Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-05-16
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All persons who have given the subject the
slightest consideration, must have become con-
WINGED that intemperance is an evil reaching
alike the physical, intellectual and moral nature
Of man-an evil that alike destroyes body, mind
and soul-that cnuses disease pauperism, insani-
ty, madness and death-reaching alike the wise
and the ignorant, the rich and the poor, the
learned and ~illiterate, the white and the colored
parents and children, masters and servants
Can good citizens then, as patriots, philanthro-
Pists. and christians, see society the prey ofan evil
more terrible than the pestilenee that walks in
darkness, or the plague that wastes at MONDAY.
and make no effort to stop its onward progress,
or save their fellow-men from its fearful rava-
gesi If you love your country. home, religion,
morality, social order, and domestic happiness
if you love your neighbors friends, wives and
children, we appeal to you by oil the power of
that love to unite with us in exerting every pow
er of body, mind, soul and spirit to roll back the
mighty food tide of intemperanee from our be-
loved country.
But to Parents especially, the natural guar
dians Of the. rising generation, would we appeal.
Can you. beloved friends. while witnessing the
destructive rayages made upon society by the
use of sPirituous liquors, remain inattentive to
the best interest Of your children While you
behold the most promising tslents of our coun-
try whitening under the blast of this moral pes
tilenec-while you see the besotted husband deaf
to the entreaties of his affectionate wife, and un-
moved by the cries and tears Of his beggared chill,
dren-while you see honor, character, prospect.
, ty, friends, health and life-all, all-sacrifced
upon this unhallowed altar, and remember toe
that for all these things God will bring the drank
ard into judgement; viii You be persuaded tc
adopt in regard to your rising offspring such
course of instruction and discipline as may prom
, Use the most e~ffeetual safeguard against thes,
evils2 Let your children often hear from you
r lips and constantly read in your lives that 20,
? consider drunkenness not only a brutal depar
. ture from nationality, but q heinous sin agains
a holy God. And let them see and know tina
, you view the habitual use of spirituous liquors
q as the most easy. least suspeetiye and most cer
tain course to habitual drunkenness. Let then
n often hear and know from unquestionable evi
e denee, that you regard grog shops and rum he'll
e and places of drunkenness, as hot-beds of vice
$ nurseries of disease, sinks of sin, and as the brOa
road to poverty, reproach, disgrace, infamy an
eternal death. Impress upon their minds tha
no natural or acquired talents-elevation {
d birth-rank-or station, can hide the horrid d.
formity Of intemperance, or screen its haple.
subject from merited ignominy. Point you
growing son to the forlorn widow and destitut
orphan. Tell him, that woman once had a hu
band, that orphan a Father-that he was on'
is temperate, once sober. once afectionate. but tn
O. the habitual use Of strong drink transformed IL
husband and father into q demon and his hou
into a he'll. Warn him to dread the social gla
m or flowing bowl, as he would the breath of Il
pestilence, or the stroke of lightning.