Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-07-26
For THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
TO THE SONS OF TEMPERANCE.

Fte0Se Ted0 h1S OeT0Te y0UT DtO1S10nS.
DEAR FATHERS AND BRETHREN: Permit US to
come near, even around your Preside, and touch
with our weak fingers upon the sympathetic chords
of your nature, that our almost broken spirits may
again be revived by the sweet and enliYening mu-
sic responding therefrom.
The Cadets of Temperance, younger brothers to
your own noble Order, have been working in North
Carolina for six years; and who, WHO can calculate
the good resulting from this brdUe little band -
Little boys have led drunken fathers from the streets
TO the temperance room; and oh what feelings
must have filed the hearts of those who saw that
father, with tears running down his time-worn checks
embrace his son in the Section room, and, pr noun
cling a blessing upon the Cadets, thanked God for
such a boy-for such a deliverer 4! This scene &C
tually occurred in one of our villages.
Parent, can you not imagine the feelings of that
father? Can you not (f possible) look with more
tender love upon your sons? Then place himin
that Order, whose genial rays can thus develope the
latent bud of flial affection. Perhaps he as t there ;
then come to our assistance and help us rebuild the
%crumbling walls of our Order. Upwards of seven
ty Sections have been chartered in this State, since
the first Introduction of the Cadets; only fifty of
that number now hold their Charters, and one half
of these are not working
Dear elder brethren, what shall we do ? DIE ?
ono! the Cadets shall lire as long as nobility iUes
an the heart Of american gOuth." What an encour-
aging response you make Then, Hope on, Hope
ever shall be our motto.
We must confess that our feelings are absorbed
in the Cadets and this is theonly apology we have
to offer for our depression from the original cOncep-
ton of this communication the object of which is
to respectfully and earnestly request your patron
age to the +" Tetotater," organ of the Cadets, and
devoted especially to the young men of North Car
DINA. By the assistance of a large corps of
Corresponding Editors of thorough literary, tenn
perance men, both in and out of the State, we fatter
ourselves that the paper will be worthy the cause
we advocate and a position in the family circle of
all our fathers and elder brethren.
Who, and how many will help US? You, my
brother, who are now perusing these lines, will you
not. Do not refuse; remember that in the Cadets
you see the future members of your own noble Or
der. An ounce of preventative is worth a pound
of cure These little boys you now see regularly
attending the Section room, before many years will
be your Legislators; your Ministers of the Gospel,
upon whose shoulders will rest the pillars of church
and State. Will you not help make them what
they ought to be And will they not then make
our State what it ought to be? FREE absolutely
FREE!! g..
We promise to furnish for 81 per annum, in ad.
vance, q semi-monthly, containing in the year near
ly as much reading matter as most So weeklies.
All we ask for the first year, is a subscription list
large enough to pay the printer. r
If EACH Division of the Sons in the State, will
send US five subscribers, we will have our desired
number and enough to send them one copyone year
gratis.
To you, our noble elder brethren, this is but
small request. "A friend in needs a friend indeed.
VIII you act upon this Immediately!
800 PREMIUMS.-For more than six months
we have been urged to the present undertaking
having yielded consent, We hope Ourfriends will no
not0 desert us. As a proper remuneration to them
for time and e~xertion, we propose to give (as sool
as the FTETO TALLER shall have reached a cir
~culation of 70O) the above amount of 500 in pre-
miums, as follows:
To the person sending the largest list of subscri
bers with money in advance,
One copy of Harper's Illustrated Bible, $25 0
Or " F." Shakespeare, 20 0
For the fee next largest each,
One copy of Webster's Unabridged Diction-
airy, ~ U
Orany Periodical not costing more than $50, so 0
For tie fifteen next largest, each,
One copy of any three dollar Magazine, As Q
Or the same amount, as preferred, 40
Your humble co-workers in L.. P. & F.
ROBBINS & COLE,
Normal College, Randolph CO., N. c.
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