Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-05-26
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first take all your me q and then kick your
empty pockets out goors because the
bottle irnps are pl:sAg the deuce with
your poor noddles
Bllt to come to III respectable names
if any can be found i Dram is nearly as
old and has kept as od COMPANY as any:
for It IS used BY ph. eians and druggists
as well as the toperM It has besides some
touch of morality abptit, for ittakes three
scruples to make sAa. IF a man have
any conscience left 4 let him not think
Of dram without II scrnples. The NOR
al, if not the apothel IS, l,re the frst for
his home, the secon or bis country. the
third for himself moral weight
ito be. overcome takes dram.
Il a man can maEs = aSsnsa Of spirits coun@
terbalance his love for his family, for his
reputation and health of body and mind,
then he may suffer it to kick the beam
against industry and self respect and hap
piness. Then, and not till then, may he
take drop Of the creature, but let him re-
member that every drop is bringing him
a astep nearerto another kind of drop, which
every living being allows to be drop too
much.
But we are getting out of respectable
company. Indeed it is hard to find it
among king alcohols angels. This very
king himself came from Arabia. Brandy
we have seen is Dutchman, and gin was
born Of Geneva. Sorry am I that this
goodly city should have produced such a
notorious scandal. Indeed the fellow has
some grace left, for no one would suspect
that gin was from Geneva. Truly he is
himself SO often disguised, as well as being
the means Of Disgusting others, that it is
doubtful if he always knows his own name,
at any rate there are many others that
answer for him. He seems to be aware
that gin is a snare, and covertly lies con-
cealed to catch the unwary, as Satan
"Squat like toad close at the ear of Eve,
Assaying by his devilish art to reach
The organs of her fancy and with them forge
Illusions as he list phantoms and dreams
Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint
The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise
! raise
At least distempered discontented thoughts
Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires
Blown up with high conceit engendering
PRIDE
Could gin be better described? 1t is
hoped that Ewes daughters will beware Of
him, who proved himself so successful a
! tamntor To tbair Y,o+bor
We come now to another foreigner, who
used most impudeatly and most unwarrant,
ebly 20 -iatradA. blal .ple- er,,4-..e, froA born
Americans on the Nurth of July. | mean
punch. He is Spaniard, as his name i'm
ports, one of those towards who stab yor
in the dark. A goodly enough looking
parsonage at distance, who captivatei
your taste and tempts you by light ad-
!, mixture Of sweet and sour to private con
ference, which is no sooner obtained thar
he gives you tremendous thrust, anC
, there you lie, an Independent citizen or
independence day, punched indeed, sans
teeth, sans eyes, sans everything, but burn
ing headache. So much for receiving
despot at your table on the fourth of July
After this cruise abroad we come home
to whiskey, white faced whiskey. All, he'
true blue, genuine native of old Kentuck
! But are you sure Of whiskey, without th'
t white faced +; it has made too many whit,
f as we'll as red faced. Ask the adopted
sons of America, who have come from tn
oppressed and cruelty burdened green isl
of the ocean. The land of Burke, o
Sheridan, of Goldsmith, of Grattan, Cur
ran and Emmett Yes, the land whicl
produced such orators and poets, has, witt
: its good things, given US the name of whis
key, corruption from usquebaugh, whicl
means the water of life, name original,
given to distilled spirit. Alas, it has prov
q ed the water of death to too many of th
S sons of Ireland. In bitterness of spiri
they have deplored it worse than Britisl
yoke, and like the ancient pilgrims the
o have sat down and wept For whiske
was their worst enemy, from which
: would seem as if no glorious memory, n
Orangemen, no repeal or union could say
: them. No, not even if they left their des
country and came with eager hopes hitt
a er, for with more money there was NOR
/ liquor, which threatened to extinguish e1
IS cry spark of generous feeling from th
II breast. But thanks to Heaven, the Ian
: that gave whiskey gave also Father Ma
:, thew, who has caused whiskeyto sink dow
is among the hated and abhorred things
't the earth.
RS Rum, what a name is that. You ma
n say it means old fashioned, and so it doe
re What a name for drink.
as Take them all together what a villain
Gus set they are. Nearly all the vel
% worst offspring of foreign kingdoms, tn
n have from time to time been thrown upe
es our shores, not to encourage or aid us, n
lie to cultivate our farms or man our shir
~ not to lessen taxes, hide modification
le appease our griefs, but to double, doub
I'd toll and trouble. w.
= Harvard, April, 1858.