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

support it in a becoming manner. Do not
let its efficiency be impaired by Withholding
the necessary and requisite aid. In Ala
bama we stand very much in need of just
such a paper as the Age. We have one, it
is true, but then it is so mixed up with lit
~erature, politics, &C., that we hardly recog-
nize it as our Organ. We wan an out and
out Temperance paper, and | sincerely hope
that the Grand Lodge of Knights of Jericho,
which will convene in Selma shortly, will
lake this matter into consideration, and es-
tablish an organ.
p. S. White, Esq. canvassed a consider
able portion of this State in the spring, and
accomplished much good. His speech at
this place was one Of the best 1 have ever
heard him deliver, and l have heard him
quite a number of times. We organized our
Lodge on the 14th of April, and he spoke
here on the following day-so you see his
visit among us was very opportune. We or
ganized with eleven members; we now num-
Der sixty-one, In a little over four months /;
and we also have some twelve or fifteen pc
titions on the table. The people in this
community were for a long time, soundly
asleep on this momentous subject but thank
God, they have at last shook off their slum-
bers, and are now wide awake. They begin
Y 1OOh dDOA tLllC 0IOdALul ONO0I ~ - OAO hA-
man family, Intemperance, in its true colors.
In a word, they have begun to think upon
the matter and you know this is half the
battle for we have reason, philanthropy and
patriotism on our side-whereas our oppo.
nents have nothing but a long established
custom to sustain them a custom, however,
which is rotten to the core and will not bear
investigation. There is a potency, almost an
omnipotency in custom so that we throw 1t
off slowly and reluctantly, no matter how
vicious it may be-but mGgnO est TeTltGs, et
pqeU0lebtt or as one of our own poets has
beautifully expressed the same idea:
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error sOoumded aorithes an pain,
And dies amid her worshippers~
The day is evidently dawning upon us in
this particular locality. 1t does not require
a prophetic pen to predict the downfall Of
whiskey at Hamburg, one of its strong holds
We still have two liquor groceries in oul
midst, but the current of public sentiment is
fast turning against them, and at no distant
day, they will find themselves perfectly pow
erless to breast it. believe that if both o.
the gentlemen who are now engaged at this
place, in this most Infamous, most degrading
business, were out of it, no inducemen
would be sufficient to make them embark
in it again. The younger of these gentle
men, who has been engaged in the business
only a few months, told me that he felt sen
sibly that he was engaged in a very low
dirty business, and that he intended to &c
to get out it as soon as he could. The othe
gentleman is trying to sell out, | learn.
would just remark, en- passent, Mr.. Editor
that it seems p~aradoxical to call liquor sci
lers gentlemen for it does appear that n
gentleman would engage in SO ubiquitous
calling as that of selling grog, whereby HI
fellow-man is ruined, soul and body; Blu
both of these men are gentlemen, and 1t Is :
be hoped that they both will very speSealt
get out of their present dirty, nasty, stinklne
filthy business, and find some more honol
able and gentlemanly avocation. | had II
tended to give you some account of our ne
organization, the Knights of Jericho, bu
the length my letter has already attained &C
monishes me to stop. At my earliest cor
~venience, you shall hear from me again.
Yours fraternally, JUDAH.