Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-06-17
Correspondence ofthe Spirit Of the Age.
Emperance-Wm. W Greene. Esq-Tarnoat
Tie earjows Temperance orders IN the place.

Temperance-Wm. ". Greene, Esq-Tarnout
tie saTioHs Temperance orders Ia the place,
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ELIZABETH Cry, June 9, 1857.
DEAR "SPIRIT:" Our Town has been en-
hEenei and the citizens thareofmade to enjoy
a rich treat lately, by the Temperance cause
the great cause of Misunderstanding been
again brought to life,as it has been Temporal
rily sti1ed, though not entirely crashed out
In our midst for some time past; and also by
listening to a course of lectures on this sub
jet delivered by that distinguished lecturer
William w. Greene. Esq, of Virginia.
This gentleman entertained the people of
our usually quiet Borough on Friday and
Saturday nights, the 5th and 9th of June
He also addressed a crowded house of the
most respectable and fashionable portion of
our Town, at which time the Sons of Tenn
perance, the Rechabites and Cadets of lem,
perance turned out in regalia and marched
in procession to the Baptist Church, which
had been arranged for the reception of the
Speaker and the Temperance hosts, who
looked remarkably we'll, and seemed to their
opponents more terrible than an army with
banners.> think there were some sixty or
seventy five persons out in all, and probably
more.
The lecture of Mr.. Greene, on this occasion,
was a mastery effort. Astounding in sound
and overwhelming arguments and facts andin in
terspersed with amusing anecdotes which had
a tendency, occasionally, to bring down the
house, | shall not attempt a description of
the speech of the allie lecturer-suffice to say
it was all his friends could wish from him /;
more than they would have reasonably ex-
acted from him.
Our cause is onward and its tendency is
upward. and it's friends will never be satisfied
until they have pushed it on to its final tri-
umph and though the devotees of King
alcohol may sneer at our efforts in the cause
of Temperance and think it but leading a
forlorn hope in the battlefield Of life, we
will fight on, fight ever against the hosts of
Bacchus and all opposition, come whence it
may.
Mr.. Greene left here this morning much
to the regret of all our citizens-not only
temperance people, but all who had the pleas
ure of listening to his splendid powers of
oratory as displayed while in this Town.
| understand he lectured and established
u Division of the S.. of T.. at Woodville, in
Perquimans County. May success attend
him. K.
For the Spirit of the Age.
Mr.. EDITOR 81 am pleased to read in the
dear Spirit of the success of the temperance
cause in different parts of the country, and
especially of the revival spirit manifest in
many of the old Divisions. The cause Is
doubtless on the advance in this up country
though | regret that some divisions have
ceased to work, yet others are more prosper
Gus than they have ever been, and still others
chartered to supply the places of those gon'
down and the advancemeHts they are ma
king 90 to show that their charters have beer
entrusted to good hands.
There is also, on the public mind, such
strong impression in favor of tomperance tina
the majority of those still engaged in tn
Ticker business, are so from interest. /
few days since | was in the neighborhood O
Pennington, but saw no town or village
which the stranger would naturally expec
to see at so noted a place but a body of tn
best farming land l ever saw-literall
Fdrmiagton and | think the people woul
com pare favora0ly with the land.
Near the centre Of this locality are tw
Academies, Male and Female, and the beat
tiful farm, residence and store of w. Johl
son, ESQ.,, than whom a moro liberal AN
thorough-going Son of Temperance cannot /
found. Within the belfry that surmoun
the store-house hangs a bell, at the sound
WHICH Tile l.. ". W.. L. ) VI D.. -. 3, d > Oic tlIuS
for meeting may be, meet in the upper chan
Der. Had that bell been there a few veal
ago, its sound might have awoke the sleep'
in many a stillhouse and been the uncol
scious monitor of many a guilty conscienc
But the breath of public opinion migl
say Pennington Division) had blown OF
their fires before this bellifferous speaker toe
his stand. And som of the few that ST
burn, is for the avowed purpose ofsupplyir
the article for medicinal purposes. What
subterfuge
The sessions of the Division here are we
attended. They boast a larger membersh
than they ever had before, with the vel
valuable addition of fifty or sixty visitir
ladies. This division lost a few years al
E many valuable members by the spirit of en-
grafton which prevailed; but since the pc
pie have gained access to the markets
means of the N. G. Rail Road they are mo
contented and Pennington Division bids ia
now to become, if it is not already, the ba
ner Division Of the state.
( DAVIDSON.
T,,o 1877