Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-12-09
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For the Spirit of the Age.

For the Spirit OF the Age
Mr.. EDITOR With heart painfully
sensible Of the woes of Intemperance, sit
down to write this article. The autumnal
season has brought in the abundant har-
vest of corn with which God has blest our
happy country, and Distillers have gone to
work, boiling it up to poison the bodies
and damn the souls of the people. For
time we had. some respite from the howl
of the drunkard and the wall of his dis
tressed family. The liquor had "gia out"
and many poor wife's heart had been
made ito leap for josE,o God Almighty
had laid an embargo k1n the fruits of
Which it is generaffy = s1 and ti1v. artieles-
was almost extinct.
! The "talepp' of fruit has been so shame
fully abused and misapplied, that it has
been 'taken from us and given to another"
May we not expect and predict the same
corn, and rye, and aUhedt, if men continue
to manufacture them into streams of liquid
ruin and death, and to send them out in
rapid, maddening currents all DER our blood
bought land Mark this prophecy, and
! look for its fllfllment
: The dram maker, Il had liked to have
; written The daneed maker, and, probably [
y should have obeyed the inspiration,) has
no knowledge of the amount of evil he is
~ making! He will not know, because he
! shuts his eyes against the truth. Let me
> tell you, my dear Editor, what is going on
about here. And if ] pull off my gloves
q and handle some men tolerably roughly,
you will regard me as only doing my hon
j., est duty.
", 70 A little West Of the stand point of your
correspondent, lives good, old member
l. of the S-r Church; having some thous-
ands Of dollars at interest; with respect
~, able family of children around him; pos
~ sessed Of much of this earth's goods of all
IS necessary kinds; his children readers o.
your excellent Age, and few days since
:, he commenced that inhuman sort of con
-, duct, boiling up his corn to make a liVing!!.
- Just below me is another, near to some o
us by the ties of fconsanguinity, who, though
od a rich man, runs two distilleries daily, send
~ ~ ing out thousands of gallons of liquid ruiz
upon our world.
A little nearer home is another manu-
w factory Of hell; and the proprietor is St
he far lost to all sense of shame and proprie
W. ty, that when Temperance meeting wa
tos y held near his den at Christian Church
'Mo+ M he dragged his jug Of whiskey to the grow
~, NV near the Church, and tolled off some youn
f,r men, and made them drunk
i Not 10 miles from the spot where th
writer now sits, is-the~ son of a Hardshe
40 Baptist Preacher distilling corn, and, it
said, his father IS helping him. With
- two miles of this place, and within one mi
sos of a Division of the Sons of Temperate
III, is an Elder in the In Church lnakir
!. 20 - the stuff, and being drunk every day. B
,oI fore me sits an aged sire, whose heart b
w an beat the seconds of Sc summers. His sal
W. ted wife long since has gone up to heav
,;no ~ and taken herseat among the spirits Of t
''P0 Just. This old man is member of the
E. Church. By his side sits a wrecked a.
e ruined son, made so by intemperance-
iter Your correspondent is laying the claims
rloe the Order before this ruined Young m;
lon, The old man opens his mouth in denunc
IS II tions against the Order, and in favor
mas distilling. What shall | say to him /?
), 70 Shall point him to the living argume
'iSe is the person of his ruined son He
le ol ready sees that. Shall | present him W
ieiil' the solemn truths of inspiration I hs
uP done that !; but 'he is wiser than Sc,
! no men that can render reason" O! W
.lity. 7 Vulcan ], With q MONT of nol;shad =
I'- | would write in living characters of Ii
Il US fire upon the arched heavens, "He t
The drinks runa shall de-" and then with
onor, voice of a sevenfold thunder, would I r
lized it to the whole world. that all MIGHT f
ortal In my imagination see the father
were his numerous progeny in hell. That f
:, and er lived in the Church, and drank