Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-01-21
REGARD.

1t Is a little astonishing, how fearful rum-seI-
ers and rum-drinkers are, that the friends of
Temperance viii make some mis-step, which will
result IN injury to the cause, and in lessenino
the influence they viii have upon the communi.
ty. They are very fearful, that if the Temper.
ance men attempt to enlighten public opinion
upon the odiousness Of the Liquor license traffic.
that it will prove greatly detrimental TO the
progress Of the reform they are endeavoring to
bring about. Pious. good souls, how consider.
ate they are. We may preach against intemper.
ance as much as we please-we may hold MP the
example of the abandoned, profigate wretch
whom they have robbed and turned out penni-
less and ruined upon the world-we NAV d.
pict the horrors of the drunkards home. and tbs.
tattered habiliments and squalid poverty Of his
wife and children, as much as we hke-aIl Til.
Is well enough but we must not remove the
screens from the doors of their rum holes in
order that the public may gaze in upon all the
black enormities which are daily and nightly
carried on there. Oh, mol don't do that, you'll
lnjure yourselves. Don't talk about asking an
awakened and indignant community 10 declare.
against these licensed colleges for graduating
their victims in the degrees of drunkenness and
crime. Don't we beseech you, don't-you'l ruin
your cause. NPrecious advisers, these how dear
Ely they havethe cause Of Temperance at hearth
Such has beer the hypocritical can't Of the
r'm-selling friends Of Temperance, To- these
many years. We begin to find now where the
shoe Plnches. They know that as long as their
traps and gins are allowed to be established in
every street and on every corner, to ensnare the
unwary and inexperienced, they can pull down.
iaster than we can build up-that they can ruin
and destroy, faster than we can reform and r..
generate. While they can with impanitv nav
WIN the law to back them, hold out the temp.
uEg oalt, they feel sure of their prey-and
thus with the boldness and heartlessness of de.
mons do they 60 forth in the execution of their
hellish purposes.
We 60 for correcting this evil in the land.
and we believe the most efficient way Of annlv.
Ing this corrective and getting rid of those dens
OF infany, grog shops, is to awaken and arouse
Puoic sentiment IN sucn manner as to render in
diligence disgraceful. When this shall be efFec.
ted, when the drunkard shall be regarded not
only as an enemy to himself, but to the vell-be-
Ing OF the community, and as an unfit and uD-
safe depository of public trusts, then, and not
TIL then, will the reform at whieh We aim he
accomplished. To this end, we shall 'ery aloud
and spare not against all tipping shops, in
Whatever guise they may appear, believing them
to be, as we dc, the foulest blot apon the ea-
cutcleon Of Christian Nation. We shall deal
IN no lnVectlYe or personal denuAciation. On
the contrary, we would feign win the distiIler
asd grog vender from the error of their way, an
Well as their unfortunate victim bat we shall
hold up the traffic, in all its enormity, to the
public gaze, hoping thereby to create a whole
some reform in public sentiment, both as to
their establishments and utility. If our Rum
selling friends feel agrieved at this, let them an
peal to the same tribunal, and we will each test
TIE virtue OF our cause as TO whether they ara
needed and desired by the People,