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AIM.OTA. MAY IT, 1815.
EDU'oRIAL OH .VI M I l i EE.
R?v. W.'T. B.mvti.t, | Dr. D. Huok,
“ W. J. H A till. J .MES HaRPKU, E*<l.
C, S. Pun, I A. YV. Noel, Esq.
(&* to t)!*TA*CT Scß^CßlßF.n*.—Post MuStITS Hre »1!
thoii7itf«ihy law to ren i* monc> to the |ml>lii-h«?r*s of j
iietv*i>ai>ers and p**riodicaß in jia) nifnt of subscrip.
tk>uß. .S'lbscrifiers to thfc Washingtonian c;«n tberefos o
I ar for their papers without ►n!*j*‘Cting lh»*nis* lvt*s or
’he publisher to the expense of | ostage, hx halt ing the
amount to the Post Master, with a request to remit it.
OCT In noticing in our last, the retire,
meat of Mr. William B. Johnson from the
editorial chair of the Camden Journa\
through mistake we used the name ofj
James B. Johnston. The error was not
discovered till too late for correction at the
time.
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Why dues the Temperance spirit decline t
Wenjay look for inferior and circum
stantial -causes—and we can easily find
them. Wc can discover that some of the
advocates of temperance principles have
been imprudent, or even unworthy men.
We at once perceive that some who sub
scribed the pledge have proved unfaithful.
We may run over in our minds the limited
nature of the topics which constitute the
subject matter of our temperance meet
ings. We may philosophise upon the ne
cessary reaction of a state of high mental
excitement; but, afier all, there remains a
more serious reason which lies deeper than
them all— he deplorable lack of a true,
love, far our fellow men.
Here, rely upon it, is the grand difficu'-
ty of keeping alive the interest of com
munity in the subject of temperance. If
we loved our feliow-mon with a true be
nevolence, we would not be found at any
tune backward in affording the encourage
ment of our presence, the aid of our voices
and the co-operation of our hands, to the
Temperance cause. With this love warm
in the heart, who could draw back from
the small sacrifice of his glass of u ine to
save his neighbor from destruction ? With
such a spirit as that of the “good Samar
itan,” who could cooly “pass by on the
other side” and be content to let the drunk
ard descend, without an effort for his res
cue, into a "dishonored grave and a dread
eternity ? The voice of one so actuated
would never bo silent, his hand would
never grow weary. Oh! for the love
of man to fill the breast of everyone
who calls himself a man! Then we
would need no urgent calls to persuade a
few to take an active part in the spread of
temperance. W e would labor with one
heart, and with one mind, and with one
voice, in this g'orious undertaking. W T c
would labor unitedly, zealously, persever
ing!)', and successful!?/.
Ta t others do the like, —A young coun
trywoman lately went into Portland to
procure emp'oyment as a servant girl.—
She was introduced to a lady, who engaged
her. She afterwards learned that the hus
band of her employer was a liquor dealer,
when she immediately gave up the situ
ation. On being questioned as to the
reason, she said, “To be frank, ma’m 1
understand your husband is a rum-seller,
and I am not willing to live in the family
of a man who at the present day selis
rum.”
Wasn’t she right? If the man could
be indifferent to the misery which histraf
uc brought to the wives and children of his
customers, could he be expected to act as
a just and kind employer to his servant
girl. She took a plain common-sense
view of the subject. Deliver us from the
tonder mercies of those who regard not
the anguish of a drunkard's home, if they
can but gain by dealing in the liquid
poison !
Our Tee- otai treed.
For the (£/“ Drunkard, in all cases,
Moral Suasion alone \ for the
ard .raker, moral, legal, and money sua
sion combined; and for the Tee-to
taler, a quiet, aud consistent direction of
his patronage (however great or small it
may be) from all intoxicating drink sell
ing establishments to those of an opposite
and tee-total character.
The above is taken from the “Massa
chusetts Cataract.” It gives briefly the
sum total of agencies to be employed,
with a judicious discrimination of the class
es of persons towards whom they are to
be directed. The public sentiment of this
state is far, we fear vert/ far behind the
truth in regard to the guilt of dealing in
ardent spirits and thus promo'ing the for
motion of liabils of intoxication in others.
