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JOHN HENRY SEALS, >
r ttt„^ nd > Editors.
L. LINCOLN VEAZEY,)
NEW SERIES, YOL. 1
TEMPER,M CRUDER.
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PBOSPECTTB
OF TITB
TEMPERANCE CRUDER.
[tICOHDA.*]
TEMPERANCE BANNER.
VCTUATED by a conscientious desire to farther
the cuuse of Temperanoe, and experiencing
gntjit disadvantage in being too narrowly limited in
space, by the smallness of onr paper, for the publica
tion of Reform Arguments and Passionate Appeals,
we have determined to enlarge It to a more conve
nient and acceptable size. And being conscious of
the fact that there are existing in the minds of a
large portion of the present readers of the Banner
and its former patrons, prejudices and difficulties
which can never be removed so long as it retains the
name, we venture also” to make a change in that par
ticular It will henceforth be called, “TUB TEM
PERANCE CRUSADER.”
This old pioneer of the Temperance cause is des
tined yet to chronicle the tr'umph of its principles.
It has stood the test —passed through the “fiery fur
nace.” anUfr-Wce the “Hebrew children,” re-appeared
unscorched. It has survived the newspaper famine
which has eaused, and is still causing many excel
lent journals anti periodicals to sink, like “bright ex
halations m the evenin’/,” to rise no more, and it has
-von heralded th- “death struggles of many contem
poraries, laboring for the same great end with itself
t, “still lives,” and “waxing bolder as it grows older,
- vvaxinz an eternal “Crusade ’ ngainat the “In
fern-l L^forTraffic,” standing like the “High Priest”
of the Israelites, who stood between the people and
<he plae<* that threatened destruction.
We entreat the friends of the Temperance Cause
- ive ug their influence in ertending the usefulness
P,, p naper. We intend presenting to the public a
1U worthy of all attention and a liberal patronage;
Editor **d Prapriet*?,
ferfeW,
jidurfe!) ft ffemprance, Utoralitjr, IKtaratnre, (fatitral Intelligence, |JMra, fa.
! S€C£ctbsns*
A SCENE IN REAL LIFE.
The Editor of the Chicago Times, having
been on tho north side of that city to see a
friend, was recently prevented from reach
ing his office, in consequence of a steam-tug
having passed up the river with a small
fleet of vessels in tow, one of which had
been cast off and hauled in just west of the
bridge, leaving the “draw'” still open. While
waiting he witnessed the following scene :
The vessel we have mentioned had been
moored, or trade fast outside of several ca
nal boats ; and as we stood looking at the
men upon her, one of them approached a
female, who hud been crouched upon the
deck, and addressing her, pointed to the
shore, then to the bridge, and then down
towards the thronged and busy sireets of
living, moving, headlong Chicago.
She rose, picked up a small bundle, from
which she drew forth a coin, which she ten
dered to the hardy sailor. He refused it,
whatever it was, and lending her a hand,
helped her from the vessel to the dock, and
from the dock up to the bridge. By this
time a large crowd of persons thronged the
north end of where the bridge would be, if
it was always a bridge; and in contempla
ting the new faces, and the representatives
of the various classes there assembled, we
had almost forgotten the incident we have
related. Our attention was called from u
vain endeavor to discover some hope of a
cessation of tugs going up and down, and
schooners and brigs pulling in and out, bv
hearing a most audible sol) from someone
near us. It was not the sob of childhood,
caused by some sudden change from gaiety
to grief; it was the sob of some maturer
breast, filled with a sense of loneliness and
despair. It reached other ears than ours.
A lady, dressed in a manner which be
spoke a wealth that could gratify taste and
elegance, and who, like ourselves, was de
tained at that place, stood near, accompani
ed by three children, whose desire to get at
the extreme edge of the platform was with
difficulty repressed. With a woman’s ten
derness her heart recognized the stifled ebul
lition of sorrow, and approaching the per
son from whom it came, who was none oili
er than tho woman we had just seen land
from the vessel, she quietly, and in that soft,
sweet voice of woman, which none can re
sist, inquired if she stood in need, or was
she ill, or was her sorrow such that she could
not be relieved ? A portion of the railing
near us was vacant, and towards that, and
: almost at our side, these two women came
to converse,
Tho stranger was a fair, handsome girl,
of about seventeen years, neatly, but coarse
ly dressed, with shoes not only well worn,
but heavy, and unsuited as much for her sex
as for the season. The poor girl, in honest
simplicity, and with an earnestness which
despair alone could impart, related her his
tory, uninterrupted by a single observation
from her companion, but often accompanied
by the tears of both. We have not space
for it at length, but we will give it, chang
ing its order just enough to enable us to
state it briefly.
