Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-12-16
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For the Spirit of he Age.
A peep under the Curtain.

IaugnaDle OeIOTmlLleSjl IL Will De necessary p
for me to put a yell upon my face, I" lest Ii
some finding me, should slay me-" =
Being of q compound of temperamenss, p
amounting to the nsischierous,. l have my f
own amusement with the anti-temperance II
ones of this community.
As l am the w. P. of a certain Divis-
ion, and am at the head Of every Temper
ance assemblage about here, the poor,
dram-delGded people take me for the Great
Grandsire of this mighty reformation.
Hence, they put many questions to me,
and /, Solomon-like, sometimes answer
the fool according to his folly"
Instance LIST. One of the above stamp
presented herself to me a few days since,
and in a stentorian voice, demanded -
"What on the yearth is the great secret
you Sons of Temperance have, that you
wont tell any tt5ne n v Why, madam"
said l, knowing what kind of metal / had
to deal with, Gas you are a eoon1am, I'll
give you the grand secret, if you'll never
divulge it 2" "The secret belonging to
the ladies, is a Pass Word and it is this"
whispering into her ear, the following COM
pound sentence " KISS eUery man you
UtcSC, UnUj CSC oO6Ty mum HCSS yOW.
She seemed astonishingly pleased, and
said "Is THAT L THE GRE 2" Some
days after this, when she was in company
with several other ladies, she remarked !:
" Darn my hide efany one shaU'spose the
Sons o Temperance any more a0here 1
am. For they heo principles what I
alters 6eleved IN. Don't you think the
President told me tother dag all about It,"
" Inn guine to jine EN-, sure"
Instance 2nd. At one of our public meet
ings, held some distance from our accus-
toned place of meeting, when all the
brethren were seated and ready, | gave a
sudden rap with the Gavel, when each one
arose quickly, and clothed himself with bis
appropriate reg~iia the Officers taking
their Staffs Of Office, which were made il
the foru of n dart at the top. I noticed
some confusion among the ladies, but think
ling that, probably, only a hoop had burst
ed, l made no inquiry at the time. Som'
time after, however, | received the repor
of the poor creature, who had been so bad
ly afrighted. 1t was, as follows oh
took a red hammer, and knocked SIGH
lick upon the table, that chilled my blood
III and made it quit a circulatin." can
s. then they all jumped up, and put on grea
long, red things, hanging down before an
some on EN- had great, long, sharp stick
which scared me SO badly, | almost fain
~ ed" "There ought to be a law to pl
~ down these people; for eff they are left
an go on so, they'll do harm especially
n women in a certain condition" "Why
n -, ~. LII - Ttll 10 ,~hoo H. lool -
NIL Poor thing l wonder if she was nev
r." scared as badly, when her drunken Faith
used to come home as drunk as Bach,
and as i'll as a Hyena?
Instance Sd. Another old lady on t
same occasion, reared out like young thu
ep' der "Well, if these fellows had to /
clv corn for their 5 cents like me, they'd
give them to the Sons" "Why, 1 sp'
IS. more nor 3 times 5 cents this summer
nd! Pain Killer, to cure the Gripes; Z
l that's made out'n the strongest sort of
uor.
Instance 4th. Another said "Jinin
Sons is a good thing for S. s.. ne
had any children till she ,jined 'em,
then how soon she had a little baby ~
Pm You may ask, "Whence all this ig
rance ?" [ answer that, Hardshellisn
wing the grand, prolific mother of it all.
Let me give a few samples of the :
,ain found wisdom of some of their clergy he
me One rises in the pulpit and leads off Il
"My dere bretheren, you all know | h
y to got much ~larnin, thank my God; but
take my text some where in the hir
and eend of John and..it reads somehow
way, ali, EFF any man love rot the
Jesus Christ, ah, let him be annaihs
or q ~grabnapper, ah.'" Another, in
urse. ting the text about the rich man and
arus, read, "And he saw Abraham afal
and ab, and Leather-ears in Boston, all"
Another, (and ashamed l am to tell
ahcn- who is a blood relation of mine, was pre-
.so.I ing in a stand, open at each end.
theme was the Judgement. By and b
r me. he became very pathetic, he swung
Thee. self forth and back in the stand, with
hand to his ear, like a man endeayorir
ert 10 get water out of his head. 1t was not
before he STRUCK the "bIessed tone,''
IS me sung out thus, ver6atinu, ct Htera,
"My dear bretheren, all some of
calm days, ah yoaIl hoGx Gabriel, all; a G
along with his great long rams horn,
" esI hoota-toot, ah And this profound,
inal idea of "Gabiels rams horn" so
,sport ted the hamstrings of this mighty TIL
in Israel, that his holiness "madea a spr
d sets and he landed fiat upon the ground, a
An old Dutchmau, who had been rel
e with ing the actions Of the preacher, and p
esying his "~dountaU," stepped u;
"a. bawled out, "'There, begod! l told 20
he's down, an"
otence, These are the leaders of the people
what can be expected of the people?
I'm the l close by remarking that the Har
Baptists are q curse to any count
0om- which they are found. They stand
~ sed to all improvement, and to every
.mnass- prise that looks to the amelioration of
condition. And now, kind reader, ex
ned and and see whether the truth has no
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