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THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADER.
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MJ.H. SEALS. •
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For the Crueader.
Oh for some sequestered spot, some quiet glen—
Some lonely, shadowy, flowery deli,
Where the willows hang weepingly o’er the fen,
And the moss covered logs lie as they fell.
Where the owl, the fish-hawk and bald-eagle scream,
And the brook murmurs as it flows gently by;
In whose silvery waters bright minnows teem,
And the green mossy stones, never turned, lie.
Where the cataracts evermore wildly play,
And the sun scarcely e’er peeps through the trees;
But the halo of peace is seen on the spray,
And the fragrant flowers perfume every breeze.
Where I could shed, unseen, copiously my tears;
Alone, grieve o’er unreciprocated love ;
And sorrowing, muse on by-gone happy years
When hope’s bright star shone from the zenith,
above.
Waltcrborough, S. C., July, 1857. James.
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For the Crusader.
ShartneM of Life and Vanity of Sin.
Like flowers we blush with health to-day,
And dream of pleasures nigh—
To-morrow’s morn brings health’s decay—
To-morrow’s eve we die.
How vain are all the things of earth
Since life is but a breath—
Vain to indulge in sinful mirth,
t-’or judgment comes with death.
Then let us spend this precious time,
As God would have us to;
That When we quit this dreary clime,
We may to heaven go.
Steep Bottom, 1888. J. Causes.
fbf o>e Craatler-
Rrommtion Hill, Ga m Aug. 28, 1887.
Dear Seal* —l hank God, our cause—the cause
of Temperance s not dead. The saute Temper
ance fires that Were kindled up in my bosom,
their wiki, radiant and reddening light in
iwHfejmbiijSng precept and example, (I never
Was a drunkard, though some say Uncle Dabney
is a reformed drunkard,) stiff, so far rs I run con
cerned, burn on, and thank heaven many have
been bcr.efltt* dhy my humble la fairs. I repeat,
the cause of Temperance is not dead, nor will it
ever die! There are scattered over'Georgia,
many noble heroes and hen ir.es, in this war of
reformation, who will never ground their arms.—
When I occasionally sally out as nn o and guerrilla,
and attack the enemy, I see my brethren in arms
(l mean those who have not surrendered or gone
over to the enemy, ns far as inaction is concerned,)
animated by the same spirit that prompted them
to act in 1847, ’48,’49, ’SO, fee. 1 was mtich
pleased with a visit to Lythonia, Anderson Divis
ion on the Georgia R. U. ‘ This Division was or-
ganited ill 1848, and is erect and onward. I felt
as I stepped off the ears, as in gone by days, when
a delegation of the brethren, with regalia on, met
a their * old tiftcle” to escort him to the Divirion
Boom, and you tnay be sure, when Ushered into
the Divieioh Uootn, seeing the ladies to my left
with beautiful regalia on, and the brothers to the
fright, the “ehi man* 1 felt that l eaven and the la
dies being oji our side, we should ultimately tri
bfrnpu—Amen. I could gire )OU the names in
this Division, the very announcement of which,
would prove to those who know them, that An
derson Division will live and prosper. We inarch
el ti the church whh badge and banner, which
was ciowded,"and I spake one a half hours; and
1 think about eight gentlemen and ladies, among
the rest, I think Major L. atid lady, sent in their
petitions. I diuei with brother Swifr, and return
ed home by the cam in the evening. Brethren,
Sons in Georgia—in ei'try county, mighjknhooet,
and town, where your uncle ever did labor, suffer
a word of exhortation. In thp name of hea
ven! suffering humanity!- and posterity, do! no!
IK)!! go to work wherever a Division lias exist
ed, and re-organize; fur though lam a legal sua
sionist, lam no less a moral suasionist. Let us
work upon both jdatformß, and while Divisions
reform and re-work, let legal suasionists nail their
flag, or rather rear it high and broad in its and men
-:ons, so that all the friends of Prohibition may
rally to one point under its folds. While we are
disputing about plans, and the best schemas,
“ Rome continues to be filled with widows ad
orphansour young men in many neighborhoods,
v, !!agee, towns and cities, are gqingrin. a gallop to
the drunkards 1 grave Now
while none but those who take .the- pledge of tee
total abstinence can go into a Division of Sons of
Temperance, yet every one, even the moderate
dram-drinker, and drunkard himself can aid in the
legal suasion departments; but low shall we unite
and consolidate public opinion upon this ques
tion ? This is the grest desideratum. I have
been a little texed at ?ome communications in the
Crusader—some recommending cne thing and
some another; one writer criticised the action of
the late Convention; (not vexed for what they
wrote.) Where were these noble philan biopists
when the Convention met ? Were they there ?