The necessity and propriety of protect
ing the community against the violence and
the crimes of the inebriate, are not gener
ally perceived. The injustice of taxing
the people for the support of pauperism,
the payment of prison expenses, and pro
secution expenses, &c. arising from in
temperanee.is not generally acknowledged.
How preposterous to permit by law the
vending of ardent spirits, and then tax or
derly peaceable, industrious citizens, ftr
the support of the pauperism or the pun
ishment of the crime which is sure to re
suit from the traffic! The time will come
when the quiet endurance of this traffic,
as it is endured among us, will be a matter
of utter astonishmentit will be wondered
how people would be so blind to the true
interests of the community, to the claims
of justice, and the entreaties of humanity.
May that time soon come !
P I,EDGE
of the Juvenile Temperance Society, or
"Cold Water Army.”
This youthful band
Do with our hand
The Pledge now sign
To drink no Wine,
Nor Brandy red
To turn the head,
Nor Whiskey hot,
That makes the sot,
Nor licry Rum
To turn our home
Into a 11011,
Where none could dwell, —
Whence peace would fly,
Where ho|>c would die,
And love expiro
’Mid such a lire ;
So here ire p'rdge unerasing hale
To all that can in’o-xicatr.
We extract the above from one of our
exchange papers; and wc take the oppor
tunity of drawing again the attention of
the friends of temperance to the subject of
Juvenile Temperance Societies. If you
enter upon any work ofmoial reformation
that seeks to reach the masses of the peo
ple, whatever else you fail to do, do not
neglect the young. They are more open
to conviction, and to all kindly influences
upon the feeling, than are those more ad
vanced in years. Society will soon be
composed of them. They are under pro
cess of education for great good or for
great evil:—throw in your influence to in
cline them early to temperance principles.
Cannot the teachers of our schools ac
complish something here? Cant they
invito co-operation, if they feel the need
; of it, and, at all events, whether alone or
aided by others, establish each a temper
ance association in his own school? Who
can estimate the amount of good that
might be thus effected ? What an oppor
tunity would it afford a skilful instructor
to bring out the speaking talent of his
scholars ! How favorably might such an
association be made to operate on the har
mony and good order and moral discipline
of the school. Try it.
Temperance in New England.
“The land of steady habits” is far ahead
of us in our good cause. The enterprise
that characterizes the people of New Eng
j land is very manifest in their temperance
| doings. Not satisfied with forming soci
eties on the ordinary plan and keeping
| them in efficient operation, they watch the
j opportunity and, when the cause has gain-
I ed sufficient strength in a place, constitute
; Juvenile Temperance Societies among
the little folks, and Martha Temperance
Societies among the ladies—and thus push
on the ball. They look after the traffick
ers in ardent spirits and withdraw from
them their support. They encourage the
establishment of temperance boarding
houses and hotels. They expose the names
aud the conduct of those who keep low,
corrupting groggeries. When public opin
ion becomes ripe for it, they move in re
ference to the license laws. In short, by
every proper means they labor assiduously
and wisely, and perseveringly, to banish
the enormous evils and remove the curse
of intemperance from their midst.
They are right. Let the advocates of
thi9 and every good cause follow their ex-
ample. It is, indeed, possible to be im
prudently zealous ; —but it is a much
more fatal mistake to be luhe itjfirm and
inefficient in a* laudable and difficult un
dertaking.
Pauperism.
According to the Annual Report of the
Secretary of the State of New York,
transmitting abstracts of the returns of
the Su|M-rintendenf of the poor for the
year 1844. it appears that the whole
number of paupers relieved or supported
during that year exclusive of the city
and county of Albany was 97.964, at an
expense of §509 017.89 1 2.
