Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-08-30
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Wednesday, August 80, 1854.
A Positive Arrangement.

A Positive Arrangement.
Subscribers r~eceiUing their papers Nth a red mark,
IRE thereby notified that in four aoeeks from the re-
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time, thepaper s0iu be discontinued. This rule
will be inferijty adhered to.
Close of the Volume.
With the present number we close the fifth
Volume of the Spirit of the Age. For five
years, we have endeavored to hold up the
pure amer of Temperance, through SUM-
shine and storm, through evil as well as good
report during which time we have been the
objects of bitter prosecutions, vituperation
and slander-bat we have not faltered in or
swerved from the discharge ofduty, but with
what ability we possessed have battled stern
.ly In the cause of truth and humanity
And with grateful hearts do we bear testi-
mony to the generous and liberal support
we have received at the hands of tn, friends
of temperance-having given US a list of sub
scribers double that any other paper has
ever attained in the State, and thus enabled
US to scatter broadcast through the land hum
dreds of thousands of sheets annually, ex-
posing the evils of intemperance and causing
the formation of a large and invincible host
determined to never rest content till the de-
s%truetive vice is arrested in its %ruinous and
soul-destroying course.
When the Spirit of the Age was first ush-
cred forth, the temperance army could be
numbered by counting only a few hundred
who had enlisted in the great struggle of
humanity,-but they have increased to thou
sands and tens of thousands, who this day
feel q determined spirit of hostility to intern
perance and the pernicious agencies that
perpetuate it upon society. It is true that
: some dis~couragements, and it may be some
l r~everses have interviewed, that for the time
. were calculated to dishearten and disturb
us in our operations-but in the main, the
prospects of success this day are more pro-
pitious than at any previous period in the
history of the temperance reformation, if its
: friends will but resolutely apply the means
e by which their triumph may be rendered
o, years shall be marked by more fearless efforts,
interchangeable exertions, than has ever here
tofore been known in North Carolina, and
thus make the enemy quail and flee before
: the aroused indignation of v%irtuous but
: outraged community.
Our next issue will be the commencement
ofa new Volume of the Spirit of the Age,
d and we take this occasion both of returning
thanks to our friends and patrons for the gen.
erous support they have given us in the past,
n and to assure them that for the future our
e utmost exertions shall be constantly employ
= ed to supply them with an agreeable COM
panion, furnishing them with entertaining
n and varied matter, embracing every thing
suitable for the ~virtuous Preside, and also
keeping the reader posted up in the current
v news of the day. In a word, we intend the
y Spirit of the Age shall be a No. l paper, and
published on such low terms as to place it in
the power of every one to take it. To the
farmer, the Mechanic, the Merchant, the gen.
J. eral reader-Ladies and Gentlemen-will al
ways find in it something to amuse, edify and
entertain and we appeal to a generous and
discriminating public to sustain us in oul
,e efforts to circulate a cheap and pure litera
ture among the people of the South.
= To our numerous friends who have SO kind
d ly and literally aided US in the past, we ten.
der our heartfelt acknowledgements, and
I'd humbly and earnestly solicit a continuance
of such favors at their hands, assuring then
it shall ever be our constant effort to furnish
such a paper as will justify them in recon
" mending it to public patronage. The PEG
or plc of the South have in the Spirit of tn,
g Age, a cheap newspaper-as cheap as thos,
published at the North-and therefore hav
Id no necessity to send north for a paper. Fol
by One Dollar, paid in advance we will furnish
subscribers with a good weekly paper, with
large proportion of original matter by elegan
Southern writer's, and free from alIusion
ye and subjects so obnoxious to Southern feel
IN ing, which are too often met with in North
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