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• “ (E o lttW M a , © O lu m ilta , to (K lov a S l n s e ” —D u. i V O L . I . — N O. 20 H U D S O N , S E P T E M B E R 8 , 1842 . P R I C E 3 C E N T S . The Columbia Washingtonian. Devoted exclusively io the Temperance cause. . Is published evfjry Thursday morning, by the Ex- 'tecutive Committee of the Columbia County Washing ton Temperance Society, under the immediate super- . -vision of a Sub-connnittee, composed of the following named gentlemen: J a m e s M ’G i f f e r t , J o h n S. ‘G o U l d , W a r r e n R o c k w e l l , C a r L q .G r e e n , and J . R . S. V an V l e e t . T e r m s . —One dollar per annum payable in advance. A limited number o f Advertisements, of an appro ved character, will be inserted a t the usual rates. Address J. R. S. Van V l e e t , Hudson, Columbia County, N. Y.,postage paid. COMJE SIGN THE PLEDGE, T une —“ Who’ll be King but Charley!” The news that comes from vale and hill Will soon make many wonder, And rive the demon o f the still, With bolts of temperance thunder. Come sign the pledge—the war to wage, You’ll be the welcomer early; _ Around it cling, with all your kin— It saves the drunkard fairly. Come sign the pledge—the war to wage, Come tipler, come bruiser, come all together, And make the temp’rance chorus ring, Till all shall hear it clearly. From ocoan side to western plain, The golden flags are streaming; And ’neath their iolds are rescued men, Their eyes with gladness beaming. Como sign tiie pledge, &c. The whiskey red and brandy bluo, Are'lost in health’s vermillion; For they have danced its mazes through. The drunkard’s last cotillon. Come sign the pledge, &c. The path-way thntintemperanee trod, And left all red and gory. Is changing to a brighter road, Illum’d by temp’rance glory. Come sign the pledge, &c. And homes that hy the Hydra’s breath, - Within were scathed mid blighted, Have driven out the hideous-death, And now with joys ure lighted. Come sign the pledge, &c. The drunkard smiles!—his lisping child Notnore with feuris quaking; H is wife to hope is reconciled From sorrows cold, heart-aching. Contesi'guthc. pledge, &o, - Swell high the Washingtonian cry, The lost are still returning, Unite our banner, “ flap the sky,\ The meteor-light of morning! Come sign the pledge, &c. Fling out your motto to tho world, In golden letters flaming, That all can see, where’er unfurl’d There’s no one past reclaiming! Come sign the pledge, &<:. T H E W O MAN’S CO M P L A IN T . Mr. Gary lelnies ihe following anecdote: At a temperance meeting where he was called to lecture, in a country town, he found on inquiry, that there was but one woman present who had not signed the Pledge. He went and spoke to her-privately, and asked her if she had become a member of the So ciety. “ No, I ha’int.” said she, with the bitterness ofa real Tartar. He learned from her that her husband was grossly intemperate. “ Now,” said Mr. Cary, “ perhaps if you ■will sign the Pledge, your husband may be induced to sign.” At once softened a little T>y his kind address, she replied, and she drew him a little closer, and almost whispered as site said it, “ Mr. Cary I do not want he should sign the Pledge. 1 have a complaint -on'tne, that renders it necessary for me to take •a'little liquor myself; and if my husband signs, I ’m afraid that he will not give me any.” Her husband did sign that vefy night, and is now a sober man. After the meeting was 'over, says Mr. C. I inquired of some of her ‘neighbors what that complaint was. “ W h y ,” said they, “ her complaint con sists in being the greatest drunkard of the two.” Poor woman! she must die of her com plaint, for her husband, as sbo anticipated, since he has become a Washingtonian, will give her no more liquor. Now, when we see a lady refuse to sign the temperance pledge, we are very prone to (think that that lady has a “ complaint-'''1 HVinc drinking' is sometimes indulged in (by ladies of cer tain circles, in order to cure a ^complaint. It is a just cause.of suspicion that .all is not right a t home,, when a lady refuses do join the temperance society .