One of tlie tables appended to the re- 1
port gives the places of the nativity of 1
the paupers, as reported by the superin-!
tendentsof the poor in the several coun
ties in the State. The whole number ;
reported in the table is 26.114. reduced j
to pauperism from a variety of causes
which are named as Intemperance, To
tal Debauchery. Idleness, Vagrancy, Id
iocy, Lunacy, &c.. of which the follow,
ing is n partial enumeration:
By direct intemperance, 4385
Children by intemperance of
parents, 1728
Females by intemperance of
husbands, 172
Total intemperance, G 285
Debauchery, 529
Children by debauchery of pa
rents, 178
Total debauchery, 707
Idleness, 376
'l'iie U. S. (Phil.) Gazette in cum
melding upon the causes assigned, re- ;
marks, with as much probability, we |
fear, as feeling—“the truth is, it is all
rum. the whole of it, from lop to bottom, j
troin the egg to the apple, from the “In
direct intemperance” at the top, to the ‘
“cause net given” at the bottom of tin I
list. Three fourths of the diseases of
our kind arc agrnvated by intemperance j
and the purse and the constitution so
weakened, as !n he unable to sustain tin \
ordinary vicissitudes of In altli and wealth. '
Remove from iiimilies and neighhoihoods
the expense of taking care of lhos<
whose misery results from drunkenness
and the weight of support of all others
dependent would he so small, that pride
and affection would prevent appeals to
public aid.”— Transcript.
l-roin Ei.garni.
We have received late files of Eng.
lish papeis, from which we glean a few
items.
Petitions are in circulation praying
Parliament to abolish tlie sale of intoxi
cating drinks on the Salt!lath.
A scries of interesting temperance
meetings have been held in Cambridge
which, says the Temperance Weekly
Journal, will dnuhlfess tend to menus
the exertions pill forth in behalf of oui
cause in that place.
Dr. Grindrod has delivered a series of
lectures in Leicester and Nottingham
lie uses a splendid set of collossal draw,
ings. one hundred in number, and his la
bors are attended with the happiest re
su t-. At one of Ins meetings in Not
tingham, about 4090 juveniles were pres,
ent, between Ike ages of nine and sov- ,
enticn. Dr. G. is the author of (head- j
mirahle prize essay »• Bacchus,” for w hich
a premium of One hundred guineas was
paid, and whiei has been cireul t dnn l
read to a eons' lerahle extent in bur own
country.— jV. Y. Organ.
Fio.n tire Temperance Standard.
A Teetotal Nation.
“All the Chiefs of the Sandwich Is|.
ands arc steadfast to the teetotal pledge.
Anient spirits is still landed by the bar
rel under theinmous French tieafv,anrl
it is bought i» quantities of five gallons
at a time by a|l who wish it. Some res
idents tire seel staggering under it. it hn>
eaten up tlie 'itals of many, and oilier!
foreigners nrenmv fair candidates for ru
in. But of all the native population of
these islands,|l do not know that there i
ts one among Ihe one hundred thousand
that ever uses intoxicating drink. But
disgusting, retelling scenes of drunken- |
ness once common among the natives
are not now seen or heard of among this
people from (to highest to the lowest.—
What a hlessjngjo have these islands
thus purified, and how devoutly should
we pray llinl France might no longer
force rum on hose shores to kill Alin ri
cans. \V hat a contrast between this
group and Ih< Society and Georgian Isl
ands where, vc are told, the great mas>
of the people are constantly using the
fermented jui e of the orange to drown
themselves in nloxicntion. The Gospel
can never get my hold there, wbile such
are the habit, and it would seem that
without soim great change' soon, the
w hole native ice must become extinct.’
The foregdng is an extract from a
letter just received from one of the' mis
sionaries at tlfe Sandwich Islands. The
tt ' 1 ' 1-
■ ' facts detailed seem too strange to be be
i ii wed. Where else on eatth can there la
i; (bund a parallel case? The French seen
determined to make drunkards of the na
tives if possible, but they have found r
way to evade the treaty. I wonder il
W.-listcr and Choate would not mak<
heir five gallon law unconstitutional!
The present favorable state of things
! has been brought about by the exam
ple of those iu power. The king has
j signed the pledge, and so have all the
j uglier chiefs; and total abstinence is
: popular. And so might it lie amongst
| us if our rulers and men in authority
would lake a similar stand. Only let
the President of the United States, the
j Governors of the several Stall s, the
I lodges. Councillors, and all other public
i men of our nation sign the teetotal
! pledge, and mv word for it France would
soon find it necessary to seek a new mar
j ket for her Brandy. C.
i impeim.ee I ssay.