Sho said that the was born in Boston; she
| had no brother or sister now; she remem
bered that she had a sister, the oldest, whose
name was Lizzie; that sister, years ago,
against her father’s will, had married, and
with her husband, having been banished
from the father's sight, had gone off, and had
not been heard of since—no doubt was
! dead. At the t:me of her sister’s marriage
her parents were wealthy; the pride which
drove away Lizzio had brought silent re
grets, and after a while came melancholy
complainings by the mother sighing for the
embrace of her first-horn. 1 hose soon led
to anger and criminations at home and dis
sipation by the father abroad.
Losses came upon them, and, at last, ga
thering the few worldly goods they possess
ed, they left the proud c;tv of their birth,
and settled five years ago upon land pur
chased of the Government in Wisconsin. —
Her brothers, some older and some young
er than herself, one by one drooped and died;
and soon her mother, calling in agony upon
her long-exiled daughter, joined her boys in
a happier clime. None were now lett but
the father and this poor girl. He too was
humbled and stricken by the slow but eer
tain disease which lights up the cheek, and
fires the eye with the brilliancy of health,
even when its victim is on the confines ol
eternity.
He would sit and tell to his surviving
child the acts oi winning love and sacrific
ing devotion which had made his Lizzie the
very object of his life. He would talk oi
her sweet smiles and her happy disposition
until memory would lead to the hour when
he bid her to depart, and not let him see her
face again. His decline was rapid,and this
lone child saw the first flowers which the
warmth of spring had called from the soil of
her mother's grave disturbed, uprooted and
thrown aside, that his ashes might mingle
with those of the mother of his children.
At lis death he charged her to pay off, as
farasshe might be able, the debts incurred
to procure the necessaries of life. The land,
which, for want of culture, had not increas
ed in value, was sold, and left her but a few
dollars. These she expended in rearing
some boards to mark the spot where she had
seen buried, one after another, her beloved
l kindred. She had heard of Chicago. She
| had heard that in this eity there were offices
PBNFIBLD, GA, SATURDAY, MARCH 8,185 G.
I where strangers wishing employment could
find work. She had on foot travelled many
miles, until she reached Milwaukee, and
thence by r the kindness of a poor sailor, who
had seen her day after day on the dock
watching the steamers depart, had inquired
and ascertained that she wished to come
hither, hut had not the money. He brought
her to Chicago on his own vessel, and had
told her that by crossing the bridge she
could find one of those places where situa
tions were given to worthy applicants.
Such was her story She had mentioned
no name except that of father, mother, and
ihe endearing appellations of brother
George, Willie, &c. Both of the women
were crying bitterly. The fashionably
dressed lady turned her face towards the
river, that her tears, at such a crowded and
unusual place, might not be observed. She
requested us to take her two boys—George
and YVilhe she called them—by the hand, t<>
keep ihem from danger, and then putting
her hand around the neck of the poor, friend
las-;, wandering orphan stranger, said, ‘‘You
are my own sister. lam Lizzie I”
These two beings, children of the same
parents, how different have been their paths
and how deep their sufferings ! We have
seen them together in “Lizzie’s” carriage,
driving along Lake street. They are doubt
less as happy as their bereavements, reliev
ed only by the consciousness of duty faith
fully performed, can permit. But while the
suffering of that father and mother may be
faintly known from the story of the daugh
ter, what must have been the mental agony
of that other daughter, unkindly banished
from her mothei’s side, and driven out into
the world without a father’s blessing?
What must hove been her grief when her
letters, written from a prosperous city, from
the house of her wealthy and kind husband,
te ling them of her success, and of the birth
of her children, were unnoticed and unan
swered? She must have felt indeed that
the hearts of that lather and mother, her sis
ter and brothers, must have been hardened
against her. We will say no more. That
scene will live in our memory while we can
remember the holy love of father, mother,
and kindred.
