Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1850-11-15

slres known, and from whom no secrets
are hid" Ask Eternity! V
The biographer of Napoleon, speaking !
of the loss sustained by England on the 4
field of Waterloo, says, Fifteen thou t
sand men killed and wounded, threw q
half Britain into mourning. 1t required
all the glory and all the solid advantages q
Of that day to reconcile the mind to the
high price at which it was purchased" ;
But what mourning would fill all Britain, {
if every year should behold another (
Waterloo2 But what does every year
repeat in our peaceful land Ours is a
carnage not only exhibited only once in
single field, but going on continually,
in every town and hamlet. Every eye
sees its own woes, every ear catches its
groans. The wounded are too numer-
Gus to count. Who is not wounded by
the intemperanee of this nation9 But
of the dead'we count, year by year, more
than double the number that filled half
Britain with mourning. All, could we
behold the many thousands whom our
destroyer annually delivers over unto
death, collected together upon one field
of slaughter, for one funeral, and one
deep and wide burial-place could we
) behold full assemblage of all the pa
. rents, widows, children, friends, whose
t hearts have been torn by their death,
t surrounding that awful grave, and load
!. ing the winds with tales woe, the whole
: land would cry out at the spectacle. It
: would require something more than "0H
g the glory" and "aH the SOLID adUantqges"
:. of Intemperance, "to reconcile the mind
is to the high price at sUhich they sOere pur-
is chased"
Is But enough is known Of the intempe-
E. rance Of this country to render it unde-
W nlable by the most ignorant inhabitant
Of that horrible scourge is indeed upon US
as Another assertion Is equally unques
, {; tionable. The time has come when a grea
C. effort must be made to ertermiDate thiS un
ar equGlIed destroyer. 1t was high time thi
i'll was done when the first drunkard enter
tie ed eternity to receive the award of Hir
to who has declared that no drunkard shal
en- enter the kingdom of God. The de
lin mand for this effort has been growing i
lg. the peremptory tone Of its call, as tn
gh ''overfowing scourge" has passed wit
de constantly extending sweep through tn
IFS land. But strange apathy has pre-
,ry vailed among US. As if the whole nj
Pc ton had been drinking the cup of deli
nd sion, we saw the enemy coming in like
ne, food, and we lifted up scarcely stra
ON against him. As if the magicians
ion Egypt had prevailed over US by their e.
sal chantments, we beheld our waters of r
ow freshment turned into blood, and d
cie- stroying sword passing through till the
hat was great cry in the land, for the
} in was scarcely "a house where there W
his not one dead ; and still our hearts we
lew hardened, and we would not let go Il
pc great sin for which these plaques we
brought upon us. 1t seems as If sor
ltrY foul demon had taken his seat upon
per- breast of the nation, and was holding
rip down with the dead weight of hor
}, to nightmare, while he laughed at our
COR lamity and Knocked at our fear-wh
It'll a our fear came as desolatlon, and our
We struction as whIrlwind.
ould Shall this state continue? Is not
ores desolaiion advancing? Have not fac
sea ties OF intemperance, temptations 10
seek temperance, examples to sanction inte
into perance, been fast increasing ever si
for this plague began? Without some
ldest fectual effort, is it not certain they
aint, continue to increase, till intempel
de- men and their abettors will form the p
OF be lie opinion and consequently the pu
Id conscience and the public law of
des- land-till intemperance shall beco
dden like leviathan of old, king over all
fam children of PRIDE whose breath kind
aged, Goals, and a fame goeth out of
slain, mouth" Then what will effort of
away avail? 'Canst thou draw out leviat
nd TO with hook? His heart is as firm
n up stone; yea, as hard as a piece of
neither milestone. He drinketh up
lfiic er, and hasteth not. When he raj
they up himself, the mighty are afraid.
their 1T too late to put off any longer
by In effort for deliverance. 1t is granted
t our the common sense, and urged by
with common interest; every feeling of
. pop manity and every consideration of r
mper- ion enforces the belief that the time
10000 come when great onset is imperic
fpub- demanded to drive out intemper
t two from the land.
ctlms, This, to be great, must be uniUerS
rance. The whole country is enslaved; ant
ID you whole country must rise up at once,
J souls an armed man, and determine to be
mt bar OF what lasting avail would it be fo
rance. section of territory, here and the
among clear itself, while the surrounding
IN, but gions should remain under the CT
with The temperance reformation has no
rant is antine to fence out the infected.
%, 600! graphical boundaries are no ba
for the against contagion. Rivers and n
lie sys- tains are easily crossed by corruptin
,,,o~., aponlo rdant cn;r;4. ia. III