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I together with those otherwise indifferent, j
I have looked upon such a measure as an
I invasion of their rights, and have met it
I with the most determined resistance. —
I On the other hand, when we haveappeal-
I ed simply to moral means —when we
I have renounced all other force, except;
R the force of attraction, we have witnessed
lj the most cheering results. Formidable
I difficulties have been surmounted, and
the progress of the cause has been on
ward. Be our watchword, then, Moral
Suasion. Let us persuade—exhort—en
treat —and if we cannot succeed by such j
arguments, we may be assured that we !
could not accomplish our object by coer
cion.
' To the Editors of the Washingtonian :
Gentlemen, — Permit me. to express
, my admiration of your editorial corps. I
think that the Society have acted wisely
in confiding their organ to those who
could bring to its management such a
versatility of talent and experience.—
Most papers consider themselves fortu
nate if they can secure the services of
but one editor; but I count no less than
nine names prefixed to your editorial
columns. Among these, I find members;
of all the learned professions and those
who are engaged in mercantile pursuits:
? Divines, lawyers, physicians, merchants.
? Burely, if these various conductors do
I their duty, your paper must become one
jof the best in the country. With such
I a force you can wield every argument
|i which may be brought to bear upon the
II great cause in which you arc engaged.
The merchant can construct his tables
I of statistics, and exhibit to the public
I what mighty sums of money arc annual-
I ly wasted upon alcoholic drinks.—And
I he can appeal to a powerful passion in
the human breast—the love of money—
to deter people from such a money-losing
indulgence. If the merchant is unsuc
cessful, you can bring in the lawyer, who
can recite the crimes which owe their
origin to Intemperance. He can point
to the jail, to the penitentiary, and to
the gallows, and he can present a motive
drawn from these engines of disgrace
and of torture which may arrest the un
happy victim of this crime-breeding vice.
If the lawyer fails, and you cannot scare
men into sobriety, by depicting the con
; sequences of indulgence, you may still
call upon the physician. His observation
will enable him to show the injury which
men inflict upon their bodies by strong
drink. He can with great propriety re
hearse the long catalogue of diseases
which are engendered by the baleful
habit, and he can urge men by their love
of life and of health to be total abstinence
men. If they will not hear the physi
cian, there is still a resource—you can
hand them over to the divine. He can
admonish them of the fearful consequen
ces of such indulgence. He can point
out the disastrous effects of strong drink
upon the morals—upon the soul. He
can proclaim in their ears the truth, that
“ A drunkard cannot inherit the kingdom
of God,” and warn them, by their love of
Heaven and by their dread of eternal
condemnation, to dissolve all fellowship
with the howl. If the divine, added to
all the rest, be unsuccessful, then I must
pronounce their case hopeless. I ques
tion whether they could be reformed,
though one should rise from the dead and
preach to them.
But pardon me. gentlemen, I find that
I have been running on in a very didactic
strain—presuming to instruct those whom
it is to be presumed understand their
business. My main object in the present
communication is, to ask whether all the
editors are responsible for what may ap
pear under the editorial head ? If not
all, what one will assume the responsi
bility, and how will the public know ? I
saw in the number before your last, that
one of you had put his initials to a piece;
and in the same paper, I remarked a no
tice declaring that you would have no
. kind of participation in any of the exci
jting topics of the day. I supposed from
(this notice that somebody had been be
llaboring you for calling Platt a murderer,
land threatened to withdraw his subscrip- ;
ft ion, unless you retracted the offensive :
J epithet, and turned round and eulogised
| him. But what are you to do in this '
case? Your paper being partly miscel- .
laneous, you are under some obligation >
L te allude to matters which arc engaging i
fit!
the attention of the public; and in doing
so, how are you to escape censure ? If
you had commended the acquittal of
man, I am sure I never would have allow
ed your sheet to come into ray house
again. If you had condemned the ver
| diet, there might be found one who would
cry, “ stop my paper! stop my paper!—
I you are medding with what you have no
j business.” Now, what are you to do in
such an emergency ? The dilemma has
two horns*—rest upon either, and you arc
in danger of being gored. Let me tell
! you what to do, and if you will indulge
j me in this, I will impose myself no long
er upon your patience. Be independent,
every man of you—do what you con
ceive the cause of temperance, justice,
and truth demand, and having done so,
if any wish to quit you, let them go—
they arc not worthy of your attention.
If you had the dollars of the people who
would quit you for such a reason, they
would be so mean that they would be
very apt to corrupt your whole purso.
