Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1850-09-20


the drunkenness of guardians and executors?
This we pronounce stealing, and the vender
affords such men an opportunity to spend
the property of widows and orphans without
their knowledge or consent. Had he not
inHamed, by his unholy traffic, the desire for
ardent spirits, the widow woald not have been
homeless, and the orphan naked and friend
less.
Sometimes, men while intoxicated, are in
duced to sign an instrument Of writing, which
they discover, much to their discontinue, af
ter getting sober, places them in poverty's
vale; their property, vilely and clandestinely,
is taken away from them. IsnOt the deFler
to be condemned, when his aecursed beter-
age has placed them in q condition tol be
shamefully defrauded at viii? How often
is it the case, that the poor drunkard is seat
ed at table playing at cards with the liquor
vender himself, and others the man is SO |
far gone in intoxication, thathe is half asleep
the most Of the time, and when awake scarce
ly knows one card from another-he plays
till he loses thousands. In view Of such cir
cumstances, which no man can deny having
transpired, the money, proclaim, was lost
stealthily-it was emphatically stolen.
Il Are not the most of liquor establishments,
4 retreat for pick-pOCkets, and designing
: gamblers; and are not the young and the
old, pilfered at such places? Do not such
characters prOul around these retreats r.
Some may say, that If such men visit their
houses, It is unknown to them, and that they
, would not allow them entrance, were they
aware Of it. But there they go, and the
vender never makes an enquiry, as to the
character Of men, but is always ready to give
them glass Of brandy, for bit Of silver.
2 The traffic as connected with the violation
3 Of this precept of the moral Law, presents a
: view, yet more questionable; and involves
4 no ordinary degree Of crinainality. Now i
any man shall receive property from anoth
.fl er, which he knows, or has satisfactory rea
son to believe isanother's, taken without hi
!. knowledge or consent, he is most certainly e
!. quail IN guilt, both in the eye Of the mora
!. and civil law. There are many in open vio
= Iation Of the law of God and man, who fol
1 low the low and abominabIe practice, of trad
= ing with negro slaves. They usually CIV
4. In return, for articles purchased, ardent spn
= its and at the same time. they have th
i strongest reason imaginable, the stronges
4, they could have, without seeing them in th
y act, that those articles were stolen. Th
has been too often proven, to admit of d.
II NAL. would ask, in what does such
4. man differ from the low, clandestine negro
= Does he steal from his master? The liqut
4. vender receives what is stolen and Civ
- half their value in return, in dirty whiske,
e and thereby stcalthily gets them in posse
i. sion. Put the negro, and the vender bo
~ m bag, and don't know which would &
Il. out first. Such accursed dens as are ke
- - by such men, is loathsome stencil in t
-. nostrils Of every virtuous and intelligent c
- izen. They are nurseries Of theft and h
80 ~ ible deeds. Should this ever meet the e
M of one such person, to whom have alIude
Al. Al, l would say to you, that God has thunder
~. from Sinia' towering and fiery sumit Th
ON On shalt not steal Beware cease your wiz
,rtv A ed meannesS, ere you and your negro co;
TUTORS, sink into burning he'll.
-. 1t is bad enough fer a man to engage
, III N the Traffic at all, as has been shown,
.ra M when engaged in such as the last mention
- 80 form, it is enough to make the virtuous n
III feel, that he is almost, if not quite, wit
a. the surburbs of hell Such practice exE
N its huge mass of the vilest corruption
"a "a The strong arm of the law cannot be brou
III. t to bear too rigdly. In what light sho
- - such characters be viewed, by a virtu
- -. community? Is he not one Of the vilest,
.,,oI, most detestable characters to befound, u
."rJ ~. whom the eye of virtue can gaze? If
y - and Iknow have not exaggerated. then,
- = then, In what light must he be viewed,
/, him who cannot look upon sin, with the L
mar degree of allowance OF IF heaven v
nle' to execute cOndign punishment, would
NOR the arm of vengeance inflict at each suec
90 q i've stroke thousand hells? And VIII,
ne heavy calamity? Because he contrib
tne directly, and indirectly yea, and most g
lpPe- ly, to sink the degraded, to blind the il
Ss9ne. uated, and to spread veil of deeper i
y ne rance, over the poor senselessnegro 7
'al14' have souls to be saved, but these vile !
ne ders, doing the devils drudgery, encoul
,l.,c Z them in theft, and rapine, which will
.elo an insurmountable barrier to their entrs
= a. into the kingdom of heaven.
~ Let all philanthropists, and good citiz
~ ~ take this matter under serious considerat
~ o[ se and do what they can towards banishing
" y evil from our land.
save Tn oonoIT,S;o,, .,,, ,.,,,ld .,v that t,o
from bolv traffic steals from men t5s;r ~ rorntat
? are Yes, it is by this mcansthat many fairr
'ufse' tation, has been blasted. Who can
ng Is that 4 good name Is moi valuable far !.
been tTe oojd of Orh;r and who can ts[e ;
Ker is wav z IA, ;un,,n;tv ;
!, as / 4 =
Eighth GoodnCuas in man or woman
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
~ bv Who steals my purse, steals trash =