Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-11-10

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vice, and you have to admit it, or You are
driven to the conclusion that our fundamen-
tai laws are Systematically disregarded.-
You are not blind to services rendered
The monopoly is so active in dispensing
services, that not county,. city, town or
village in the entire limits Of the State is
excused from active and efficient agents,
save few forsaken kplaces, ike Chapel
Hill, Wake Forest, Dapidson, and Normal
Colleges and Olin. High School, and
camp ground or two 10 not pretend ig-
norance of service. The meshes of the net
work of the monopoly 20 thr6kn.aE ovet
the State.
1t would take fnI1 hour to enumerate
all the services rendered, and then half
might be forgotten. But you will bear
few, only a few to be repeated: Do you not
know that the business. Of making paupers
and criminals would be cut down three
fourths, and that the jails and poor houses
would be nearly depopulated, and these inn
posing structures in each county would be
comparatively useless Then again, the
lawyers trade would not be half so pro-
ductive in the criminal practice, and there
would not be half SO much work for the
preachers, colporteurs and teachers to do,
to provide instructions aud training for the
young vagabonds, made by the agents Of
the Monopoly in every part of the land, as
subjects for these men to practice upon
Again there would notsbe SO much county
tax TO pay, and you know these industrious
fellows that mind theft own business, and
will not patronize the nieassepely, might for
get to Contribute to the public veal, if the
Sheriff did not pay his respects to them
and make a generous draw on their mem
ory. >
The claims Of the monopoly for services
are not to be neglected. Men must be
kept in practice of doing good for the pub
lie. Are you for stopping the taxes? 1t
will not do to af1ict these sober fellows
with a full recital; they. might rail at the
monopoly and call the agents ugly names,
but what are these sober men for, that will
not drink and patronizc the monopoly, but
to pay the expenses of a concern establish
ed by law? I heard one of them not
great while since say, that the law ought to
be amended, so as TO allow none but men
of bad moral character to deal out spirits to
citizens, and that instead of proving men
to be of good moral character, thatit should
be proven that every applicant was man
of bad moral character before license
should be granted to him. Now that is just
like Mr. Blackmer used to talk and like he
wrote about Dikos. He wants it under
stood that the agents ought to be men,
known to be of bad moral character Now,
with all due Difference, would like to ask
Mr.. Blackmer, whom know to be law
yer, gentleman, and | hope christian,
and, if | am rightly informed, who is at
this time filing an office in Rowan, requir-
ing the highest order of integrity, if ever
two freeholders, citizens of his county,
swore in open court that they knew him to
be a man Of good moral character? Yet
he presumes to say, Benc.'s character is
no better than it ought to be, when two
men did stceor he was a man of GOOD MO-
RAJ CHARACTER
Just see what Benc. is doing. Is he not
accommodating the public, and doing what
none but men of good moral character are
. by law allowed to do? Docs he not fur
nish liquor, out of which boys-{ {no-young
E gentlemen) get gentemanly drunk I'm
der his tutelage they are lively, and snap
: apron strings at dash, and break off all
> restraints imposed by home discipline. Do
: you complain when the law provides men
of good moral character to take care of
! public morals and the interests of the mo-
! nopoly? Benc.'s guardianship is better
defended by law than any institution in the
State. You may examine teacher oil
e youth, sign his recommendation, and set
him up in the school room, upon mere re
port Of good moral charac er, but the agent
IS of the monopoly must give assurance upon
!. the solemnity of an oath. Do you not see
3 how provident the law is in regard to this
: interest?
rs Mr.. B. are you going to do like you used
y to do when you had less experience than
# you now have? Are you going to spoil al
: that patriotism and liberty which the
d agents Of the monopoly secure to their pa
Of irons? What is to become of those cham
as pions of freedom who are so brim full O
= liberty that their hats careen and crack
N elbows and knees and their feet elude th,
restraints Of COW leather! Why, thei
th liberty speaks from their eyes, protrude
a from their noses, and glows on their cheeks
Do you mean to smother it all and lol
ri off all that accumulation of words in on
ne language peculiar to the agents and pat
nj rons Of the monopoly? Because you help
ed the monopoly to get foot hold again i
Iredell, are you going off in passion an
hit one of the established institutions {
the State, like you oRce dida Benc. veri
. ly thought the brilliancy of your nam
he and a few others from Salisbury would s
ms enlighten the court of Iredell that it coul
* see the benefits of his concern in the
ed midst; and he has succeeded. Iredell
ith no longer behind the times, but hasa gro
me shop. Benc. paid for his license and if tt
to county has to pay $50 for one dollar r.
the ceived, let these sober follows pay it. Can
hts they afford to foot up The bills of the gel
or erous monopoly established by law IN col
ep- sideration of services rendered? Thelav
the make the grog shops, and don't the jailer
bic lawyers, sherifs, and judges want som
thing to do to keep their hands in! s
Mr.. Dikos will defend the monopoly in spite
fess you and Mr.. B. Keep cool and you sh;
ens. hear again from DlKOS.
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