CROOKEDNESS OF RUM LOGIC.
•‘Repeal the prohibitory law,” says the
free liquor men, “because it cannot be en
forced in Boston, and causes more drunken
ness than it prevents.” This logic is about
as limping and zig-zag as the afternoon gait
of one of those who put it forth. Let me
point out three of its exhibitions of “blind
sluggers.”
Ist. If the prohibitory law should be re
pealed because it is openly violated, and its
violators go unpunished, then numerous oth
er laws, admitted to be good and necessary,
ought to be repealed too. A large part of
the statute book is defied as a regular busi
ness, by rascals entrenched behind corpulent
money-bags and connived at by a cowardly
press. If this argument proves anything, it
proves far too much, and would hurry us
into anarchy forthwith ; as no penal law is
wholly kept, and no class of criminals is
caught and punished to the last man. Does
not every large city contain a regiment of
professional rogues running at large, seldom
molested by the police, to whom they are
well and often intimately known ? And
shall the legal curbs be taken off this ungod
ly crew ? Yes, if rum logic be sound.
2d. li the prohibitory law had been tried
in Boston, and lound to accomplish no good,
it would then be time enough to put. it down
in obedience to tipsy howls and miserly
groans. No serious effort has been made to
use the weapon, and how absurd it seems to
cast it awa\ because the hands that should
wield it are partial rather to the toddy stick!
Shame may yet seize on our magistrates,
and the huge poisonous root of poverty and
crime be attacked as well as the sprouts and
twigs. Let us retain a weapon so terrify
ing to the pimpled and tattered squads of
Kmg Alcohol, and by-and-by we will have
soldiers, firm-hearted and laithful, to gain for
the temperance army a lasting Waterloo tri
umph.
3d. If legal prohibition fails in Boston, it
succeeds in the rural districts, and many of
the large villages of Massachusetts. Eve
ry account vve can obtain tells that unvary
ing story. The death-dealing traffic has had
a righteous death dealt out to it there ; and,
as a natural consequence, poor-houses are
becoming tenantless, and jails are advertised
to let. The evil of unchecked grog, in tact,
is pent, up mainly in Boston; like a corrupt
humor in individual bodies, that sore curse
works itself off in a big, angry boil on the
body politic. The pain and foulness may
last a long time, and now and then seem to
he aggravated; but this is clearly a much
better way of getting rid of the disease than
driving it inward again. Repeal the pro
hibitory law, and you make the whole Com
monwealth sick with the flow of liquid poi
son in her veins; and the boil wont heal up,
either.— N. E. Fanner.
THEOLOGIANS OF HUMBLE ORIGIN.
The reformer Zwingle, emerged from a
shepherd’s hut among the Alps. Mel
anclhon was a workman in an armorer’s
shop. Martin Luther was the child of a
poor miser. Dr. Adnm Clark was the
child of Irish cotters. John Foster was a
weaver. Andrew Fuller was a farm ser
vant. Dr. Morrison, translator of the Bi
ble into Chinese, was a last maker. Dr.
Milner was a herd hvQc
BIRTH-PLACE OF WASHINGTON.
We find in the Richmond Enquirer, of
r he 10th fob. the following interesting
correspondence, laid before the legislature
of Virginia, by Governor Wise, in relation
•ofbe birth place of George Washington :
Executive Department, . )
Richmond. Feb. 9, 1856. f
To the Senate and House of Delegates of the Gener
al Assembly of the State of Virginia-:
Gentlemen: I take great pleasure in com
municating to you the. accompanying cor
respondence of .the Executive with Mr. L.
W. Washington. Through me he presents
the sites of the birth place of the father of
his country, and the home and the graves
f his progenitors in America, ‘to the State
f Virginia, in perpetuity, on condition
->olely that the State shall cause these pla
ces to be permanently enclosed by.an iron
fence, based on stone foundation,and shall
mark the same by suitable and modest
('hough substantial) tables, to commemo
rate these notable spots.’