No. It was left to a few—not of the French or
imperial sfrmy, but n few of the life guard of tem
perance to meet to do the woik and bear the odi
tim. I attended a TemperunCi! Convention in
Griffin in 1854—aud thank Cod through weal or
wo, through family afflictions unparalelled, I have
mr missed a Convention since— not one. But
shall there be nny thing or mulling done at this
time! shall men for the pUlfhl stt ifi of five flbflftra
continue to break the hearts of fond mothers, kill
ing their sons and husbands—shall the law to
some extent, though it Is not observed, protect
our slaves, and Jet wide the gate of death and
jmsoned liquors at that, upon oar sons, brothers,
<fec. The doors of some of these dead-falls are
opened , even on the Sabbath—five dollars the
price of blood, death and ruin—not even thirty
pieces of silver (dollars) for the privilege.
What is to be done? I answer, by saying—my
views have somewhat changed —I nee it is futile
to make it a question at the out set at the ballot
box per se, especially while political parties are
both opposed to it. Let us form our consolidated,
united plan and stick to it } and begin forthwith —
and the best we can do now, is to memorialize the
Legislature, to either raise the license or abolish
tiiem altogether, and unchain tire tiger and let
Iran work on. Or else again ask the Legislature
to leave it to the Inferior Court to say license or no
license, or to a direct vote of the people in Districts.
Will they do it ? My friends whom I differed
with at Athens (in ’54 I think) will say Uncle
Dabney do you shell down! I do—l therefore
agree in the main with your correspondent “One
of Many,” “we must go to work on some plan.”
Recollect Mr. Editor, the Legislature meets in
November, shall two more years pass and still the
burning flood roll on without an effort to arrest its
march of death 1 lam as you know the Presi
dent of the little imperial guard, the State Tem
peranee Convention. If I had the power like a
Governor, I would send out a proclamation to
convene the guard, say on the 2d day of the
week of the State Fair at Atlanta, and take coun
sel together—l would request every delegate to go
home and go to work quick and get up petitions
to the Legislature upon tlio best and most feasible
plan—and year after year like the widows, trouble
the Legislature, and mark every man who either
favors or opposes our movement—and reserve or
bestow our votes in the future accordingly.—
Brethren speak, the time for action is short.—
In my next I will try to give you an account
of my agreeable visit to the noble, granite Di
vision the glade in Oglethorpe County. Tell the
ladies of Glade Division that Uncle Dabney re
grets, in tire hurry of the hour, he did not get
that pretty cake they intended for him.
D. P. JONES.
P. S. What say you “tender footed” political as
pirants, and professors of religion and ministers of
the Gospel, will you be kind enough to come out
openly for or aginat us. D, p, J,
For the Crauder.
Mu. Editor.—The Crusader of the Oth, has just
been received, and the article of your correspon
dent “A Regular” has been earefully read, lie is
certainly enthusiastic in professions of interest in
the great cause of Temperance. But as he him
self suggests “it may be my (his) zeal on the pres
ent occasion has gone ahead of my (his) know
ledge.”
“A Regular*’ says “lie is not h member cf any
Temperance society” but Ire deals blows botlr right
and left as he alleges for the great cause. His ef
forts, however, seem to bediree>ed to the election of
Mr. Ilill as Governor of Georg : a. Now, sir, I am
as ardent a temperance man, as your correspon
dent, but I differ from him in refftrence lo the
best means of promoting the cau e. He works
outside of a society ; I work inside of one. I havo
found but little fruit on theseoutside vines, although
I have been observing them closely from the it*’
stile , for nearly thirty year?.
