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Come Sign the Pledge.
Tune—“ Who'll be King but Charley”
The news that comes from vale and hill
Will soon make many wonder,
And rive the demon ofthe still,
With bolts of temperance thunder.
Come sign the pledge—the war to wage.
You’ll be the welcomer early;
Around it cling, with all your kin—
It saves the drunkard fairly.
Come sign the pledge—the war to wage,
Come tipler, come bruiser, come all together,
And make the temp’rancc chorus ring,
Till all shall hear it clearly.
From ocean side to western plain,
The golden flags are streaming ;
And ’ncath their folds arerescured men,
Their eyes with gladness beaming,
Come sign the pledge, &c.
The whiskey red and brandy blue,
Are lost in health’s vermillion;
For they have danced its mazes through,
The drunkard's last cotillon.
Come sign the pledge, &c.
The path-way that intemperance trod,
And left all red and gory,
Is changing to a brighter road,
Illum’d by tcmp’rance glory.
Come sign the pledge, &c.
And homes that by the Hydra’s breath,
Within were scathed and blighted,
Have driven out the hideous death,
And now with joys are lighted.
Come sign the pledge, &c.
The drunkard smiles!—his lisping child
No more with fear is quaking;
His wife to hope is reconciled
From sorrows cold, heart-aching.
Come sign the pledge, See.
Swell high the Washingtonian cry,
The lost are still returning,
Unite our banner, “ flap the sky,”
The meteor-light of morning!
Come sign the pledge, &c.
Fling out your motto to the world,
In golden letters flaming,
That all can see, where’er unfurl’d
There’s no one past reclaiming!
Come sign the pledge, &c.
The Mithcrless Bairn.
When a' ither baroies are hush’d to their hame,
By aunty, or cousin, or freeky grand dame,
Wha’ stan’s last an’ lonely, an’nabody cairn’?
Tis the puir doited loonie—the mithcrless bairn !
The mitherless bairn gangs till his lano bed,
Nane covers his cauld back, or haps his bare head,
His wee hackit heelies arc hard as the aim,
Au’ lithless* the lair o’ the mithcrless bairn !
Aneath his cauld brow sican dreams tremble there
O’ hands that wont kindly to kaime his dark hair!
But mornin’ brings clutches, a reckless an’ stern,
That lo'e na’ the locks o’ the mitherless bairn !
Her spirit that passed in yon hour of his birth,
Still watches his lone lorn wand’rings on earth,
Recording in heaven the blessings they earn,
Wha couthilief deal wi’ the mitherless bairn i
Oh ! speak him na’ harshly—he trembles the while,
He bends to your bidding, and blesses your smile:
In their dark hour o’ anguish, the hearties shall learn
That God strikes the blow for the mitherless bairn !
•Comfortless. ’Kindly.
How to keep the Pledge.
A reformed drunkard residing near Baltimore,
Gen. J T , stated, that at fourteen he
joined the church; but when he became a voter,
he formed, at political meetings, the habit of
drinking, and gradually sunk into profaneness
and excess until he made way with some tico
quarts of brandy in a day —and when his money
failed, would keep hitpselfdrunk on cider, which
was almost the only product of his neglected farm.
As the last hope of relief from the intolerable suf
ferings thus brought upon himself and family, he
signed the pledge of total abstinence; and know
ing how strong might be the temptation to break
it, ne loaded a pistol with powder and ball carried
it with him, and resolved that if the cup should
ever again approach his lips, he would at once put
the pistol to nis head and terminate his life.
He carried the pistol in his pocket seven
months, when, riding along one dark night, he
reflected. “This cannot be the way to get
strength to resist temptation—this cannot be
pleasing to God.” He continued to reflect, and
at length stopped his horse, tied him, kneeled by
the side of a fence, and prayed to God to give him
strength to keep the pledge. He continued to
pray till he could rest in the promise, “ My grace
is sufficient for thee.” He rose from his knees,
camly trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep
him from falling. He was again received as a
member of the church, and now lives the life of a
consistant Christian.
——
I tell you I will not sign the Pledge. Why 1
Because I love to drink rum. Now, that is hon
est, give me your hand —you will be a Washing
tonian very soon. How sol An honest man
man cant drink rum much longer. — Teetotaller.
Dr. Mussey on Cider.
The following questions were proposed to Dr.
Mussey, by the Bangor Temperance Associa
tion :
Ist. Whether the habitual use of cider has any
tendency, without the aid of other intoxicating
liquors, to form the habit of intemperate drink
ing 1
•M. What is its influence in re-producing in
tennierate habits I
The following is the substance of the answer
of the eminent physician:
My dear sir,—ln reply to your inquiries, I may
say it is the alcohol in fermented liquors which
causes a man to prefer them to water, and doubt
less the only reason why deep drunkenness is
not as common in communities drinking purely
rider and wine, as in those which use chiefly or
wholly distilled spirits, is, that the alcohol cannot
be had in the former in a state so concentrated.
Fewer drunkards, perhaps, are made by cider
drinking, than by ardent spirits and wine.
