Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-09-12
For the Shirt of the Ape


Mr.. EDITOR In the Age of August 9Th,
" Bamboo Briar' makes a scratch at " Green
Horn" He had better let Greeny alone
In his first paragraph he says our Represen-
tative said that the general prohibitory law
was unconstitutional if so, would not the
Captains District, the ColonePs or the local
prohibitory law be unconstitutional? "Bam-
boo" says he did not vote for our Represen-
tative. That is strange! If he did not, he
is one of the one or two that didn't. Why
did you not? Was it because his opponent
boosted that he had a large capital invested
in making whiskey or was it because being
one of our Special Court ever ready to give a
license to accommodate the people in the
form Of grogshops? Come Bamboo, stand
up to the rack.
In his third paragraph he says Green
Horn assigns him a difficult task to scratch
off the political letters that bind Temperance
men," This may seem a difficult task to one
who has not the will-to one who cannot
give up his party-to one who has those fet-
ters deeply riveted but not so with the mass
of Temperance men. AS / live, saith Greeny,
I'll horn that Bamboo Briar until he kicks
off the political letters which have bound and
bent a certain promising temperance Bamboo
Briar to a political thorn Bush.
We now proceed to answer his three plain
questions; LIST, would you vote for a pro-
hibitory law if left to the people ?" We an
swer this with an emphatic YES, STREE
But lest we be thought to make another false
boast, we say this, that if Jesse A. Waugh,
& Co., assisted by our briery friend, were to
frame a liquor law, it might not suit Green
Horn.
I'd, "Would you vote for a prohibition
Candidate whose political opinions differed
with yours 2" Why do you ask such a ques-
ton? Do you think, in order to get Prohi-
bition, that those who differ with you must
have their political principles scratched off
and yours scratched on :? Did not both par
ties, through their Committee, say that Tenn
perance men had /" insane desires" like Alb
o~litionists !? Then why ask Greeny if he
would vote for either? Now, sir, if both
parties were to bury their political animosi-
ties in the sea of forgetfulness and declare
for temperance, and temperance only, Green
Horn would not have to vote for a temper
ance man differing with him In politics.
"Bamboo's" last question reads" Did
you not say last summer that you were not
prepared to sacrifice your opinions for the
sake of the Temperance cause ?" You
have refer ence to voting on the third of Au.
gust. We must confess that voting for such
men does signify, in plain terms, that we are
unwilling to give up party for temperance
Did not the temperance nominee, when hi
declined running, tell us to vote as hereto
fore Then why blame Green Horn fol
, doing what the best Temperance men ii
Yadkin County did?
Bamboo" should you consider this an
other unmerited rebuke, you will please an
swer us two plain questions, viz: 1st Ar
you willing to leave your party for the SAX
, Of the Temperance causeP I'd Why did yol
call, in your first letter, the citizens of tn
? town of Y. " red noses p"
MOUNTAIN GREEN HORN.
August, 1855.