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OFFICERS.
Dr. Joseph A. Eve, President.
Col. John Millkdue, "l
Hawkins Hoff,
Dr. F. M. Robertson, [> Vice Presidents.
Dr. 1. P. Garvin,
J. VV. Meredith, • j
WM. Haines, Jr. Secretary <f* Treasurer,
MANAGERS.
James Harper, Wm. F. Pemberton,
John G Dunlap, Wm 0 Eve,
Jesse Wai.ton, A. Phillips,
E. E. Scofield, Dr. Benjamin Douglass,
James Goiiby, J. L. Mimms.
From the Organ and Washingtonian.
Supreme Court ol the Civilized World. '
Croton (Voter vs. King Alcohol.
The Court met according to adjournment.— .
Present Judge Coinmonsense. The Clerk culled
the Court to order—the officers ami jury in their j
places.
Mr. Landlord, Council for the defendant, ;
arose anil addressed the Cotlit as follows :
May it please tile Court, and you, gentlemen
of the jury, the cause before you is one of great
importance; one that effects the rights of private
individuals, and you will observe, that it is one
of those vexatious suits which too frequently ori
ginate in some private pique or malice . it is one,
at least, that my client, the King, has always en
deavored to guard against, and had he been so
inclined, should long ere this have brought an
action of slander against the many individuals j
who at this ti ne are foremost in urging on this
projection; and that 'liis-uit should he brought
at tiiis time, when a dreadful excitement is got
up among the people unfavorable to the King,!
and which is like to break out ill open rebellion'
among his numerous subjects, is itself a proof of
the injustice of the present attempt upon the au- j
thority of the King. Besides there is at this
time a band of rebels who meet nightly in all \
parts of tiic country, and that in large numbers, |
to hear the flaming speeches of their leaders, j
which keeps up the excitement to the disturb-i
aace if the peace and against the authority of
the King, and by their incendiary speeches are
drawing great numbers of the King’s subjects
from their allegiance to their rightful sovereign.
1 repeat, gentlemen of the jury, that the time
selected to urge on this trial under all these cir
cumstances, should induce you, as impartial men
to take a favorable view ol this matter, so far as
relates to the rights of the accused, in addition
to which you will yourselves admit that a pos
session or light held for so long a time as has
been the government of my client over his liege
subjects, should not be so lightly taken away,
the consequences of which will prove most dis
as'rous to thousands of his subjects. Revolu
tions are always attended with bloodshed and
gr at misery, and although it inav in the end
prove advantageous to t ie designing, it is never
theless certain ruin to thousands who are affected
by the chang ■. We have, I think, made 't dear j
by the testimony of Mr. Porter House and Mr. |
Brewer, (and we could here add manv more,)
that the King, my client, has been a most indul-!
gent monarch, never forcing any into his employ ,
that he is of good character and keeps the best
ol company, and what is called the upper crust,
or fashionable of the city and country, ai d that
he has made the fortunes of many an individual
without labor- -such has been his attachment to
those who took him as a friend, and at times made!
thousands happy. By vlr. Antiquary, we have j
heard his origin and long line of ancestry, and
the deference paid to the family for ages; we have
I think, sufficiently proven that he has on many
occasions been the cause of relievi gsortowand
drowning care, which I presume will not be de
nied. But t iat he has been guilty of the charges
laid down in the indictment, I utterly deny; if
any have indulged in his hospitalities and abused
his generosity, they have done so with their own
free will, and it should not be accounted to him
for wrong, but should from his indulgence to
those who have visited him, and the many evils
he has cured, the good society he has kept, his
age and tong line of ancestry, together with the
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, MAV 6, 1813.
nobility who still worship him in their closets,]
and in public and in private fall down before him.
