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For the Washingtonian.
Athens, Ga. Nov. £4tb, 1812.
I Mr. Editor:
Dear Sir —I now undertake a task which to me
I is truly unpleasant, that is, to give some of the
jfl i'ems connected with my travels in Georgia, for j
■ seven months past —not that I am weary in wcll
■ doing, for my whole soul is engaged ur the cause
I of Total Abstinence—but from the fact, that 1
I am incompetent as a writer to do justice to the ,
I facts I would introduce. I know nothing about
I grammar —neither do I understand the stops, or
I punctuations, as some call them—l am also a
[ miserable speller; but notwithstanding all these
I impediments, if you will take it on yourself to re
-5 gulate the bad grammar, bad spelling, and tix
your own stops, you aie perfectly welcome to
these facts tor your paper, if you consider them
worth publishing. It cannot be expected that I
should give the place of residence and names of
• every case I shall here introduce. Those who
have given me liberty to use their names and re
sidences, as well as the facts connected with
their sad history, I cheerfully introduce; but
those who have not given that liberty, I shall on
ly refer to a small portion of their history, without
mentioning names.' Os course, sir, I would be
prudent, and therefore would not lay before the
public the names of persons without their consent.
' Yours, truly,
RIC.iARD P. TAYLOR.
When I visited Augusta, Ga., in April last, 1
was. forcibly struck with the business character
of the city —men from almost every state in the
Union were there, engaged in their different vo
cations. You could pass but a short distance on
either side of Broad-street, without coming in
contact with a rum-mill, or in other words a grog
shop, or doggery—some of them were termed
respectable drinking houses—that is, the resort of
more respectable and fashionable drunkards,
those who dissipate in tile third or fourth story,
who go their brandy-toddies, mint-julaps, gin
slings, wine and porter, &c. &r. There were
others adapted to men in different circumstances
and in more humble life. This is what 1 call
high life below stairs : ’--going it on rat soup, in
the form of Albany beer, and the meanest kind of
bald-face whiskey—where a man could get drunk
for twenty-five cents, and then be hurled out in
the streets, there to snooze away until morning,
and the rolling of waggons brought him to his
senses. There were rum-mills also to accommo
date the black population—these might be found
in the more secluded parts of the city—their pro
prietors sunk so low in their own estimation as to
rinse the glasses negroes use. It always looks
desolate to me, to see grog-shops standing so
thick in any city or village, not that I would pro
scribe the dealer; but in such places, with so
many grog-shops, I always take it for granted,
that a great deal of liquor is consumed. I then
think of my own former misery and degradation,
and thank God for my escape. I think of that
vast mass of mind lost to our country of the 300,-
000 drunkards in our own land—that land which
is the home of the free and the brave—bound
down the most willing slaves of this vice. I
think of the 10,000,000 women and children—
the families of those unfortunate men —with their
blasted prospects, blighted hopes and broken
hearts. I think of those mothers, with their little
ones, in their comfortless hovels, with their gar
-1 raents tattered and grown old with years, with
their cheeks pale and lank, as they sit round a
few coals of fire, chilled by the wintry blast,
waiting hour after hour for the return of the
drunken companion and father. I think of those
poor little creatures, as, with uplifted hands and j
gnawing pangs of hunger, they petition that
mother for bread —there is no bread in that |
wretched hovel. 1 see that mother's bosom heave
and swell with anguish. I hear her sobs —the
language of a lascerated, torm, broken, and
bleeding heart. I see the big tear, gush after
gush, as it gathers in that eye once bright and
joyful, but now turned dim by years of bitter an
guish—that big tear, like a mountain’s weight,
rolls down the deep furrows of her cheek, as she
turns a look of despair and pity on her starving,
helpless children. It was such thoughts that en
tered my mind while walking the streets of Au
gusta. It seemed strange to me, when some of
the friends of tempeiance in that citv supposed
that nothing more could bo done, than to revive
the old friends of the cause, by a few temperance
lectures—yes, strange indeed, when there were
at that time hundreds in the city groaning under
the heavy chains of Prince Alcohol. I asked
myself the question —Is there no remedy ?—no
means of escape for this mass of bleeding human
ty 1 Yes, there is a cure; the remedy is pure
cold water. I then thouglit of what had been
done since the reformation of the six reformed
drunkards in Baltimore, and supposed something
could bed no for Augusta. The friends of the
cause again rallied around the standard of total
abstinence —called up their latent energies—
j struck the blow, which was the death b ow to the
old Prince. Wo saw his mighty fabric in that
city raied to the ground —his magazines blown
! up—his standard trailing tho dust—his soldiers
j deserting and marching under the white flag of
Peace and Temperance, as its broad banners
I were floating to the breeze, waving triumphantly
and gloriously over the citadel of the once vaunt
ing, but now vanquished foe;—yes, there were
multitudes of the hardest cases flocked to the
stand of Temperance: moderate drinkers, wi
biliers, in short all classes and conditions, until
• our numbers, to the Washington Pledge were
swelled to 750, with tlie additional number
since, making in all about eleven hundred
Augusta cannot easily be beat. The first or se
cond time 1 walked up Broad-street, I saw an
individual on a perfect swell—he was one of your
periodical spreers—a man of a noble, generous
soul—social and intelligent; also, modest and
so mow hat reserved when sober; but when on a
spree a perfect box ot music and fun, as a drunken
man Would call it. I was introduced to him—
saw at once that he w'as a good clever fellow,
and I reckon lie thought I had been drinking—
he said he could see it in my eye. 1 presume 1
did look so to him; for when a man looks at a
sign-post and it seem- to him as if one makes
three, it is difficult lor him to determine—at least,
I know it was so with me, when I used to get