I recommend that provision be made,
bylaw,to accept the grant on the condi
tion it prescribes. The vault is decayed
and needs repairs ; thu birth place will re
quire a porter’s lodge, the house having
oeen burnt many years ago; and the
grounds will require for the enclosure about
three hundred and fifty yards of fence, as
proposed, which will cost about $5 per
foot. An appropriation of S2OOO will ulti
mately he required to comply with the
condition. With the highest respect.
Henry A. Wise.
The following is the correspondence re
ferred to in the above:
Richmond, Feb. 8, 1856.
Sir: As heir at law of the late George
C. Washington, formerly of Westmore
land county, Virginia, (late of Maryland)
who sold the Wakefield estate, in said
Westmoreland county, to a certain John
Gray, October 13, 1813, making a reser
vation in condition of sale (as per record of
Westmoreland county court of same date)
of sixty feet square of the ground on which
formerly stood the house in which General
Washington was born, together with the
family burying ground and vault, con
tairting about 20 feet square, in which are
interred the remains of the father, grand
father and great grandfather of Gene
ral Washington, I now feel deeply irn
pressed with the propriety and assurance
that the State of Virginia should be the
conservator of the spot on which the son of
liberty first inhaled the breath of freedom,
and also the guardian of the ashes of the
father of the same, together with his pro
genitors, even to him who was the first of
the name who sought this happy country
for freedom’s cause.
And I now propose, through your in
strumentality, my dear sir, to present these
reservations to the mother State of Vir
ginia, in perpetuity, on condition solely
that the State require the said places to be
permanently enclosed with an iron fence,
based on stone foundation, together with
suitable and modest (though Substantial)
tables to commemorate for the rising gene
ration these notanle spots. I have the hon
or to remain,
Very truly, yours, Ac.,
Lewis W. Washington.
To the lion. Henry A. Wise,
Governor of Virginia.
Executive Department, )
Richmond, Feb. 8, 1856. (
Dear Sir ; I have received yonr’s of
this flay, and make due acknowledgment
to the heir of the birth-place of the Father
of his Country, and of the home and the
graves of his progenitors in America.
This precious present to the State of
rite childhood’s play ground of him whose
theatre of action was the continent, and
whose deeds of manhood were, in peace
and in war, the highest example of human
wisdom and virtne to all mankind, cannot
but he affecting to every Virginian. No
eulogy can measure the meed of his mer
it, the duration of his fame; but we may
keep sacred the earthly spot where his ex
istence began; and point our children to the
place of his cradle.. Virginia will hallow
the spot; and as far as her Executive can
act, he accepts the noble tender as one wor
thy of a Washington; and he will inform
the two houses of the General Assembly,
in order that they may make provisions by
law* for accepting the grant on its own pi
ous condition.
I am proud, sir, to be the instrument
of this gift to the Commonwealth, and am
most gratefully yours,
llknry A. Wise.
To Lewis W. Washington, Esq.
The communication of the Governor and
the accompanying correspondence were re
ferred to a special committee.
QUICK WORK, AND AN INOPPORTUNE
KISS,
The Louisville Journal of the 20th ult.,
learns that on the previous day a venera
ble female servant belonging to Mr. J. W.
Neewlsind, of that city, escaped to Indi
ana. hut was brought back in less than two
hours. According to her. own account, a
white man saw her the night before, and
made arrangements with her to meet him
in the morning after breakfast at the Port
land Railroad Depot, whence the two were
to go off together. She went to the depot
at the appointed time, found her white
eeinpuuien there, and teok passage ea the
cars, having several dresses on and her
face thickly veiled. Those who saw her
supposed her to be white.
The black woman and white man, the
latter a big hurley fellow, crossed the river
on the ferry-boat, she being supposed all
the while to be a white woman; and, when
the boat arrived on th* other side, he pass
ed out and ascended the bank first. She
tollowed about ten steps behind, and, when
they were both on tie top cf the hank, the
amorous and impatient rascal, thinking all
safe, and wishing to seize ths first golden
moment, raised her veil and kissed her.—
That raising of the veil was fatal. The
ferryman saw, that although she had a
white lover, she had a black face, and rnsh
ing np the bank, he seized her and deman
ded where she was going. She protested
that she was free, but not being able to
show the documents, she was brought back
and lodged in jail even before being miss
ed by the family to which she belonged.