All this should convince you taat what is charged
in the indictment is more from malice than any
desire of justice. As to the witness on the part
of the prosecution, it is, at tile tirst glance, evi- j
dent, that they are of tile deluded class of ri hols, ’
who have lelt their allegiance to their righttut j
sovereign, and being rebel- should nut be enti
tled to your confidence. From all these facts 1 ;
have no doubt you will, when you retire, soon re
turn with a verdict of honorable acquittal With j
tin se remarks 1 leave uiy client in your hands.—
Idle Counsel here sat down, when
Mr Croton arose, and w ith a calm, dignified |
air, addressed the jury as follows:
Gentlemen—was it not that I feared you might
feel more regret at my refusal to reply to the so
phistry and ingenuity of the counsel for the ac
cused, l would not exert myself to speak in my
own defence, and give you the trouble to hear
me. The learned counsel forgot, when he stated
to you that this was a cause of great importance,
and that his client had done all he could to pre
vent it—J say he forgot to add, that this is a
cause which has occupied the at'ention of good
men f r ages, and that they have long been anx
ious to bring it before a court and jury, in the ;
hope of driving this usurper and tyrant from the j
land; but lie has ever by some means or other, I
been able to keep off the trial; it lie is as honest i
and upright as stated, why try every ait of a !
swindler to have it deferred f The counsel calls
those engaged in the cause, rebels; it would he
be well for the gentleman before lie brings such
charges, to enquire who is the legitimate sove
reign, and wlio the usurper. That 1 have been
crowned, and pronounced one of tiie lour kings
of the earth a’ the creation, you net d hut to look j
into the hook of Genesis, where it is recorded
that theie was earth., air,Jirc and Water; hence I
you see that I am in the direct line of descent
from the creation to the present day, and that the
accused was not known till many years afier,
when liy the wickedness of men, he assumed my
shape and appearance, the mote easily to deceive
mankind, by which means be has been able to
enlist under his banner a host of the most vile
and wretched ol the human race, and has always
been able by bribery and corruption to employ
landlords, distillers, pedleis, and retailers, to dis
seminate his corrupting qualities n all ranks of
society. The testimony before you shows the
subtlety of his c.our-e, always taking advantage
of the weak or the unfortunate, and those easily
led astray ; be has never neglected any oppo tri
nity to bribe and corrupt the unsuspected, always
promising hap, iness to those that gave ear to him,
like the serpent in the Garden ol E len; he lias
beguiled the young men of our country; he has
been the ruin of many a lovely female whose
beauty and fine pa’ts, but tor him, would have
done honor to tuu parlor of a no leman ; he has
as D proven, been the cause of separating man
and wife, drawing aw.iy the affections ofthe hus
band from her whom he had swo(n to love and
cherish; he has, like a gambler, flattered bis
victims bv his seductive manners, until he ha
robbed liiin of bis all, and then turned him in the
street to perish; he has been the originator and
peipetrator of more crimes than all toe evils enn
t iiled in Pandora’s Box, in which after all, I lope
was left when the evils escaped ; hut he strips his
subjects of even the color of Hope; he has des
troyed whole nations by diffusing in their rulers
his spirits, as in the case of Alexander, and has
lu en the cause of destroying the best of men, as
was the case of Herod, who, while instigated by
h m, commanded the head of John tile Baptist to
be cut off and brought on a charger to gratify a
lewd woman who had indulged in Itissociety; he
has corrupted kings and generals, by whom
wiiole armies have been lost. The high places of
the nation have been disgraced by his intrigues;
the common courts of justice have been corrupted
by his presence; the pulpit has been, and still is I
fear, desecrated by his familiarity ; and the bar
has hoc ’me notorious lor courting his favois;
and at this day he is still admitted, as he himself
has proven, into tile society of the elite of the
country, and with what effect let the world judge,
for to you, gentlemen of the jury, it is known
that in every family where he is admitted, some
one or more of the family have fallen before him,
and brought shame and disgrace upon themselves
and friends,— gotoyour prisoners, and they with
the shackles on, will tell you that he, the prisoner
at the bar, was the cause; goto your madhouse,
and nine times out of ten tiie history of the in
mates will be found to show that they have asso
ciated with this deceiver of mankind; go to the
gallows, and every victim will tell you that the
accused was accessary to the crime for which the
culprit dies; goto the wretched, neglected, lorh.rn
wife, and she will, like Mrs. Goodman, tell you
that King A cohol, the prisoner at the bar, is the
accursed cause of all her sufferings and want. I
will not, gentlemen, detain you any longer by en-
umeratingthe crimes the prisoner at the bar has
been guilty of, the catalogue of which would fill a
colu i n of The Organ and Wash ngton an.