Asa politician, I would prefer Mr. Hi own tc
Mr. Hid. As an inside temperance man, I would
tea neutral. They are both men of very pure,
mcfiul Characters, such men ns Georgia should do
light to honor. It is not however, likely that eith
er of them would, If elected, sacrifice his position
with his political party, by advocating legal pro*
hihitlon. Nor Is It likely that either ofthem would
as Governor* do anything against the cause atf
temperance, or good morals. Under this circum
stance, t would notcouneil inside temperance men,
to make any issue upon that question, but leave
each to exercise his own judgment, and Vote ac
cording to his political affinities.
But, Mr. Editor, it was not for the purpose oj
discussing ycur outside correspondent, nor advoca
ting the election of Mr. Brown or Mr. Hill, that I
took up my pen. I have another and higher ob
ject in view. It is the practicali/rokibition of the
xakof liqtor in the State of Qeorffitt.
Can this he t fleeted, and low £ It can be efo
fected ; but not on the old plan, the political par-
this niron are organized. Many members
of these part es, honestly 1 relieve that the preser
vation of civil and political liberty in thsi country,
(depends upon the success of those principles of
government, which they and their political asso
ciates advocate, while those 1 t*s hones*, and more
mercenary, believe that the spMl will be more cer
tainly secured mwong their old associates than
among nw ooes. Neither of* tlx e* classes will
abantkm.. their political organiz \tioDß or willingly
them killed off by a third party, however
much they may feel interested in its general ob-
TiSAi to succeed, you must get tiie old parties,
or one of diem at least to adopt your views, and
add legal prohibition as an additional plank in
their platform. Tim no political party seeking*
success will do. If by adopting such n plank, they
could enlist all the temperance men in the State
under their ?*tuer, they would do it readily, but
this they cot fid not expect. The Temperance roeu
of the Dei loemtic party, would not adopt the
principles e American party, and aid in ele
vating the men of tha*; party to power that their
principles might be engrafted on the legislation
of the country, because their platform contained
one plank of which they approved. Nor would
the- temperance men of tie American party, unite
with- the Democratic i iarty under such circum
stances* This being a, very little support from
the opposing parly c ould be expected, and the
party adopting it, would drive from its ranks,every
rumsueb er, and whisikey dealer in the State.
These with their influence would be sufficient to
insure f-lefen*, and nq poUft'eal party is likely to
Adopt pch ft policy, k
If yotrdesire sucee-s, yon must labor for it prac
a?Ty.* You in list'hot stand in the way of, or ii op-1
position to the great political organizations of tire
country. Let jour members enjoy their polities!
principles, and their temperance principles togeth
er. This may be done by looking to your count y
Governments under judicious legisia ion, instead
of your State Government. There is probably no
man in the State, who is now, or will be a Candi
datufor the Legislature this fail, who is not willing
to leave the question of selling liquor within each
county in the State, to the people of that county.
Then pledge your candidates everywhere, that in
ease of their election, they will advoca'e a law, for
bidding the sale of liquor under heavy penalties,
unless by those specially licensed by the Board
of licensed commissioners in each county. Pledge
them farther that they will advocate a law organ
izing such a board of commissioners, and provi
ding for their e’ect'on, by the qualified voters of
the county.
Such a law would bring the question on the
election of these boards, directly heforeihe people,
relieved entirely of politic tl influences. The ad
vocates of prohibition—of temperance'and'good
tnorals, would vote for there who would reo< se to
grant a license, and in nearly every c unty in the
State would eleet their candidates.
Remove this great question from the politics of
the State, and refer it to the people of the re-pec
tive counties, and a very few yea s will be sufficient
to relieve the Empire State of the South, from the
curse of grog-shop?, which she has so long endur
ed in common with her southern sisters. Georgia,
in her magnificent system of internal improve
ments has given an example to her neighbors
which has been greatly beneficial. Let it uow
ta’e the lead in this greater and better system of
improvements. Let her raise a beacon light,
which shall dispel the darkness that prevails on
ibis subject, and aid in securing to all around her
the blessings of total abstinence.
PRACTICAL.
For the Crusader.
Temperance.
