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. I TII Jt.N . ■ ;■ - - 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. *» IV ■ ~~~ = 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.