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Dedicated to the Lady Marine Temp. Choir.
Air —All's Well.
Deserted, hopeless, see the man,
Whu long hath with the giddy ran,
Now wreck'd alike in heart and hope,
Unable with his foe to cope;
Mark him! when first he faintly hears
The temp’ranee army’s joyous cheers.
“ What sounds arc those?—abstain, abstain,
Oh say ! can I the past regain
Those thrilling shouts have filled his soul,
lie dashes down the sparkling bowl,
And nerved anew—behold him now,
As glad he takes the temp'rance vow.
Again his wife with woman's pride,
Draws nearer to his sheltering side;
His children’s smiles of gladness tell,
They now can sing—all’s well, all’s well.
Almira.
From the Journal American Temperance Union.
SO Reasons Against Signing the IMedgc,
CONSIDERED AND ANSWERED.
1. lam temperate already, and signing the
pledge is not needed.
Ansieer. It may not be needed for you, but it
may be for others—for your children, or neigo
bors, or some poor drunkard looking to you as an
example. We sign the pledge first for our own
good; and second, for the good of others.
2. I can do more good without signing than
with. If I sign I shall be viewed as a partisan;
now I can mingle with those who drink and in
duce them to abstain.
Ans Yo|)have yet tried hut one side ami are
nojudge in the case. Many lived years on your
principle, who say they did more good in three
weeks alter they signed than in all their lives be
fore. A man who would induce others to go
forward in a good work, must go forward him
self.
3. The act of pledging is wrong; man should
be governed by principle
Ana. Are you a professor of religion 1 Ilow
came you to make a profession? Are you mar
ried] Did you not pledge yourself to your wi.e
or husband ! Have you never given or received
a note ? Be consistent.
4. Signing a pledge is a confession that 1 have
drank too much, or that I cannot take care ol
myself.
Ana. We do not so view it. It is a declaration
of what you intend your future course shall be,
atid in assuming what, under Providence, may be
a protection against an OTil which besets you in
all your ways.
6. It is a piece ofostentation.
•4«e. It may have so been viewed once. Now
there is more ostentation and show ol independ
ence in not signing, than in signing. The man
who refuses, arrays himself against the best por
tion of community.
8 A signed pledge creates a constant disposi
tion to do wrong. I now leel little or no desire
for liquor. I fear it I should it would create in
me a constant desire for it.
dns. When a man is bound by another, he
may sigh und groan tor freedom. An o,d man
who had lived forty years in Paris and never been
out, was placed under bonds by the King never
to go out on the pains of death. He then wanted
to go and did go. But it is not so when a man
b.nds him elt from principle. A judge docs not
want to be partial, because he has sworn to be
just. A debtor does not want to be released from
nis debt, because he has given his note. A man
and his wife do not want to part because they
have promised to live together.
7. It is giving up my liberty.
Ana- Liberty to do what? "What you neither
want to do or intend to do If you want lilterty
to do it, it is proof your heart is tor it and not
against it, and you ought not to sign.
1?. I am a professor of religion and I have pro
mised to do all duty.
Ana. And so you will never give a note, or take
an oath in court, or join a Missionary or Bible or
Tract Society. But does a pro lessor ol religion
exonerate from alt this? Ask your neighbor to
trust you with a hundred dollars without your
note, because you arc a professor of religion. See
what he will say.
9. Combinations are dangerous. Each man
had better be temperate on his own hook.
■dns. So each man can better put out a fire on
his own hook; throw bis pail of water alone and
not unite in an engine company. Each man in
raising a building, bad better rinse the timber by
himselt. In war, each man had better figot on
his on his own hook, and not in a regular anil
disciplined army. In religion each man had bet
ter go to heaven alone, and have no churches
and no ministers. Try it, and see how it will
work.
10. Wine and strong drink are good as a me
dicine, but I cannot take them as such without
exposing myself to the charge of breaking my
pledge.
Ana. Is it not so with thousands of those who
have taken the pledge, but who have never been a
montent retarded by this thought, and who now
seldom think ofit either as a medicine since they
have signed the pledge. Sign the pledge, and to
-yonr surprise you may find you will think tar less
ItffWfft'** ft medicine than you do now
11. You are going too far and carrying things
to extremes.
