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“ ®0ltuui>t8, (EolUinlitR, to ©loujj ’Sln'W”—D r . D w i g h t , VOL. I — NO. 24 H U D S O N , O C T O B E R 6, 1842. P R IC E 3 C E N T S The Columbia Washingtonian, Devoted exclusively to the Temperance cause. Is published every Thursday morning, by the Ex ecutive Committee ofthe Columbia County Washing ton Temperance Society, under tlie immediate super vision of a Sub-committee, composed of tho following named gentlemen : J ames M ’G if f e r t , J ohn S. G ould , W a r r e n R o c k w e l l , C arlo G r e e n , and J . R . S . V a n V l e e t . T erms . —One dollar per annum payable in advance. A limited number of Advertisements, of an appro ved character, will be inserted at the usual rates. Address J . R . S . V an V l e e t , Hudson, Columbia County, N. Y., postage paid. From tho Knickerbocker. “ LOOK NOT THOU UPON WINE WHEN IT IS RED.” BY WILLIAM PITT PALMER. 0 soft sleep the bills in their sunny repose, In the lands of tlie south where the vine gaily grows; And blithsome the hearts of tlie vintagers be, 1 n the grape purpled vales of the isles of the sea. And fair is the wine when its splendor is poured From silver and gold round tlie festival board. When tlie magic of music awakes in its power, And wit gilds the fast falling sands of the hour. Yet lift not the wine-cup, tho’ pleasure may swim ’.Mid the bubbles that flush round its roseate brim, For dark in the depths of the fountains below, Are tlie sirens that work by the vortex of wo! They have lur’d the gay spirit of childhood astray, While it dreamed not of wile on its radient way, And the soft cheek of beauty they’ve paled in its bloom, And quenched her bright eyes in the damps of tlie tomb. They have torn the live wreath from the brow of die brave, And changed his proud heart to the heart ofthe slave; And e’en the fair fame of the good and the just, With the gray hairs of age they have trampled ill dust. Then lift not tho wine cup, tho’ pleasure may swim, Like an angel of light round its roscute brim, For dark in the depths of the fountain below, Are the sirens that lurk by thp vortex of wo I STRAINING AT A GNAT, Ac. “ I don’t like these temperance meetings ■oil Sunday,” said a professor of religion not very far from a certain part of Chester coun- ay. “ I don’t. like your Sunday nxeejjjtgs* -unci so long as I have any thing lo do with ■the school house I will keep you out o f it.— 3’is enough to allow you th^ttpe ofit at oth er times.” * “ Then you don’t believe inVdoing good on tlie Sbhhath day.” was tlte reply. “ Yes, 1 believe in doing’ good, but not in that way. 1 think there should be a law against suclt 'gatherings, just as there is against working ami trading on Sundays.” “ Allow me lo ask you M r. , if you think if ij^fcrong to sell liquor on Sunday'!” “ C e r^Jpy. ]t’s downright sin.” “ Well, then, do you think your neighbor at th e tavern does wrong by selling at his bar on the Sabbath ?” H e re the good man looked very serious, and . after m a ture deliberation, replied. “ Yes,—aiiein— vcs—I suppose,—of course he does.” “ And did you not sign the reccommenda- tion to the court, on the strength of whicli lie ■obtained a license, and hy virtue of which lie now sells liquor on the Sabbath ?” Tlte zealous profess -t twisted aboul as if he had swallowed something that disagreed with him and at length stammered out: “ Yes,—alietri,—1 didsign it,—but, ahem, —'that Is not wltai I wnCTalking aboul.” O b j e c t i o n s o f a R u m s e l l e r . t o T e m p e r a n c e L e c t u r e s . A certain rumseller in our neighborhood, said tiiat he had but one objection to this business, viz: ” 1 don’t want my children taught to laugh and sing my trade and sign down.” A man came down from Boston not long since, and lectured, my wife signed the pledge, this I could bear.— But he told my children lhat they must laugh and sing the rumseller’s sign down. ” Yes, boys and girls, sing and laugh on. This w ill touch the rumseiler’s heart and tear his sign down—Give him norest. Let thechorus .ring—^ \Away away with the bowl. ” The Drunkard's Consistency. —If nty wife is abed when I .go home, Til whip her,” (said an nld rummer as he was endeavoring ’tofind the house he lived in ;) “ how dare -she go to bed when I am out? It is her duly ’lo set up and help me to bed when I come ■home.” Second thought.— “ and if she is ■up I ’ll whip her; what business has she to set up and burn out candle light when I am gone W h a t a , C h a n g e !!