Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-01-25

o'iHiIteu III tnlS county,, on saturday eve
ing last, upon The body of one Napoleon
1t seems that Landy Tippett, a Grip
lie, and some of the Keiths, with a man
Fowler, were at the shop of John
2osemond, some four miles west of this place,
the deceased came up. Tippett drop
bed his crutches and collared him, and Ea-
Keith struck him several times with his
and then dealt him u blow on the head
with one of the crutches, which caused his
death. Blake died on Sunday morning.
it is stated, held Keith for a while,
and endeavored to prevent the act. Keith
and Tippett have surrendered themselves,
and are now in Jail.
This murder was committed at a grog shop,
and we are informed that both the murderers
were under the influence of liquor when they
committed the foul deed. While a majority
of those who voted in Raleigh for City Off
GERS were casting their votes in favor of grog
shops, these poor, miserable men, who had
taken the life Of an unofending fellow, were
in the lower part of the Courthouse, being
committed to jail to answer for the awful act;
feeling, doubtless, that to this very destruc-
tive grog- shop system were they indebted, for
the infiammatory poison that had robbed them
of reason and caused them to imbrue their
hands in their brothers blood. God help
the conscience of that man that can contem-
plate such a scene as this, and then rejoice
at the triumph achieved here at our City cleo
ton.
Res DEsPoTIc governments may safely fos-
ter distilleries and encourage drunkenness,
while they erect and maintain standing ar
mics to suppress at the point of the sword
riots and treason but in free America, where
the accursed spirit of Alcohol and the spirit
Of Freedom join fraternal hands together,
without military restraint, there will be an
eruption ere long that will cause the living
to repent for their own neglect, and that of
their forefathers, in d~evising means to break
the allegiance between the two. Govern
ments and men have rights and privileges
but the Divine Law does not sanction an in
jury inflicted upon a fe1lcw-being, and the
CifII ID" oLlOuAu lOU CihPOnC1 OIC IICCiIIih W
visit temporal and eternal evil on another;
for whatever act by a human being blasts So
ciety or government, is treason in design or
treason in act. Let America brand Alcohol
a traitor, and its damning effects treason, and
regardless of those whose interest prompts
them to foster it, and mindless of their plea
in saying they are {" free in a free country to
do as they please" eject and oblivionize the
: worlds curse with the. same independent
a .fToid we would doom q second black
, hearted Benedict Arnold to the ~starless shades
q of Death!
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: DGP Some of our Temperance friends are
disposed to despond and feel discouraged, al
the recent City election. We see no cause
for it. 1t is true that, by a rush and despe
e rate rally, the friends of license have sue
$ ceeded in e%lecting a majority of the Commits
sioners supposed to be favorable to the re
establishment of license liquor shops in the
o community. We are Republican in our feel
h ings on this subject, and we say ifa naGjorit.
d desire these things, let them have them anC
! we COuIluCully OGllCN6 liza GLlC very 6AlSli
sion of the privilege will enure to the ad
v%ancement Of correct feeling, principle ant
/ action, in the future. We have had one yea
n in which our City was almost entirely clea
l. of these licensed whiskey dens, and it is al
g undisputed fact, that it has been a year un
n paralleled in our history, for quietude, goo,
OF order and sobriety. If the liquor policy b
substituted in its stead, our citizens will the
have an opportunity of comparing the tw
systems and we have no fears as to the d.
: cision that our people will give next January
- The question is one for time to determine
Misrepresentation and fallacious argument
cannot withstand the undisguised array {
facts and practical experiments. Lotus bid
- our time and work the more determined
for the cause of truth and virtue in the futur
g. Having said thus much, we may add tn
! those elected on the license ticket have
much at stake as other members Of societ
and we would fain believe will exercise the
powers with a sound discretion, as to the
responsibility to society. and their duties
,s the community and themselyes-regardlc
e of favoritism to the liquor policy, to which
has been assumed they have obligated thel
"a selves.
bo, Whatever course may be pursued, ho'
Mo ever, there is but one plain, straight forwa
So, way for Temperance men to act. Our eau
i. 6 we know to be just and righteous; the en-
; we aim at are not selfish and morcenary, /
:, the good of our fellow-men and the welfa
mr. of society. Our flag is nailed to the ma
tLo and whether in victory or defeat, let US IA
10 under its Gol-blest folds, and do valiant
vice for down-trodden humanity, defiant
- every obstacle that may beset our path-w;
IF the majority of the Commissioners elect
Who all that whiskeydom will ask at their han
mo- it will be a mere temporary triumph, VIII
~ truth and Justice will soon %rectify. Girl
your armor. afresh, then, We .true-hear
sons of humanity, and upon the pure al
. - of our principles let US swear eternal cnm
- to the liquor traffic; whether in the crims
curtained Saloon, or the miserable, fit
. whiskey kennel of the degraded and all
doned drunkard.
med Contents of this Number.
r as Read the thrilling account of the sufferir
t all privations and heart-rending death-sce
test among the unfortunate passengers in the
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