Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-04-11

have pleased both. / can almost see you
now as you were when you wrote that Re
port. You thought land i am not sure, but
that You smiled out loud when you thought
it) tint you would write a little on both sides
and fool both. Poor ostrich!
"Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold / can meet, perhaps can turn his blow
But of all plaques, good Heaven! thy wrath can
send,
Save save oh, save me from a treacheroHs friend"
/ am much mistaken if the above is not
the sentiment of both parties. You cannot
make the memorialists believe that your
croaking about moral suasion has any heart
in il. But MS | have already said your great
est danger is from the other side. The posi-
ton in which you place the Incorporate por-
ton of the people is truly humiliating. You
have set them forth in your Report as the
most abandonded Of the humanrace, without
one single redeeming trait. You make them
ruin themselves, ruin their families and ruin
society, without one single generous impulse
for reformation. You make of their faults
hideous monsters and leave them welded to
them with no hope of escape.
dashed hand to hand and face to face
In fatal and in loathed embrace"
Such stole indifference, such cold-hearted
inhumanity, would have driven the last sign
of feeling from Nero's hardened heart and
will mark you as the objects OF their seVeres'
hate. | ara not. the apologist Of their faults
but | am their friend and / appreciate theil
virtues. ] know their best desires, then
noblest impulses. and | mean to defend them
There are thousands of the drinking meI
of this State-from the youth just %enterlnI
life to old age just leaving it-from him VIII
drinks but socially with a friend to him VIII
lets no occasion uhssrfrom him who drink
in medication toy ,kho drinks to- his ruin
who scarcely haveFanother fault besides II
t~elligent and accomplished, industrious an
enterprising, honest and faithful, kind an
affectiOnate, generous and charitable. l az
f not a Son of Temperance but they and
see the evil in the land and earnestly desil
, its removal-if not on our W accounts Il
: the sake of the country.
] And now, gentlemen, let me ask you VIII
1 right had you to deny to them the commt
v impulses Of humanity? What right had yt
to suppose that they were Indifferent to t
t evils which so sensibly AFFECT them personal
o and the community generally? What.rlg
had you to publish their fault to the wor
and then add the unmanliness of being slav
to it; with no hope in the future but tn
y time may remove the evil as time remoV
= them? In the name of the great mass OF
lie people of North Carolina who use intoxlt
Re ting drinks, l pronounce it a Islander. In
N name of the noble, hearted young man W
le has yielded too much to temptation but W
m has not yet forgot his mothers teachings
L pronounce it q SANDER. In the name OF
y aged man who may not have set altoget
ia as good examples as might have been deslr
he but who still looks forward with anxiety
RS the welfare of his bright sons and daughtt
he / pronounce it a SANDER. In the name
inf every patriot of North Carolina, who altho'
70 he has somewhat to reproach himself tor
hardness, still looks forward to the spe
'u' removal Of the curse from the State, l
MS nounce it a SANDER. In the name OF eN
10 christian, who although he may have ia
in a little too much with the times, still IL
ole forward to the period when this great
ned shall be removed, l pronounce it a Sian
In the name of every wife that has a hpst
that loves her-in the name of every mo
that has a son that adores her, l promo
it u SANDER.
EN-. In the spirit in which it is said Nv
ma hold not correction from the child: f
FERN thou beatest him with the rod, he shall
law die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod,
shalt save his soul from hell-I began
letters to you and in that spirit | end t
Yours truly, PlChLED-RO