Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-06-30
For the Spirit OF the Age.

For the Spirit OF the Age.
Mr.. EDITOR I saw in your paper of
April 28th, another article signed " Con
sistency," which by your permission | will
notice in few brief remarks. My first
impulse after reading that article was to
keel over and quit, like the noble animal
spoken of in the fable; but after few mo-
ments recovered enough to feel my own
pulse which indicated that reaction was
taking place that might recover and
" live to fight another day"
Having now fully recovered, as think,
shall proceed to reply to Mr.. C's last ar
ticle. But first, in regard to what he may
have said in the last, and former numbers
concerning our Landlord and other public
men, would state that it seems not to
have affected them at all they being men
of little stronger nerve than myself were
not acted upon in the same way. | would
also state for the information Of Mr.. c.,
that neither before nor since the appear
ance of his articles have we in this dark
corner seen or heard Of any great phenom-
enon taking place in the world to foretell or
indicate his advent; but all things have
moved on like clock work, as if no great
one had arisen in these latter times to turn
the world upside down. Our natural in
ference is that Mr.. c., is an apostle of Joe
Smiths and Brigham's stripe, except that
Mr.. C.'s stripe is all of one color.
He claims to have put on foot a new in
vention, viz: that Of killing out all the
drunkard's by the present license system,
and thus free the world of drunkenness at
once. Wonder if any body knows where
the operation commenced? cannot re-
collect when there were no grog shops,
bar-rooms, liquor wagons, &c. And in lis
tcning to the tales of by-gone days, as re-
lated by aged people of my first acquain-
tance, do not recollect of ever hearing of
the time when there were none. Pardon
me, Mr.. Editor, if | more than hint that
do not believe it has taken place during
the history of Mr. Consistency, q NEAR
the young gentleman) this modern apostle
that figures in your columns for | am per
suaded that he is at least I" the thirty sec
ond" cousin of the old gentleman, whom
we all admit without ever having seen, t
be Jewel" The invention itself an
the great fabric he seems to be buildin
thereon, is mere air castle that needs nc
even the stroke of pen to demolish, whic
will tumble down about the builders cal
before he gets the foundation under it
for it is plain to every one of sense, that b
has commenced at the top and is workin
downwards.
Mr.. G. seems to wish to blow his breat
e on me very much, which am as anxiou
that he should not do, forI have been wit
g enough hypocritical temperance men
$ know that their breath is not always ma
r ural. When l want to smell perfumes
e spices and the like, prefer going to Cul
or some other southern cline. So, won
inform Mr. G. that I respectfully declil
$ acceding to his proposition. Mr.. G. seer
r to be great frequenter of the courts b
q he does nottell us in what capacity he got
e whether as Judge, Lawyer, Pedlar of Raz
> Strops, or as the gentleman that turns f
e sixpence at the grog shops and corne
y that he goes there in obedince to one
: those instruments, (what are they called
,e believe they read something about TAXI
% the body, &c.
g, frequently attend our courts, and if a
f. temperance apostle, great or small, has be
to there at its sittings or at any other til
e. since a certain Rev. gentleman got cheer
so tremendously that he had to quit
Of speech, am not aware of it. But, if
ed believe Mr. c., he was there in March Ia
and heard I" fuss" and saw fight
,f- tells us, also, that his irstsupposition, wh
an he heard the fuss" was that shot fr,
my fusee having missed its aim (him) b
"I taken effect in the poultry yard; but Il
he afterwards saw the true cause, VIII
IN was, fight between two men. As to
,sa first supposition | would state that
sorry | cannot direct my shots better,
he would remind him Of his better success
eoI telling him to read again the first paragrf
in this article. AS for the fight he S
The he saw, he need not have written that
md and sent it all the way to Raleigh to h
published, because | intimated in my
,at article that we were a little inclined tc
mn, pugilistic over here. But did he re
see a fight. l doubt it, for the follow
ere reasons-our people are very sportive,
nile pecially so when they have plenty of
oveJoWfuI, and it may be that they '
ont engaged in some gymnastic or athletic
ical ercise and he supposed they were fight
This will appear the more reasonable. "
hat tell you that they are so passione
lar fond of it that they will without amy
the petitor just in the way of practicing 81
nm times take @ fall.
de- In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, I would
ence that | have no disposition to pursu,
gentleman further-I have scanned b
odon ticles closely and have become cony