Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-11-08
49,
The War not ended.

The War not enueu. " =,
SOLDIERS ! the struggle is not over get
The day has not yet dawned when We can :
Law down our arms, shout victory, and hae
forever the tented field. The black bAAhers
of the Autocrat of Rum yet float alott az be
rides over the slain in his bloody car, and
his allies yet steal through the highways and
byways Of life and betray the trusting and :
strike down the strong and the feeble. UP
from broken homes and dying lips comes y.
piaintlye prayer for help. The wal is not
ended and voices, solemn as the grave and
eternity, urge US onward in the noble strug-
gle. Voices that must be heard and needed.
Voices from the hearthside and from the
held-voices from strong men faaElo ,vomen
""u innocent childfen-vo ces from the PAL
ace ana the hovel-voices from the church .
andthe world-voices from saint and ,;,,or-
voices FROM the gilded saloon and the ,bro@
cent pit of stench-voiccs from the bar roor,
and the brothel where BETRAYED innocenoo
confidence and purity lie entombed IN
dy heil-voices from the jail and the galIows
voices from the almshouse and the asvl,m
where rum maddened victims shrieL, tbo LIZ
chorus of their wrecked intelligence IN tbo
midnight chaos Of intellectual oloom-vo;oas
from the gutter and the grave-voices from,
Heaven and hell-all urging us onward 70
the rescue Of life, hope, bliss and downtro5.
den humanity.
What shall be done? Shall the battle be
given Ger, the colors struck and the field for.
saken because the enemy is strong and for
midable? Never! Shall a deaf ear be turned
to the voices, the cries, the wild lament, Of
f the victims on whose brow the deadly plague
5 spot of the curse is burning with the feryor
: OF a generous glow +? Neverl Shall we
t calmly lay down our weapons and bear the
lashlngs of an outraged conscience when wa
9 see a neighbor s~lavering in the gutter. or
stand by and see a brother laid in the grave
I with a drunkard's shame resting upon his
e name Never /! Shall we disband and TO-
nobly publish our cowardice and temerity by
leaving those we love to be eaten by the raw
enous %vultures of intemperance ? Never =
r Shall we stand aloof and make no further eff
fort to block up the way of the demon whose
n pride 1T is to blight the loneliness of home
d and lay in waste earth'smost pleasant places ?
e Never Shall we stand idly by and see the
bloody altar of the Moloch of rum crowded
with more and yet more victims? Never !
Never 4!
There is an invincible power in combina-
ton and association. Let US avail ourselves
y OF 1t as OF yore. In days byegone, when our
hearts were fred with the enthusiasm of our
noble philanthropy, we saw the fallen res
cued, the outcast clothed again with a robe
of honor, the wanderer brought back and
homes made glad. Let US renew our efforts.
Let us klndle anew our campfres on the field.
Let US grasp our goodly weapons of Love to
our fellowmen, Purity of intention in the
d struggle and Fidelity to the glorious cause.
Let us take on the harness again, Broth
d ers, and lay it down no more until we cast
! It of at the threshold & the grave.
A Costly HoNoR.-Tbe Charlotte Wings
says that in the late cOntest In the Riebland
district, South Carolina, lin which the city of
J Columbia, is situated between Messrs. Pres
d ton and Adams for a seat in the State Senate,
d to which the former was elected by something
over one hundred votes, Mr.. Preston expen7
ded about forty thousand dollars, and Mr..
N Adams about thirty thousand.
De The Wing adds, that the candidates gave
large barbecues in different parts of the dis.
il trict, showered money, meat, bread, and
whlskey upon the poor, in some places penn
81 ing thirty and forty men for days and weeks
y, before the election to keep the opposing can.
ie, dldate from operating on them. In some in.
N stances a single vote would cost as high as
:, five hundred dollars, and the beauty of th,
tn whole is that Adams speaks of contestine
ny the seat OF his opponent, on the ground tina
IN a large number Of men whom he had paid t
= vote for him, voted fer Preston, he having
~ paid them a still large sum. This remind
ny one OF the enormous corruptions, and tn
", great amount of money expended by candid
in ates IN England to secure seats in the Hous,
OF Commons, and we may very piously invok
" the curses of a just God upon the age, whel
In such a system shall be introduced in Mort
so Carolina. Whenever North Carolina Iegis
latlon shall become contaminated by the de
graded influence of such a wretched popula
SIS ton as these poor slaves of South Carolint
OF who can be bought and cooped and penned
of and stall fed on poor beef and whiskey 70
weeks before the election, then we shall los
our confidence in the virtue and intelligence
and moral power of the people to govern
Ire themselves
The Fayetteville Observer says W. rath
de- er think that such shocking corruption ha
les been practiced, upon a smaller scale, howev
lbs er, even in some parts of North Carolina
IDS We have heard Of nothing of the kind latel,
len however, If the Editors of the Observe
had been in our goodly county of Wake an
= others that we could mention, in August las
they couldha seen specimens of this 'shocl
It's ing corruption upon a small SCALE thong
Fry the amount expended, we presume, was SINAI
It's as the meanest whiskey was employed
'ud stultify the sovereigns.'
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ENLARcEMENT.-The Wilmington Heral
in to keep pace with the improvements of Il