Tire time once was, when well nigh the whole
world was wont to bow at the shrine of Bacchus;
drunkenness covered the earth as the “waters cov
er the great deep.” If the people did not believe
like Paul, that they were doing “ God service,”
they at least thought, that it was proper and right
to quaff the poisonous fluid that issued from the
rum stills, though they had cursed the world far
beyond the in ghtest plagues in the form of pes
tilence and famine, that ever the sin-avenging
wrath of Jehovah visited upon the earth. For
centuiiesgjjuo human race, though endowed with
rationality and made after the image of their ma
ker, thus madly swept on in the broad road to
ruin. Father’s advice to son, and on down through
succeeding generations was: “Son it is no harm
to drink in moderation, but l>e very cautious my
child Mot to drink too much;” and I am sorry to
say, that this advice, though utterly at variance
with sound philosophy and reason, is still persist
ed in by thousands. The great majority of the
people of this country, know but little about the
powerful hold and the potent influence that artifi
cial habits have upon the nervous system, and
through it, upon the appetite. They verily
lieve that there is no difference essentially between*
the appetite for Alcoholic stimulants, and thj&t for
wholesome food ; and consequently, belief that,
one is just as easily controlled as the other,sjrget--
ting that the latter is governed by taws,
while the former, having no check whatever, nuns
into irresistible ami ruinous excess.
For hundreds of years before the true character
of the artificial Alcoholic appetite was fully under
stood, Temperance lectures from the Pulpit and in
the family circles, were generally in defense of
“moderation;” that is, “moderate drinking” was
strongly recommended to all who indulged. Fi
nally it was discovered beyond all doubt or cavil,
that “moderate drinking” always precedes drunk
enness, and in every case, forms the appetite that
leads to it, and the conclusion was, that just so
long as the former exists the latter is inevitable.
This was a bright ray of light, that I verily believe
came from Heaven, and it continued to expand
and spread its effulgence both in Europe and Amer
ica, to such an extent, that many were ready to
say, “ the great Dragon who has sv long ruled
the world with a ‘rod of iron,’ is in the hist throes
of an approaching dissolution, and will soon be
buried and numbered with the past.” What a
glorious anticipation ! O, that Heaven may yet
roll back the dark clouds that environ our Tem
perance horizon, and redeem the earth from the
thraldom of the “King of terrors.”
A great many were found who were ready to
do their duty as soon as they knew it. Temper
ance societies were established over all the land,
and “Touch not, taste not, handle not the unclean
thing,” was preached in all of thern ; and it may
agrin be repeated, that it is the only safe founda
tion that can stand when the “rains descend” and
the “floods” come. It is the only “reed” that will
not break and pierce us through, the only “cis
tern” that will hold water.
The only way to check Intemperance is to
preach total else will do—all
other plans have been tried ! all experience and
observation go to prove that if we but touch the
“poisonous adder,” we will feel its fatal sting. Ev
ery man and woman who will examine the sub
ject must know that “moderate drinking” is fruit
ful of drunkenness, and ever will be, until it is dug
up, root and branch. With this understanding,
it is wonderfully strange, how members of the
church, and especially those who profess to have
tasted the sweets of regeneration, **nd have been
made “new creatures,” can continue to uphold one
of the greatest evils that ever curwtri the world,
by setting ft dangerous example, or withholding
their influence from the great work that is com
batting it, lleaMhe language of Holy Wrif, and
let it sound trumpet tongued in your ears and up
on your hearts : “lie that taketh not liis cross and
followed) after ine, is not worthy of me.” Broth
er fn the church, do you love your brandy toddy
or wine that “giveth its color in the cup,” tw> wall
to give us your substantial aid ! If so, you have
not taken your “cross,” but are pretending to perve
God while you are clinging tenaciously and per- ]
tinactously to your Heiny app'-ti t*s. Gun you pur
sue this course, brother, and nt hot hear the wel
come plaudit, “well done thou good and faithful
servant, enter thou into the joy of tjiy Lord ?”
Brother, can you serve Prince Alcohol that causes
the Widow’s wail and orphan’s cry, anH that has
filled our world with blackest woes, and then at
last sweetly exclaim with Paul, as you bid fare
well to earth and embark npm the turbid waves
of Jordan, “I have fought a good fight, I have
finished my course, I have kept tire frith ; hence
forth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous
ness.” I* may be that you are taking ‘shelter un
der the pitiful subterfuge, that you are a member
of the church ; but my brother, the fact that you
occupy this position, will not neutralize the poison
of your bad examples, but will give it tenfold vir
ulency. I again repeat, that the church is the cit
adel of moral influence in this country, and each
individual member exerts his portion of this in
fluence, snd is responsible to the extent of his ca
pacity. Are you doing all you can as a church
member, to do away with “ moderate drinking ”
Ate >ou to get your brethren right upon
the subject, so that your minister may unloose his
fetters and preach Temperance at least once a year,
without mashing the toes of two-thirds of his flock?