If this communication be too long or
too impudent, you have my permission to
burn it; otherwise I shall look for it in
! your columns, as coming from
A FRIEND OF THE EBITOKS.
Richmond Co., July 1843.
For the Washingtonian.
Opponents of our Cause.
1. All those who speak and think light
ly of temperance measures, may be re
garded as opponents. It is true they do
not express themselves in decided terms
against the efforts of benevolence which
are concentrated in the temperance
cause, they do not enter into any formal
argument against it, they do not under
take to vindicate the opposite side of the
question, but at the same time they speak
of temperance efforts with an air of light
ness and ridicule. Nay, on some occa
sions they are perhaps disposed to sneer
at the diligence of those who would put
down the monster intemperance. Now,
persons of this kind may be ranked a
mong the opponents of temperance, be
cause with some people there is no weap
on so powerful as ridicule; there may be
no argument which shall have a stronger
tendency to sap the foundation of the
system. By sly insinuations they may
bring disrepute upon the whole subject.
They think it will do service amoogsome,
but when applied to others, it is regarded
as altogether worthless and unmeaning.
This class forms a very considerable
number of oar opponents in every com
munity. Those petsons who seem to be
superior to others in rank and influence,
and who regard themselves as rather
above those moral restrictions and limita
tions by which other classes may be
influenced, speak sneeringly of temper
ance societies. They cannot allow
themselves to be enrolled among such.
They cannot deign to have connection
with them, and the consequence is. that
with them the subject is brought into con
tempt.
2. Another class of opponents are
those who decline any co-operation in
the cause. It is not too much to apply
to this case the rule applied by the Sa
viour, “ He that is not with rne, is against
me; and he that gathereth not with me
scattereth abroad.”
Those who decline co-operation mani
fest indifference. They take no active
part against it, but rather occupy a neu
tral ground, and by the neutrality which
they assume, they expect to escape all
censure and responsibility. But do they
not see when they look upon the cause
of suffering virtue, and perceive the
claims and rights and dignity of that vir
tue trampled under foot, and do not co
operate with those who are induced to
sustain those claims, that they are in a
guilty neutrality ? Their indifference
manifests in them the spirit of opposition;
and though they take no active part a
gainst that virtue which is struggling for
life, yet the coldness of their hearts man
ifests a latent hostility.
Those who resort to substitutes, as
wine, ale and beer, in lieu of ardent spir
its, may be considered opponents of the
cause. They manifest a compromising
temper, and show a disposition to treat
with the enemy, by calling iu those aids
to sustain the self-denial necessary to
successful prosecution of the duty ; and
therefore, by betaking themselves to sub
stitutes, and helping themselves to some
thing else in the place of these pernicious
liquors, the use of which they ought to
discourage, they prove that their hearts
are not renovated on the subject; there
is still a hankering under the influence of
the old passion, and they are willing to
relieve themselves from the pain which
they would experience in case of total
abstinence; these arc the opponents
and not the friends of the temperance
cause.
The Haud of Providence in the Reforma
tion of Drunkards.
The following remarks upon this sub.
ject, are from the pen of the Rev. John
Marsh. This gentleman has been for a
number of years an active officer of the
American Temperance Society. He has
been identified with the cause from its
earliest history in our country, and the
great success which has crowned his es.
forts, entitles his observations to the most
profound respect:
“The cold-hearted philosopher may
contemplate it as illustrative of the digni
ty of human nature, which can rise from
the lowest degradation and stand forth a
gain in the nobleness of a man. The
philanthropist may rejoice in it as a re
lief from the greatest ills which flesh is
heir to. And the patriot may exclaim,
0 blessed work! rendering jails and poor
houses hereafter tenantless. All such
may look not a step beyond outward
good, or man’s earthly existence. But
they catch but a glimpse of the great
work which ha 3 here been accomplished.
What is man? What is the world in
which we are living ? What is the object
of all the mercies which are bestowed
upon us ? Why are we called back from
the paths of sin and woe ? Why has the
Saviour died, and the Bible been given,
and the Sabbath instituted, and the Spirit
sent to convince of sin, and the ministry
to admonish and rebuke with tears, and
why is a voice following us all our days,
saying, “This is the wav, walk ye in it?”
Why, but to save the soul? Man is lost.