The Abolitionist was shortly after seized
and carried off to Louisville, where he is
safely lodged in jail.
THE RETRIBUTION.
Landlord. —As she was given to fits, I
she died in one of them. To be
sure, they are poor and all that, and I
should not steer wido of the truth isl call
ed them a lazy pack, the whole of them.—
My over sensitive neighbors will charge
me with ernelty towards them, in letting
them go hungry and all that, and especial
ly for neglecting the dirty brat through her
sickness. I wasn’t her keeper more than
anybody else; and I’ll see them all starve
first, before I’ll give them anything without
the cash down. —Diary of Feb. 10 th 1851
The above was said in the small room
where the child died, and while the corpse
was lying on a rough board, with a tatter
ed sheet wrapped around it. Many of the
neighbors had come in, some from curiosi
ty, to look npon the pinched and sallow
features of the dead child. The family
consisted of the widow and her two chil
dren. The youngest, hnt three years old,
had died, and she was kneeling beside the
little corpse, speechless, with clasped hands
and disheveled locks, a picture of stolid do
spair.
The sight wag calculated to awaken
sympathy where such an emotion existed,
and I was glad to see several come forward
to speak words of comfort to the poor wid
<>w. Among the group stood the landlord.
He was a stern, harsh-featnred, hard-heart
ed man, who worshipped his gold and curs
ed the poor for being poor. Tho widow
and her children were his tenants,.and the
small cottage they occupied had a tasteful
appearance outside, but within there was
scarcely anything but bare walls and emp
ty rooms. The history of this family is
hut a repetition of that of thousands of
others. The husband had been industrious
and frugal—had accumulated a few hun
dred dollars, which he invested in a lot np
on which he subsequently built the cot
tage. Unfortunately, it was in the vicini
ty of the tavern over which the aforesaid
landlord presided. I said he was a hard
hearted man. The stuff he sold not only
intoxicated and ruined his customers, but
eventually killed them. Such was the fate
of his neighbor of the cottage. One year
of dissipation and extravagance, and he
died n horrible death, and the little prop
erty was seized by the landlord, to satisfy
claims he held against it. The furniture
was removed, and a rickety table, a few
broken chairs, and something like a bed.
substituted. Thus the widow, he said
might remain till spring; and ho even
stipulated to furnish her with the necessa
ries of life, provided sho would affix her
name to a certain paper, which she did.—
Tho sequel shows how he kept his promise.
For three days in mid-winter, they had
nothing to eat, and upon the fourth the
child died of starvation. A few days more,
and the poor woman and her remaining
child were conveyed to the poor house.—
Thus closed the first act of the drama.—
Four years have passed away, and the cur
tain has dropped upon the second and con
cluding one.
A friend writes ; “Old Gripe,” (referring
to the landlord,) is dead, thanks to provi
dence that willed it. For ten long years
he has been an unmitigated curse to this
neighborhood. lie was merciless to those
lie bail in his power, and a tyrant in his
own household. Becoming deeply invol
ved through unfortunate speculations, he
cancelled the whole at once by blowing
out his brains with one of Colt’s revolvers.
* * * * Thus far I have seen no tears ehed
at hiß Bummary departure, but on the con
trary, all that I meet appear satisfied with
the result of his last operation. Even the
boys take delight in hawking the news
about the street, that “Old Gripe” has
killed himself. * * * Thus closed tho ca
reer of “Old Gripe,” the rmnseller. A
stranger to tears himself, there were none
shed to moisten the clods as they rattled
down on his coffin-lid. * * * * Madam
Gossip will not even permit him to rest in
peace. Ghastly with a gaping wound, his
ghost has been seen stalking thro’ the
graveyard-—some say with a decanter fill
ed with blood, clutched iu his bony hand.
* * * It is estimated that thirty-five of hiß
customers have died of delirium tremens ,
and that double that number, at least, are
fast approaching the same fate. It is now
hoped the/ me/ /el he eared. * * Tk—~
( TERMS: ffil.OO IN’ ADVANCE.
j JAMES T. BLAIN,
v PHmTEK.
VOL. XML-NUMBER 9.
is rejoicing in many a poor leasehold to
night, over the death of “Old Gripe,” the
rumseller.— Cayuga Chief, A. G.
