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THE DAUGHTERS OF THE WEST.
They tell me of that laad
Across tho mighty sea;
They say that nature’s works are grand,
America, in thee.
The Forest deep, the Prairie wild,
Whose undalating sod
Is yet by human hands untoil’d,
The mighty work ofGod—
The torrent whose impetuous fall
Hath never known a rest;
And then they praise above these all,
l he Daughters ofthe West.
They name the chief with dauntless brow,
And Indian dignity,
Whonalka beneath the forest boogh,
In true nobility;
Os glorious trophies, too, they tell,
On plains of crimaon won,
Where first the wreath of Britain fell,
It fell- but to her Son I
And yet tho theme they ting of most,
With kindling eye and breaat,
Is one, their country’s pride and boast,
The Daughters oftho West.
My fancy yearns to wander through
The scenes of grandeur there,
But most of all, 1 sigh to view
Those maids so passing fair,
Long may they be their country’s pride,
And may her sons deserve
To find in each a gentle bride
Whose heart can never swerve;
May Heav n protect them from all harm,
And may they e’er be blest
With constant love, life's brightest charm,
The Daughters of the West.
London, April, 1843. Marians.
MGHT.
BV JAMES MONTGOMERY.
Night is the time to rest ;
How sweet when labors close,
To gather round an aching breast
Tno curtain of repose:
Stretch out the tired limbs and lay tho head
Upon our own delightful bed!
Night is the time fordreams;
The gay romance of life,
When tiuth that is and,truth that seems
Blend in fantastic strife;
Ah I visions less beguiling far
Than waking dreams by daylight are!
Night ie the time to toil;
To plough the clastic field,
Intent to find the buried epoil
Ite wealthy furrows yield;
Till all ie ours that sages taught,
That poets sung or heroes wrought
Night is the time to weep;
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory, where sleep
The joys of other years;
Hopes that were angela in their birth,
But perished young, like things on oarth 1
Night is tho time to watch;
On oceans dark expanse,
To hail the Pleiades, or catch
The full moon’s earliest glanoe,
That brings unto tho home-sick mind
Ail wo have loved and left behind.
Night is the time for care ;J1 1
Brooding on hours mis-spent,
To see the spectre of despair
Como to our lonely tent;
Liko Brutus midst his slumbering host, i
Startled by CtMar’s stalwart ghost I 1
Night is tho time to muse;
Then from the eye the soul
Takes flight, and with expanding views
Beyond the starry pole,
Descries athwart the abyss of night
Tho dawn of uncreated light.
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Night is the time to pray; 1
Our Saviour oft withdrew
Todcscrt mountain far away, I
So will his followers do; 1
Steal from the throng to haunts unfmd, r
And hold communion there with God, r
Night is the time for death;
When all around is peace,
Calmly to yield the weary breath,
From am and suffering cease;
Think of heaven’s bliss, and give the sign 1
To parting lriendu—such death be mine I
1
f&MiPI[SANi~E7~ J
A iiabd Case.—An incident occur- <
red on Sunday last, in one of therespec- I
table quiet streets of our city, which at t
nnv time would have been frightful, butjt
in those temperance days is most passing 11
strange. A young man, whose father!
on dying a few years since, left him aI <
fortune of $30.0000, was seen to d r i vc l,
up to the residence of his family in aj i
cab, so beastly intoxicated, so awful in ]
appearance, as to strike every one with i
abhorrence. He was without coat or t
hat, and the rest of his scanty clothing i
was torn to pieces and covered’ with dirt, i i
while from the frightful gashes of his j
head the blood streamed down over his c
face, a spectacle of horror ! Such a spec- c
tacle—such an object—to present itself t
on the Sabbath day at the house of.a!
mother 1 And this is a wine-drinker—' {.
one whom we doubt not has always been L
a strenuous advocate for an “ occasional! i
glass”—that occasional glass which is i c
the source and origin of all the damning e
evils that bloated drunkenness accumu
lates upon his head. This youDg gen
tleman, not yet 23 years of age, thus at
tired in his tattered and bloody habili
ments, pitched from the cab to the pave
ment, and then staggered up the steps
that led to his mother’s dwelling. But
fortunately that poor mother was spared
tho appalling exhibition. The family
had just gone to church, and the son
was denied admittance by the servants.