The following is the conc.usion of the
Essay by Russell T. Trail, M. D., which
gained the prize of one*hundred dollars
offered by the New \ oik Committee. It
will be perceived that the Doctor as the
“ Remedy” for the disease of drinking
and sehiitg, prescribes Washingtonian
ism—moral FORCE —.V. E Wash.
IN CONCLUSION—TIIE REMEDY.
“ People do not commence this vile
j practice of drinking intoxicating poisons
j because they love them. The error lies
primarily in popular sentiment. Children
' young or old, are imitative creatures. A
vitiated pub.ic opinion has been the grand
j moving spring of this drinking way the
world has got. ‘There is so much human
! nature in mankind,’ that we are strong v !
prone to do that which our judgment
condemns provided the world will approve
it, rather than do that which our own con
! science approbate if we suspect the word i
will condemn it. The cuie then must be
found in revolutionizing popular sentiment.
The means to affect this, arc argument,
exhortation and song; the agent, is the j
Total Abstinence Pledge, and the ins'rn
meats under God, men, women and child
! ren. By the influence of that pledge we
are constantly accumulating a force that;
is destined to tell, ere long with resistless j
impulse on the popular mind. It may seem
tor a while like up-liiii business, it niav j
be slow to roll back the tide of desolation, j
made up of ignorance, fashion and folly,j
backed by the fa sc customs of ages, con
secrated by the authority of great and re- 1
verend names, and more than all, urged
on by the morbid propensities. Yet the j
work of renovation will go on. As the
list of pledged teetotallers increases with
in our temperance halls, a more purify ing!
influence will pervade the moral atmos
phere without. Let us then keep the tiling
before the public. Let us discuss—per
suade—agitate—organize. Let brave men
argue teetotalism and the pledge, into pub- i
*ic judgment; and let fair women sing '
teetotaiism and the pledge, into the wor.ds 1
affections; and let young children, too
prattle teetotalism and the pledge, till
echo shall answer “ teetotalism and the
pledge,” fiotn every tongue of the rising
generation. Let the people lie oil on call
ed together and interchange their thoughts
| fee.ings and sympathies in the great cause
of human amelioration. Let us consider
the human mind our medium, and (lie
wide world our theatre of action; and
the end, already shadowing fluth its com
ing in the. signs of die. limes, will be as
g'orious as the beginning was philanthro
pise.
Baptist Convention.
Constitution of the Southern Baptist Con 1
vent ion.
Art. 1. This Body shall be styled the
Southern Baptist Convention.
2. It shall be the design of this Con
vention to promote Foreign and Domestic
Missions and other important objects ccn
; nccted with the Redeemer’s Kingdom, and
| to combine tor this purpose such portions
of the Baptist Denomination in the United j
States as may dcsiic a general organ iza-'
lion for Christian benevolence, that sl.a.i
fully respect the independence and equal
rights of the Churches.
| 3. A Triennial Convention shall con
sist of members who contribute funds or I
are delegated by religious bodies contrib
uting funds j and the system of' represen
tation and terms of membership shall be
as follows, viz ;—An annual contribution
of one hundred dollars for three years
next proceeding the meeting, or the con
tribution of tiuee hundred dollars at any
tune within said three years shall enl.te
the contributor to one representative : an
annual contribution of two hundred dol
lars as aforesaid, shall entitle the contiib
utor to tw’o representatives; and so, fbi
each additional hundred dollars, an addi
tional representative shall be allowed.—
Provided, .however, that when application
shall be made for the first time by individ
uals to be admitted into the Convention,
one delegate shall be allowed for each one
hundred dollars. And provided, also.
•' ,
I t,iat 111 casc ot great collateral societies
? i composed of representatives receiving
| contributions from ditierent paits o ftl'
-a country, the ratio sLaii Lc one de'ecatc
11 tor every thousand dollars annuailv con
tributed for three years, asafoiesaid; IJU1 JU
the number of representatives shall’ncv
1 1 er exceed five.
4. 'l'he oilicers of this Convention shall
be a President, four V iceJPiesidcnts, a
Treasurer, and two Scci claries, w ho shall
| e.ected at each triennial meeting, and
ho:d their otlices until a new election ■ ai.d
I tliC oilicers of the Convention shall bo,
by virtue o» their offices, members of ti n
several boards.
