Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-11-03

murderer, eager for the dime, presents tho "a
tai potion, courage fails, the victim tastes
me drinks, and goes home drunk and dir
y We pass over the occurrences of the
,llgh1,-otten sad and appalling indeed
Dus the morning comes-fnds reason again
ehthroned, -and, with languid body, and
safery 81 Sas FBliitE eQasieuee-thc
lBsethren and friends, in such cascs,-and
there are many of them, the law must save,
or those men are doomed TO the drunkard's s
grave and the drunkard's hell
How many worthy citizens of our coun-
try, would stain their hands in the blood of
their fellow men, if there were always a IL
censed dime hunter ready to hand them the
deadly weapon at the moment of angry ex.
element? But the occasion passes by, so.
Der thought returns. and they thank their
God that they were found unarmed, and thus
were saved from the guilt and wretchednesS
of shedding human blood.
And, when God has said be sober and
when our fellow-citizens, under an excite
ment, encouraged by legal enactment, and
more maddening than wrath itself, f,-are mur-
dering themselves and others by thousands,
should not the people assert their right and
their might, through the efectual medium
of law, to take away the dreadful weapons
with which this work of murder is being car
ried on? Let every friend of humanity raj
" to the rescue All can help, and none
who can do even the least to advance the
cause, may innocently withhold his hand
The God who made US, both by the law of
our being and by the laws of our religion,
has called men to sobriety; and every man,
and especially every christian, should exert
himself to remove whatever may obstruct
the path of duty
Among the monsters of Legislative pater-
nifty, none is more wonderful than the III
cense-la That such an excresence should
have sprang from such source, is wonder
tul indeed. But there is one great wonder,
and certainly only one; it is this, that,
after all the mischief which has resulted
from the license-law, and after all the shame
less abuse that have been practiced upon it,
the people have still suifered'it to be contin-
ued This is marvellous indeed. The
deeds of darkness, the midnight and day
light scenes of yillany and death, which have
been sheltered under this law, cannot find
utterance in words they live, and can on
sanetSss5 ,ys 81 6 feeling 5hsy @ deFy desdFiPtoa
1t is truly marvellous that this offspring of
the pit has not met its deserved fate at the
hands Of the sovereign people, and been blot
ted from the statutc-books Of The land long
since.
But there IS yet another wonder involved
in the subject before US. And a great won
der it is,-inYolYing interests high as heav-
en- and deep as the second death. 1t is
wonder for the people to decide, and deci-
aed, it viii tell the story of this nation'sf fate
Let all ponder the question, if, after all the
evil that has been done, and with all the light
that is now shed upon the subject of temper
ance, the people of this land will still allow
their servants, the law makcrs,-to impose
this heaven daring law upon US, aud sustain
the nefarious liquor trade Shall few
mistaken money seekers in every section of
the country, still be tempted by the rro0is-
I-isssas-l.f lar to -become the plundercrs and
says it? Not one. Who says nay Every
one. Amen. So mote it be! Selah.