No drunkard hath any inheritance in the
kingdom of God. Yet the drunkard may
be saved. How ? “ Not by might, nor
by power, but by my Spirit, sailh the
Lord.” Thus were saved some among
the Corinthians. “Such,” said Paul,
“ were some of you. But ye are wash
ed, ye are sanctified, ye arc justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus and by the
Spirit of our God.” But how is the
drunkard saved by the Spirit ? How, but
through the truth? Like other men, he
is to be convinced of sin, made to feel his
obligations to God, —to cut off the right
hand—pluck out the right eye, and de
vote himself in newness of life to the di
vine service. But in all his habits, there
is an obstacle to the truth perfectly in
surmountable. Moral sensibilities are
blunted, conscience is seared, faculties
are stupified, affections laid waste-—pro
fanity, sensuality, Sabbath-breaking, ha
tred of God and the Bible and ministers,
these constitute his moral characteristics.
The half million drunkards in our land
were, a year ago, sealed up in impenetra
ble darkness. Men said “Preach the
Gospelprophesy over the valley of I
bones and pray for the Spirit: who can
tell but they may live? But prophecy
was vain. Why ? Because the wretch
ed beings were thrown beyond the reach
of all arguments and motives, and God
said, “Go through the gates, prepare ye
the way of the people. Cast up, cast up
the high way, gather out the stones.”
Man must be made sober before he will
hear the Gospel. The drunkard must
be reformed, brought and placed at the
feet of Jesus, “clothed and in his right
mind.” And God has been doing this
through the length and breadth of the
land. “Behold,” he may truly say,
“ye despisers, and wonder and perish,
for I work a work in your day, a work
which ye shall in nowise believe, though
a man declare it unto you,”—a work of
moral reform, accomplished by my word
—accomplished by the instrumentality of
men raised by me from the lowest depths
of degradation—accomplished by a spirit
of kindness and compassion toward the
miserable—a work which removes the
greatest obstruction to the reception of the
Gospel and the salvation of the soul—a
work which may be followed by the eter
nal blessedness of a multitude once ut
terly beyond hope.”
Speaking of the happy influence which
the temperance reformation has exerted
upon Christianity, the same writer ob
serves—
“ Twenty years ago the Church her
self was scathed by intemperance. Min
isters were ruined, communicants were
disgraced and cast out as a miserable
branch, convictions were quenched ; re
vivals blasted; sanctuaries demolished,
and beautiful fields of Zion laid waste.
From authentic documents it atone time
appeared that from 135 churches, more
than 160 members had been excommuni
cated for intemperance, and more than
200 others for immoralities to which wine
and strong drink had lod them. And the
Church was made poor. Ten times
more did she waste upon wine and strong
drink than she gave for the spread of the
Gospel. And shamefully powerless.—
“ Why go you not,” said one to his
neighbour, “to the prayer meeting?”
“ Because,” was the reply, “ I wish not
to hear one pray whose breath smells of
brandy.” The elder and the deacon sell
ing and the communicant drinking rum
in the tavern, were the jeer of the ungod
ly. Nor here only was felt the curse,
put around the globe. Everywhere the
Church was tarnished and withered by
her own drinking habits, and seemed
ready to die in a world of drunkenness
and pollution. But God has had mercy,
and rescued her by the temperance re
form. Her ministers have been saved.
Her communicants have been saved.
Her holy ordinance has been purged from
the basest mixtures. The traffic in in
toxicating drinks, that deadly gangrene
upon her vitals, has been cut off. Yet
net wholly. Some still manufacture and
sell, for gain, the destructive poison.
Some ministers and Christians still drink
wine in “becoming moderation,” plead
ing their Bible right and the example of
the Saviour, and there was need of a re
buke which should make them ashamed
of their practice. It has been given from
a most unexpected quarter, from the poor
out-cast in the gutter, “the base things
of the world and things which are despi
sed,” brought up in the providence of
God to teach the Church what she should
long since have learned from the Bible,
that “wine is a mocker and strong drink
is raging,” and to beseech the Church
for his sake and for the sake of 500,000
other lost beings, some, perhaps stumb
ling and falling over her, to abandon a
practice which kills both body and soul in
hell. The instrumentality may be des
pised and the instruction rejected, but
“whoso is wise and will observe these
things, even they shall understand the
loving kindness of the Lord.” •
To make kice puffs.— To a pint of
flour add a tea spoonful of salt, a pint of
boiling water, beat up four eggs, stir them
well together; put from two to three
spoonsful of fat in a pan, make it boiling
hot, and drop a spoonful of the mixture
into the fat as you do in making com
mon fritters.