Brother, are you doing anything directly to crip
ple this great evil, that often makes sad havoc in
die very fold that belongs to the temple of God ?
Well, you may answer these questions as you
please, but one thing I know; too many, alas, too
many of those who should be shining lights in the
church, and every moral enterprise, are ready to
“kick up their heels,” if their preacher should have
the moral courage to tell them that “Touch not,
taste not, handle not the unclean thing,” should be
the “standard rule” of their practice—so the min
ister feels in a strait and confines himself to other
themes—a mighty influence is withheld from the
Temperance work—the devil looks on with a smile
of approbation—doggeries spring up at every
cross-road, and drunkards are turned loose upon
the country by thousands—our servants are en
couraged to steal, and our children are becoming
gamblers, profane swearers and drunkards—this
work of ruin is going on far and wide, from “riie
mountains all round to the sea,” and yet, the most
of our churches are as silent upon the subject as
the grave yard—O, that Heaven may tear the
scales from our eyes, and give us mere light and
religion.
Notwithstanding the great success that has at
tended our efforts, much, very much , remains to
be done. It is to be regretted that we have no
system in operation at present, that seems adap
ted to bring about the desirable end and consum
mation of our hopes. I love the “Order of the
Sons” for the good it Ims done, but we need some
system that will reach all classes, “without money
and without pric V’ to a great extent, and that will
eventually produce the right influence upon the
mu ses in changing theirsentiments and reforming
their principles. We need somo system that em
braces in its character tbe elements cf permanency,
and is capable of wielding a great moral influence,
for the work to be accomplished is great, and the
field will not bo won in a day. Let. us use the
“strong arm of the law” as soon as possible, but I
think we had better write Temperance laws upon
the heartsof the people, before we do it on paper,
then we^ghall have a foundation to build upon,
aiuTwill not be like the “foolish man that built his
ipuse upon the sand.” IIANNIBAL.
ijeftersofl%ounty, Ga.
’
For the Crusader.
Temperance Here.
Temperance is, undoubtedly at a low ebb here.
Your AgeDt here is not likely to accomplish much
for you, however zealous he may work in the
cause. Public opinion is even against moral sua
sion. It 6eems to me that every one that would
weigh an ounce for temperance, ought to place
himself in her scales. The great jugernaut of
intemperanco is rolling through our land, grinding
its thousands cf sacrifices to powder; and the
number of these sacrifices seem annually increas
ing. , The little friction thrown in the way by
moral suasion, seems to be almost useless. Drunk
enness spreads like a contagious disease ; and is
more distructive to happiness and life; yet men
seem greedy to take the letheal infection. Moral
suasion cannot soon put an end to tbe cause of
these evils—the grog-shops. The law must cork
up these “Hell-holes” P.
Colleton District, 8. C., August 22d. 185 V.
Por the Crusader.
Morning-Star Lodge No. 301. 0. 0. F.
The Committee appointed to report suitable
matter for the action of the Lodge in regard to
the death ot Mrs. Greene, substituted the follow
ing report, which was unanimously adopted :
The providence of God lias again fallen upon
us. The wife of our beloved Brother, George G.
Greene, is no more. Long did she linger with
disease preying upon her vitals, till at last she bid
adieu to her suffering, ard her spirit took its
flight to God who gave it.
Resolved , That it is witli profouud sorrow and
deep sensibility, that we have read the announce
ment of her death.
Resolved , That while we drop the tear of sym
pathy, and mourn with our beloved Brother, we
rejoice to have the consolation that his loss is her
eternal gain.
Resolved , That these proceedings be entered
upon the minutes of the Lodge, that a copy be
furnished Bro. Greene, and that the same be pub
lished in the Temperance Crusader.