—Fifty men in'Cbaries- ton walked in the Temperance procession 4th July, who a short time before .were .all drunken men poor and wretched, *but who ■were now reformed well dressed, and useful and bappy in tbeir ■amilies. f Tbe change ■visible was indeed trutly affecting. ; T H E W A S H E R W O M A N ’S MORAL SUASION. At the picnic at Brookline last week. Rev. Mr. W hittmoreof Cambridge, gave the fol lowing exhibition of indignation against rurnsullingi. If such women were to be found in the neighborhood of every grog-shop, our work would soon be finished. “ A certain woman in that town had a poor drunkard for a husband. He was indo lent and cross—a perfeet specimen of the power of rum to ruin and degrade. She was smart, industrious, patient, perservering— an humble washer-woman, but possessed of an indomitable spirit to meqt. and conquer tbe mountain difficulties which stood in the way of bringing up her children as her early pride and expectations had determined.— She first purchased a peice of land, then built a house and found herself with property to the amount of some twelve hundred dol lars, rubbed out of her knuckles, and saved by her prudence. The grog-shops under the late movement and by force of law had been shut up in her neighborhood, and hope had again swelled her heart with expecta tions o fa more peaceful and happy home. All at once a poor mortal gained posses sion of an old blacksmith shop near by, and opened, not a grocery, hut a groggery.— There was no apology offered, the old shop and business was not sanctified by the ap pearance of any thing else. No nutmegs, sugar or candy— all rum and grog. Our watchful heroine saw the trap, and knew the power of the bail, and she presented herself at the. counter, and demanded a promise tiiat none should be sold to her husband, and told her story. The poor victim of appetite, however, could not refrain and the grog-seller would not withhold, and became home in liquor, and administered his abuse and tyranny upon liis wife and daughters as usal. it was more than she could bear. She ap peared again before the counter of tlie black smith shop. She charged upon him the villaoy and guilt of his business—described tlie sufferings of herself and family, and with tin indignation like a trip-hammer, and according to the ancient law of the shop, “ to strike while the iron is hot,” she threw her arm across the counter and brushed upon the floor every bottle and glass, and finished the breaking with her feet. She then de manded the cask ot jug which contained his supply, and commenced her search. The grog-seller stood aghast and afraid. At lengtli she found a hugh demijhon of rum und threw it into the street, anu not having broken it, she seized a rock nearly as large as tlie bottle, and with ail her strength raised it in iier arms and demolished it instantly. She now began to think upon the legality of tiiis outbreak. Having her enemy under iter feet, her “ caution\ bump came into ac tion and she could see there might be some legal questions to. settle. The rum-sellers preach against ihe law which is against themselves, not that which is in their favor. And off she went to a good temperance law yer. She was told to be quiet. She was quiet; tlie fellow has not opened his lips nor lias he revived his business. This we call the washer- woman’s moral suasion DON’T B U Y A DRUNKARD. One of the R . D's of New York, relates the following incideat: B y liis excessive drinking lie had laid himself upon a bed of sickness, and one evening his wife had occa- lion to go out a shopping, and of course had to go alone. Her child, a boy of four years, was play ing aboul, as he had been alfcfwed to sit up for company for his father, while his mother should be away. The hoy Impt teasing to know what mother would buy for him, and laughingly his mother fold him, she would buy him another father. “ Oh, mother, don’t buy a drunkard father!” said the child, with great earnestness. This expression sat the inebriate to thinking, and resulted in his reformation .