5. The Convention shall elect, at each
triennial meeting, as many Ilea ids 0 f
i Managers, as in its judgment, w ill he r.e.
I cessary, for carrying out the benevolent
j objects it may determine to picmote all
I w iiieli boards shall continue in office, un
til a new e ection. Each Board shall
consist of a President, Vice President, So
retaries, fuasurer, Auditor and l.fteen
other members, seven of whom, including
one or more of the officers, shall form a
quorum for the transaction of business.
To each Board shall be committed, durum
the recess ot the Convention the entire
management of alt tire aliirirs rebuilt" to
the object, with whose interests it sl.au he
charged; aif which management shall be
i in strict accordance w ith the constituiion
;al provisions adopted by the Contention,
and such other instructions, as may he
given from time to time. Each Beard
snail have pow er to make such cempensa
tion to the Geciciaries and Treasurer, as
it may think right; till the vacancies oc
; curving in its ow n body, enact its own
bye-iaws; have an annual meeting at am
place it may appoint; and other meet
ings at sticlr times and p aces as it may
think best; keep a record of its proceed
ings, and present a report of them to the
Convention at each triennial meeting.
0. I’ll Treasurer of each Board shall
faithfully account for all moneys received
by him; keep a regu ar entry of ad re
ceipts and disbursements, and make re
port ot them to the Convention, whenever
it shad he in session, and to his Board as
of on as required. . lie shad also, on en
tering upon the duties of his olhee, give
competent security to tl.e President of
his Board, for an the stock and funds,
committed to his care, iris books shad
be opened, at ail times, to the inspection
of - any member of the Convention and of
his board. .No moneys shad be paid out
ot the treasuries of it.e Boards, hut bj an
order hour that Borud, lionr whose treas
ury the money is to be dlawn, which or
der shall be signed by its presiding otiiccr.
7. The Cor responding fccci carries ot
the several Boards, shun maintain iie.er
course by iciter, with such ind.vidua.s or
pub.ic bodies, as the interest of their res
pective bodies may require. Copies ot
nil such communications, w ith their an
swers, it any, shad be kept by them on
the.
8. The Recording Secretaries of the
several Boards sl.au keep a lay lecotdof
their proceedings, and such other docu
ments as may be committed to them for
the puipose.
9. Ail the Officers, Boards, Missiona
ries and Agents appointed by tl.e Comen
tion, or by any of its Boauls, shall lie
members of some regular Chinch, in un
ion with the diuretics composing ibis
Convention.
19. Missionaries appointed by any of
tire Boards of this Convention, must, pre
vious to their appointment, furnish tvi
dunce of genuine piety, lcivcnt zeal in
tireir Master's cause, and talents w hich
tit them for the service, for w hich they of
fer themselves.
11. The Bodies and Individuals com
posing this Convention, shall have the
right to specity the object, or objects, to
winch their couti ibutiens shall be aj p.ied.
But w here no such specil.cation is made,
the Convention wilt make the appropria
tion at its own discretion.
12. The Convention shall hold its meet
ings trienniaiiy, but extia meetings may
be called by the President, with tl.e ap
p. elation of any of tl e Boards if Mana
gers. A majority of the attending Rele
gates shall tbinr a quotum for the trans
action ot business.
13. Any alterations, which experience
shall dictate, may he made in these Arti
cles, by a vote of two-thirds of the ..mem
bers picsent at any triennial meeting ot
the Convention.
i tjpeirs elected for (be provisional govern
ment of the Church, until the Trienni
al Board should meet in Mag next, at
Rii hmond. Yn.
W>r. B. Johnson, President.
Wilson Lumpkin, \ ice-Picsident.
J. B. Taylor, 2d. do.
A. Dockery, Bd. do.
R. B. C. Howell, 4th. do.
J Hartwell, ) SeMies .
Craae* j
M. T. Mendenhall, Treasurer.
Board of f oreign Missions, to he located
at Richmond.
President —Jeremiah B. Jeter, of
Virginia.
Vice Presidents —E. Ball of Va., W.