Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-10-10
|. A Weekly Family News paper.
Our Old Friends.

In every community there are many per-
sons who once were active and Jealous labor Il
ers in the Temperance cause and the Order of S
the Sons but for several years past seem q
to have taken a Through, or else have entire h
" retired from the conflict. Their bruised r
arms are carefully hung up on the walls of t
memory. as monuments of how they once I
fought and mingled in the strife, and they I
point to the blade and buckler, capped and
SCARED, as evidences. of their valor and hero
ism. All honor to these noble veterans and
pioneers in the cause, for the valuable servi-
ces then rendered. They have remained true
to the principles of total abstinence, but they
seem to have forgotten that the battle still
RACES and their services are yet needed to beat
! back the embattled hosts of Alcohors forces.
It is with the hope of again enlisting such
in the active service of the cold water army,
that we write this article. Never, in the
whole history of our country, has the Tenn
perance cause more needed the services of our
tried warriors, than at the present. Never were
greater interests az stake-never was intern
perance damaging society more than now
The safety of your children and your chill
dren's children is in imminent peril. By your
4 aid a few years past, public sentiment and 8
/ civilized hospitality were so educated that In
a great measure the decanter was banlshed
from the sideboard, and the wine-glass from
the scenes of social festive gatherings. But,
alas since YOU, the fathers in the Temper
ance cause have withdrawn your visible and
active condemnation of these seductive and
corrupting Establishments of so-called refined
society," they are making their appearance
again-our young men are becoming entrap-
ped and led captive by their glittering fascl-
nations, until it is rare, very rare, to meet
with one who is proof against their charms.
Again The time was, and that not long
since, when through youa' influence, the traffic
had become so disreputable that scarcely any
~ man who made any pretensions to respecta
bility would so far brave enlightened publr
sentiment as to ask for a license to keep
grog4shop or drinking saloon; and almost eve
nv honorable man in all the land regarded
as an insult for another to ask him to sign
recommendation for license to retail arder
spirits. But how is it now? We lind me
!, of acknowledged responsibility, men of kim
:, ly, benevolent feelings, so recognized, ar
= who a few years ago would as soon have bee
guilty of a dishonorable action as to be four
selling liquor-we find such men now in Il
traffic, and thus engaged in entailing a gre
: evil upon society, seeming to regard it as
right and proper. And we see good men,
- regarded, moral men, and sometimes churc
- men, signing recommendations to our Coul
- for the granting of licenses to establish gro
90 shops.
&c Will not these things arouse you to actit
!; Have you no desire that the labors of "
a. past lives, and the good you then accompli
re ed, should descend to the incoming gene
tons? You must-you do SO desire. Tn
qe tn e-A
he truth, buckle on your armor again, and h.
once more the column of resistance to the
vading army, that threatens to,and a0iU, uni
successfully resisted, immediate your home
m tars, and send your children and your nei
o boris children reeling into ~drunkards' era,
ra- Awakel Arise! There is no time to be
ars fled away. Now's the day, and now's
he hourSp Old Veterans in the Tempera
me army, shake off the dew-drops that glitter
90 your garments, and come forth in battle
ray again. #rEr#+ .. -