Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-30
Unmoved by Womap's Tee

on1noFeu Dy Woman's Tears
Inc wife OF a poor drunkard approached
a notorious iiquor-seller, and with ereo,
roiling down her cheeks, she plead -
begged, prayed and used every ent,ao.r
nef power to induce him to sell no more IL
quor to her besotted husband. He Iistoraa
10 9eri In silent contempt for awhile. and d..
assured her that while her husband bro,nh.
the money he should let him have ms,
much Equor as it would pay for This mar
lives IN a moral community. and has -
tne gospel preached. lie probably keeps a
bioie In his own house. and NAV poss;Ilr
oeheVe that the righteous shall be saved and
the wicked damned. From certain acts of
ms In past ears, 1t is presumed that he be.
ieves man to be invested with an undyinp
principle that must enjoy infinite bliss, or
realize untold anguish forever. And Yer
ne acts as though he doubted all these solemn
realities, and as though be believed the gath
ering together a few pieces Of silver was the
great and final purpose for which he was crea-
ted.
We venture the assertion that there is no
other vocation under the sun that so blunts
the sensibilities of a man as nat of liquor
selling Let any man Engage in II and alter
a very short apprenticeshina
s~slazfer q eI;ESsM
was COED and ~praIseWoTtby IN him before,
has been destroyed and supplanted by the
evil that has grown up rapidly within him.
There is no man so poisonous with natural
in medRness as to be entirely insensible to the
y emotions of pity, sympathy, commisseration
ng and the other finer traits that stir the human
le- soul-the very worst are sometim's moved
and grieved for the sorrows of others but
its the regular liquor seller is as hard as flint,
and nothing seems capable of arousing him
s." to a sense Of his sin against his fellow-beings
are short of the seething vengeance of an insulted
the Heaven. Every energy and every faculty Of
lys his sordid sonl is strained to the utmost to
me-, gather the miserable pittances that come to
;, his box of blood money, and no scene of d eso-
lation caused by his unholy traffic affects him
or stops him for q mOment; but whatsoever
- cometh with the money, shall have his infa-
>, nous merchandise, that kills-that dooms-
that damnsl
Here is a young man who once bid fair to
lead a life of usefulness and honor. The
~ liquor seller set a tap in his path and he ha,
been ensnared. He is a hopelessly drunken
dwelling sot,-and an old fathers head il
bowed with sorrow for his best To-, ed, an
- silver has fallen into the guilty palm Of lh
destroyer. There is a group of fatherles
children-ragged, Ignorant and hungry
Had their father lived they would have bee
wing decently clad, learning wisdom at school, il
It's telligent and happy; but a poor, sick mothe
ap. cannot bestow these blessings upon the fail
and erless. and the world seems dark and ploom
deal to their young vision. That dead father
rmi- property went into the grogshop, and his sol
: ahu went out from it to test the solemnities
wise another world. There is a young woman
be the mourning widow of a young man WI
right dled from excessive drlnKlng, bought iro
good this unfeeling vampire ; her young heart
crushed, and she BOWS her throbbing hes
Reacs upon the top of the old grave yard fence al
call weeps, oh how bitterly! And there is
lines heart broken wife standing up before him al
beg begging him with all the gift Of language S.
see can employ, while the great tear drops cor
the urbidden to help her plead with the ir
hearted wretch to sell her miserable husbal
leave no more liquor; but he cares not for her ST
lie be- row-he heeds not her cries-he scorns h
tears. While he brings money he shall III
.otbsr Just as much liquor as tpoys JorP
Hard, hinty ironsouled wretch! Give h
800 less than the thirty pieces of silver
e. which Judas betrayed the guilelcss Nazare
and he would turn loose II tide of desolati
! OK that should engulph and destroy millions
Unmoved by woman's tears, nothing of ear
80: ly power or human sympathies can stay
t bloody hand but there is a Power that 81
one day say-'thus far and no farther sh
thou go;' 'for your covenan with de
shall be ~disannulled, and your agreem
loisn with hell shall not stand when the on
10 J"' flowing seourge shall pass through, then
plish- shall be trodden down hy it,
> Will -