Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-09-10
From the Concord Weekly Gazette.
Grog Shops.

Reasons why they should not be suffered
in a community.
1. They are nuisances, as respectable men
who live in their neighborhood can testify.
2. They manufacture ~drunkards, who are
nuisances to the public. to- their families
and to themselves, whose portion is misery
in this life and eternal misery IN the world
to come.
3. They manufacture paupers who are sup
charity.
4. They tend to impoverish s&ommunity,
by destroying the proparty I'd the sober, IN
dustrious habits of his citiz4
5. They originate ninete& twentieths Of
the lawsuits that are tried our Courts.
O.. They cost out country Aore than one
hundred millions of dolIaf8 annually, for
is given.
Z. They draw money out5of the pockets
of the moral and respectable to build and
support jails, penitehtiaries Ind poor-hous-
eS.
s. They originate the larger portion of the
murders, adulteries and other abominable
crimes. which disturb the peace and destroy
the virtue of the country.
.. They manufacture q clan z0f base char
acters who are devoid Of principles, and are
ready to lie, steal, fghk, aud fSerpetrate any
crime which occasion may2sAegest.
10. They destroy domesz ace and hap
piness.
Ii. They outvie any scOurge of God in
making hoart-broken widows, and ragged,
Ignorant orphans.
II. They are a fruitful cause Of many of
the fIightlul accidents on our railroads and
STEAMBOATS,, by which the lives and property
of the citizens are endangered.
13. Poison is sold in them, which if it were
put into bread and sold to human beings by
accountable man, would cost him his life
Alcohol is a poison rank enough without mix
i2g with it other poisons.
IA. Those who frequent them, avoid the
house Of God, drown the whispering of con
science, drive away the influences of the Ho
~ Spirit, and put themselves beyond tht
reach of mercy.
Is. Those who live in these dens Of pros
titution and deal out " liquid damnation" be
come devoid Of all principle, lost to all sens,
, of humanity, honor, shame and religion, an
disgraced in the eyes of all respectable men
outcasts from decent society, whose heart
! are harder than a mill stone, and whose con
, sciences are scared as with a red hot iron.
The reasons mentioned above, are some {
I them legal, some Of them political, and som
! of them moral.
vi CUufSo Gue steps To D0 ltk6u " 1GHioV
a moral and political evils, even fthey shout
7 be of the most atrocious nature, ought to
strictly legal. But that community is in
! deplorable condition in which vice and in
morality" cannot be punished, and so in
3 good degree prevented, By laaO.
: In such a community, the majority are e
Their themselves under the influence of the'
vices and immoralities which. ought to ]
u destroyed or are shamefuliy indifferent
: their existence or their ~inaetion must
owing to the want ofmoral courage to reno
them, or to some selfish consideration. U
4 on the superstition that the majority are n
!, under the influence of the evils deplore
their ~inaction cannot be occaSloned by t
want of power to remove them. l cannot
r. persuaded that a majority of any commupi
ol in this Republican Land are compelled
Is submit to a general moral and political ev
a Neither can l believe that the majority of
citizens of the town of Concord are iguora
as of the main cause Of vice and immortal
az which is dloaced to exist ia their midst.
Why then is not the town purged of the
! ant evil that pollutes it? Why is the =
nc fountain from which flow streams of pol
ton through a respectable community j
use dried up Why should Magistrates, La
yers, Sheriffs, Constables, Jurymen, and y
LII nesses be paid out of the public money
he cleanse the polluted streams, while no eficit
step is taken to arrest the c~easeless Aow of
corrupted fountain?
I'LL Will Il farmer desiring to prepare q pit
NJ ocwooI-laad for cultivation, waste hisstren
ier and money, and spend year after year
up stripping the trees of their leaves, rat
than lay the axe at their roots? We
have murders, and street-6ghts and quar-
ings, and a rude, unprincipled set of L
and boys intesting the streets polluting
III families Of the town and destroying tt
ecu peace and comfort as long as we have q
SO shops. Then in the name of humanity
ia religion if there be any lawfuG metbo,
.es- put down the cause of so many evils, lie
;+b use i. If there be no lawful method an
- none can be devised, then let US confess
the laws under which we live are the rev,
ap- of those which God has laid down as pro
lea for human governments, and are a prais
TOR evil doors and a terror to them that do W
and let us mourn our sad condition, and I
ard God to remedy the defects of our gov
al ment.
God hath said, elf an OK gore a man
G ~ woman that they die, then the OK shaI
gut stoned, but the owner shall be quit b.
lef, tie OK is wont to push with his horns, a
1T, hath been testified to his owner, and he
ion, not kept him In, but he hath killed a ma
cret a woman, the OK shall be stoned and his
,on ner shall also be put to death.o [ con
for the moral principle of this law as |
applicable to all human governments.
IS Ardent Spirits are won't to destroy the
ind les and souls of men and = hofb icon
fatal fled to the vendors of it.
such -.se
-. An E>rn aarn rox--z- $50 n - TIT II