J. J. Me BEE, Sec’ry.
K.vroNTox, Ga., August 21st, 1857,
What we are worth.- —In an able article on the
value of the South, in the New Orleans Delta, it
is estimated that the number of slaves at the South
are over three and a half millions, and their ag
gregate value, at present prices, at fully sixteen
hundred millions of dollars. The cotton planta
tions in the South, it estimates at about eighty
thousand, and the aggregate value of their annual
product, at the present prices of cotton, is fully
one hundred and twenty-live millions of dollars.
There are over fifteen thousand tobacco planta
tions, and their annual products may be valued at
fourteen millions of dollars. There are two thou
sand six hundred sugar plantations, the products
of which average annually more than twelve mil
lions. There are five Jiundred and fifty one rice
‘plantations, which yield an annual revenue o| four
millions of dollars. *
C|c femjmncc Cnisakr.
PENFIEI j). GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, September 3, 1857.
JgjTThe Grand Lodge of Georgia, of the Knighls
of Jericho will meet in the city of Atlanta, at 10
o’clock, A M., on the third Tuesday in, Seplembcr
next. As important business is to he transacted, the
Subordinate Lodges are earnestly requested to send
delegates,
Ambrotypes! Ambrotypes !
J. J. Day, of Madison,
has engaged Rooms in the Concert Hall, in Greenes
boro, to take Ambrotypes during Court week in Sep
tember next. We can reeommen l Mr. Day as a
most excellent artist, and persons wishing good and
lasting likenesses would do well to caff on him du
ring his stay in Grecncsboro.
Leave of Absence.
Our next issue will be gotten
up by our old friend, Lincoln Veazey; he has kind
ly consented to take charge of the office while we
absent ourself a few weeks to visit our Northern
brethren. Communications and correspondents vvi 1
receive prompt attention by our friend during our
absence.
Magazines, Periodicals, kc.
A Catalogue of tbe LaGrange FemaTe College has
been sent us by one of the Professors, and from it
we learn that the Institution is a most flourishing
one—the number of pupils in attendance being 150.
—-
Harpers Magazine
For September is upon our
table. It is always joyfully welcomed to our Sanc
tum as the best Magazine published.
—
A Catalogue
Os Union University, located at Mur
freesboro, Tenn., has been received by us, and it
reports the total number of Students as being 222
A fine patronage that.
The Cotton Planter
Published at Montgomery,
Ala., for September is on our table, and like all its
predecessors it is a good issuf*.
The Westminster Review
Is at hand, and we
pronounce it the best No. vve lyive ever seen. It is
a valuable periodical, and should be universally pat
ronized.
Godey’s Lady's Book
For .Si pten b r, the best
Lady’s Book published, is before us. We commend
it to universal patronage.
-— i — *-O * ***• -
Arthurs Horns Magazino
For September has
been received, and fully sustains the high reputation
of its anti or.
O 4-
Petersons Lady’s Magazine
For September is
on curt.fi- , nii.d w't’i interesting matter for tbe
“fair sex.”
urw o very highly appreciate the C nnmuniea
tion of “IV ’Ctic-il,” in this is- ue, and invite the at
tention of a'l nor readers to it. It is from the pen
of a Governor * f hr a 1 inlhi.-neo, who is n >w presi
ding over a sis’or State. We beg of hi n a icpcti
tion of such f;r- o’s.
Public Koim at Double Wells.
Our old friend
William M> on, las otablishu. a fins* rate public
house at Cumn ir-g, on tbe oeo-gia Railroad, for the
entertainment of jets ns who arc forced to lie over
there in wait for the W as’ irpton cars, or for.the
Sparta and MiiL-dgevifle Hacks, it is a groat ac
commodation to trav<'li. r c ', and they v- ill find friend
Moore actcrrr,sori<i/ and obliging gentleman, and we
commend bis bouse to all tbe travelling public.
JSf*’ The Hacks for Sparta and MWodgeville
leave the Doubkr-W. l's in the morning at sunrise.
Intoxicating lhpiors are invar I ably injurious
as a beverage, to health. The moderate drinker may
not be aware of i>: but ii oe will tell the tale of truth,
if the habit of mod ;r .t nis continued. M ike your
observation on ~m> btv.dml person**, passing along
the streets, and in vain tumid you attempt to single
out individuals who bad he h taking bread, meal,
vegetables, or water, either no derat. ly, or to excess
but make the same expel intent in reference to those
who are i:i tl-e use of intoxicating .Link-’, and you
might count every one of them. Moderation in in
toxicating liquors os a, beverage in health , is incipi
ent drunkenness. Let any one prove the contrary
who can.