That cider can bring hack the relish for distill
ed spirits in a reclaimed drunkard, is certain. A
single glass of cider, beer, or wine, has brought
back to sottishness and destruction, many a man
who seemed to have been reformed.
Alcohol in cider, ranges from G to 10 |>er cent,
averaging over 7 percent.; while brandy has
nearly 54 percent, of alcohol. It follows, that
cider contains more than one-eighth part of the
alcohol that is found in brandy; and that in a
half-pint tumbler of cider, there is half a wine
glass of spirits; in a pint, a wine-glass; and in a
quart of cider, a gill of spirits. This scale will
I show the drinkers of cider the proportion of in-
I toxieating drink they consume in their favorite
] beverage.
We nave no evidence, whatever, that alcohol,
in any form, or taken under any circumstances,
or in any combinations, is capable of being di
| gested or converted into nourishment. There
cannot, I think, be left a reasonable doubtthat as
much mischief to health results from the use of
any kind of fermented liquors as from distilled
spirits, equally diluted with water. If I must
j drink any given quantity of alcohol in a specified
time, I should think it best to take itrin distilled
spirits, rather than in cider, wine, or beer.
How can any drink be as good as water ? We
; have a plenty of evidence trom fact, that it is bet-
I ter and safer than any other. It seems to have
I been made just right at first; and if for sonic
thousands of years mankind have been in vain
- attempting to make it any better, by various ad
ditions, it may be safely predicted that all such
efforts are vain, and must remain so.
Yours, with rrttriect,
lUCHAUD MUSSEY.
Hundreds of Washingtonians .are too penuri
ous to contribute two cents a week towards sus
taining a Temperance paper. They formerly
threw away twentyJice cents every day for grog.
This is a peculiar kind of economy ;and if their
families suffer proportionately for the comforts of
life and means of procuring intelligence, we
really pity their condition. We do, indeed!—
Now every illiberal Washingtonian may pocket
this either as .an admonition or an insult.—Select
ed.
From the Globe.
“ The relation of Master and Workmen.”
The London Times discovers, in the present
horrible condition of the laborers throughout
Great Britain; that “the relation of master and
workman has been, and is, Jear fully misundtr
stood;” and this, it is now confessed, “is the
cause of much of the present mischief."
This leading journal thus opens up to the view
of the British public (crusading for the aliolition
of slavery in other countries) the true cause of
the peculiar, insupportable evils of slaved as it
exists in Great Britian itself:
“We do not disguise our opinion that the re
lation of master and workman—of rich and poor
—has been, and is, fearfully misunderstood.—
And that is the cause of much of the present mis
chief; the spirit of trade is too much the spirit of
profit and loss. A master ought to stand towards
nis workman, as the farmers of old did to their
laborers—as the rich to the poor—in loco parent
is ; he ought to care for them, to provide for them,
to maintain them, even though it be at his own
great loss. By them he takes advantage of the
prosperous season; they ought to be his first care
in the season of adversity. The fluctuations on
which the master originately bases his specula
tions ; and by him those fluctuations ought to be
born. The employment of hands ought to be
permanent and independent of these vicissitudes;
and unless this can be done, the matter ought not
to have been undertaken at all. We believe and
hope that in many instances it is done; but if it
had been universal, we are convinced that dis
tress would not be so unhappily common as it is
at present.”
The editor of the Times, without acknowledg
ing it, has compared in his mind the condition
of slavery in this country, and its condition in the
British islands; and asks himself how it happens
that no libeller of the Abolition brood, whom
they have sent among us to fabricate horrors, has
ever told them of slaves starving by thousands—
worn out slaves thrown in masses into poor
houses—slaves driven by desperation from their
labors, and roaming about the country, enforcing
charity to relieve their hunger—slaves shot down
by hundreds, by the military sent to arrest their
unarmed violence, and committed by thousands
to the prisons by the civil authorities. Finding
no such scenes enacting amidst the slavery here,
the Times editor asks himself, why is it that the
American laborer in the slave States is exposed
to none of the distressing wants that drive their
well trained patient wtiite workmen to despair
and madness 1 And then his mind recurs to the
situation of England when the serfs were precise
ly in the condition of our African slaves, and he
says:* “ A master ought to stand towards his
workmen, as the farmers of old did to their labor
ers.'” ‘‘ He ought to care for them—to provide for
them—to maintain them even though it be at, his
own great loss.” “ The employment of hands
ought to be permanent and independent of these
vicissitudes”—and that, whether their labor is
profitable or not.
This, every body knows, isprecisely the state
in which slavery exists in our Southern States.
The relation of master and slave is' 1 permanent. ’.
The master knows, that in proportion to his care
of these dependents—in proportion us they are
well fed and moderately tasked—will be there
ability and willingness to render service. And
he knows, also, that when they become incapable
of service, it is his duty “ to maintain them, even
though it be at his men great loss ” The farmer
in this country is precisely to his servants, what
the fanners of old wore in England, and does
stand “ in loro parentis ” —in the character of the
head of the family amougtho domestics who sur
round him, and who arc useful to him just in pro
portion as he is kind to them ; and from his in
terest, he is better to them than the •• rich to.tlie
poor ’in any country on the glo!>e. This is the
redeeming feature of slavery in this country, .is
compared with that in England. Ours is the pa
triarchal slavery of the Bible, nursued in the ear
ly periods of English civilization; but which is
now changed in Great Britian for the heartless
machinery system, which turns human beings
into animal implements, which, worn out, or no
longer profitable are thrown away.
