Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-10-11
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thy bottle to him and makest him drunken - |
That the number of deaths occasiened bv
using alcoholic drinks Is great, cannot be
doubted. Men, therefore, who with the know
iedge of these facts before them, will continue
10 drink 2, to make it. to sell il. and to rent
Ouildlngs 10 be used for the selling of IT,. are
gully OF aiding in the destruction other fel.
low men; and INJECTING deep and lasting in
jury on the community; and will be held ac-
countable at the bar of Him who hatl, said.
vengeance IS mine, will repay
Inc vendors and makers OF spirits. in the
Whole range of them, are fairly chargable, mott
eonly with supplying the appetite for spirits,
put with making the unnatural appetite; not
only with supplying the drunkard with fuel for
ms wees. but with making the drunkard And
they viii be held responsible. accordino 10
their influence, for lis effccta Also from the |.
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at its will and uses them as ;ts sIa,, 'Psrse
blinds the understanding, sears the conse; IL
pollutes the affections, hardens the baart
sizes and ruins all the powers of the sorI pa,
totally efaces every good that is in TN bnn,as
breast. All therefore who continue to Gsa "a
as beverage, who furnish it by sale or othesA,
wise, are accessory 10 the continuance of the |
use oft, and are aiding in increasing the wick
edness, augmenting the guilt. and perpetuating |
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they are following up an employment which |
from beginning TO end is immoral, vicious, |
Destructive; and those who know its effects. |
and continue in the practice of it, are Treas
urlng up wrath against the day of wrath, and |
the revelation of the righteous Judgment of |
Cod 1t is said by some that it is not the |
making or selling of it that dues the harm or
mischief, 1T is the drinking of it. But YOU who |
think SO, must remember that it is princi- |
pie IN law, that the accessory ard The per-
petrator in the commission OF a crime are
both guilty. Men have been hanged for vio-
lating this principle. The same rule applies
to the laws of God. Now you that make it |
ana sell 1T are accessory to mans getting |
drunk on it. Some say that if don't make |
1t or sell 1t, somebody else will men will |
nave 1t and why not have the profits of it |
as we'll as others? So the murderer NAV say. |
But because somebody else will commit a |
crime, is that any reason why should p
Some VIII say that it is voluntary act in a
man to get drunk and if he chooses to get
intoxicated and injure himself, it is none of
my business. That it is voluntary act in
many cases may be true; but it is as really
wicked to injure man through his own vol
untary agency, as it is in any other way. It
is wicked to induce or to tempt men to iniure
themselves, or to aid them in doing it. And
all who make, sell or drink alcoholic drinks.
are inducing anu tempting their fellow.men
to do so also; and shedding an influence on
all around them, which will not die with
them.
Long after Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
was dead, Jehovah declared that he would
bring sore and distressing calamities on the
nst791 ne %5ud Sf P5sEas for the sins Of Jeroboam
as their own; but they would be punished
for yielding TO his influence, and following
his example. Now, my kind reader, if you
have anything to do with Alcoholic drinks
| as beverage, let me beg of you to quit it.
: for the good of your fellow man, and the
: good of the rising generation. Don't let
; your influence live, long after you have gone
down to the grave in such way as that. If
all the inhabitants of the u States should cease
TO use Intoxicating drinks, the following
would be some of the beneficial results, viz:
), 1st. No individual would hereafter become
S drunkard. 2. Many who are now drunk
! ards would reform, and would be saved from
t a drunkard's grave. 3. As soon as those
! who would not reform should be dead, which
: would be in short time, not drunkard
/ would be found, and the whole land would
e be free. 4. More than three-fourths of the
e pauperism of the country might be preven-
y ted; and also, more than threc-fourths of
n error in principle, and immortality in prac-
,e tice, andall yileness and wretchedness would
= be removed" 6. The number, frequency and
in severity Of diseases would be greatly les
e. sened; and the number and hopelessness ol
re maniacs in our land be exceedingly dimin-
lg ished. Z. One Of the greatest dangers oi
IS, our children and youth, and one of the prin
d. cipal causes of bodily and mental deteriora
he ton would be removed. s. Loss of proper
he ty in one generation, to an amount greater
he than the present value of all the houses anC
20 lands in the United States, might be proven
20 ted 9. One Of the greatest dangers to on
ms free institutions, to the perpetuity of on
= government, and to all the blessings of civi
'as and religious liberty, would be removed. lC
,ut The efficacy Of the Gospel, and all the mean
all which GOD has appointed for the spiritua
inc and eternal good of men, would be augmer
yh- ted and the same amount Of moral and n
ne. ligious effort might be expected to produc
!, it more than double its present effects. i
icy Multtudes Of every generation, through a
the future ages might be prevented from siukin
t@, into an untimely grave, and into endless to
'rd- ment; they might be transformed into Il
it Divine Image, and prepared through grac
tier for the endless joys of Heaven. II. &c
edi- would be honored voluntarily and activel
7 il by much greater numbers and with greatt
any cearneSS and to greater extent; Wou
om, through their instrumentality, manifest h
mic glory. IL all the evils Of alcohol, in all
ing forms, were written, it would take book
l9ly such an enormous size, that no man wou
cad be able to lift it neither would any m;
ame have time to read it.
ami Alcohol'in all its forms has caused the Z
,pe- struction Of more lives, caused more hea
ks; burn;ngs, destroyed the peace of more fan
and lies, caused more pauperism, and sent me
,fed souls to hell than any thing else that m
he ever invented. And il can truly be said
the language of the poet,
king cAh Alcohol thou bane Of life,
1T of Spring of tumut, source of strife;
le it Could but half thy curses tell,
who The wise would wish thee safe at hell J"
our Now after all this array of the facts
and fore US, who would or ought to be opposed
sters the Sons Of Temperance, or any other SOC
lired ty whose avowed principles are the do
they away as a beverage this monstrous evil?
,ison North Carolina needs some kind of a
their to protect its civil citizens from the rava
MES. of the fell destroyer. There have been s
n or eral ways proposed to accomplish this d
lie of rable end. The best way that / know of
isin prohibitory law. This kind of a law '
ONE protect every citizen, because it will do
with thing entirely away. Many people ar
soul that it is not constitutional. Why not?