— Organ M u r d e r . —W e learn from the Providence Journal that Aaron Batc’neider. of Cumber land. R I., has been committed to jail on a charge of having murdered his wife. He had been intemperate, and after a short absti nence, was seized with delirium tremens. aDd killed liis wife in the night. His own ac count is that in the night, he imaginedlhat he was attacked by the devil, and that he killed him w.ith an axe. Upon awaking in the morning, he found that he had murdered his wife. He called his family, and made no attempt to escape or conceal his crime. T o a s t — Total Abstinence. We challenge the world to show that it is au error. From the Journal Amer. Temp. Union. ’T W E N T Y AGATNST j SIGNING T H E PL E D G E , j : c o n s i d e r e d a n d a n s w e r e d . 1. I am temperate already, and signing tlte pledge is not needed. Answer. It may not be needed for you, bul it may be for oihers—for your children, or neighbors, or some poor drunkard looking to you as an example. W e sign the pledge first, for our own good; and second, for tlie good of others. 2. I can do more good withoutsigningthan with. If 1 sign 1 shall be viewed as a par- tizan; now 1 can mingle with those who drink and induce them to abstain. Ans. You have yet tried but one side and are no judge in the case. Many lived years on your principle, who say they did more good in tiiree weeks after they signed than in ail their lives before. A man who would in duce others to go forward in a good Work, must go forward himself. 3. T h e act of pledging is wrong, man should he governed hy principle. Ans. Are you a ptofessor of religion ? How came you to make a profession ? Aro you married 1 Did you not pledge yourself to your wife or husband? Have you never given or received a note? Be consistent. 4. Signing a pledge is a confession that 1 have drank ton m u ch, or lhal I cannot lake carc of m y self. Ans. W e do not so view it. It is a decla ration of what you intend your futuie course shall be. and in assuming what, under Pro- videuce, may be a protection against an evil which besets you in all your ways. 5. It i s a piece of o stentation. Ans. It may lmve so been viewed once. Now there is more ostentation and show of independence in not signing, than in signing. The man who refuses arrays himself against the best portion of the community. 6. A signed pledge creates a constant dis position to do wrong. I uow feel little or no desire for liquor. I fear if I should it would create in me a constant desire for it. Ans, W hen a man is hound by another he may sigh and groan for freedom. An old man who had lived- forty years in Paris and never been out, was placed under bonds by the king never to go out on the pains of death. He then wanted to go and did go. But it is not so when a man binds bimseif from prin ciple. A judge does not want to be partial, because he lias sworn to be just. A debtor does not .want to be released from his debt, because he has given his note. A man and iiis wife do' not want to part because they have promised to live together, 7. It is giving up my liberty. Ans. Liberty to do wliat? What you neith er want to do or intend to do. If you want liberty to do it, it is proof your heart is for it and not against it and you ought not to sign. 8. I am a professor of religion and I have promised to do all duty. Ans. And so you wilt never give a note, or take an oath in court, or join a Missionary or Bible or Tract Society. But does a profes sion of religion exonerate from all this? Ask your neighbor to trust you with a hundred dollars without your note, because you are a professor of religion. See what he vvill say. 9. Combinations are dangerous. Each man had belter be temperate on his own hook. Ans. So eacli man can Getter put out a fire ou his own hook, throw iiis pail of water alone and nol unite in an engine company. Each man in taising a building, had better raise the timber by himself. In war, each man had better fight on his own hook, and not in a regular and disciplined army. In telig- ion eacli man had better go to heaven alone and have no churches and no ministers.— T ry it, and see bow it will work. 10. Wine and strong drink are good as a medicine, bul I cannot take them as such without exposing myself to the charge of breaking my pledge. Ans. Is it not so vvith thousands of those who have taken the pledge bul who have never been a moment retarded by this thought, and who now seldom think of il either as a medicine since they have signed the pledge. Sign the'pledge, and to your surprise you may find you will think far less of them as a med icine than you do now. 11. You are going too far and carrying things to extremes. Ans. Do those go too far who would pull a family out of tlie fire, or a drowning man from the water, or seize and hold and bring to shore a man who was going over Niagara falls. We go no futther. 