Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-15
81 Whiskey won't hurt you if you let it
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by arguments such as forms the
of this article. 1t is represented as
being a piously harmless creature that never
inficts a blow or a sting unless it is rushed
upon and some indignity offered it. In this
light it is regarded as a something crouch
ing about in odd places, innoeently fulfill
ling its manifest destiny"-perfectly harm
less-owing no man i'll will-doing nobody
any harm unless that somebody stir it up to
an indignant revenge. The friends of tenn
perance, those who speak, who write and
who talk for the principles of the cause, are
sometimes soundly berated for their trouble
and assured by the red eyed minions of the
swill pot that they are putting themselves to
a great deal of trouble for nothing-that
they are manifesting symptoms OF being
scared before they are hurt-that whiskey
is Immediately innocent and never hurts
anybody if it is let alonel
Now, this argument implies quite forcibly
that even if whiskey does wear the face Of a
lamb and apes its character for innocence
while let alone, that it is a very devil in some
DdEG VI u COuSlItut4OH cA0 CAhlVIpo q Il
talent for revenge when not let alone. If
this was not so there would be no necessity
of It's conscience-smitten keeper assuring US
after this wise /" Ladies and gentlemen,
here is a creature, beautiful to behold, spark
ling as a gazelle, as innocent looking es an
angel and will not hurt you if you let it
alone" Thus warned, it behooves US to let
it alone, lest we get hurt. There is no tel
, ling what amount of mischief the creature
{ might do if it was once touched or stirred up
: from its natural innocence.
Thus assured, we will keep at a respectful
!. distance from it, but however, we wish to
: apprise our readers that the whole truth"
e is not told in the assertion of whiskey's
e friends as above quoted. Whiskey does
a sometimes hurt even those who let it alone.
Is If this was once proven it would seem suf6.
1t cient to at once rob it of it's seeming inno-
er cence and turn every mans hand against it.
S. Unprovoked injury and violence is a most
y detestable sin. Retaliation meets with ia
is vor in the eyes of our sinfcl and corrupt ma
re ture, but violence without cause is detested
and reproached by the worst natures among
in US. Whiskey, Invested Of its allurements
We S possessed of this wicked and fendish char
ed acter: for it does iniure those who never
never touch it, as a thousand evidences abun
es, dainty prove, a few Of which we proceed t.
ST. array.
7! The honest, Woodworking taxpayer VIII
never touches it-who has let it alone all hi
~, life, is yet hurt by it in a pecuniary point G
nts view. He is annually called upon to pa
on his share of cost for the maintenance of tn
pauper, wives and children of those VIII
have not let it alone, and consequently, hav
been hurt by it. He is further hurt by it
YES the same relation by being one of those WI
pay the cost accruing from fights and V;
: rious breaches of peace caused by whiskey
ofhciousness among those who do not Lat
yes- +--0uc. christian is hurt by it, th0ug
rec ne lets it alone, by seeing the appallin
- scenes of wickedness constantly exhibited /
-olv- those who do not let it alone. The churt
ECU lets it alone, (~leastwise 1t ought toy and vet
is injured by it, by hardening the hearts
tee. the people against the blessed influences
,uy. the gospel. Here is a poor heart-brokt
ollie woman, kneeling over a freshly sodden gray
;no weeping her life away. What agony VIII
utal p'"Jois' "n@' appears 70 "er Aoro anu MA
,osa ter, and alas! with what feeble hope, tn
and the soul of her best loved may find a restil
oil place in Heaven She let whiskey alor
.oos but she has been hurt by it, aye, how dee
ly! There is another innocent woman s
ting in a miserable howell where poverty a
rho want always attend like hateful spectres.
h. She is not old yet, though care has mark
nor her once fair brow strangely. A little VIII
ago she left a beautiful home by a beautii
river to go with a stranger who had won |
for love. 1t is a short history, but one len ct
in woe. He, to whom her existence
E b;0 soul was bound with a triple cord, did
nm let whiske7 alone and it hurt hint bl
oo+o. talized him and made him every iuch a de
Hark how he curses that uncomplaini
~ u wife how he beats her with many stri
nav. because she cannot set bread before him
.ent;- his brutal companions! 1t is a short hist
N Of but very lengthy in woe. She has lie
+bat aloue, and yet she has been hurt by il
bIldb
oo.o There is another, her sister in trouble
whom is brought in the still watches of
night her once h~igh-lninded and loving |
band covered with blood, gashed "
= wounds and CHASTITY in death from the ne
20. boring d~runkery. She has always let W
key alone, but it has hurt her, alas!
O. sadly! And there is a ragged group Of |
: 49, cry children roaming the streets, beg,
,baao for pread. They were once happy
- cheerful, but now the miserable orphans
=, more miserable drunkard. They are ii
aow cent-they have never ofended-they
! .ha let whiskey alone, bnt have been hurt By
% We shall record no more-the soul
.r ems and the heart throbs with a ste
pulse of revenge for the wrongs infi
/ upon our common humanity as the darl
ing history is traced. That "whiskey W
hurt you if you let it alone" is a Ii
treacherous falsehood, and as such we
III family hurl it back in the face of sucl
= -. use it as an argument to sustain the to
az. ing pillars of a temple stained with b
II. and dark with the record of countless cri
ithout
re had Printing Matrials.
ut and A GREAT RARGATN can he had of the r.