Spirit of the age., 1853-05-11


with their Memorials, praying redress from
those grievances, the legislature gravely charg I
es them with g fanaticiSm-wishing to raise
a third party in politics-vith using insul-
ting language, as being intruders," &C.
Shame Shame upon such Legislators !!
Verify q virtuous community will hold them
responsible for such treatment Look out, !
there is another day ahead
A CITIZEN OF YADKIN.
FOR THE SPIRIT OF TIE ACE.
Mr. EDITOR: I beg a small space in your
! paper to notice some of the crackbraincd va
carries Of James r. Thigpen, g the young he
10 CT Edgecombe." In his silly painting az
ter notoriety he roams the wide world over,
talks glibly about Constitutions, Laws, histo-
ry, &c, and yainly imagines he proves every
proposition he starts with, when in fact, he
proves only his own ignorance and folly. If,
as he boasts, he has proven our Order to be,
in his own chaste and classic language, a
" devil made society,"" really [ should like to
know what the proof consists in. Baseless
assertions, unmeaning twaddle about break
ing down the Constitution, taking away the
liberties Of the people and that very express
i've phraiso legal suasion" (do you know, J.
R., how you stultify yourself in putting those
two words together) abound throughout his
lengthy rigmarole; but as for the proof it is
not to be found. j. r. imagines it to be So
consequently it is so. This IS his logic.
To Jas Z, Thigpen and g others Of that
ilk," is due the high honor Of making one of
the grandest discoveries Of modern times
Columbus, Vespucius, Harvey and other
names ofnote, are not to be mentioned in the
same day with them. This greatest discoy-
cry Of the century was certainly and surely
ascertained some twelve or eighteen months
ago. And what, Mr.. Editor, do you suppose
it is Nothing more nor less than that the
, Order Of the Sons Of Temperance is g dev-
il made society,"" that g anti-christ is at the
; bottom Of it j" and that Plus *, ''Pope OF
; Rome, is intimately connected with the move
ment." Here is a discovery which has broken
upon the a8tonished visions of the present
generation with wonder and amazement, and
is destined to hand down the names Of the
: immortal discoverers to a deathless fame
i Sagacious men profound philosophers !
While ordinary minds We're travelling the ey
: cry day roads and bye paths, your searching
: penetrating gintellects went q bowshot beyond
n and brought forth the prodigy. Throwing
y irony aside, JAS. r. DO you really beliey
10 what you profess about our Order, Or is it al
u passion and prejudice? Have you any cyi
II dence Of its being ''devil made ?" If SO
5, why not bring it forward, when you wer
- making your lame attempt to prove an i'm
IL possibility.
e e Have you any evidence that anti-christ Q
~ Plus TX has any thing to do with our Order
- If so let Us see it that we may combat it.
It 1t Don't deal alalways in mere assertions, ground
a. less suspicious and unmeaning sentence
II (which would require the services of Phi
ar 70 y-oA b1l4
~ and exhibit for once in your life some reaso
y! and common sense.
- You have thought proper to allude to our repu
"a ton and character prior to reformation, No ge
Vu emaR would have been guilty of this low persona
ity. We are willing for the world to know ever
thing Of our past conduct and desire tito be contras
he ed with present. samonument to the Whi
he we advocate. We are not the only in Edg
nd combe, by hundred that has dissipated at son
period Of his life There are ministers of the Go
pei, members Of churches, doctors, farmers al
W mechanics within the mi5 of our acquaintance, wi
OF are reformed drunkards, and as worthy citizens
SIS. the cOunsy can boast Of You would have it til
there is something particularly reproachful in ha
ing been once intemperat9. Look around you al
see how many you coant who have been at o
time another OF the ''spewing gentry" He
few OF US in fine, have escaped the sin Of intemp,
ance in some form other. Even Jas. r. Thi
pen, immaculate as he supposes himself to be, h
exhibited the sin of intemparance in his 9 chaify
rl and senseless TRADE against the Sons of Tempe
the ance and when he say he is g reformed nc
tho sensical scrber, viii give him credit for it.
l. give you some idea of the good resulting from
'N0 temperance movement in the United States,
as must inform you that men have been sobered a
". reformed who afterwards reached high poti
vas preferment. A reformed drunkard from Alaba
vas a few years since occupied the proud position
ent Senator IN Congress from th9t state ana was s.
In sequently our Minister to Russia. A reform
IN drunkard from Texas at this time has seat in
0'S United States Senate. We could multiply eGamp
S were it necessary but it ayails nothing to c
lGS- pearls before swine" . sing psalms to dt
< of horse"
ON You and other writer's of the same breed seem
q pride yourselves on your old fogyism,' Posi-
tho you are not aware Of the company you are in
What is old fogyism? Our understanding OF
IO term Is, opposition to all innovation on the T
'ose without stopping inquire whether ii is good
der bad. Well, then. who is the greatest old fogy
pos living? Plus ", Pope of Rome is the
,ann it is who opposes every movement tending to
tho prove the condition of the masses in Europe.
- it was whose government Of classic Italy
""J years since became oppressive that pop,
lar- outbreak caused hin to flee Ais country and
II up his residence with Of his monarch
,un- friends. And but for that hybrid descendant
With the Bonaparte family, Napoleon II, who was
nIor playing FOR the high state Of Emperor Plus =
- all probability would still have been an exile f
'70' the seven hied city Yes, his holiness opposes
was young Americansms, whether religious, politica
NSlC lear OF enligltenlng the nuDllc nnu
owl. thereby weakening his hold upon his power.
ints is particularly hostile to every movement like
rom in which we are engaged. and evidence G
koar fer members Of the Cataoic Church hare dar
eep, A. ns of Ten6erance. So much then far
ligs' fogyism and the company vou are caught in.
t his Spanish maxim, me from my friends "
,ame be most appropos to your condition. Now g
)lace my, you and those OF similar stripe with youl
rise assume to be the peculiar friends of the Cons
tho ton and the bood-bought liberties Of the pc.
s, but Of You in your supreme wisdom
nc deigned to tell us what the Constitution of
llttle c-nment is, what these liberties are From
ID he bent of all your detastabe articles. I would
eople that you were advocate Of the natural la7
lp to advocate Of that wild and savage liberty whe
lows every one to = retain the absolute and ur
tho trolled power Of doing what he pleases." Go
e 49, ment itself is check upon our natural rights
: civil liberty is the natural law so far restrain
= human laws as is necessary and expcdicnt 70