Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-11-25
DEBATES OF CONSEQUENCE
WITH
Distiller, Wholesale Dealer, and Retailer


WHOLESALE DEzfERs ooUNTISa nooaE
ooneladea from our last.I
Conscience you know that little,
halfsstarved. bare footed child, that you Just
SCI h0es Tith two Gusts q saa'' Pais.'al
morning. that the furniture of Mr.. nj. IS to
be sold under the hammer tomorrow
Have I not often seen him in your tap
room -
Retailer-I am extremely busy just now,
in bringing up our ledger.
Conscience -Haveyou heard how n"
abused his family, and turned them all into
the street the other night, after being sup
piled by you with whisky?
Retailer.-He is brute, and ought to be
confined, in dungeon six months at least,
upon bread and water.
Conscience.-Was not s., who hung1
: himself lately, one of your steady custom
ers 2 and where do you think his soul IS
now fixed for eternity? You sold INN rum
: that evening, not ten minutes before you
: went to the prayer meeting, and had his
4 money in Your pocket, (for you would not
# trust him,) when you led in the exercises.
Il I heard YOU ask him once, why he did not
It attend meeting, and send his children to
1t the Sabbath-school; and | shall never for
1t get his answer: "Come, you talk like a
e minister; but after all, we are about of
D one mind-at least in some things Let
y me have my Jug and be going"
al RetaiLer-I know he was an lmpudent,
he hardened wretch; and though his death
is was extremely shocking, | am glad to be
gs rid of him.
= Conscience you ready to meet him
10 at the bar of God, and to say to the Judge,
ng ''He was my neighbor-I saw him going
lat down the broad way, and did every thing
las that a Christian could do to save him z
ng Retailer.-Aside-O that I could st1fe
the upbradings of this cruel monitor. You
by keep me in constant torment. This ever
the lasting cant about rank poison, and hquiO
ce. fire. and blood, and murder, Is too mucf
lty, for even Christian to put up with. Why
OF if any body but Conscience were to max
ex- such insinuations and charges, he would b
,ers indictable asa foul slanderer, before cour
Out of Justice. aeess, !
set copscience lis it szasRer. or Is v 80
Of Snnnose / were to hold my peace, Will
pre- Torr hands are becoming more and NOR
to doenlv crimsoncd with this bloody trafff
lthv What would you say to- me, when yc
lctu- come to meet that poor boy, who just we
,cca- ont. and his drunken father, and broke
rs to hearted mother, at the bar OF God! won
mple Won thank your conscience for having
here Won alone while there was space lett
eAio- repentance! IN .,
every Reta;ler.-Ah, had honest trader e'
rnest e,,cb q conscience to deal with before
vision Always Just SO uncomPromslhg.
talking about the golden rule"-alw
aterial INSISTING upon moral standard when
y Di- hodv can live up to-always scentlng
oper- ertv. murder, and suicide, IN every gas
t and whisky. though it were mile OH
of the truth is, you are not fit to live IN TINS
eptibly at all Acting in conformity with
md us. move than puritanical rules, would st
ater or onv man and his family to death.
and is ousc;ence.-Well, here comes ant
associa- o,,ato,,or-see the carbuncles! Will
e,Oarne- fiji his bottle with wrath, to be poure'
member Ti+bont mixture, by and by, upon your
V cause haada Do YOU not know that his
SIN they wife Is extremely i'll, and suffering for
If the &c evorv comfort, in their miserable Ct
' us, we " Reta;zer.-No, Mr.. E., go home an(
world care Of your family. | am determn
to shoaU barhor no more drunkards here.
asing to Consc;ence.-You mean to make
IS Of our +;nction then, do you, between har'
ieve that those who are already ruined, and n
er in the to DESTROY such as are now resPe
ther than ,,,onohers of society? You will not
connec- fer tolerate a single drunEdrd
OF TWO premises; but
L: either Reta;ler-Ah, see what you a
IS, or else inc at and really, it Is too nluch
hall bear honast man. and still more for any
Use? Let .;or ~ hear. You know it IS lol
common since | have pretended to answer HI
int not by oo,+;ons questions. There's no us
reward in T. fonlv leads on to others still more
e your du- +;nont and puzzling. Hlamthe hu
OF a good nart ,x Of that factor of Satan VIII
and point would make me, ought to be de
and cast out of the church at on
ad / voice why don't my good brethren see
| proclaim Conscience hard
,ooUeth to do which they, perhaps, better know
as sars answer than do.
of broken Reto;Ier,-But have you torg(
# sorrowlng GOOD Conscience, that IN retailing
walls of the ann nnder the Immediate eye ano
more to the &c the laws. Mine is no contra
safety, and 6c as YOU very well know.
use of God cense from the rulers and faith
: to the mast State. and have paid my money
nix or swlm' the public treasury. Why 90
p" tinue to grant and sell licenses Il
w. L. u. for me to sell rums
Conscience Another hard
Cary, writing which leave them to answer a
- Sate Of the can It is said, however, that
- cle.,o.ton dies have no soul, and If they ha
I OhAfio''0D' # IS difficult to see how they ca
conscience and if not what sne I
i. tour through them from selling licenses
assed through the civil authorities snou.I 1;no o
ire, and, upon a license to 3eeP ,,,5eho.e s1,
ascertain that lbrothel, would you PulGn - ,
ID in either of and present it as salve TO
nor is uupopu- ence! N onoo =
d as crime.- Retaiter-i ten YOU r onoU 20, =
) rm N even in the NO use in trying to answer yo'
for, say what | will, yos-Sav'
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