j drunk, for 1 then supposed every body else was
drunk too. He was so much in the belief that 1
would take the critter, he urged me very hard to
’■ go into a rum-mill ami take a horn with him;
but as drinking liqusr was not my business in
Augusta, of course I refused. That man signed
the pledge: I have seen him since clothed in his
right mind—a man of intelligence—of a high
sense of honor, and a perfect gentleman in every
1 sense of the word, and now one of the most ac
, live members of the Society in the city. There
'(arc numbers of cases I might mention, which
would be interesting to the citizens ofGcorgia,
that came under my observation in that portion of
the State where we first planted the Washingto
, nian standard. There was one hard case in the
| city of Augusta who took the pledge not to drink
the critter in any ofits forms—it made him very
sick —he went to the doctor to get him to pre
scribe only one drink—the doctor said no. He
then asked him if he might eat some brandy
[»eachfs —he could not get them prescribed as
medicine. Brandy peaches or syllabub will not
do for any man who would save himself from
drunkenness; we might as well drink brandy, gin,
bald-face whiskey, wine, ale, or cider, as to eat
them; for a man with a good set of grinders can
soon cat himself drunk on brandy peaches.—
Syllabub is not quite so hard on the teeth; there
fore, better adapted to ladies with delicate checks,
weak and slender jaws; and it is also a first rate
article for mothers to feed their little children, to
form, at an early period, the appetite and relish
for liquor—not “to teach the young idea how to
shoot,” but how to get drunk. This is the way
that parents dig the graves of their children by
their own fire-sides- this is the way that fathers
and mothers, by their example, become the mur
derers of their own offspring. When will the
heads of families wake up to this subject—when
will they open their eyes to the light, and see the
danger of this vice in any and all of its forms.—
| Many have cleared their vision of this mist of
fashion, and abandoned this worse than heathen
I God, --they will no longer cast their helpless chil
dren into the jaws of the crocodile, or throw them
under the wheels of juggernaut—or, what is
worse, by early tuition and example, expose them
to a drunkard’s life, and a drunkard’s death; —
others will not wake up sufficiently to abandon
this fashionable vice, until the drunkards in our
country arc, en mass, reclaimed, and they find
themselves stepping in their tracks, the only
drunkards in the land, and their wines and julaps
stamped with the same labill of disgrace, ruin and
death, that attends the drinker of strong Lieerand
bald-face whiskey.
The Drunkard’s Consistency.
“ If my wife is abed when I go home, i’ll whip
her.” (said an old rummer as he was endtavoring
to find the house he lived in;) “ how dare she
go to bed when lam out ? It is her duty to set
up and help me to bed w;icn I come home ” Se
cond thought.--” And if she is up I’l whip her;
what business has she to set up and burnout
candle light when 1 am gene. ,
. .... r II 111 I MIHIIISIM lliaw ■!■■■» 11l
Lofty 1 uaiblicg.
Whoever has been acquainted with the move
ments of some men in high life, has seen lofty
tumbling. It is well known that strong liquor
drinking has been fashionable, in what is called
" fashionable circles.’’ Judges and Jurors, have
drank IreeTy of arelcnt spirit— ministers and peo
ple, once- partook treclv ot the social glass—the
Genefal and the Soldier—the Admiral and his
crew the civilized and the savage, drank freely
of a poisonous and intoxicating beverage.
Drunkenness has not been confined tothe poor
and lowly—there has been much lofly.tuinhling.
While intern) erance |>n vaihd in all parts oftlie
countiy, and among all professions, little was said
about it by those in the habit of drinking afSjUnt ,
spirit, generally however the poor were the only !
sufferers hy it. A man of mean attire, and in I
humble circumstances, when falling down in our j
streets, under the heavy pressure, and potent sur
ges ot rum, was led away to tile dark hole, while
lofty tumblers were led to beds of down and
chambers of comfort, it any such thing as com
fort belongs to the drunkaid; and one class of
those wiio were tumbling were favored, whilethe
other was punished. The scene has changed,
an.l the poor Washingtonian is in a more secure
and comfortable position, than his brother in high
life, whose tumbling is lofty. Great men have
fallen, never to rise again, like a leaf shaken from
the tree—by that great enemy, intemperance.
Neither wealth, nor honors, nor rank have been
spared, but all have been prostrated and destroy
ed by alcohol. If there is a subject worthy ot
sincere and practical attention and regard, and
Itcyond all others, short of pure and undefiled re
ligion, important, it is the cause of total absti
nence from the use of intoxicating liquors.
Progress of Temperance.
During a recent visit to Edgefield, we were in
formed, that the Temperance Society of the Vil
lage, embraced nearly every individual, who had
been intemperate in the Village itself/and its
immediate vicinity, and that there had not been a
single reformed di unkurd , V'/io had relapsed into
his former habits. The Society has able and zea
lous officers, and its influence is extensively felt.
Grogshop. In Lancaster District, we have been
informed there is but one, and that it will probably
soon be closed. Lancaster was one of the last
Districts to go forward in the Temperance cause
but it has nobly redeemed its lost time. -S. C
Temperance Advocate.
Average Mortality of all Mankind.
The population oftlie whole earth has been va
riously estimated at between eight hundred and
a thousand millions of souls. If we fix upon an
intermediate number, say 946,080,000 and assign
30 years for the continuance of each generation,
we shall find that the ‘children of men’ come
into the world anil go out of it at the following
average: Every second, 1; minute, (>0; hour,
590; day, Bfi, 400; week, 604,800; month, 2,592,
000; year, 31,536,000. Every tick of the clock a
soul departs, and a new birth takes place at the
same time. Thus, by the wise dispensation of the
Creator, is the world perpetuated. The human
heart beats more than 5 000 times an hour, 120,
000 times a day, and 43,830,000 times a year. If
it lasts fifty years, it beats 2,191,800,000 times.
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