderly over the paving stones, t hat I suspeo.
he is afraid of breaking them.
What! lie limps by without so much as thank
ing me, as if my hospitable offers were only for
those people who have no wine cellars. Well,
well, sir—no harm done, I hope i Go draw the
cork—tip tlie decanter but when your great toe
shall set you a roaring, it is no affair of mine.—
If gentlemen love the pleasant titilation of the
gout, it is all one to the Town Pump. * * * *
One o’clock ! Now then, ifthe dinner 101 l be
gins to speak I may as well hold my peace. Ah !
here comes a pretty girl of my acquaintance, with
a large stone pitcher for me to fill. May she
draw a husband while drawing water as dill Ra
chel of old. Hold your vessel, my dear. There
it is, full to the brim : so now run home, peeping
at your sweet image in the pitcher as you go;
ami forget not, in a glass of my own liquor to
drink, ‘ Success to the Town Pump. ’ — Old Col
ony Memorial.
A Forcible Illustration.
At a temperance meeting in Western New
York, Mr. H. Colrnan, of agricultural celebrity,
was speaking in allusion to the plea so often used
by the Society of Friends, as an objection to
aid in the temperance cause, because it leads to
mixing too much with the world. In the midst
of his remarks, he stopped suddenly, pointed out
of the window, and looking at a Quaker friend
opposite to him, exclaimed, in a tone of alarm,
“ Dr. Robinson ! is that your house that’s on
fire 1 ?” Instantly the whole audience were on
their feet. “ Stop ! stop!” shouted he: “ Nobo
dy must go but Quakers ! Don’t mix with tlio
world! Nobody must go but Quaker!“ The
lire was of course, a hoax but thcell'ects of its ap
plication will lie long remembered.— American
Mechanic.
1 wo men at work on a rail-road, got in a quar
rel ;orie Idled the pickaxe to strike the other.
In raising it, the handle ofthe axe caught a rib
bon which was about his neck, and threw from
his bosom a temperance medal, which he hud re
ceived in Ireland.
“ If it were not disgracing you,” said he to the
medal, “I would strike him.”"
Here is strong evidence ofa moral influence in
the Temperance Pledge.— Utica Wasldnelonian
A gentleman ofour acquaintance came to town
one (lay last week, and unfortunately took too
much of the “ overjoy ful.” About dusk in the
evening he fouud his way to his horse, which
was tied by the neck with a rope, to prevent his
escape, in case he should slip the bridle. Our
friend did not think of troubling himself much
I about small matters, but mounted the poor ani
mal without loosing him from tile tree, and of all
j the kicking, spurring, and swearing here it was.
And wc*verily believe, that if it had not been for
a negro man standing near, the drunken brute
wouid have put an end to the four legged animal.
Sandersrille I'elescopc.
* ,
Those who drink spirits for sickness li avc this
j advantage, that they never will be well, and can,
therefore, always have a sufficient excuse for
taking a swig at the black bottle.
A Fair Offer. —Make a full estimate of all
I you owe, and of all that is owing to you. Reduce
; the same to note. As fast as you collect, pay
| over to those you owe ; if you can’t collect, re
new your notes every year, and get the best secu
rityyoucan. Goto business diiigently, and in
j dustrious; lose no time, waste no idle moments—
be very prudent and economical in all things—
discard all pride but the pride of acting justly and
well—be faithful in your duty to God by regular
and hearty prayer, morning and night—attend
church and meeting regularly every Sunday, ‘ do
unto all men as you would be done by.’ if you
are too needy in your circumstances, to give to
the poor, do whatever else you have in your
power to do for them cheerfully—but if you "can,
always help the worthy poor and unfortunate.—
Pursue this course diligently and sincerely for
seven years, and if you are not happy, comforta
ble and independent in your circumstances, come
to me and I will pay your debts.— Dr, Franklin.
Passionate Temper.
The indulgence of a passionate temper, is per
haps one of the most unhappy ofhuman vices; be
cause there are but few others which so perpetu
ally prey upon the peace and serenity ofthe mind.
This stroiiLt sturdy enemy to human enjoyment,
in the vast majority of cases, is left to grow with
our growth, and strengthen with our strength
until the ascendency is complete. It progresses
in its dominion step by step —every indulgence
adds to its power, and every acquisiti nof power
increases the tiiirst for its indulgence. Yet it
can be controlled and brought intaperted subjec
tion. He whois not masterofhimself,no matter
what else he is master of, is a slavc-and what
ever effort can he addressed by the consideration
of liberty, peace, happiness and comparative ex
emption from a thousand dangers to which pas
sion exposes us in life, should be made to <utard
ourselves in this {(articular. Never indulge in
passion until you have considered the end.
Injuries to Another.
A little wrong done to another is a great in
jury done lo ourselves. The severest punish
ment of an injury is the consciousness of having
done it, and no man suffers mo'c than he who is
turned over to the {tain of repentance.
Flattery.
Flatterers were well described by the old au
thor, who says, ‘they only liftq,man up as it is
said the eagle docs the tortoise, to get something
by the fall.’
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the Washingtonian since our last publication :
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ter, A. McKenzie, M. M. Copeland,L. T. Shop,
paid to June 11th, 1843.
.McDonough —Wm. L. Gordon, to Sept. 3rd,
1843. 1
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lAmolnton —A. D. Baggerley, Levi Bradford,
If F. Tatora, B. Bentley, (2 copies,) to Sept.3d,
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Standing Peach Ti ce—H. B. T. Montgome
ry, to Sept. 17th, 1843.
Datimcr’s Store —James W. Givens, to Sept,
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ClarkstUe —W, T. Trammel, to June 11th,
1813.
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