Believing in your good sense in this matter, and
the testimony before you, I shall submit the case
toy. ur hands, with a lull confidence that you
will, after receiving the charge from the Coun,
and retire to your room for deliberation, render
such a verdict as will do honor lo your fellow citi
zens, and justice to the accused and your own
conscience.
The Clerk then called over the names ol all the
jurors, when the Judge delivered lus charge as
follows;
Gentlemen—you have heard the testimony,
and the counsel f 'or and against the prisoner.—
The Court charge that you are bound to try ti e
facts in the case, and wnetlier the charges in the
indictment have been supported by pioof. The
Couri is ofthe opinion that they have, but this is
tor you to decide; that the law takes cognizance
of the crimes charged is certain, it is left for you
to say whether the prisoner be guilty or not
guilty.
The jury retired for a few moments ami re-;
turned a verdict o (guilty of all the counts in the j
indictment, Whereupon the prisoner was re- |
innnJod toawatt his sentence, which would he on ;
some early day.
The counsel ofthe sccursed filed a bill of ex
ceptions, which was received—and the Court ad- 1
journed, to meet some future day.
sentence of KING AI.C Hint..
Judge Coinmonsense on the Bench. The |
Court-room being crowded, the Sheriff was or
dered to place the prisoner in the dock
The Judge rose and asked the prisoner what
he had to say, why the sentence of the law
should not he passed u|mu him.
Tne prisoner replied, that he felt great embar
rassment, and much humbled, at being thus ar
raigned before a court which Consists ol thousands
who had, tip to this time, done him reve ence j
ami he the consequences what they w. uld, he I
should, in the presence ofthe world, proclaim his
liioocence! And he desired that it might tie put
I upon the records of the court, that he complained
ofthe want of fairness in the trial, the juiy and
witnesses being prejudiced against him, and let
the sentence be what it may, I shall, said he, ap
peal to ihose faithful subjects who yet adhere to
me, to see me righted in this matter, With these
remaiks I abide the result.
The Judge th.m addressed him as follows:
You, King Alcohol, have been indicted by the
Grand Inquest of the World, In a true bill, tuc
charges of which I need not iriumeratc—you
have had sufficient lime allowed you to prepare
for your defence; you have had aide co insel, ami
also, a fair and impartial trial, by a jury of the
country; and they, alter hearing the testimony
in the case, with due deliberation have found you
•uillyofall the charges in the indictment, and
rendered a verdict accordingly. It now becomes
the duty of the Court to pass sentence upon you
according to your cr tries, which are numerous.
The sentence ofthe Courtis, that you, King Al
cohol, be deprived of ad authority—that you have
I the mark of Cain put upon you, and that you lie
1 an outcast from society, and that you, and all that
; continue to associate with you, lie considered a
pest and a nuisance to mankind, anil the Court
orders that it be the duty of every Washingtoni
an to unite in driving you from the earth, todwell
with the spirits of icmorse, till t me shall he t.o
more, And it is further directed, that this sen
tence be read before every Washingtonian Socie
ty, in order that the decree ofthe Court be uni
versally known.
The Court adjourned, sine die.
A I’retty Incident.
The late temperance relormaiion has given
rise to many pleasing and affecting incidents, a
| majority of which, perhaps, are never related ex
j cept within the walls of the temperance hall, and
are thus lost to great numbers wl.o would take
pleasure in hearing <•!'reading them. We can
not refrain from giving one of these, which we
heard at a temperance meeting in Brooklyn some
i time since, from the lips of one ofthe parties con-
I corned—who, we believe, is now a resident of
this city. Should we err in any of the minor
points, our apology must be found in tiie length
of time which has transpired since we listened to
it.
A temperance lecturer whom we shall call Mr.
: A., by profession a lawyer, was called upon to
; deliver a temperance oration, on tse Fourth of
] July last, in a town not far distant from this citv.
] On hi 3 way thither, he noticed that he was very
j closely ohservid by a well-dressed gentleman who
sat opposite him, and lie was mueh puzzled to ae
; count for the remarkable attention thus bes'owed
Alter scrutinizing Mr. A.’s features for some
; time, the stranger finally ventured to enquire his
' name, adding, byway of apology for so doing,
that he resembled a lawyer he was once acquaint*
ed with, who hail led a very dissipated liie, and
who, he supposed, had long before fallen a vic
tim to the liquui poison.