■•►.*—
A CHILD’S REASONING.
At the time when Millerisin prevailed
at the North, a Charleston lady attended
the lectures as they were delivered, and be
came very much troubled in mind. Her
little daughter, just old enough to lisp dis
tinctly her morning and evening prayers,
accompanied her and seemed to listen to
the speaker with attention.
“Mother,” said the little one when they
arrived at home, “the preacher said all the
world would be burned tip before next
year. Will it mother?” The mother as
sumed a calm tone and answered, “It may
be eo, my daughter.”
“And what will become of all the peo
ple,” said the little one.
‘ God will take them up to heaven if
they are good.”
“Well mother, we should not die then,”
said the child.
“Perhaps not,” answered the mother.
The little one seemed lost in thought for
a few moments, and then came to say her
prayers, which she concluded by repeating,
“If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.*’
Pausing a minute she amended it by say
ing—
“lf the world should end before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.”
The words caught the ear of her mother;
she was rebuked and comforted. She re
flected; death is always near, why shudder
if the end of the world come. And she
repeated the child’s prayer—
“lf the world should end before I wake,
T pray the Lord my soul to take.”
There are many of 119 who should take
lesson from this child. “Thou hast had
these things from the wise and prudent
and revealed them unto babes.”
Millenium may have aroused some to see
the danger of living “without God and
without a hope in the world*” but it sent
some to the mad-house, others to infidelity;
separated and destroyed churches and de
luded many; all for the want of the reason
ing of the littie child ?—Church Herald.
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ABBOTT’S NAPOLEON.
The case of one who sets about perform
ing actions at once the meanest and most
mischievous, “under a deep sense of re
sponsibility to God,” is quite hopeless.—
The unction of religion thus laid to a man’s
soul is generally sufficient to blot out all
distinctions between right and wrong, es
pecially in minds upon which those dis
tinctions were never very strongly engrav
ed.
We are led to these observations by a
letter of the Rev. John S. C. Abbott, au
%or of the Life of Napoleon I, addressed
to Napoleon 111 and \Vhich will be found in
another column. Mr. Abbott states in this
letter that every p:ige of his book —some
800 or 1000 in number—was written “un
-ler a deep sense of responsibility toGd;”
to which the emperor that is, appropriately
responds by sending Mr. Abbott a rich
gold medal. What other private acknowl
edgments, if any, this correspondence does
not disclose.
Mr. Abbott, as everybody knows, rep
resents Napoleon as a Christian, saint and
hero—-a man without blemish, with whom,
all things considered, Washington is not
to be compared. He does not say this in
terms, but this is the substance and drift
of his book. Fascinated by the spirit of
evil, he does his bidding, and falls down
and worships him. The worship may be
very sincere, but it is on that account none
the less deplorable and none the less detes
tiblo To set the example of worshipping
a despot, to exhort others to worship a des
pot, for whom his own advancement, pow
er and reputation formed always the sole
and single motive for action, is to lead
mankind on to their debasement and ruin
—it is to prepare them to throw themsel
ves before other Juggernauts of the same
sort. The same office that Mr. Abbott has
done for Napoleon TANARUS, he or some other
similar idolator will be ready in due season
to perform, under a like “sense of respon
sibility to God” for Napoleon lll—especi
ally if a nephew of Napoleon 111 should
happen to occupy the throne of France.
Considering now well Mr. Abbott’s book
is calculated t.o impose upon the weak-min
ded, ignorant and thoughtless, who must
ever constitute the groat bulk of its read
ers; and considering the large circulation
it has attained, and of which Mr. Abbott
speaks with so natural a complacency—we
cannot but regard it as the most pernicious
as well as immoral book ever issued from
the American press', and that it should be
so highly estimated by Napoleon 111 is
pretty good proof of the fact.— Tribune.
Death . — lt is death to many to think of
death They are as unwilling to be led in
to a discourse of death, as children into the
dark. Thoughts of it are no more welcome
to them than Moses was to Pharaoh, to
whom he said, “Get thee from me, and let
me see thy face no more.’*
DCF There is something inexpressibly
lovely about little girls. They are sweet lit
tle human flowers, diamond dew-drops in
the breath of morn. What a pity they
should ever become women, flirts, shrews,