Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-04-09
StoD that Rolling !

DR.. Charles Jewett, in MS lectures, COM
pares the Liquor system to Bowling Alley.
As fast as Temperance men reform drunk
ard the Liquor sellers bowl l him down again.
The following from late article in the New
York Tribune, is a distressing case in point:
We had young mechanic ofsuch extra
ordinay skill in his business as to furnish
him with great run of customers, who knew
that what he did was we'll and promptly done.
His work was widely noted in our region,
but he had one infrmity, inherited from
drunken father and greatly aggravated by
his own indulgence. He always averred
that he was born with the appetite for strong
drink, and his averment was fact. In
childhood his father had learned him to drink,
and the rude circle in which he moved was q
drinking school. AS an apprentices he was
restrained but not reformed, and before he
was % years old he was confirmed drunk
ard. He became attached to young woman
Of excellent character and industrious.
economical habits but his habit was an in
superable objection in her eyes He aban-
doned his cups for her sake, opened shop,
began thriving business on his own account.
ln this he was honest, and as put to inter
est 500 after another of his earnings, he
became more strongly resolved never to drink
again. Meantime, his reformation seemed
so thorough that heyoung woman consented
to be his wife. All went on happily for some
years; but during this time his old drinking
companions were tempting him to Join them,
but he loved his family, and his business was
prosperous, and he had SO long resisted the
temptation that he5supposed himself safe. lie
4 was elected to an office of some Importance,
and this led him to the taverns. The des-
trOyer was on his track, and suddenly it was
rumored that A. B. was having his sprees
ag"'n: fho I'D eyes and .forrnYF,ni looks or
his vile showed that 1t was true. He had
n been tempted to taste a little, and his old ap-
petite revived into uncomfortable energy.
The liquor sellers and their pimps applauded
their victims emancipation from pettcoat
: government and priestcraft. An influen-
tial friend induced him to abandon his cups
once more, and everything again seemed
right. His customers returned, his wife smi-
, led again, and he was happy. | seem even
c now to see his delighted face and to hear his
manly voice, as he YVES listening to lecture
J. On certain occasion, from that admirable
J. man, DR.. Jewett And yet the very mex
. day he was entrapped into tavern and be
came drunk. He went down with fearful
7 rapidity, but saved his property by deciding
it to a friend in trust for his family. This
l. done, be gave himself up with frantic AM
y desperate eagerness. Everybody expected
e. he would die; but by some means he ha
N been led to abandon drink once more. and i
20 again making money at his trade. But tn
'u uicatchers hover about him. and it will b
II no Surprising thing if he falls again
What is true of him is in many respect
- true of scores of other reformed drunkards i
our town the last twenty-five years. The
~ have been subjected to a running fire ever
IN time thav vnnturnd IN tho strent co that tho
It had no chance to try whether or no the
ng could master their diseased appetite for rum