Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-16


in Raleigh previous to the ad-
journment of the Legislature, passed series
Of resolutions, recommending that each coun'
ty should bold Temperance Conventions and
appoint Delegates to the District Temper
ance Convention, and also to the State Tenn
perance Convention, which is to again assem-
BILE in Raleigh. Now, Mr. Editor, without any
presumption on my part in recommending
the following resolution, earnestly and
sincerely hope, that either this or some SINH
lar resolution will be adopted by each Coun-
ty Temperance Convention previous to the
appointment of Delegates. by the District
Temperance Conventions, and also by the
State Temperance Convention; thereby ma
king it a general thing throughout North
Carolina. The resolution is as follows
ReSolved, That we will support no man,
either directly or indirectly, for the General
Assembly of North Carolina, who is opPo-
sed to abolishing the sale of ardent spirits,
as beverage, by law /; for the reason that
we conceive the abolition of the traffic in hu-
man blood and crime, to be Of more impor-
tance to the people of North Carolina, than
all parties combined.
1 If the different Conventions will pass some
resolution similar to this, and stick up to it
in the election next year, we will have one of
the ablest legislatures that ever assembled
in Raleigh, and in addition to that, we will
have one OF the best and most republication
laws that was ever enacted by our noble old
State.
This Communication will, by no means, be
!. we'll received by the politicians ofour State,
! but nevertheless they treated rs with con
tempt in the last Legislature and thereby
, merited one even more rasping than this ol
5 any that can pen. We have hitherto been
doing all we could for the politicians, anc
. think it is high time that they were making
= some grateful reward for our support, in th(
{ shape of law for our interest and happi
r ness. If the politicians will not vote us 1
rrohibitory law, we will not vote them to th'
Legislature but select those whose patriot
ism and philanthropy towers above theirvan
ity and self-love and who are willing t
r, sacrifice their own political life for the ad
O vancement of their country's good. How
o beautiful it is to contemplate the patriotic
n struggles through which we will have t
/ pass and by which our beloved Carolina vii
Y be ransomed and redeemed from the thra1
i dom of intemperance The ineffable jo
O and satisfaction which we shall receive iron
II the approval of that inward arbitor, an un
II erring conscience will more than comper
Il safe us for the tolls and abors through whic
, we will have to pass in the accomplishment
d. of our great and glorious object. When W
1t contemplate the proud reflection, that. whe
< We are no more, a grateful posterity will RI
le member us as their delivercrs from the bligh
ct ing curse with which We are now unhappil
" SUR rounded we feel that we are ten thou
le and times rewarded for the efforts which "
H. have made in their behalf. Let US then OF
Is ward, in our noble career of freedom, not OF
b. ly until North Carolina is redeemed, but u
IN til every Star of the beautiful and subliu
rh galaxy which constitutes our Union, shall
th redeemed from the infamous and relentle
rs influences Of rumdom. When we shall con
I'd off from this battle as conquerors, with O
by bloodless weapons, We will justly feel prou
ch er than Cicero did, when. by his sagaci
and influence, he saved his country, the
ch man Republic, from the tyranny of Catalir
at nay. even prouder, fit were possible, tn
: Washington himself when he was hailed
Of. his contemporaries and remembered by p,
af. terity as the " Father of his Country"
,st INVINCIBLE.
,al Pleasant Hill, n. C. Feb. 26th 1858.