Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-06-15
NO. 40.

upon him and drink his hearts best blood |
that they shall not coeree that boy, whom |
have prayed for, and that he shall have al
least some prospect of coming to usefulness
and responsibility. A man who would catch
a dog and give him rum. deserves to be kick
ed out Of society.
If by their hellish seductions that boy
should become drunkard, then they have
placed in my heart a poisoned arrow that
must tester and rankle there "a woe that
must carry with me to the grave. ask you,
fattur5 TIIoE1feTs II yotf
say to the Legislature, protect US and our
children, not by these conscriDtions oftheus-
ands and tens of thousands every year, but
by wholesome enactments. The gentlemen
who preceded me have said, it is time for
action, action, that shall know no cessation,
til! we have accomplished our purpose
Nothing short of a prohibitory law will reach
this call.
There is no man who has considered the
matter, but what will come to this conclusion.
That question we have to meet, and it must
be disposed of, aud can be, only in one way.
If say anything on the subject directly, |
must speak as an honest man, that it is a
most abominabIe outrage upon the rights of
humanity, and it is singular that Christian
community should tolerate license law, for
the sale of rum, for the consideration of $50,
| believe, in Pennsylvania and SO in New
York. Does that paltry sum amount to the
victims {! What boots it whether my child
or your child is killed by licensed or uuli-
censed rufnseller. The license system is a
gross abomination, conceived in iniquity it
is i loathsome cub and it cannot be licked
into any other shaps whatever. It proceeds
from false assumptions and misrepresenta-
tions.
The Excisemen in New England are al
lowed only to give license when, as they
say, the public good requires it. The pub
lie good requiring man to be licensed to
sell rum! The public good requiring that
woman should go waiIing about your streets
in sorrow-that children should 90 supper
less to bed night after night | wonder
that God does not curse and hate US for such
aOominable hypocricy. have read Nun
chausen, and heard many lies of various de-
grees of enormity, but this is the most bare
faced of them ALL 1t seems to lie sir, sir tEEIIsa thai
the men who urge such notions at this time
OF the day, must have strange idea Of hu.
man nature
Moral suasion Is often suggested as Z
means Of reclaiming the rumselIer as we'll as
the drunkard but what moral influence is
to reach the heart of that man who, when
entreated by female with tears, suppica-
tlons and prayer, not to sell liquor any Ion
ger to husband or child, drives her pitt
lessly from his doors If you discover a
penetrabIe part in that mans bosom, it is a
spring of water hidden in naked, barren
+ desert.
Do not, my friends, be disheartened in
this matter. Go into the battle with the de-
termination to be triumphant, and you will
ind victory perched upon your banners, and
emblazoned there the decree that the world
is to be purged of this curse. call upon
you, as men having human hearts, to exert
yourselves. You are bound by common
claim Of humanity. The declaration has
been sounded out into the universe from the
throne Of God Man may be sunk into the
deepest pits of degradation, may be the off
securing OF humanity, may lie in the mire
aad the cutters .oovqfsed az over with contag.
ion and corruption, aad steePvv. IrIrauny &
/, the very lips; yet he is man. and broth
er, bearing the impress of the Almighty As
sure as there is a God in Heaven, who smiles
upon virtue and frowns upon vice, we shall
! be successful The claims of humanity are
SO mysteriously interviewer, that if one man
t is wounded, all feel the pain.
+ know the time will come when society
II shall be rid of this rum traffic, and the won
!, der will be, that Christian people should
It have suffered it so long Let our watchwofc
: be Chat which Wellington gave his soldier
Il at the. battle of Waterloo, when the tide o
n battle was turning in favor of the Frencl
/ arms, and the English infantry we're com
d fpelled to withstand shock after shock of th
y cnemy's cavalry, Wellington, waiting anx
le iously for the arrival of Butcher before b
le should order charge, at length seeing hi
Id troops fling towards the field of battle, ii
&c stantly cried to bis men, Up. guards, ant
is at them Let our motto be, when we ar
IL ready for the decisive charge, Up, guards
res, and at them 7
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