—Star Jour. W hen W r ig h t and P olla r d weie at Newburgh, the following incident occurred, which is but one case out of thousands that might be mentioned, tending to show Ihat the mosl hopeless drunkard, may be reclaimed and saved from the wretchedness of intem perance: therefore, let d o one despair. W e copy frpm the Newburgh Gazette. One Saturday evening as Mr. Wright was lecturing on the Ferry Dock, a fortnight since, to a crowded audience, a poor drunken wretch, bare-footed apd ragged—so filthy as to be disgusting to all around—staggered along and seated himself on the steps of the Ferry House—so drunk as scarcely to be able to sit up. Even in this condition his attention was arrested by the remarks of the speaker, who, on observing him, appealed tp the audience with almost irresistible eloquence in behalfof the miserable d runkard! This mass of drunk enness rose—staggered lo the box on which Mr. W right stood, amidst the sneers and the scoffs of many, and as he was held up, scraw led some illegible characters upon the pledge; this having done, he staggered back again to his seat,.weeping and wringing his hands! “ Nonsense!” ‘‘foolery!” “ humbug!” were the exclamations thal were heard. “ He will never keep the pledge”—“ hasn’t been sober for m o n ths!” “ Is the greatest drunkard in Newburgh !” “ He will/ceephis Pledge\ said Mr. W right, “ hut i f he falls, it is the fault of the audience and the Temperance community, into whose hands 1 commit him / ” “ W ell gentlemen,” continued the speaker, “ at the close of Mr. Wright’s address that night, he came to me, being nearly sober, and begged for something to eat—had eat nothing a 11 day—was almost starved—gave him some thing to eat and made him promise to call on me the next Monday morning. W ell Mon day came, but he came not, the week passed by and he was not to be heard of,sure enough he hud “ tricked” us, and doubtless, was a drunkard still! A fortnight rolled by nnd I raeta man this afternoon inth,estreet,cleanly and neatly dressed, face shaved and with a atnile accosted me very civilly and inquired if I knew him. I looked a minute, and sute enough I did know him ! Jt was the same that signed the pledge, but oh how changed! He assured me he had not tasted a drop since thal evening he signed the pledge, and now felt no desire to. The noble fellow had been absent for his poor wife and children, wbo had inhumanly been thrust from their dwell ing by the cruelty of their landlord, in conse quence of his druokenuess ! H e had earned money enough during the fortnight, and bad restored his wife and children to the same home, whence they had been driven through the neglect o f a drunken father and husband! But now they were happy and rejoicing with the prospect, that one so dear could be saved from a drunkard’s grave!” * * “ And,” resumed the speaker, “ I invited him to attend this meeting — he is here and his happy little boy beside him, and, I presume, is not ashamed to speak for liirnself—” Here the speaker was interrupted by a tnan rising from his seat and with deep emotion, striving to give utterance to words—“ I —I— I am tbe man! and thanks be to God—un worthy wretch as I have been— with Hishelp I have resolved never! never to taste the accursed thing any m o re!” R e a d e r! can it be in tby heart to oppose the progress of this work ? W ill you —dare you, any longer in the sight of God ! with hold from it your influence and example 1 Rewnre! 'P o p u l a r P o iso n .— W hen pure ardent -spirits are taken into the stomach they cause .irritation, which is evinced by warmth and .jiain in that organ, and nex-t, inflamation of ..she .delicate coats of this part, and sometimes gangreen. They act in the sam e manner as poison. .Besides the local injury they pro- -duce they act upon the nerves of the stomach which run to the brain, and if taken in large .quantitiescause insensibility, stupor, irregular <convulsive action, difficulty o f breathing, pro >jfo.und sleep,and .often sudden death! D ec l a m a t io n fo r a l i t t l e bo y . —I’m a little fellow, but I ’m going to talk upon a big subject.—*Tis not too big Ibr such as we are either. Some men laugh about little boys and girls forming Cold W a ter Armies and say, whatgood can they do? I will tell you. You have read about a little mouse that a lion helped out o fa little trouble and laughed a t him because he said something about return ing the favor; this great lion was caught in a hunter’s net, and he roared and growled and bit, and that was all he could do. By-and- by the little mouse came along and gDawed off one by one, all tbe cords of the great net and let the lion go. T h a i is what we mean to do; we may be little mice, but are going to gnaw off every thread of the great net that has bound down our country for so many years. The net is intemperance, and our cold water pledge cuts off all the deceiv ing threads that look so pretty and delicate, as wine, beer, cordial, cider, as well as the stouter cords, rum, gin, brandy. Now don’t you think we can do something ? we know we Can. Intemperabce shan’t catch us, a t any rate.