Do They Reflect.
There is a class in co.nmuity
who are not devoid of sympathy with suffering and
who cheerfully contribute time and money for its
alleviation, but who seem strangely insensible to the
cause of it and utteily indifferent to the means [ re
posed for its picvention. They imitate the foolish
ness of the man who should see the incendiary torch
applied to his neighbor’s dwelling and lifts not hand
or voice to ant-si the act, but after the deed is done
expends his energies in efforts to extinguish the fire
he might have prevented. Do they nil ct on the
shortsightedness and wickedness of this policy V No
man nor woman possessed of common intelligence,
who faithfully observes the workings of the rum
traffic and its infiu -nee on society, can fail to see the
true anise of the misery atlii< ting so many house
holds, nor if conscientious and consistent can liesi
tate to use every power that (id has given them to
break up the penurious system that lead ; to such
deplorable results. Proper niff; lion on this subject
must lead all sympathetic he.it; to engage in the
warfare against the rum-traffic.
Tee Five Points. —The following } anagraph from
the New York Express, gives an idea of the fearful
accretion of vice and squalor in the field of labor
occupied by the Five Points Mission:
“In attending to his duties recently, Mr. Pease
found a dying woman in a foul apartment in Cow
Bay, occupied also bv tight other women and one
man, all drunken and debased, and inlamous in the
last extreme. In the upper end of the same pesti
lent court or clos t were found, ip fifteen roonSs,
twenty-three families, making an aggregate of one
hundred and seventy-nine persons, or twelve to a
room! In five of these fifteen rooms intoxicating
liquors were kept for sale! indescribable filth, pri
vation, disease and ideeency reigned throughout
them all. Yet seventeen children from tiuse rooms
attend the schools of the House of Industry. In
eleven other rooms were eighteen families, and in
nearly half of these rooms ardent spirits were sold.
In one of the garrets lived two negroes w ith eleven
abandoned white women. lit’ twelve other rooms
were found twenty-four families, consisting of one
hundred and twenty-four persons. Here were two
blind women, two just past the peril of child birth,
and seventy one were children, only eight of wh<>ra
attended any school.”
Stokes
Is too g roe tiling a subject for us to noti. e
his scribbling* any further. I(c is nothing more
than a loose tongaed jolthead from Alabama, striving
to gain a little newspaper notoriety by meddling
with Georgia politics, but his character and pos't’on
are too low’ to give anything he may say any
weight. The people of the county know who has
told “base lies” in this matter, and Stokes knows
too, his own mouth has condemned him. The publi
cation of his name was a sufficient refutation of all
he bad said, and besides, l:e himself has confessed
his lie.
53f“Wc beg pardon of our readers for having oc
cupied our columns at all v.nth such a subject.
Wc regret the circumstances which have led us
into such a foolish controversy, and one too upon so
unimportant a point. We corrected the error in
“Fa : r Play’s” statements concerning the meeting in
Greenesboro, not to give publicity to our political
sentiments, but as a matter of duty to our fellow-cit
izens, for when we see them basely and willfully mis
represented by impudent, straggling liars, from oth
er States, we feel under obligations, as the Editor of
their county journal, to defend them, be (hey Know
Nothings or Democrats. And when the statement
is publicly made that the American Party of Grec-nc
county are afraid for Hen Hid to meet Judge Brown
in discussion, after he (Mr. Hill) has proved himself
to be, not only one of the first debaters in the State,
but a superior stump orator to Judge Brown, in re
peated discussions, it is vt falsehood too gross to pass
uncorrccted.
As we Lave often stated, we have never given pub
licity to our political sentiments in this paper. Wc
have published democratic extracts and written dem
-ocratic editorials , we have done the same for the
American Party, and we are now accused at one and
the same time by members of each Party of belong
ing to the opposite side; that is sufficient of itself to
show that we have been successful in making our
position editorially, neutral. We are now accused
by some of being a “ rank pizen democrat,” and by
others of being a “fall bloodedl American,” we quote
their language.