This refusal enraged the drunkard, who,
in attempting to force the shutters, raised
one by the hinge, which then fell upon
him heavily, wounding and prostrating
him upon the pavement, from whence he
was taken into the house’, and subse
quently removed to the hospital. This
really frightful scene was witnessed by a
crowd of several hundred persons, drawn
together by the ravings of the drunken
madman. His history, brief, brilliant,
beastly, should furnish a powerful lesson
to the gentlemanly young topers who
are so conceitedly following in the same
path.— Saturday Museum.
Ay lirciDExr.—One year ago I lec
tured in a town thirty miles awav from
Maine, to the Washingtonians. It was
my second lecture there. The lecture
commenced at five o’clock in the after
noon; and I continued the discourse til!
it grew dark—when I began to give some
evidences of a conclusion, but was in
formed, by the President, that they were
‘preparing to light up.’ The lecture
continued an hour longer, and then an
invitation was given to all who were not
already Washingtonians, to sign the
pledge. The first man who came for
ward was a man of fifty years. It was
something to shock one to see that man.
He was on fire. Alcohol had clothed
him in rags—had taken his good name
away—his farm away—his heart away—
had taken every good thing away from
that man, and left him a poor castaway
upon whom worms would feed too soon.
That broken down old man tottered up
and signed the pledge, and swore to be a
man again. Soon an unusual stir and
giving back was noticed among
crowd that thronged the desk. The
cause of it all appeared to be a lad not
more than twelve years old. He elbow
ed his way with an air that bespoke some
noble purpose, on through the mass till
he came to the altnr, which, on that oc
casion, certainly, had become an altar ot
safety to men. “Where is my father’s
name 7” inquired the heroic lad—“ where
is my father’s name?” It was pointed !
out to him, that drunkard’s namo. Tho
lad stood a minute, motionless as marble
there, gazing upon his father’s name, till
he wet the pledge with his tears. “Then,”!
said he, as his young lip did quiver with
a deep emotion at his heart, “I must
write my name under my father’s name.”
flo did write it there, and left the house
without another word or look, while the
eyes of all were turned on him. It was
a place hotter than the halls of kings to
he where a scene like that was acted.
To me it was better to bo there.
[Aquarian.
Sate Torn Fivetexces. —There lives
in the city ot Washington a joiner, who 1
but a short time back was an abandoned
drunkard. He had a little daughter a- I
bout eleven years old, and frequently j
during tho winter she was to be seen '
trudging thro’ tho frost and Snow without '
stockings and almost without shoes, bear- i
ing a black bottle, filled with that which i
changed her father into a brute, and made
her mother and her home miserable.
One day ho had received a sum of :
money, and intending to have a spree,
he put three five cent pieces into his i !
watch fob, to get his bitters on tho mor- i
row. i
Whilo he was on tho sproe ho was i
found by a Washingtonian, who induced
him to sign the pledge. Sometime after
he bored a large hole in the leg of his 1
work bench, into which he dropt the 11
three five cent pieces that he had put in-!
tojiis tob, and at the same time deter-!
mined to drop one in about as often as j
ho had formerly been in the habit of ta-'
ken a horn. A few weeks after he want-!
ed some lumber, and being short of cash I
he thought he’d broach his novel deposi
torv, not dreaming that there was more !
than $lO or sl2 in it, but on counting >
he lound the sum of $47 62.
ihinkot this, ye who arc in the habit |
of taking one, two, three or more horns a
day—the saving which signed the pledge
is to a man, we consider the most unim
portant view of the matter, but even on
this ground, docs it not stand all in hand
to adopt the principles of total abstinence
at once—but when we add to this the
wreck of character, the misery and utter
perversion of all that is noblc’and virtu
ous in man, produced by intoxicating
drinks,—is it not extremely unwise to
touch them at all?
1 here are very few now but will ac
knowledge that liquors does them no
good, and even if it does them no harm,
it is a loolish outlay of money; but it
does do them harm, even taken in ever so j
small quantities, and may prove their
eternal ruin. There is not a drunkard
on the face of the earth but what thought
at one time a little would do him nc
harm—not one that ever thought he
would become a drunkard, but may have
been deceived and so may you. Think
of this.— Organ 4* Wash.