Ans. Do those go to ■ far who would pull a fa
mily out of the fire, or a drowning man from the
water, or seize and hold and bring to shore a man
who was going over Niagara falls. We go no
further.
12. Total Abstinence from all intoxicating
liquors, is unnecessary and unreasonable.
Ans. Wiiich will you except! Which, if re
served to yourself, may not make you a drunkard,
ardent spirits, wine, beer and cider ! Has not
moderate 'drinking been the cause of all the
drunkenness in the world I
13. Temperance Societies make divisions in
families.
,Ins. So does Hum, and to lie consistent you
should discard that. Temperance Societies have
restored peace to families and will continue to do
it. j
14. My friends arc opposed.
ArtV. No good reason, if their opposition is
wrong; you may as wel!|lead,them, as they lead
you.
15. If I sign the pledge 1 put myself under tlic
power of leaders, and 1 know not whither they
will lead me.
,4ns. Not so. You only agree not to drink in
toxicating drinks, you arc committed to nothing
beyond the pledge.
Iti. No reason why we should deprive ourselves
of the good things of Providence because others
abuse them.
Ans. Intoxicating drinks are not of this num
ber, hut bad things of human invention, never
needful, never useful to man in health, but al
ways hurtful.
17. I have no influence.
Ans. Not true. All have influence for good or
for evil, 1 All that is not for, is against.’ No
man liveth to himself.'
18. The Bible noes dot require it.
A/i«. The bihlesays —‘Do good to all men as
you have oppor'unity ;’ and here you have oppor
tunity to do good.
I!). It is being wiser than the Saviour, and
wiser than the Church in all ages.
Ana. Neither the Saviour nor the Church, un
der holy influences, ever refused to practice self
denial, when required, or to do good lo others
when opportunity presented nor should vou. I
20. Indecorious lor females to sign. Is an ac
knowledgment of what ought never to lie sus
pected ot them, that they drink and aredrunkards.
Besides, females have no influence.
Ah*. No such imputation is expressed. All
who sign are resolved lo lie temperate. But some
females are intemperate, and to reclaim such, all
should sign. Females control tne domestic es
tablishment, the festive hoard of social parties;
their influence is great over husbands, brothers,
young men and children: and women is the
greatest sufferer ftom intemperance.
The twenty reasons now are answered —what
morel
Temperance in New Grenada.
From the Gao taos tho 3d July, published at
Bogota, we find that the government is doing all
in its power to discourage the use of ardent spir
its. By a decree dated I‘Jth June, Congress di
rected that each and every still should pav a tax
of 30 debars p-r month, if the still could make
more than Haifa ga lon of “ Arquardiente” atone
time—and that no still* tor making less should be
licensed. Sellers of Brandy by retail, to lie taxed
:$Ui per month, and the duty of transportation
from one parish to another, to be one dollar a
gallon every time so transported.
The revenue thus raised, goes to pay bark in
terest on the national debt; and it is believed that
a very short time will suffice for that purpose, un
less the use ot spirits is at once abandoned.
Temperance Incident.
At the meeting of the Delavan Temperance
Society, Philadelphia, on Saturday night, Rev’d.
John Chambers and Lewis C. Levin, Esq. were
were the principal speakers. The hall wascrowd
ed. While Mr. Chambers was shaking a man,
with a little boy in his arms, came forward to the
speaker’s stand, placed his child on the stand,
and with his trembling accents addressed the
speakers: “My little boy said to me, ‘ Father,
don't diink any more!’ Gentlemen, I have taken
my last drink!” Mr. Chambers caught the boy
in his arms, exclaiming, ‘ Well may we say that
the grave of Alcohol has been dug by this little
boy!” At the meeting held at the hall on the
Saturday night previous, thirty-five names were
obtaineJ to the pledge, one of whom wasa tavern
keeper; and on Saturday evening last, seventeen
more were added to the number.— Organ.
Hum, the Murderer.
Heath, the gambler, who has recently been
convicted ol the murder of his mistress, Delia
Harris, said a few hours previous to the murder,
in a conversation with a witness, while alluding
to the girl Harris and her paramour, ‘Do you
know if I had half a pint of brandy to-day. 1
wou.d have done what 1 intend to do? Do you
know there are two persons I mean to kill to
night and 1 that VV ells and Miss Harris had
been out to Bradly’s that evening, and if lie had
had the brandy there, it would have been over
with them.’ He afterwards.ihtaincd brandy,and
the dreadful deed, under the stimulus of the alco
hol devil, was consummated.—JV. Y Organ.