We have county pride, we publish a county paper
and we have honorable , highminded and noble citi
zens belonging to each of the political parties, and
wc honor, respect, and will defend them against un
just assaults let their political faith be what it may.
The Chinese Sugar Cane Business.
The home manufacture of syrup from this cane
is becoming the mge all through the country. We
hear of numbers of persons making the experiment
in syrup manufacturing, and if they succeed we
think it will induce an almost universal culture of
the cane among our farmers, and every planter will
go to making his own syrup.
Friend McDaniel from White Plains, writes to us
as follows concerning the boiling of the juice :
Write Plains, Ga., Aug, 20, 1857.
friend Seals —Wc have come to the conclusion
here to live at home and board at the same place.—-
At least we have taken one step towards it. Wc
are making a very superior article of Syrup, from
the Chinese Sugar Millet. Six gallons of the juice
wi 1 make one of Syrup, after boiling from four to
six hours. The less the quantity contained in the
kettle the quicker the process of making. We have
Syrup which was boiled six hours not as good how
ever as that which was boiled but four. Tt is an
easy matter to tell when the cooking process should
stop. When the scum ceases to rise, it is about
ready to be taken from the fire. It is thought here,
that land which will produce four barrels of coin’
per acre, will yield one hundred and fifty gallons of
Syrup. Our farmers speak of planting this China
importation next year, each for himself. They can
now walk by sight. M. McDANIEL.
A Bottle of Syrup
Since writing the above we
have received from our friend Thomas Hightower of
White Plains, a nicely sealed sample-bottle of the
syrup manufactured by himself from this cane, and
we pronounce it excellent. It is of a dark color, and
very sweet, but tastes as though it had been slightly
scorched in boiling. Our opinion is, that if it be
permitted to stand for sometime after it is boiled and
jugged, it will prove a complete success, and will
surpass our imported syrups.
Friend Hightower will accept our thanks for
the bottle, he thinks he will make 100 ga’lons,
There is a great deal said about the oppres
sion of the prohibitory law—it prevents a man from
engaging in a respectable business, and that govern
ment has no right to prohibit him from entering in
to such trade as he pleases. Then the old license
system is wrong. That licensed a few in every town,
to sc.l, and prohibited the rest from any- such right,
lor years our dear rum friends have enjoyed a mo
nopoly 7 in the whisky 7 trade. Now , w hen the law of
prohibi ion takes in the whole people, they cry out
over their lost privileges.
Is your Life Safe ?
No. It cannot be, in a community that tolerates
grog-shops. The liquor traffic is incompatible with
our personal safety. It feeds the appetite that makes
drunkenness—drunkenness is madness —and mad-’
ness Wreaks itself upon its victim in bloody violence.
Every day has its record of crime resulting from in
temperance. Nor are the intemperate the only vic
tims of these crime s. Wives are murdered—children
are murdered—strangers are murdered, by rum-ma
niacs, sent forth on their mis ion of blood by the
grog-shops. We could fill columns with facts de
monstrative of our assertion. But we need not, for
these facts are within the reach of all who have ac
cess to newspapers.
Be not Discouraged.
Glorious as was the promulgation of Christianity,
at its commencement it met with few supporters. —
high positions, it was asked with peculiar sig
nificance, “have any c.f the rulers believed on Him?”
Alter years of labor, and the performance of stupen
dous miracles by the Savior, one of his disciples be
trayed, another denied, and they all forsook him and
fled? Yettl ns Divine system has now become the
glory of the world, and shall ultimately triumph over
all opposition. So with the present great movement,
to perfect one branch of the gospel—it is destined to
go forward and pervade the earth, opening the way
for oilier gospel influences, where they have been all
but shut up. We remember when the temperance
army could be counted by one or two recruits in a
place, but now, in p’aee of counting by tens, we
count by thousands, those engaged in this great
work; and these thousands wi l have ether thousands
added to their numbers, until the opponents of oujl,
noble enterprise shall constitute as insignificant a
minority as it.s friends once did—with this difference,
however; they, unlike its early advocates, will have
no vital principle to sustain them, and in the dark
est hour of adversity give them the assurance of ul
timate victory.
Be not discouraged. To the advocates of so be
nificent an enterprise, there should be no such word
as fail, - *