The relation which England has adopted bet
ween their masters and their African laborers in
Jamaica, and her Indian vassals in Asia, has the
s&nabominable featnreswliich characterize the
slavery of the Saxon machines, which are work
ed, or starved to death, in Great Britian. The
master, wherever the galling English yoke is
worn, has no interest in the individual whose la
bor he appropriates. If sick, or old, or worn out,
the laborer is cast off, and the master knows him
no more; a new and more vigorous carcase is put
in the same place, and its powers exhausted by
the same process. The ties of mutual depen
dence and common interest—jicrmaneiit associ
ation and consequent ataehment—are unknown
ini the modern slavery, which grinding avarice
(the propelling principle of the wealth accumula
ting classes) at this day universal)- imposes,—
The ambition of Great Briton is constantly em
ployed in owning up, through bloody conquests,
avenues to the indulgence of the cupidity of all the
aristocratic classes, which now include the com
mercial and manufacturing, aswell as that which
I'pjoys the fedu.il and church inheritance. ~
These great overshadowing superiois are sup
ported in a luxury and splendor unknown to the
world before, and by a slavery the most oppres
sive ever felt in any age; the most cruel and
heartless, because the English serf no longer
knows his master, nor is known by him, hut is
driven by the goadings of hunger,'and a relent
less manager, who looks upon him as part of the
machinery which his authority pnts in motion.
And hence it is that, in the English East and
West Indies, as well as at home, the regular ar -
my is obliged to stand, with bristling bayonets,
always ready to put down such movements as
are now going on in England among the wretch
es whose toil is not permitted to furnish them
with bread.
For the Washingtonian.
Geographical Enigma.
Acrostical.
TO YOUNG STUDENTS IN GEOGRAPHY.
I am composed of twenty letters.
My 1,6, 11,9, is a county in Georgia;
“ 2,4, 3,9, 11, is a river in Europe;
“ 3,2, 4,3, 9, is a town in Europe:
“4, 19, 2,11, 9, is a river in Europe;
“ 5,18, 9,19, is a lake in Europe;
“ 6,2, 20, is a river in Europe ; .
,“'7, 14,16,9, is a lake in Europe;
* “ 8,6, 3,4, 9, is a town in Germany ;
“ 9,7, JB, is a river in Europe;
“ Id, 2,9, 7, 9,10, is a river in Europe;
“ 11, 9,9, is a lake in Europe;
“ 12, 6, 11, 9, is a river in Europe:
13, 6, 11, i, 2. 20, is a town in Asia;
“ 14, 6,11, is a river in Europe;
“ 15, 19, 7,9, is a city in Europe;
*’ Id, 8, 9,2, 7.18, is a town in France;
“ 17,18,9, 16, is a river in Europe;
“ 18, 14, 6,4, 9, is a river in Europe;
“ 19, 9,2, 15, 6, 18, is a town in S. America;
“ 20, 2, 18, 7.9, 18, is a town in France.
My whole is the name of a distinguished Gen
eral and statesman of the U. States. W. F.
Jjp An answer is requested.
To wash woolen goods.
The art of washing woolen goods so as to pre
vent them from shrinking is one of the desiderata
in domestic economy worthy of being recorded,
and it is therefore with a satisfaction we explain
this simple process to our readers. All descrip
tions of woolen goods should be washed in very
hot water with soap, and as soon as the article is
cleansed, immerse it in cold water; let it then be
wrung and hung up to dry.— Tennessee Agricul
turist.
Nankeen Color.
Boil an ounce of Copperas in a pailful of good
strong lye •, it will produce a finecolor which may
be njade paler by using less of the copperas. It
will not wash out and is useful for lining of bed
q Gilts. &c.
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OK, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE,
Devoted to the Cause of Temperance , —publish te
semi-monthly, in the City of Augusta,
BY JAMES McCAFFERTY.
AS it is certainly desirable that such a publication
should find its way into every house, the low price
of subscription will, we hope, guaranty it a wide cii
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community, especially at the present time.
The deteimination our citizens have evinced,
to drive the Destroyer from the land,has awakened tie
most intemperate to a sense of duty. This should hi
hailed as an omen and harbinger of good. The spirit
oflteformation is awakened throughout the length and
breadth of our country—the Temperance Cause is
every w here happily advancing, bearing down all op
position, scattering blessings on every hand, drying up
theteais of the distressed and causing Alie heart of the
widow nml the drunkard’s wife to sii.g fotj oy. It is a
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country's highest good is involved—her prosperity,
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but come boldly to the rescue,"and with united heart
and hand, assist in delivering our beloved country from'
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To impress the necessity of such a work upon the
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and youth: and with the stated return of such a moni
tor. the interest is kept up and the cause advances.”
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