Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01
Carolina.
Memorial Raiected

Raleigh and vicinity, vas presented to Wake
County Court, last wedk praying the refusal
of all licenses for the r~dsiling ardent spirits
in the City and vicinity Henry w. Miller,
Esq, appeared in behalf of the Memorialists,
and George NsHewoe4 for the applicants
for license. Mr.f%. nobHy defended the OBJ
jects of the Memorialists, and clearly showed
to the Court that it was entirely discretionary
with it to refuse the licenses, although bear
ing the Recommendation of the Board of Com
missioners The Court, however, concluded
to grant hensestto all thus recommended,
and letter. patent by the State were accor-
dinghy granted, duly COMMISSIONING these
men, by authority of the State of North Car
DINA, to pauporize, degrade and destroy It's
citizens.
Well, re are l~aw-abiding citizens, and if
this is thelaw Of the State, we must sub
NIT until he righteous Indignation of an out
ragged people shall expunge it from the stat
ute book. I'VE have reason to be proud, how
ever, of tip glorious array of names, that
were sign% to that Memorial. The sign
manual of the Bishop of the P. E. Church ofN.
Carolina, was there; the signatures of every
Pastor IN thc City, we believe, were there.
Christians Of every denomination united IT,
the appeal, ax1AA Glasses of our fellow-citi-
zens urgently joined in asking this boon of
protection to themselves and to society. And
WOMAN, lovely and virtuous, and always
ready to unite in every good and benevolent
work-she, too, sent up a separate Memo
rial, signed by hundreds of the Matrons and
Maidens of our goodly City and vicinity,
praying that traps for the destruction of their
sons and brothers, might not be established
All who can tell the anxious palpitations Of
that fond, doting Mothers heart, as she put
her name to that Memorial, when a CLEAN OF
hope peered into her soul, that perhaps by
this step she might save her darling boy
from a drunkard's ignOminy and adrunkard's
end! And that beautiful Maiden, stepping
out from the retired seclusion of home, sht
sends up her name, accompanied by the ear
nest prayer that it may be the means of res
cuing a beloved brother from the monster
grasp, or mayhap him to whom she ha
plighted her virgin troth The eyes of
venerated Father were dim with sorrow a
the melancholy recollection of his sons ruin
Gus career, when he signed that paper, trust
ing that the destroying hand might be stayed
But alas! alas! John Kane and others, wit
Brandy, Whiskey and Punch" as their mo-
to, were too strong for Bishop and Pastors
Beauty and Virtue, Christians and Citizen,
with Gods Word and all the noble, heavenl
attributes of Humanity to prompt and su,
tain them in their holy and humane efforts
But, all, all would not do; they were spurne
and rejected from the Halls Of Justice, (Go
save the mark) while the d~estroyers of the
race bore off in triumph their blood-staine
commission to deal out death and destructio
throughout the land.
1t gives US pleasure thus publicly to stat
that quite a number of the Justices were
1av0r u raas1hg tas 1877 tie Sfsns6f1d
lists, and we would fain believe there we
OGucFS VINO UeCIdF6u GuelF dSS6Ht only UoCdu
they believed the law made it imperative u
on the Court to grant licenses when prese
ted as required by law. But such az admi
sion only exposes the more the outrage col
mitted upon the rights of a free people,
the odious license law, and should cause
cry virtuous, independent citizen to cry alo'
for its expurgation.
We feel proud in the reflection that o
humble name went up to that Court in su
honorable association as that by which it W
surrounded. Never before has such an
ray been presented to our Courts on any ST
ject, that we know Of, whether we consiC
the character or the number of the signer
and had a general effort been made, TIL
times the number gould have been sccur
We have failed ia accomplishing tho obj
we had in view, it is true, but we have
cured the %sympathies and cooperation
: many who have not before openly taken 81
with US. And now we are doubly enco
aged to press forward. and battle with
enemy at every point, assured that
1 Our cause it is just,
And conquer we must;
While this is our motto:
"In God is our trust"
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