12. Total Abstinence from all intoxicating liquors is unnecessary and unreasonable. Ans. Which will you except? W hich, if reserved to yourself, m ay not make you a drunkard, ardent spirits, wine beer and cider? Has not moderate drinking been the cause of all the drunkenness in the world ? 13. Temperance societies make divisions in families. Ans. So does Rum, and to be consistent you should discard lhat. Temperance socie ties have restored peace to families and will continue to do it. 14. My friends are opposed. Ans. No good reason, if their opposition is wrong; you m ay as well lead them, as they lead you. 15. I f l sign the pledge I put myself under the power of leaders, and I know not whither they will lead me. Ans. Nol so. You oniy agree not to drink intoxicating drinks, you are committed to nothing beyond the pledge. 16. No reason why vve should deprive our selves of the good things of Providence be cause others abuse them. Ans. Intoxicating drinks are not of this number, but bad things of human invention, never needful, never useful to man in health, but always hurtful. 17. I have no influence. Ans. Not true. All have influence for good or for evil. ‘All that is not for is against.’ • No m an liveih to himself.' IS. The Bible does not require it. Ans. Tlie bible says. ‘ Do good to alt men as you have opportunity,’ and here you have opportunity to do good. 19. It is being wiser than the Saviour, and wiser than the Chuich in ail ages. Ans. Neither the Saviour uor the Church, under holy influences, ever refused to prac tice self-denial when required, or to do good to others when opportunity presented, nor should you. 20. Indecorious for females to sign. Is an acknowledgement to what ought never to be suspected of them, that they drink and are drunkards. Besides, females have no influ ence. Ans. No such imputation is expressed.— All who sign are resolved to be temperate. But some females are intemperate and lo re claim such, all should sign. Fem ales control the domestic establishment, the festive board or sociahpariies; their influence is great over husbands, brothers, young men and children: and women is the greatest sufferer from in temperance. The twenty reasons now are answered— what more ? COLD W A T E R AND P R O S P E R I T Y . A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of iiearing James Buchanan, Esq., British Con sul for this port delivered an address before tlie Howard Society, on which occasion he related the following circumstance : Several years ago a gentleman dined with him, who had risen, by iiis own industry and integrity alone, from bumble life to a proud elevetion in society. On being invited to take a glass of wine, tlie following conver sation ensued: “ Do you allow persons at your table to drink wliat they please?” asked the guest. “ Certainly,” replied the consul. “ Then, I ’ll take a glass of water.” “ All, indeed! And how long have you drank cold water ?” “ Ever since I w as eleven y ears old.\ “ Is it possible! And pray w h at induced you to adopt the principle of total absti- nance ?” “ Seeing a person intoxicated.” “ W e ll.” continued the Consul, “ If you have had the firmness of purpose to continue up to this time without taking intoxicating driD k s, I do not wonder that you have reached your present position.” The Consul afterwards learnt that the person he saw intoxicated was liis father!: New York Paper. King Alcohol is still at his work, and h; murdered his man again. About three i four weeks ago a fanner in Lehi county, at about eight miles from Allentown, who hr been in the habit of buying his whiskey t the jug: for the purpose of getting it cheap he bought a barrel, and put it io his cella He went a t it with the fixed determination having full satisfaction, he not only put spickel in the cask, but bored a hole with gimblet, put in a straw, laid himself dou and sucked himself so full ihgjJie was n able to get up; in thissituationJBlvas foun when he was removed and diec^Ffew Ijnu after. Horrible!— Penn. Pager. S t a r t l i n g F a c t . — Mr. Buckingham sta ted in the British Parliament, sopie time since, that be bad taken the pains to place himself, during a whole day, in a tavern in London, and that he saw enter there for li quor, 2800 men, 1S55 women, and 289 chil dren. T h e proprietor of the establishment assured bim that he sold liquor weekly to 269,450 men, 103,500 women, nnd 152,450c children.— Tee-totaler