A clergyman states that during the past year,
he has performed the marriage ceremony for as
many couple as during any year of his ministerial
life, and has seen wine or spirits on only one oc
casion.— Organ.
Correct LlviHg Promotive of Health and
Long Life.
John Whiteman has recently died at
East Bridgewater, at the advanced age of one hun
dred and seven years. The Plymouth Rock says
of him:
“He was supposed to be the oldest man in
Massachusetts, and his whole life presents a
striking illustration of temperance, morality and
imiUstiy< For morethan half a century, intoxi
cating liquor, as a drink , has been banished Irom
his board ; and bis voice was heard promulgating
the doctrine of total abstinence, when few could
be found of sufficient moral courage to speak out
upon the subject. He was a practical agricultur
alist, even alter he had completed his hundredth
year. And as exhibiting a life of morality and
virtue, he has, jK'rhaps, been unsurpassed in the
history of man. '
Sensible Leeches.
Dr. Merrill, of Portland, says, that leeches
don’t like alcohol. He at plied thym to a nun's
heail during a fit of appoplexy, but they twisted
and turned away their heads, as if they had found
something they did not like. What was tile
matter! The man whs perfectly temperate, and
there was no alcohol in his veins. On inquiry it
was ascertained that the nurse had been bathing
his head with rum. The mystery was explained.
The head was thoroughly washed with pure cold
water, when they took hold with their accustom
ed eagerness. — Organ.
A Hold Preacher.
The boldness of Samuel Davies, (a qualifica
tion so important that even St. Paul requested
tl.e Christians to pray it mil'll! he given him) will
be illustrated by a single anecdote When Pres
ident of Princeton College, he visited England
for the purpose of obtaining donors for that insti
tution. The King (George 2) had a curiosity to
hear a preacher Irom the “ wilds of America.”
He accordingly attended, and was so struck with
Ins commanding eloquence that he expressed his
nstonishment so loud as to be heard hal way over
the house, in such terms as these; “ he is a* won
derful man I” “Why he heats See.
Davies observing that the King was attracting
more attention than himself, paused and looking
his Majesty full in the face, gave him, in an em
phatic tone, the following beautiful rebuke,
“ When the lion roaretb. let the lieasts ofthe for
es! tremble : and when the Lord speaketh, let the
kings of the earth keep silence.” The King
instantly shrunk back in his seat like a school
boy that had been rapped over the head by his
master, and remained quiet during tlic remainder
ofthe sermon. The next day the monarch sent
for him, and gave him fifty guineas as a donation
for the institution over whieli he presided, observ
ing at the same time to fiis courtiers, “tie is an
honest man, an honest, man.” INot one of his
silken bishops would have dared to give him such
a reproof.
The Sabbath.
The notorious Lloyd, Garrison, the editor of
the Boston Liberator, has offered a reward of $4,
000 to any person who will produce fouri ifferent
passages from the Bible, either of which will goto
prove a requirement for the observance of any one
day in the week as a Sabbath, or that the Apos
tles ever alluded to the sin of Sabbath breaking.
The editor ofthe Charlestown Chronicle, begs
him to pay a portion ofthe S2OO due him for labor
in the Liberator office first, adding that it is no
wonder that a man who cheats his w hite laborers
under pretence of helping the blacks, should wish
to do away with the Sabbath.
Treatment of Children.
Children should have plenty of exercise. No
thing is more injurious than to keep) them confin
ed to the house and the chair, as some mother’s
do. Let them go out and leap and frisk about in
innocent sports, as their natures dictate. They
will be the more healthy and better children eve
ry way. When ok! enough to labor, they should
be required to engage in it for a limited time eve
ryday. It is a great misfortune to a child to be
brought up without being taught to labor, though
some parents think it is very hard if their little
ones have to work. What a mistake! Their
best good requires that they should labor moder
ately, occasionally at least. But all should be
careful not to over-task children. This is as bad
as to let them grow up in idleness, thoutrh the ef
fect is different. —Morning Star.