— C. W . Army. In S c o t l a n d , 257 persons have abandonee the rurn traffic. W H A T F A T H E R M A T H E W E X P E C T S OF P L E D G E D M E N . The following address of F a ther Mathew, giving his opinion o f what may reasonably b^ expected of pledged men, is worthy o f the attention, a t the present time, bf tee-totalers: He trusted that those who took the Pledge Would faithfully jteep it. The eyes of Eng land, Scotland, America— yes, pf the whole world—were turned to the tee-totalers o f Ire land ; and, i f any one would break fr is Pledge, he would bring disgrace on the whole body of Irish tee-totalers, now amounting to five millions and nearly a half. (Cheers.) In other places, those who took ihe Pledge con sidered themselves bound by a dew tie n o t to violate the laws of the land, and to avoid crirhe. H e would tell them a circumstance which would show the view that w a s gener ally taken of the Pledge. Befqre doing so; he would beg particularly to observe, that tbe morality of the affair was totally false, for it went upon the supposition, tbat the person causing/ another to commit crime was not culpable.; whereas, the person wbo induces another to conqinit a crime is more guilty tfiqp the person who is employed as bis agent. He (Faiher Mathew) had, a considerable tinje since, visited the town of Balinasloe, where a large number had takenthe Pledge. He lately spent two day's in a town ia that neighborhood. W hen ridiDgon a c a r through tbe bog at night, a little girl cam e running after, calling out, “ O b ,Father Mathew, give rne the Pledge, or I ’ll be murdered.” He caused the car to be instantly stopped, and asked how it was, that after he bad spent two. days a t a town where she lived so near, she had not taken the Pledge, and now came troubling him at so unseasonable an hour. She replied, “ Oh, Father Mathew, give me tbe Pledge. I am the only one i n all the bog of Balinasloe that has not taken the Pledge. No one whp has taken the Pledge wjll steal turf, and every one that wapls to 8tcfd turf, gets me to do i t ; and if y o u do not giVe .1119 tbo-Plctigc, X will.Le__n 3 uiHcrcA lor- steftlingturf.” (Loud laughter.) O f course, he gave her the Pledge. Father Mathew then proceeded, to make some feeling remarks with regard to the neglect of parents, which resulted 'from drunkenness; and urged them to he kind and attentive to their parents, for they had been kind and attentive to them, at a time when they could not do anything for themselves. The prospect of the improved state o f society to be wrought for Ireland, by the operations of temperance, vwas cheering. In ancient times; Ireland had been frequently distracted and sorely wounded, by her inter nal fueds and figbt9. These disgraceful do ings were now abandoned, and the old palaces and castles, where the contending chieftians had resided, and which had formed tbe rally ing points for collecting the opposing forces, now lay shattered ruins clothed in ivy—sad monuments of the folly of by-gone ages. The time is coming when that house pointing to the poor bouse, which stands on the opposite hill,) w ill become nti empty monument of the drunkenness of former lim es; when our jails and prisons will be come roofless, and their falling walls, totter ing to ruins and overgrown with moss, will only be sad memorials of the vices and crimes of an age passed aw a y to return no more, (Loud cheers.) Liquor Sales in Cincinnati .—We stepped in a moment at a sale of liquor to s e e what was doing. W e found about twenty-five p e r sons present, all told. Some were loafers and some genteel “ Lookers on in V e n ice,” some interlopers like ourselves, taking notes, and some scarey buyers. The liquors and wines offered, were all o f the old choice brands and qualities. “ How much for this pure brandy, warranted as imported pure—how much for it, gentlemen? Start it if you please, gentlemen. I offer you one cask only —how much ? Will no one give u s a bid ? Come,” said theauctibneer,in a coaxing lone, “ give us,a bid on this old, unmixed import ed brandy.. Mr. S. give us a bid— flir. K, do givo us a bid.” Thus, by, coaxing and drumming, it starts at last for 25 cents a g a l lon, and was run slowly up— hard pushing— and was struck oft'to a man, who looked un easy as soon as it was struck off to him.—- There did not seem to be more than about a dozen buyers in the whole audience, and yet, “ the note of preparation” had sounded long and loud in regard to this sale. We a s sure our fellow citizens, a t a distance, that buying and selling goes oo here, b u t at a n awful discount from former pricea. T h e Washingtonians have done up the business. It is at an “ endless end” here. W e advice all holders to hoist their commodities into the third stories, till this excitement is over.