Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-04-25
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1t is not in man to write with such emo
tion. We think we never heard the cruelty
and diabolism of the Rum Trade set forth
as in the extract which follows. As it pur-
ports, it is frem druHkards daughter We
submit whether the ten lires prefiSed by the
Editress Mrs. Vaughan are not forcible and
appropriate. Without stopping to dispute
about spheres We must all be constrained
to admit, that the agency of woman in the
Temperance reform is equally important and
indispensable. Vermont Standard
There is touching pathos in this letter,
from the daughter Of drunkard, that will
reach many heart among these which, like
hers, are bursting with the agonies which
intemperaDce has caused. Prayers and la
bors like those that have attended the Pro-
hibitory movement, can be unavailing the
robbery and desolation Of homes and hearts.
by regalized rum selling, will soon be pre-
vented in our State. Anxiousiy Is that day
awaited beside the drunkard's desolate
hearth-stone.
From the Woman's Temperance Paper.
MoREsvILLE, February. 1855.
DEAR MRs VAUGHAN: Feeling a deep
interest in the cause of Temperance. it was
suggested to my mind to send few lines to
you. to bid you God speed in your blessed
endeavor to spread the good news of this
cause. It is no evanescent feeling that ur-
ges me to do this, but deep, firm. ever pre-
sent sense of the wrongs, the ills, iatemper-
ance has brought upon the whole brother
hood Of man in general. and my own faith
er's family in particular. Yes irreparable
wrongs we have suffered. Our childhood
darkened and blighsed by poverty, such as
only the drunkard's family can know--the
earnings of father, and of my dear brothers,
too, as soon as they were old enough to earn
wages, nearly all going to satisfy the drunk
ards all DESTROYING appetite, and to sup
port the rum sellers family in splendor
and give them all the advantagesof liber-
al and polished education, allowing them to
move in the higher walks-of life ;: pointing,
perhaps the finger of scorn at the poverty
of those who, but for their thrice accursed
rum, might have lifted up their heads in the
joyous assurance OF good reputation, and
expanding intellect. But, instead Of that
the withering consciousness of being the
drunkard S children, resting upon them
doomed them to feel that all their ardent
aspirations after knowledge were fruitless
and to see beloved and idohzed mother
with pale and haggarf countenance, wear
ing her life away in sorrow and misery
There are hours when think Of all thes
wrongs, and feel resting on my heart, wit
mountain weight, sense, not of hatred, u
Of revenge, towards the author of the,
wrongs, but something that cannot e,
press, of untold agony, too deep for word
of which tears can convey no idea. Bl
this is not all A once tender and not
father is degraded and destroyed. Yes,
may say destroyed for this life. aud a@fu
. ly fear for another. But uhlessa heaven
le Prohibtory Law should be the means of re
y le cuing him from the brink of eternal ruin. |
~ is DESTROYED for this life. The nooutide
D. this life is passed. Already his sun decIin
and nothing can now make up the pric
u less years forever fed. But if the expirir
a days Of bis life could only he gilded BY Il
. mild and silvery light.