Here is an item worth looking and laughing
Mexico , 28fA, September,
was buried with pomp and solemnity, in the ceme
tery ot St. Paul, the foot which his Excellency
President Santa Anna lost in the action ot the otii
December,
erected for that purpose, Don Ignacio Sieriav
Roso having pronounced a funeral discourse ap
propriate to the subject.”
US’ Answer to “A Rebus,” published in our
last. Two correct answers received:
4-10, II osA-ington; 2-12, /;i-dej)endence; 1-6,
G-eorge; 2-6, To-ries; 1-10, A’-ew Orleans; 1-8,
T- ecumseli; 1-7, O-ncidas; 2-8, Tc-rlcton;
Lo-fayette; 1-0, Brandywine; 2-10, Sf-oney
Point; 2-/,/n-dians; 3-10, Enoampment: 1-4,
£-rie; 2-8, So-ldiers; 1-9, C-hamplain; 1-5, /-r
--win; 1-2, E-utaw Springs; 1-7, T-renton; 1-8,
V-orktown. The whole is WASHINGTON
TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY.
Dow Jr.
In Dow's last sermon, we find the following
rich morsel:
Man looks upon life just as he does upon the
women—there is no living with them, us he can t
live without them. He will run after them— and
rather than be held, he will lose his coat tail and
character—kisses them tor love, and kicks them
for leading him into trouble. So with life 1 say-,
he partakes of its pleasures, and then damns it for
its pains—gathers boqucts of bliss, and when their
blossoms have faded he finds himself in possession
of a hunch of briars —which is alluding to a little
incident that occured in Paradise when man was
as oreen as a tobacco worm, and as unsuspicious
as a tree toad in a thunder storm. He was to in
crease and multiply, and so accordingly he in
creased his cares anil curses, multiplied his miser
ies, and peopled the world with a parcel of can
didates for perdition--and I am one of them.
Rid.culous.—For a man without character or
reputation, to attempt to destroy the good name
of another.
PROSPECTUS
I’M IKS, H
OH, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE,
Devoted to the Cause of Temperance^—published
semi-monthly , in the City oj Augusta,
BY JAMES McCAF>ERTY.
A S it is certainly desirable that such a publication
should find its w ay into every house, the low price
!of subscription will, we hope, guaranty it a wide cir- 5, v
I vulation. Such a paper we believe i» this
community, especially at the present time.
The determination our citizens have evinced,
to drive theDt suoy er lrom the lam),has awakened the
most inte mpciate to as< use of out). This should he (
hailed as an omen and harbinger of gooo. The spirit
of Reformation is aw aliened thioughout the length and
bieadth of our country—the Temperance C a use is
even where happily advancing, bearing douuallop- yu
position, scattering blessings on every hand, dry ing up
the teais ol the distressed and causing the heart of the .fU
w idow and the drunkard's wife to sii.g for oy. It is a
gloiious cause—the cause ol humanity and virtue: our
country’s highest good is involved—her prosperity,
honor and safety. Oh ! then, let us not prove recreant,
but come boldly to the rescue, and with united heart WM
and hand, assist in delivering our beloved country from
slavery to the worst, most ciuel of enemies.
To impress the necessitv of such n work upon the
friends ol Temptrance, nothing can be more appropri
ate than tne closing paragraph of a report from Mr. S. (H
3. ( ms mas, an indefatigable Tsmperance agent.
“Whatever other agencies may be used, the Cause
must languish w ithout publications to diffuse informa
tion and keep up an interest; they alone keep the sub.
ject blaziiig belore the public mind. Temperance lcc- td
' tures may arouse the people from iheir slumbers, MM
strengthen the weak, confirm the wavciing and re
claim the wanderer; but the temperance publication
comes too often w ith their cheering accounts of the
onward progress of theiause, with their inteicsting
tacts and anecdotes, and w ith their stirring appeals, to
permit the interest wholly to subside, or the slumbers
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the arrival of the temperance paper does not excite a
special interest in the breast ol the father, the children
hail it as they w ould the return of the long absent
friend ; they gathei around the domestic fireside—
they devour its pages, and its contents are rend and
repeated with all the glee and enthusiarm of childhood
and youth and w ith the staled return ol such a moni
tor, the inteiest is kept up and the cause advances.”
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