Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-08-22
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For the Spirit of the Aee.

For the Spirit of the Age
| send you enclosed funds for copy of
the Spirit Of the Age it being in response
to the request of one of your subscribers,
viz: that every one of US should get you an
additional subscriber on the 2Ist Julg. A
great many doubtless have sent you tlots of
EN-, and hope none have failed in send
ing you least one new name, and if any
have failed to do SO it is to be hoped that
they will not allow another 21st' to slip by
without attending teit. If that proposition
was attendedteen on tl,as day, T hase4so doubt
but that your list has increased some fifty
per cent, if not actually doubled-I hope the
latter, for if we are ever to have prohibi-
tory law either as it regards the importation
or the sale of liquor, it must be brought a.
bout mainly through the agency of the press.
II we could only get your paper to be taken
by every family in the State, we wouldn't
have much trouble about passing prohibi
tory liquor law, and that in double quick
time too, for all the people want is light, and
your Spirit is wonderfully illuminating
spirit.
And that we must haze such law can
not but te evident to every thinking man
who has given any consideration to the SUBJ
Ject. For when men come to US, as one
miserable victim did to-day actually come
to me, and beg US for Gods sake to put them
IN jail to keep them from the liquor sellers
whom this man solemnly declared would
take his life through their fendish traffic,
tempting the fend within him, which fend
they had already fed until he had become
giant in whose grasp the poor inebriate's
will was bu: as the spiders web. And when
told him that | had not the power, he de-
clared that he would set somebody's house
on fire if he was not granted the protection
ne demanded-the protection of the Jail
few hours afterwards he was pointed out
to me lying fiat on his back in the Court
House actually on the Judges seat as if
appealing to justice for redress snoring
OFT the fumes Of that very poison that our
mother-the State-authorises to be dealt
out to her precious children! Alas alas
Mr.. Editor, is not this too bad? | could
weep, were it not for the Indignation feel,
as mediate upon such horrible state of
things And to know too that this poor
man has an interesting wife and two lovely
daughters, that have to shun him as they
would demon-whereas were it not for the
sale of this terrible agent in our midst, the
endearing names Of husband and father
heart would bless him and make bis hours
pass sweetly on-blest and blessing. 0, in
view of such things do We not need all the
protection that law, both human and divine
can give, from curse; and is not the case
of this unfortunate victim Of the traffic {
most practical appeal to his fellow citizens
for the speedy enactment of prohibitory
liquor law.
And when we remember that he is bu
one Of hundreds, perhaps thousands in gu
midst in this same sad condition, crying t.
US for help, like the drowing man willing t
catch at any prospect Of relief. Where
the man SO dead to all feelings Of sympa
thy and humanity that he will not cast
cote 10 save them.