Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-07-11
From the Crystal Fount.
CADETS OF TEMPERANCE.

ISIhd WHICH the uRfoldlngs OF eternity must
solve. This is, in a superlative sense, The
Augustan Age Time which till now has
stood pale, mute and motionless,' pointing to
the light streaming from the Pharos of the
Anglo-Saxon dynasty, drops its gaunt finger
and exclains Eureka ? Gideon, when des-
patched with an army of two and thiItg
thousand to spoil the hosts os INDIAN, must
needs take his men through the cold acater
test. Three hundred stalwart souls, with
pitcher.and lamp and trumpet, and the watch
word, The sword Of the Lord and Gideon,'
were soon victors. The success had been
typihed in a midnight augury, Behold l
dreamed a dream and 10 a cake of barley
bread tumbled into the host Of INDIAN, and
came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell,
and overturned it that the tent lay along
AS IN the case Of Gideon and his compeers,
organization, next TO faith, is the secret of
success. To organization as much as to mo-
raj energy are we indebted for the stupen-
dous benefactions of our golden age.
The lesson was taught us by our forefath-
ers who now sleep their last sublime sleep
and organization amounts to nothing with
out a pledge. Our noble sires, standing in
the shadow Of the tower of Liberty, pledged
'their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
Honor The fierce conflict that ensued was
fought under the war cry, Give me liberty or
give me death Equally significant is the
} result for which we are marshaling our for
ces.
Next to the moral command of Gods an
] Gent worthy, at the utteranee of which the
sun stood still upon Gideon, and the moon
J in the vally of Ajalon, and hailstones were
) showered from heaven upon Amalek in their
flight towards Bethoron, | know nothing more
tr~anscendently sublime than the moral pow
l er, by which the young heroes of the day,
proclai;u to the tide of intemperance, Thus
u far shalt thou come and no farther Young
guardians of this age of s~uperhuman proper
tons, we bid you welcome within the arcana
of our camping place, where bivouac kings
and worthless Of every age and merit.
u There is a moral grandeur connected with
; the recollection Of Salamis, Marathon, Platea,
d and Thermopylae, when we recall the stern
+ patriotism of those iron-bound heroes who
compelled their gorgeous foes to flee, or bite
the dust ; but that recollection is palsied by
the remembrance that passion animated the
heart, and victory was shrouded in death.
The war waged by the Cadets Of Temper-
9 ance against the Armageddon of the day, is
0 one which despoils the camp of the enemy,
drags the flaming banner from his naughty
pavilion, and enfranchises cohorts and legions
g of his subjects. Nor, let it be presumed fol
H. a moment, that the dimness of the battle
g scene as looked upon by a cold and distrust
y full world, is an ample apology for the stole
S indifference Of the thousands around us. Yol
i too, sires and matrons, with the children Goo
has given you, may suffer by the fierce foray
I'll for the hot-Tipped enemy seeks you as vic
o tins.
y With heart offre and foot ofwind,
ny The fierce avenger is behind
10 To the Cadets of Temperance is assigned
er department of the battle ground ofmoral re
ny form which imposes upon them the highes
duties, and promises to crown them wit
na @laurels Of no common sheen. Clad in a Coz
Mt: Of FURNISHED mail, and begirt with the gil
no tering ~ceinture of Truth, they present to tn
tly eye of the heroic philanthropist, one of tn
ad most commanding speetacles ever witnesse,
her save in the lone instance of the triumphal
of advent of Messiah into the city of David
eve Scattering palm branches in the highway
us truth, and crying 'Hosannah' to- welcome Il
lad victorious reign Of virtue, the mute rocl
"a would speak were w to continue silent.
i'm The minds of these proud, confding, an
the praiseworthy confederates, is steadily onwar
| to Never has their star shone with such unri
ou- allied brilliancy as now. Before it, l m;
ed. say, The Sons The Daughters and 9th
inr adjunct branches, blush and surrender. The
= serried ranks present a compactness and
art. destructibiIty of front rarely equalled. t
ade good order manifested by them is not surp;
/ in sed BY the paTmy days of August Athe
hat and bold legislating Sparta.
but We are proud Of the present generati
,ply of the young, and we live with the cherish
hope, that the scions of our noble ancest
his will yet be constituted a vanguard for t
is blooming Millennium of Temperance refor
trid America has taken higher grounds on t
luct subject than her cotemporaneous sisters. I
clergy, army, navy, professional gentlem
merchants, mechanics, and proud high so
ed yeomanry, give it their sanction. N
teen their sons form a procession clad in VIII
holy stretching from the old patriotic cities of
foughten field to the land of sunset, VIII
cted laves the unclaimed Pacific. Would t
we may soon see that day, and look W
terra that Herculean climax of modern wishes
wo- Ye young gallants Of the noblest mould Of
him modern times, keep your banner to
Iom- breeze and your ewes on the foe. and
promise you a high niche in the temple
and ~victors. Let your length nincr ranks grow
most ger still, even a hundred fold
THwere worth ten years of peaceful life,
avnt One glance at their array
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