Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-01-30
& Fer the Spirit of the Age
Another Victim.

name to be known by, let us call thee-Devil
To-day our community was shocked by the
announcement that the body Of a dead man
had been discovered IN board the schr. Vic
tory, lying at anchor OFF the mouth of Middle
Greek.
A Coroner's jury are now holding an in
quest over the body, and the evidence is
that the came to his death by the immoder-
ate use of Spirituous liquors. 1t is under
stood that the name of the deceased is Chap
lin from Tyrrell County.
With regard to him we can say nothing, as
we know nothing. But to die suddenly, away
from home and friends, with no one near to
speak a soothing word or perform a kind of
flee, is one of the most sad and melancholy
Deaths
Gin that dread moment how the frantic soul
Raves round the walls of her clay tenement,
Runs to each avenue and shrieks for help,
But shrieks in vain!'
Y 1t is upon the liquor traffic and its supper
tiers that we wish to speak, and inquire who
Y slew this man? If we furnish a man with
5 the means to destroy his W or another's
life, knowing that he will so use the means,
< are we not accessories and ought we not to
be punished as such?
What right has a man to ask for, and what
right has any Court to grant a license to re-
tail poison to those who may be duped into
d the belief that it is beneficial and good for
ID them, and what right has the same Court, an
l. Its a0tsdom, to tax the people to defray the ex-
o. penses which accrue from the distribution of
er poison scattered among them by those to
" whom the Court has given iadulgencies, and
m thus place upon the people too burdens
or drunkenness and taxation Shall we not
he liken this generation to one of old: "Issachar
fe- is a strong ass crouching Town under tco
er burdens. And he saw that rest was good
in and the land that it was pleasant and bowed
his shoulder to bear and became a servant tt
tribute"
: One in a hundred of the population is ask
ing of the other hundred and ninety-nin,
their influence and their votes to open house
at the corners Of the stresSs of our towns an,
:" in the highways Of the cbuntr9 to vend rum
gin, whiskey and drugged vines.
This one hundredth part of the population
Tho ask of the other ninety-nine parts to sacrifc
or their interests for the profits they 1.-THE rum
olk %sellers) may make make in dealing out thes
pernicious compounds. What we ask is tn
legitimate result of the business this smo
class call upon the suffering large class
sanction and support.
IA Is it not to make drunkards of our sor
: 90 and prepare drunkards for our daughters
marry? Is it not to degrade a large class
9TH our citizens who otherwise would have bee
nonese sooer L MUSHROOMS ana large COZ
ii burdens; in place Of being made paupers erin
inals, and %madmen, filling our prisons, po
We houses, and asylums, for the industrious
on support F? Who can deny that these are Il
mo legitimate fruits of the traffic in strong drink
1t robs the individual and burdens the pu
49, lie.
- IF Shall we submit to it longer. We ha
tried gentle cords and tufts of grass, shall
con not try something harder. Moral suasi
ian? VIII ~
g in I" You may as well go stand upon the beach
tion2 And bid the main food bode his usual height.
You may as well use questions with the wolf
49,. Why he hath made the eve bleat for the lamb.
I'M ~ You may as well forbid the mountain pines
ruly' To wave their high tops and make no noise
When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven
Ike 1T You may as w9ll do anything most hard.
AS seek to soften that lthan which what's hard,
I no The Rumscller's heart"
HYDE County, Jan. 7. 1856. ARGTS