— Slat. from a Cincinnati, Ohio, paper, not only exhibits the wretchedness of the drunkard and his family, but the criminality of those who participate in the crimes of the drunkard by granting licenses. FA C T S F O R T H E C IT Y CO U N C IL. Within a few days, a gentleman, whose business lies between the elbow of the canal and Ninth-street, was called by a little girl tp come to the relief of her mother, for her fa ther was drunk, and was beating ber. The gentleman followed the little girl to the dwell ing of her mother, and when he arrived, tfte husband had tired himSelf out beating his wife, and was sitting doggedly down, appa rently indifferent to the misery around him. W hen inquired of what the m atter was, the poor wife said that her husband had been beating her, because she would not go out and carry wood out of a canal boat, (this was just before tbe water was letout o fthe canal,) at 12 and a half cents a cords to get, more mon ey to buy him whiskey with. She told him she could not go, for her children were sic.kr and She must take care of them. On looking arouDd the room to find the sick children, he went to on? wretched pallet and there be found a dying child. The child died that same night. On going to another bed, and withdrawing the sheet a little from tiie head ofthe bed, he found there an inno cent and unconscious infant, and on inquiiing how old the infant was, the mother said it is three days old this very day. H ere was a wretched mother, with an infant three days old, and a dying child by her side, cruelly beaten by her husband because she would not go out and carry wood from a canal boat, at twelve and a half cents a Cord, to procure the meaDS for her drunken husband to visit one of the synagogues of S atan—those manu factories of d.ruakapds—which a majority of our City Council are so ready to invest with authority to sell. Here was the wife and mother, doomed to submit to the inhum anity anddsgradation of being whipped and beaten by her own 'husband. w fiereivas this man thus maddened—infuriated ? W e have it on authority—it was at one of the City Council’s grog-shops. And this is not a singular c a se; it is only ooe of the multitude which are oc curring daily. We hold the City Council responsible. In all-the crimes committed at the instigation of the licensed grog-shops, we hold the Council parliceps criminis, partakers in the guilt. They issue these licenses, well knowing what the results may be. L I T T L E MARY, Children are very often chargeable with want of petseverance, in attempting to do good, and consequently relax their efforts p when if they hold on longer, they might see their wishes accomplished. I f we try nine- teen times to do a thing, and fail, we cannot be certain that the twentieth will not perfect the object. W e remember a story thnishows tbe influence a liltlo girl can exert. Mary, who was only about eight yearsold, took a temperance paper, at a temperance meeting, to see how many she could get to sign it. The next morning she presented it to her father, who had been in a drunken frolic for a fortnight, and came home drunk while his daughter was at the temperance meeting the night before. This cruel father raised his hand and struck his child a blow which leveled her on the floor, and said “ I ’ll learn you to be saucy to your parents.” The little girl got up and picked up the constitution, which had fallen when she re ceived the blow. She took it with her to school tbat day, and got the teacher and most of the scholars to sign it. W hen she had leisure, she would ask her mother, i f she might go to such a neighbor’s and see bow many could be obtained to join the temper ance society. Her father-could not but see w h at was doing in the neighborhood. F o r two weeks' he remained a t home, and did not use a drop o f intoxicating liquor, a thing h e had not done for years before. At the end of that period, he said to his daughter, “ Mary, how many names have you on. your temperance constitution ? ” “ I will bring it and see,” she replied. As her father was counting the nam e s she stood between his knees, and when he had looked them over, he Said, “ You have one hundred and fifty,” She jumped up on his knee, threw her little arm s around her father’s neck, and impressed a sweet kiss on his cheek, and Said, “ Do you sigp. it too, father, and then there will be one hundred and fifty-one.” T h e old drunkard’s h eart was melted—his bosom heaved—his bloated, haggard face wafe wet with tears of contrition— be pressed bis Mary to bis heatt, and said, • ' “ I will sign at once affixed his natfie to thje constitujion aod pledge.
