Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-11-17
GAitnr'a CurrFapndArurr.

look mUo our large budget OF correspondence
had accumulated during our absence,
until the last few days. Among them we
find letters that should have been inserted
several weeks ago, and would have been had
we been at home. So many of them 5eingon
hand now, however, we are not able to give
them az ~ertepso, and must therefore content
ourself with brief extracts from each. Ed.
A highly esteemed friend and Brother gives
us a cheering account of Bro. S.. NJ. Hewletts
visit to Camden County. Hesays: BRO. H.
made one of the finest efforts here it has ever
been my good fortune to listen to. He held
his audience spelLbound for an hour and a
half, and think l hazard nothing in saving,
he gave better satisfaction than any Lecturer
that has preceded him in our county. 1t is
seldom we meet with one so well calculated,
in all respects, to please his audience and adj
vance the cause Oftempcrance. His original
lty OF style, his great powers of mimicry, his
bursts of eloquence, and entire freedom from
all improper illusions, will ever make him a
pleasing and efficient lecturer, and a vel
come visitor wherever he goes. l believe his
visit here will eventuate in much good to the
Order.
Another brother writing from Camden CO.,
says:
"Bro HewIett's chief theme was the liquor
traffic, and he handled it in a mastery manner.
Could a good physiognomist have seen the
faces of the opposition when he advocated leg
%islation, ! think they would have pa zzled him
for they were tied upin knots but his deep
reasoning, pathetic appeals and racy anecdotes
soon brought a broad smile from all, UNFINISHED
and smoothed out the faces of opponents. and
every thing went off we'll Nav North Carroll
ma soon wash from her escutchcon the foul stain
of drunkenness. So mote it be-"
Another Brother, writing from Elizabeth
City, gives a glowing account of Bro. Hew-
let's visit to that place, from which we make
the following extract:
can event has just past which we conf
IDENTIFY expect will be spoken of with raptur-
GUS delight by our dear little children, long
after we have been gathered to our mother
earth.
Bro. S. ". Hewlett, in all his native great
ness has been in our midst to the utter dis
comfture ofBacchus and his adherents. Ne
thinks the very sound Of his name will cause
the accursed tyrant to tremble upon his sa-
bic throne. Every friend of temperance in
this community, be he Son" or not, occ1-
pies precisely the same ground. His afable
and gentlomanly demeanor, his unrivaled zeal
In the Temperance cause and his intellectual
ability, all combine to endear him to the
hearts Of those who nave seen and heard
him; and the pleasing recollection of his Wis
it to this place will follow US all for many
long years to come"
A Brother in Williamson, Martin county,
says they have recently had q visit from Bro.
j.. G. Fethian I" one Of the original sixteen
who founded our Order" This is a mistake.
The names of the original 16 are as follows ::
d. II. Sands, J. w. Oliver, VIM. B. Temp
kins, James Bale, Edward Brusle, /. j. OH
yer, Thomas Edgerly, George McKibbon,
Joseph K. Barr, Thos. Swenarton, Z. W.
Wolfe, j. IL. Elliott, John McKeller, John
Holman, Henry Lloyd, E. L. Snow. Bro.
f. may have come in among the first after
the formation on the 29th Sept, 1912, which
we presume is what he meant Bro T. favored
our friends at Williamson with two address
es, which greatly encouraged and invigoTated
them. We quote from our Correspondent
letter as follows
eve have nailed our flag to the mast
head, and are determined to keep it there,
however boisterOus and stormy the atmos-
phere is, in the latitude which we sail. We
now bid our adversarles arouse in the gran
deur of their might, and continue their rage
and madness, we feel confident of securing
their services, as pilots or h~elmsmen, and per-
haps some learned one, may become the nav
igator on board Of our noble ship, in the cause
Of all mankind. We have always had a
rough passage here; the compass at times
would scarcely traverse. The rills have beer
kept muddy the mind of the community has
been thickly envelopod with prejudice: but
! - .p-L--4zl l.J.o.- $1,000 l. L. H.
sing, perhaps by the influence of letters anC
productions from q fellow townsman, whose
puny efforts have fallen on the community
like the idle wind. We fear not the predic
tons, the ISLANDERS and calumnies that have
been heapod on us, and we envy no man hi
happiness, who, in his anxiety for earthly re
Enown, should become so forgetful Of the du
ty he owes his fellow man, as to condescent
to low denunciations, in trying to traduce on
noble Order. We say We fear him not, w
envy him not. What will become of tn
moral and religious reforms Of which the az
is 50 pecu liarly marked, if Orators, Divine
and Philanthropists are engaged in their di
fercut callings with an eye single to their ow
renown in building temples to be dedicate
to themselves and if no moral philanthropy
ic effort was made to reclaim unfortunat
Imam; ifthe public good were lost sight o
and self was predominant? Would we al
t~icipate the evils coexistent with such a coursC
Let the curtain be drawn aside, and let I'll
light of reason be permitted to enter, and v
would have a picture that would beggar d
scription; no man could tell the history
its woes. What destroy the Order of Il
Sons Of Temperance! and bid all indulge
the good creature without any one to raj
his voice against the demon, alcohol? TT
o. minds eye cannot take in the countless mi
cries Of its motley train no human art c;
? put into this picture shades dark enough
= exhibit the truth"
nGA- 4 faithful, unyielding Temperan
man Oh. A. W. residing in q lark corn
in Johnston county, gives US a gloomy
count of the progress Of Temperance prin
pies in his region. He says the cause n,
and again enlists new advocates, and dark
is the prospect now, he does not despair
seeing a prosperous Division of the Sons the
The superintendent of the School refused
use of the School house to hold Division me
ings in, and the Church was refused a Prea,
h. err to lecture on Temperance. Our corr
mas pondent gives the old soakers some pre-