AUGUSTA PRICES 3jj J
CUR KENT, | =:
Carefullt Corrected Weekly. 5-
BaculNU, Hemp
Tow
Gunny
Bale Rope
Bacon, Hog round
Hams
Shoulders
Sides
Beef, Smoked
Be tter, Goshen
Worth Carolina...
Coumry
Coffee, Green prime Cuba.
Ordinary to good..
St. Domingo
Rio
Laguira
Porto Rico
J#va
Mocha..
Candles, Sperm
Tallow, Georgia,
do. Northern.
Cheese. American
English
Crackers, Augusta made..
Northern.......
Cigars, Spanish
American
Corn
Fodder
Fish, Herrings
Mackerel, No. 1
do. No. 2
do. No. 3....
Floor, Canal
Baltimore
Western
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Feathers-
Ginger
Gunpower, Dupont’s fff. .
B asting
Glass, JO* 12
8 * 10.
Iron, Russia
Swedes, assorted....
Hoop
Sheet
Nail Rods
Lead, Bar
Sheet
Leather, Solo
Upper
Calf Skins
Lard
Molasses, N. Orleans....
Havana
English Island..
Nails
Oils, Lamp
Linseed
Tanners
Oats
Peas
Paints, Red Lead
White Lead
Spanish Brown...
Yellow Ochre
Pepper, Biack
Raisins, Malaga
Muscatel
Bloom
Rice, Prime
Inferior to good
Sugars, New Orleans
Havana white
do. brown
Muscovado
St. Croix
Porto Rico
Lump
Loaf
Double refined
Spice
Soap, American, No. 1
do. No. 2
Salt, Liverpool ground...
do. do
Steel, German
Blistered
Shot, all sizes
Tobacco, N. Carolina
Virginia
Twine
Tea, Bohea .
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Hyson •
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office in the Law Range, will be thankful for
any business entrusted to his care. He will prac
tice in Burke, Striven, and Columbia counties.
Augusta, May 20, 24 ts
T) R. JOHN MILLEN, Office No. 147,
North side Broad-street, below Eagle and
Phoenix Hotel, Augusta. [June 10 ly
ROOK Bindery and Blank Book Man
ufactory, opposite the Post Office, and ad
joining the office of the Augusta Washingtonian.
June 10 ly ] T. S. STOY.
Wr.T. CHURCHILL & CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In
EARTHENWARE, GLASS AND CHINA.
209 Broad-street, Augusta.
June 10 1 ts
CHARLES E. GRENVILLE & CO.
ROOKSELLERS and Stationers, 244
Broad-street, offers for sale, at wholesale
and retail, a large assortment of School,Classical,
Medical, Law and Miscellaneous Books; togeth
er with Blank Books, Paper, Paper Hangings,
Guills, Metallic Pens, Fine Cutlery, and
Stationery of every description ,
Music, Musical Instruments, and every article
usually called for in a Bookstore.
Luw and Medical Libraries furnished on the
most liberal terms.
Schools, Academies, and Literary Institutions
supplied at the lowest prices.
June 10 1 ts
tWM. HAINES, Jr. (Succes
sor to Garvin & Haines.) Wholesale
and Retail Dealer in Drugs, Medi
cines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Dye-Stuffs,
Penuiuery, Surgical Instruments,&c. Ac—Has
now on hand & select assortment of the above ar
ticles, for sale at low prices and on moderate
terms. All orders executed with neatness and
despatch. WM. HAINES, Jr.
No. 232 Broad-street, Augusta.
June 18 1 ts
a JOHN B. MURPHY.
has removed to the Store 3d
door below the Post Office
corner,.Vo. 214 Bread-street,
sign of the Large Golden
Spectacles. Clocks,Watch
es and Jewelry, carefully re
paired and warranted.
IfflirillfllSHWlW 55” A continuance of for
mer patronage will be thankfully received.
Augusta, June 10th, 1843 1 ly
TIN MANUFACTORY,
rpINNER’S Work of every description
made to order, at short notice, such as
BATHING TUBS,
FACTORY CANS,
CYLENDERS,
OIL STANDS, (from 1 unto 100 gallons.)
PATENT COFFEE POTS, of all sizes, to
suit hotels or private families,
1 PA RENT BOILERS, tor washing or heat
ing water for Baths.
All the above mentioned articles made of
Double tin.
A regular assortment of TIN WARE kept
on hand, to suit merchants or pedlers.
All kinds of ROOFING and GUTTERS
made and repaired, i.ow Ton cash.
The above business superintended bv
EE SCOFIELD,
Jackson-strcet. between the Globe Ho
tel and Rail llos-1 Depet
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