Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-04-28
For the Spirit of the Age.

PRopR1ETY PLAINS, N. c., April 18th, 1858.
Mr.. EDITOR Having just returned home
from a long trip around among the courts,
testing the successful operation OF the new
invention, about which | last wrote and
which, as you know, has for its object the
killing up of all the drunkards, and thereby
ushering in, at once, the great temperance
reform | eagerly grasp my quill to write
Won in renlu ata, an article a-i4a
In doing so, l shall neither object to the
heading nor footing; for from the general
tenor of his article. Judge him to be rather
a frigid kind of gentleman any how. If / can
only warm him up, by blowing upon him
with the breath of reason and common sense.
SO as to enable him to see the propriety of
being consistent in his remarks, | Shall have
fully accomplished my object.
Mr.. lcicle is very tender of his reputation.
so much Sc, that he accuses me of trying to
rldlcule himself, in connection with several
other influential gentleman, by speaking of
his acts in an %ironical amer. | hope the
gentleman will take that back for if [ failed
to speak in commentator of my person, [
hope he will regard it as a mere slip of the
pen, and not the intention. [ confess Mr..
Ed, that | forgot to pay a just tributeto the
excellent andlady, Mrs. c., whose fine din
ners, L am sure, no man relishes better than
myself; and if Mr.. Icicle don't believe it, lust
let him set along side of me some day, and
Ill give him an illustration, that may prove
somewhat to his disadvantage. AS to Land
lord having demolished his Bar, it is a
fact that hadnot noticed. Much obliged to
the gentleman for the information. | shall
certainly talk to Mr.. c. about that: and
have him to reconstruct for that will break
INTO our arrangements very much You know
that the great interest of the cause in which
we are engaged demands that all institutions
OF the kind should be kept up, particularly
those that are conducted with sufficient de-
cency as not to disgust ~drunkards, so that as
great an amount of good may be lone as pos
sible, and that too in a short a time. | had
thought that Mr.. C was a man of better
information; but | suppose he don't read the
papers. Why Mr.. Icicle should have suppo-
sed had any reference to him in a former ar
ticle, when | certainly did not intend to use his
name or to bring him before the public eve.
When a speaker or writer has occasion to
oppose vice, or applaud virtue in a general
point ofview, and assumes certain characters.
merely for illustrations, it is not supposed that
sensible people will publish to the world that
they are the persons alluded to lest in the
one case, they might seem to be guilty. or in
the other exhibit a degree of vanity but if
Mr.. lcicle is simple enough to think he is
meant, and Having put the shoe on, it pinches
his toes, he must take it off and improve by
the exercise.
MIR. lcicle says that they have a fine corn
growing country over that way and are ca
pable of producing an immense quantity of
that which is so necessary to warm I'M the
inner as well as the outer man. That is very
cheerishing news indeed, and I an yerv han
Ply to inform him that we are abundantly
blessed IN that particular, over in these do
glngs, and that too of the very best kind for
somehow or other our corn took a rot last fall
which it is true, disqualified it for men or
nogs to eat but which, by the way, exactly
nts 1t for making the very kind o~fliquor that
we want for they say it will kill a drunkard
Iuily as quick as that whichhas a solution of
Strycnnine IN 1t; that is, you know, what the
doctors Kill dogs with. Well, sir, it working
admirably up IN this country, scarcely a week
has passed since l last wrote YOU but that .
half ascore ofdrunkards have followed Wards
ducks. o! | tell you sir they are tumbline
over, under its influence, like falling off a loo
Mr.. lcicle asks very gravely what to %
when he is about to freeze to death tb;nL
Mr.. Editor, he must be a man of very d,ll
understanding for | have already told him
and repeat il, go to the grog7shop and eet
drunk and die warm and comfortable. ~ofcourse
Oh but says he, grog shops are dirty places
and | dislike to patronize them. Well that is
admitted on all hands, and those that resort
to them are dirty fellows and the sooner we can
getthem out of the country the better. That Is
exactly the reason we advocate killing the