Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-08-09
Police Records and Foreign Population.


The daily history of our police courts
more especially in the populous cities OF our
.neighboring States, present a sickening de-
tail of crimes perpetrated in the mania OF
drunkenness. Alarge portion of the wretch
ed criminals arraigned at the bar are foreign
ers Just imported from their dens Of ignor-
ance and poverty in the old world. 70 TINS
blessed land Of liberty, where men have Free
dom to revel in the more polished dens OF IN
fanny and get drunk, and shoot, ana s.ao
each other in every nights saturnalia. Tn
daily press each morning writes up a dams
ming record against the rum holes as a cause
of crime. A large number of these rum
shops are owned by foreigners. They come
to this country and begin to cast about for
the most available method of making a hVe-
ihood. The art. of making drunkards ar
rests their attention as being adapted to their
wants: for it requires but little labor and
the business is lucrative. Other braches OF
industry(t| such as afford benefits to the
consumer, require capitalize be profitable
The Infamous business of rumselhng, while
it is ever a curse to the consumer of the ar
ticles on sale, and is a powerful agent In pro-.
ducing evil to scourge the land, requires but
a few dollars to furnish the trader with his
stock. At these pits gather the poor, the ig-
~norant and the besotted, and hardly a morn
ing awakes the earth from its slumbers but
tells of some horrible crime committed there
during the night. The rising sun reveals the
pools of smoking blood poured out in drunk
en- ARRAY, or q city is startled by the crack
ling flames of burning property turned loose
by the torch of q half drunken incendiary.-
From these hot houses of crime, an imbruteG
host march forth to stand over our sacred
Polls and with haunting jeers strike down thu
Americans interests, and heap insult ant
wrong upon the citizen who has a life heri
tage al stake. Like disruptingcraters, charg
ed with anarchy and ruin, these legions 0
legalized hells belch forth a hot torrent o
suffrages more dangerous than the scheme
of the Swiss mercenaries, disgracing the pu
rity of the elective franchise, sapping tn
strength of our cherished institutions, an
warning with the rights of sober, tax-payin
citizens. This is a dangerous element j
our midst and it is swayed at the will of
few unprincipled; ermined lords. It is
strong lever brought ever to bear against tn
blood bought privileges of the American cit
zen.
! It is unnecessary to repeat, what we hay
so often said before, that a law to prohib
entirely the traffic and arrest this flood
! drunkenness meeting our foreign populatio
the moment they step on our shores, woul
3 shed a thousand blessings in their new nom,
3 and cause their wives and little ones to 10y
t far better the land they talked of that was
l. far over the great wild sea-" Notwit
: standing this truth, the sordid and robe
r ~demagogues who hold the reins of this ell
$ ment rioting in our twenty thousand L
+ ground and under ground hells, are oppose
to any measure which would rebound to Il
: We thank God that a bold AMERICAN Pc
PIE have sworn to destroy a terrible evil
r five million of home affairs strong men ha
if sealed the oath that the Rum Scourge sha
If sooner or later, be struck a blow so dead tn
y it shall know of a resurrection never VIII
fe the great sun shines from the blue heave
j. above, or while men, women and childr
n walk the green wales of home!
s. May we be IN at its DEATH! \