Every jian fetch his man !—That’s
the way to do up the work—“ Every man
fetch his man.” Let this but be carried
out, and soon the temperance principles
will reign universally triumphant. The
movers in the Washingtonian Reform
pretty generally adhered to this excellent
ruie at first—but it seems now to have
been almost forgotten. Many of our
Washingtonians think they have no other
duty to perform after signing the Pledge,
but merely to attend the meetings——and
in fact some of them do not consider this
a duty, or if they do, negiect it. They
do not reflect that we are surrounded by
thousands of our fellow creatures steeped
in the most abject misery, ail occasioned
by rum.
Make up your mind to attend at least
| one meeting a week—and always endea
var to take some one with you who hat
not signed tho Pledge. Invito jour
friends or acquaintances, or even stran
gers. No person will take offence a;
being invited to attend a temperance
meeting, if it is done in a proper spirit.
Interest is arrayed against us on the
one hand, and Fashion on the other;
these wield an extraordinary influence
upon society, and extraordinary means
are necessary' to counteract or remove
these great obstacles. We appeal tOj
Washingtonians ns philanthropists, ns
citizens, as men, to make every possible
exertion in behalf of the poor suffering
drunkard, his miserable wife and helpless
children. We have gained a great vie
tory it is true—but shall we stand still
while the enemy is watching at ever}'
corner, for an opportunity to destroy us;
or shall we rather push on the fight until
he is entirely routed from our shores!
Come up to the work, then, with new
zeal—our cause is just, and it is our own
fault if we do not prevail.— [Organ.
The only Safety. —Men should sign
the Pledge for other reasons than mere
self-preservation. He may have a child,
a brother, or a friend, to sign from his
example, who might otherwise become a
drunkard. Every consideration should
induce you to sign the Pledge, even
though you may be able to abstain with
out it yourself, do it for the benefit of
| those who cannot. And besides, if vou
are satisfied that drinking is an evil,
and you are determined to give it up,
why should you refuse to give your
name to swell the cold water army? Is
it because you think that under some
circumstances j’ou may desire to take a
glass with a friend? Ifso, here lies all
the danger—take one glass more, and
that may prove fatal, this has been the
ense in more than one instance. The
only safety is in total abstinence; this,
experience has fully established as a fact
—then why not adopt this principle for
your guide through life?
A Dying Drunkard. —Not long since
one who had been furnished bv his neigh
bor with the means of destruction, and
been brought by it to the verge of the
grave, was visited in his last moments by
the author of his ruin, who asked him
whether he remembered him ? The dy
ing man, forgetting his struggle with the
king of terrors, said, ‘Oyes; I remem
ber you, I remember your store where 1
formed the habit which has ruined me
for this world and the next. And when
I am dead and gone, and you come and
take from my widow the shattered re
mains of my property to pay my rum
debts, they too will remember you. We
shall all remember you through eternity.'
An apt illustration. —Prof. Silli
man, while giving an cxegetical lecture
upon the Epistle to Timothy, came to
Paul’s injunction—“ Drink no longer
water, but use a little wine for the sto
mach’s sake, and thine often infirmities.”
The studenis imagined that considerable
ingenuitj r would be requisite to explain
the text, so far as to avoid collision with
the temperance measures. The profes
sor, after the verse was read, observed in
substance as follows—“ What a remarka
bly temperate young man Timothy was,
j that it should require the authority of an
I inspired apostle to induce him to drink
! water no longer, but to use a little wine
| even when his health required it! Very!
few', at the present day, are so scrupulous
as it regards drinking wine.”— Mountain
Torrent.
Make a people sober, and make them
prosperous and happy. The Pledge is
the thing to accomplish the work—sign
it, and get your friends to do so too ; this I
will confer on our beloved country, a |
more lasting favor than has ever been i
conferred by Whig or Democrat.— [Org.
Washingtonians, be industrious !
Idleness will lead you into temptation
Employment in a business which yields
but a small profit, is much better than
I none at all. Though you may find it i
tough for a while, industry and persever
ance will carry you through triumphant!
Remember this, Washingtonians.
wiw—pit
■ AEWEiKTimiEIMEKIVSS.
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
AICISTA WASHINCTOSIJN,
VOL. u.
DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, AGRICULTURE
AND MIBCELLANY 1
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
At Augusta, Georgia,
By JAMES McCAFFKRTY.
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Competent gentlemen having kindly acceded
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Thus far, the march ofour cause is onward,
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The subject of Timperar.cc will bp the promi
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