Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1850-09-13

mangled. He was intoxicated, and in at V
tempting to get on the cars, made amisstep, d
and fell under the wheel with his arm across a
the track, which was crushed at the elbow to 7
atoms. We saw him with streaming blood,
the mangled limb shaking by his side, and
with bitter lamentations, as he ran back to
the house at which he had secured the ac-
cursed beverage. saw the proprietor stan
ding at the door, when the young man en-
tered his yard, and instead of taking him in
to his house, and kindly administering to his
relief, so far as he might have been able, he
peremptorily forbade his entrance, and COM
PEELED him to remain in the yard, bleeding
and crying that he was ruined. At this
time rode up, and told them that it was
shameful conduct and that they ought to
take care of him. After while they sent
him home in an old cart. felt Indignant
at such cold hearted inhumanity. But is
not this an instance of ordinary character, !
when compared with other instances connec-
ted with the traffic? The other instance to
which l referred as of frequent occurrence,
is this. Many lives have been lost on our
waters by steamboat explosions and they
frequently occur through negligence, and in
, all such cases, is not the Captain or proprie-
tor of the boat in the eye of the civil law, a
murderer? Are not Captains of steamboats,
: often arraigned and tried before the bar of
their country for neglect in such cases? Sup
pose the Captain Of boat puts on more
steam than is allowed, or than the boiler can
bear, and an explosion takes place, is he not
: held as a murderer, even in the absence of
, civil law? Would he not be considered as
e such, even liquor dealers " themselves being
n judges?' Even if his passengers in an ex-
T cited moment, should request him to force
/ his boat, he is by no means relieved. | have
J, no doubt but liquor venders have condemn
d ed the course of such men frequently, as
" murderers. Self interest almost invariably
l. prompts such men, on our seas and rivers,
d and they ought to be held accountable
n Now is the relation which liquor dealers sus
r. tain to the sixth commandment, less criminal
n than in the case of those men referred t.
n above? Certainly not. Are they not neg
le lectful and Indifferent, respecting the life o
n, the poor inebriate? Yea, does he not sci
s. him the very poison by which he is depri
n. we'd of his life? The only difference be
I'd tween the destructive conduct of the propri
n, etor OF steamboat, and the proprietor of
tn liquor establishment, is this, one hurries il
ne MOMENT, a multitude into eternity, an
Sc the other DRAGs a multitude of unhapp
no creatures for a number of years through tn
. streets of the city of vice and woe and the
IN, buries them in the potter's fed. With II
m ference to the violation of the sixth con
ne mandment, l would say to the liquor dea
IN er as Nathan said to David: thou art IL
he man.
en- Not only is the traffcer connected direc
lln ly, but indirectly, with the violation of tn
this assertion is, that they deal out to the
I'd, fellow men a beverage, under the inAuen'
lost of which, they are induced to commit mu
suf der in the most horrid form Paracide, fl
es trieide, infanticide, and homicide; all, q
as have grown out of the traffic in ardent sp
nd its. A drink is administered by the vend
led, to his fellow mortal, by which he is made
rer. most a. demon incarnate, and wife, childre
that father, mother, friend, have fallen under t
i'm. death dealing stroke Of his arm, and at
tain feet lay weltering in their blood. Go
ON your Court Houses, and behold that pa
ven- miserable, haggard person, as he stands
rd the bar of his country-gaze upon him as
e so is compelled to listen to the rehearsal of
only bloody Deeds committed during fit of dr.
son. kenness, and ask how came he there.
t af- to the gloomy prison, and behold its unh
run py inmates, awaiting the day of their exc
Iriah ton, and ask the cause of their wretchedn
ties, and woe. Go to the spot of execution, {
r. behold that doomed culprit, and ask /
:, by why he stands beneath the disgraceful
| not lows; and all will freely acknowledge, t
muir it was through the influence of the trat
eller that they were degraded and ruined. I
that there comes up voice from beneath the I
r did erable gallows, in sepulchral tones, al
riah, butte my most unfortunate, and intensely
d by graded end, to the use of Intoxicating
ven quors but l was deluded the bar ro
aDiA the grog shop has ruined me. When l
he tered the vender's establishment, and pla
ofan the sparkling beverage to my lips, witt
alton unsuspecting heart, twas then, | got u
It he the stream which glided away slowly;
ender might then have been resisted but s
when ah, very soon, l was borne off with ra
stom- and accelerated velocity, and now I al
,kets, bout to plunge the gulph of death, and
fers. soon be furiously dashed against the ro
love that lie concealed under its awfully agiti
# hui bosom, and must float an eternal wreck
S per- on the boundless ocean of fire.
from 0, Liquor Dealer, have you not cal
s pc your fellow mortal to drink deep, whe
drinking, he has been the murderer of t
which whom he loved? 'Tis unnecessary to ]
A few to prisons, poor houses, which have
: Rail filled by the murderous acts of drunka
lntry, Enough has been said to show, that the
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