Mr A. evaded giving his own name, by ask
ing that of the lawyer referred to.
“ His name, replied the stranger, “was A.
The last time I saw him, he was lying drunk
upon a bench, in a low groggery in New York,
and we aroused him to decide a bet of liny cents
for us, the resu.t of which was depending upon &
point of law.” •
“ 'Veil, sir,” returned Mr. A., “ I am that very
man —but what may j call your name 1”
“ My name is B.” replied the stranger.
“What! Is it possihl* you are the same B.
who used to met t us!—that poor, miserable joui
neytnun printer, who so often e’bt kicked into the
street by the landlord, alter getting dead drunk
on raw whiskey 1 Why, you were the hardest
drinker in the lot and the lasi 1 heard of you, you
were just dying with the delirium tremens! But
you look first rale , now.”
‘Oh, yes,” said 8., “ofcourse I do—l have
signed the Washingtonian pledge. But what
makes you look so well 1
“ Why, to tell the truth, old fellow,” sa : d Mr.
A, 1 have joined the Washingtonians too!”
“ I thougut as mut It,” exclaimed Mr. B , seiz
ing his old companion by the hand, and giving it
a hearty shake, “ I thought by vour looks that
y.u were a Wasi ingtonian. But which way
are you hound 1”
“ I am going to N , to deliver a Fourth of
July temperance oration,” said A.; “won’t you
go along too 1”
“I can’t really," replied the other; “ for the
fact is, lam going to P ,to deliter a temper
ance oration myself!”
Some farther conversation passed, and the two
men separated. They had been snatched, as it
were, as brands from the burning, through the
instrumentality oi the Temperance Pi.ki ge, and
m the spirit of true Wash ngtonianism were go
ing forth to oiler that Pledge to their fellow men,
1 and to bear witness to ta efliei cy, when they met
I and renewed their acquaintance in the manner
w,- have described.
i There is something pleasant—something
j cheering—in the contemplation oi an occumnee
like this. Theie is that in it which finds its way
directly to the heart, and causes the blood to
dance through the veins with a quickened veloci
ty ; f. .r it tells of men, once bound in cruel chains,
now fiee and independent —es friends, once dis
consolate and desponding, now blithe and joylul
—and of firesides, once gloomy and desolate, now
cheerful and happy.
Charge of Censure Repelled.
It has been urged by some opposed to the Tcm
> peranee movements, that our proceedings neces
sarily imply censure on those who do not join
our Society. We must confess we cannot for
our lives discover any necessary connexion bet
ween their inference and its antecedent; nor can
we understand the rationale by which they have
arrived at their conclusion. Among these who
.filler from us in our opinion rißjiecung the pro
priety and expediency of our proceedings, we
reckon many ot our first and most influential
friends;—some whom,God knows, we love as
brothers —some whom we respect as mentors, and
some whom we esteem and vein rate as fathers.
True, we regret, sincerely regret, th t there
should exi-t a deference of opinion between us on
a subject of such magnitude and of such vital im
portance to the community at large.—But regret
is the only feeling excited. We onteitain no ap
prehension that this difference of opinion will se
vei the bonds of friendly intercourse that subsists
between us.—lt can produce no discord in the
hearts ot the open, honorable and high-minded ;
and, as to your cold, selfish, narrow-hearted—
from the friendship of such we shall ever devout
ly pray. “ Good Lord, deliver us.”
From the sensibility manifested on this subject
by certain of our opponents, we verily appre. end
there may be a consciousness of something “ rot
\ ten in Denmark” a consciousness that censure
jis deserved. It is an ancient therapeutical max*
] im, “ übi irritatio ibi fiuxus," —The reverse of
: this is equally true. Vv here there is a determi
| nation to a part, irritation will be found to ex st,
I as a local and exciting c^use.
But if this objection avails any thing against
association*- for the promotion of Temperance, it
will prove equally effectual against every combi
nation of individuals for the attainment of moral
ends. Are cur opponents prepared to go that
length 1 If they are, they may journey alone—
we s.iall not follow them .— Penjield 7 . Banner.
A Washingtonian says bo don’t believe irt
temperate drinking; a man who drinks at all
drinks too much; and there is about as much
sense in calling a man a temperate drinker as
there is in saying he is a holy sinner 1
[No. 23.