Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-11-02
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Progress Of Iniuuity.

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q P%lttsburg paper. IL is one of a series con-
tributed over the signature of "IoN,"-read
itforsterna and impregnable arguments against
the liquor traffic, and for its graphic and pow
erful style. Read it, and be convinced that
no greater curse than that of intemperance
can aflict and degrade our eountrymen.
"Next comes the a." Rumseller," 1.-THE faith
erof the Simpsons Of iniquity, intemperance,
with the eighty-four millions Of distilled dam
nation, sold per amman in the United States.
Stand up thou brOw-branded, Cain-like
Rumseller Stand up before the bar of pub
lie opinion and hear the charge bring against
thee" Thou art n murderer, n murderer
above the laws" / have proved this charge
from his own infamous books on the art Of
adulteration Of liquors, and will prove il
again. / have proved it by analysis of his
liquors, made by scientific men, by the Rum
sellers own testimony, and by 4 cloud of
witnesses and will prove it again. Would
you have more testimony Thon let the de-
parted visit the green earth again.
roakthcturfabove your moulderinr homes
We host Of druukards-shake of the grave
dust from your crumbling brows, and stalk
into court in your tattered shrouds and bony
wilderness, and testify against him. Saw un-
10 him, rs Nathan said unto the royal MUIR
dercr, thou art the man. Come down from
the gallOws, thou rum-maddcned manslaver.
grip the bloody knife again and stagger into
court, and testify against him. Say unto
him, a. Nathan said unto the royal murder
or, "thou art the man."
Crawl from the Shiny ooze, thou drowned
drunkard victim, and, with suffocation's blue
and livid lips, testify against him. Make
way for that frost-stifsned corpse there
IT'S the drunkard's wife driven from her
friends 10 die in the snow storm. Let the
r.. 49, ,, Lor ,nIa oHI ;,. .LzaI- TT
against him. Break thy seal ofsilence. thou
unrelenting past, and let the shrieks and
groans Of his dying victims come back, wall
ing down on the night winds TO testify against
him. Unroll and read, thou recording Angel,
the murder indictment against him, which
thou hast written in tho book of Gods Re-
membranco, to testify against him. Snap
your burning chains, We spirits damned by
alcohol, all shceted in fire and dripping from
the blazing waves of hell, and TESTIFY against
him, plead, plead like angels rumpet-tongued,
against the deep damnation Of your taking off.
Good made man in his own image, in the
image Of God created he him" Who, with
impious and polluting hand, defaces the i'm.
age and superscription Of his Maker, and
stamps him with the counterfciting die of
the Devil2 Alcohol. Man by nature walks
erect-lifts his forehead to the stars-powcr
and dominion have been given to him over
all the creatures Of the earth-he is natures
king. Who breaks his sceptre ofauthority-
takes from him his imperial crown, and de-
grades him below tho brute? Alcohol. Who
destroys his reason, hides her bright beams
in the mystic clouds that roll around the
shattered temple Of the soul curtained in
midnight Alcohol. Who pollutes his heart,
and robs it Of every noble and generous emo
ton? Who makes him n mailman, and then
lashes and halloos on the mad pack of his
yilest passions? Alcohol. Who fills our iails
with %fclons, and hangs yon trembling wretch
upon the gallows? Alcohol. Who crowds
our aims houses with pNupers, our hospitals
with disease, and our grave yards with death ?
Alcohol.
If you arc q father, do you want to see
your children ragged and dirty and ignorant,
growing up young candidates for the peni-
Tertiary and gallows ? Drink liquor. If you
are n son, and want to pay with black ingrat-
itude the debts you owe to your parents and
bring down their reverend gray hairs with
sorrow to the grave, drink liquor. If you
arc u husband, and you want to steal all the
beauty from your sweet wife's face-break
her heart-make her wretched and perfectly
miserable, drink liquor. Do any Of you want
to lose the property you have gathered to-
gether by the sweat Of your brow, as a home
for your wife and little ones, and n retreat IL
old age? Drink liquor. Do any OF you wan
to work for the devil and find yourselves, OF
got paid off in the wages ofsin which is death
Drink LIQUOR. IL you want to pay q higl
premium for being poisoned, drink liquor
If YOU want to bid an eternal farewell to you
freedom, and be q greater slave than wa
ever dashed Mt night to his dungeon, drinI
liauor. If YOU want to exchange n health,
BODY, so f~earfully and wonderfully made, TO
n disease-eursed frame, that o demon woul
scorn To inhabit, and the soul quit in disgust
drink LIQUOR. II you want to blast with dis
ease your body, from head to heel-swecI
every line where manly beauty fingers, an
early heap the clay upon n foul mass of col
r%uption, more disgusting than the leprosy {
John and Namann, or the sores OF Lazarus
drink liquor. If you want to go to the grav
"unwept, unhonored, and unsung," and IL
inramy there spread its sable plume, an
fling its blackness DER n drunkard's toni
drink bod Observation-Disclosures liquo
More than fifty thousand drunkards d
every wear i'm the United States, from the d
rect effects Of alcohol. This is no loose CUES
ALWAYS stick to my text, and fire close
the mark. whom | drive in an argument
clcnch il with u proof. / base my estlma
upon the other estimate Of old king Alcoh
himself. | have q list of one hundred NJ
thirty. five men who died regular drunkar'
in tho short period Of sixteen years, in n
native county, and the lower edge of t
next county in Maryland. In my list a
minister's. -class-leade rs-doctors-lawye
planters. farmers, mechanics and laboTers.
In my native county, one hundred and twcl
men died regular drunkards in sixteen yea
seven per annum, or one for every four hu
dred and forty-four Of the population at t
same rate our present population OF twen'
three millions give US hlty-one thousa
drunkards killed every year in the Unit
States by tho direct effects of Alcohol, to &
nothing Of the indirect effects of liquor
producing diseases aud shortening the
Rod Of human life. .
Fifty-one thousand men, (morc than di
at CANINE or Waterloo,) killed every year
the United States by Alcohol. "He II
hath ears to hear let him hear" and let Il
awfnLhgured fact fall on his startling c
like the solemn warning Of n death KIN,
and let each say for his souls sake, &C
God, shield, oh shield me in the hour
temptation from the fiery sting of Alcoh
OH let me not die the death Of the drul
ard, let not my last end be like his. l.
the deadly simeon that sweeps across
desert, blighting and blasting all before
path, the more deadly simeon of alec
sweeps over our beautiful land, and the h
aud the low, and the proud and the hum
have all withered and died beneath its bu
ING breath. Like broad streams of mol