Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-08-13
Advertisement of an Honest RumselIer.

Friends and neighb0rs Having Just O.
pened commodious shop for the sale Of
9 Liquid Fire." embrace this early oppor-
tunity of informing you that on Saturday,
| shall commence the business of making
drunkards. paupers and beggws, for the So
Der, industrious and respectable to support.
I shall deal in g familiar spirits, !" which
shall excite men to riot and robbery, and
blood and by so doing diminish the com
forts, augment the expenses, and endanger
the welfare of the community.
] will undertake at short notice. for q small
sum, and with great expedition, to prepare
inmates for the asylum, tha poor-hoase. the
prison, and the gallows. &.
will furnish On ri aniVh ii ss.... r..
crease the amount u fztaf dsoidents, mutt
ply the number of distressing diseases and
render those harmless incurable
I will furnish drug, which shall deprive
some Of life, many of reason, most of proper
ty, all of peace which shall cause fathers
to be 6ends; wives widows, children or
phans, and all mendicants.
will cause the rising generation to grow
up in ignorance, and prove burden and
nuisance to the nation.
| will corrupt the ministers of religion,
obstruct the progress of the Gospel, defile
the purity of the church, and cause tempo
raj, spiritual and eternal death and if any
be SO impertlnent as to inquire why have
the audacity to bring such accumulated mis-
1 cry upon a comparatively happy land, my
honest reply is money.
The spirit trade is the most lucrative, and
some protesting Christians give it their cheer
full countenance.
| have license from the court, and if do
not bring these evils upon you, somebody
else will.
| live in a land Of liberty
| have purchased the right to demolish
the character, destroy the health, shorten
the lives, and ruin the souls of those who
choose to honor me with their custom.
| know that the Bible says I" Thou shalt
not kill" that it pronounces a wo upon him
who giveth his neighbor strong drink and
also read in the Divine Record that no
drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of heav-
en-, and cannot expect the drunkard maker
to share better fate. Yet What can I do?
FRIENDS OF HUMANITY as you look at
the horrid writings of fellow mortal in the
grasp of the demon, and hear his moaning
and his cries, and remember that he is a
brother in the flesh for whom Christ died and
who, but for rum, might have had triumph
over death and an eternity of glory have you
no compassion? Can you read the adver-
tisement of the honest rumseller and see a
{ wretch in your neighborhood commence this
business, knowing the weeping and wailing
every hogshead of rum will occasion, the
property it will waste, the quarrels it will
engender, the reason it will dethrone, the
souls it will destroy, does not your soul burn
r with Indignation, and do you not say Down
r with the traffic, the accursed traffic
LIQUOR SELLER Look your bushes
: in all its awful realities. ,me nbM MANIAC
is no fiction of the imagination Hundreds
: have seen it; hell upon earth. 1t is your
e workmanship, "you supply the guilty cause
0 you see the drunken effect; you witness the
drunken revel," and on you rests its thou
sand curses.
t GA thousand curses on his head
e Who gave me first the poisoned bowl,
4 Who taught me first this bane to drink
q Drink-death and ruin to my SOUL"
i MODERATE DRINKER! See your end. Tha
l. pocr wretch once stood where you stand
J. once took his first glass once said he coult
q tread the viper in the dust, but where is h
! now and where may you shortly be?
L pause. Pause in your downward course
Think of the drunkards end. Escape fo
1t your life. Another drink may be ruin for
e ever.