Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-08
Moral snasIn.

This was once the only 'atchword of the
Temperance Reform. wen the Washing
toniah movement was sveping across this
continent like the marchof the storm, its
dulcet strains was heard every gathering.
twas stronSa -itapeaied directly to
The tenderness Of the heart sympathies, and
fofected a great work. T%ousands OF homes
worn made licht and happy where the shad-
tow n the Rum curse lincred like the gloom
oe tho destroyor's wing and thousands Of
a~rrrt,rds were saved byit from the red YES
s;brIo If q drunkarl's grave. 1t reached
down 4 Samaritan hand o the lowest hellso of
&C., and brought up rom the pestilential
a. or curses, a great amy of the rescued,
Aor,irc their redemption from the demon
~, tn, oloft the broken chains that had
In tbom for years. Humanity %reioices
r., , 1,rre number Of the redeemed host
L. h1I in the pits Of the destroyer again
4. worms too. that numbers were over
and taken and bound in more CALLING
..a.o,os than before. The doors of the pits
q o,r,b were left open and gilded bats
brovn on highway and by way to tempt the
nvorv the temptation in the shape of the
umes Of grog reused the s~lumbering appe-
R,;te for Rum, and they were lured back into
the bells Of intempcrance and crime. Past
history taught the fact that such could only
no rescued by IN entire abolition of the traf-
&c. and thus remove tho temptation. The
Great deep Of the public soul responded to
the theory and claimed n trial of its practical
bearings. From hill top and home the cry
went up for entire and absolute PRoHIBIT1oN
the w%atchword few from lip to lip and it's
banners glittorod and flashed on n thousand
Mains. No sooner had Neal Dow grasped
the banner staff and unfurled the folds of
the new flag to the gaze Of the world, than
n great cry went up for moral SuAs1oN. Men
who had hootod ut it in days by-gonc, now
became valorous for its bcnignant sway
Those who make their bread and butter by
dealing out the soul destroying beverage, are
the most clamorous for it to-day. Their
husky groans FOR n roturn Of the good ole
times when men were persuaded to cease ma
king and selling the accursed poison, join
chorus with the ginglc Of their glasses ant
the grating Of the sections spade among
the church-yard pebbles opening new graves
for the fostering corpsos of their last victim.
shown from the bar room to the tribunal 0
Heaven. They eulogise the principles 0
temperance and moral s%uasion, to their dyin.
customers as they rinse the glasses, and ask
by way Of parenthesis, what the last come
will take. They flourish the toddy stick a
boye the stencil boards Of their grog-dens i
violent gestures as they denounce prohibition
laws, and declare for their darling moral suG
sion While they are crying down prohib
ton, they, as Justify, cry up apple toddy
brandy smashes, whiskey punch, mint julep
and gin-cocktailsl Nothing will suit then
they can't be paci6ed. Like the boy, VIII
was found crying, it seemed at the imminer
peril Of his lungs, and when asked the cauS
OF bis lachrymal obbulition, said he wante
No be Tacifed, and his mothe-was so bus
washing that she wouldn't take time to pac
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