Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
For the Shirt Of the Age,

/ am again forced to ask a place in your
columns, because of the unfairness of one OF
your correspondents, in relation to the Vii
lage Just below. He proposes to keep you
posted up in matters connected with it, and
Notwithstanding he brings his own bantling
so fayorably to view, he seems to take espe-
cial care to keep the rival pole cat denim this
place entirely in the back ground. as if he
were afraid the bare mention of it would give
it a notoriety injurious to his own darling pet.
/ would have your very modest correspon-
dent understand, that the other drunkery
has changed hands also it is getting to be a
difficult business to dispose of Salisbury
Strichnine and wbiskey Especially since
they have become so loying) to responsible
men, and hence the less respectable man of
the mug has disposed of his filthy concern to
men who have nothing to loose, either of
character or money. This ia what | Ike to
see ; for we have much less to fear now than
previously, for all must acknowledge that
money gives, to some extent, responsibility.
This community is assigning to the roguish
business of grog selling its true position ;
and the wise and good have great reason to
thank God that it is. SO. There will be much
more hope for the rising generation, when
all good citizens will not only look upon the
man who presumestomake aliying by spread
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erty, rags, ignorance and death, as a disgract
to his species but will have the m~anlines:
to tell them SO and to treat him as they would
q degraded wretch, who had been guilty o
any or all the crimes that ardent spirits en-
gender.
!, The glorious cause of Temperance is on
ward and upward in this community, and j
signs are to be relied on, the days Of gro
|, shops are numbered. Were it not for a fey
!. individuals, who occupy halfway respectful
ground, and who persist in visiting thos
upper bells, which are but the ante -ehambe
to the lower and fiery one, ] am sure tha
those lean, lank, hungry hyenas could nj
exist three months but nevertheless the
must cease to destroy so much good a RICH
eous God will see to it. These active agen
of his Satanic Majesty shall totter and fan.
Il It is a difficult matter for some individual
whose accursed thirst for rum is preyir
q upon their whiskey picked corporations,
give it up but the fates have decreed
70 and the all powerful controller, public OPT
ion, united with the entreaties and tears
amiable, lovely wives, and tender, helplt
n children, will snatch from the very jaws
he death and ruin, the noble husband and faith
MT When, oh, when, will man, the mas
IN piece of Gods workmanship, reflect up
this matter as he should, and turn his f;
re away from the evil yea set his face as o d
he against that evil which renders the hon
n. farmer a nuisance to his family, the use
mechanic a pest to the community, the
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ire not tell a copy OF blackstone from an l
on mentary spelling book which in many ca
m has entered the sacred desk and taken
man, upon whose lips thousands have hu
tn. with breathless silence while he has been
coursing of eternal things, and made
sen the contempt of the contemplate.
TEMPERANCE
N. B. There is not q GROCERY in the viii
Just below at this time that a respects
the colOred gentleman can enter, without lo
his good name.