Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-04-06

OLSC1dILu6T u bIlG LQ1OOE " lit AonfllIC 0pCS-
tator, of any disposition to injure the cause =,
of Temperance by endorsing the fallacious Il
position, concerning the use of intoxicating h,
drinks, that the proper use of them is " mod Il
ing the article objected to by us, being to a.
give publicity to the wholesome suggestions L
it contained aboutgluttony and tobacco chew ell
ing" Of the Incorporate" character of our O
former structures, as he sees proper to call
them, we leave others to say and judge, and e
shall therefore pass has +" false and baseless '
accusations " by unnoticed, but will call his 9
attention to the following additional moroccan F.,
from this ~articleof wholesome suggestions" I
and ask whether this, as we'll as the extract
we made from it some weeks ago, has refer
ence to /" gluttony and tobacco" alone?
There is another inconsistency in the ad-
vocates of this so called temperance. We
believe that there is as much sin committed
every day by the immoderate use of tobacco
and undue indulgence in eating, as by exces-
sive use of spirituous liquors. The scrip
lures, while they expressly, in divers parts,
recommend wine as healthy and nutriciOus.
are equally strong in insisting on temperance
as essential, during our temporary probation
on earth, to eternal happiness hereafter
Temperance it will be obscrved-not absti-
nence. And by temperance is meant mode
! ration in all things. He who gorges himself
on the luxuries of the table till both mind and
body are disqualified for the proper perform
ance of their respective functions, disobeys
the divine command, though his name may
" be signed to a dozen total abstinence pledges.
: We admit the truthfulness and business of
,f all that is said in the article against ''glutto-
If ny and tobacco" but we deny, emphatically
,r and positively, the abominable insinuation
# that " the scriptures recommend the moder-
ate use of wine as a beverage, and as essential
at toman's happiness here andhereafter! That
is the issue we make-will the Editor of the
m Spectator attempt to sustain this position
clandestinely assumed in the article referred
no to? We do not believe he will and we take
i'm occasion here to say, after reading the dis
i'd claimer of the Spectator, that we do not be
ith lieve its Editor carefully examincdth articl,
ful before admitting it to his columns-had h
done SO, it would probably not ~haveappeare,
- and we arc now free. to believe him clea
0s- of any intention to give the cause of Temper
ON ance "a stab in the dark, though we bcliev
the article we'll calculated to do so by its Sc
lev phistry and double-meaning.
ar, How different the tendency ofsuch article
ess as the following, which we have found copie
sr; into two of the political papers of the Cit
no. the, Register and Standard. Here is
LII .1--4 IL. .J.uJ ...
the alcoholic beverages. 1t is an extract
speech made by Edward Bains, of .
nen a member Of Parliament:
up The peculiar danger of Intoxicating drink
ers, is in their extreme seductiveacss, and in q
ans but unconquerable strength Of the drinkir
tho habit when once formed and their peculi;
malignity is intheir being the parent or nur
of every kind of crime, wickedness and ST
OF fering.
our l say boldly that no man living who US
ind Intoxicating drinks is free from the dang
Of at least occasional, and if of occasion,
the known such frightful instances of perso
brought into captivity to the habit, that the
-our seems to be no character, position, or circul
e. stances that free men from the danger.
have known young men of the finest prom
5els' led by the drinking habit into vice, ruin a
ana early death. | have known such become '
tual paricides. / have known many tradesm
.oin whom it has made bankrupt. | have know
- Sunday scholars whom it has led to prise
| have known teachers, and even superinte
~ dants. whom it has dragged Down to profis
= cy. | have known ministers of religion,
Ilous and out of the establishment. of birh aca,
pro- mic h%onors, of splendid eloeuence, ave,
5. as vast usefulness, whom it has fascinated a
hurried over the precipice of public infau
with their eyes open, and gazing with horl
8 OF on their fate. | have known men Of
ASA strongest and clearest intellect, and of Wig
had Gus resolution, whom it has made veal
than children and fools.
have known gentlemen ofrefnement a
WINS, taste whom it has debased into brutes.
here have known poets of high genius whom it
O 70 bound in a bondage worse than the gale
and ultimately cut short their days. | ha
anu known statesmen, lawyers, and Judges VIII
encr- it has killed. have known kind husbar
70 ex- and fathers whom it has turned into m
sters. | have known honest men whom it
made villains. | have. known elegant s
hriS' Christian ladies whom it has converted i
/, the bloated sots.
.assa- Is it not notorious that under the rava
OF drunkenness the land mourns ? Thi
;ono is which, may almost say exclusively
-. our prisons, our work houses, our lunatic a
luuho ouI luis VI pOlluGlOu, anu our nCSpiJf
vote. which causes most of the shipwrecks, fl
and fatal accidents, crimes, outrages, and suici
;+u that load the columns of our newspape
= which robs numberless children of a parel
tanos fondness; which strips thousands of home
lords every comfort, deprives scores of thousa
of children Of education, and almost Of br
r. and turns them on the street; which lea
III. SO many places ofworship almost empty,
ohioi SO many Mechanics Institutes languishi
7 the whilst the pop-houses are crowded wi
pared brings down it is estimated) sixty thous
re- of our population every year to a drunka
~ grave!
mus And of all the victims of intemperance
which it remembered, there is not one who did
The begin by moderate drinking, or who had
remotest idea when he began, that he shc
be led to excess.
s- Foorf,l &C
criminate use of poisonous drugs, the .,
inc lar will interdicts their sale by charlei