Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-12-26
Temperance and the Times.

So great a space in the Age is required to
keep our readers posted up with regard to the
stirring events in these exciting times, that
we have not as much room TO devote to our
~favorite theme as usual. But while we are
so jealous of our political rights, and so de-
termined to resist political aggression
while we declare hostility to those of the
North who would degrade and empoverish US
Jet US not forget that we have an enemy IA
our midst that is destroying our brightest
hopes, tearing from our home affairs our dear
est idols, and degrading and empoverishing
our friends, our brothers, our mothers and
our sisters.
Do we not all lore our homes, our hearths
and our blessed father-land- our lovely sunny
South! Yes, we dearly love our fowery hills,
our verdant wales, our towering mountains
and our waye-washed shores; and like the
good old Patriot of the olden time, would
spare nothing that Rome demanded for her
protection. Then are ace not ready to protect
our homes and country from dangers and
evils that threaten US?
Suppose the startling news was received
that the black republican hordes of the aboli-
ton north, were on their way, in hostile ar
ray, to steal oar ~slaves,burn our towns, de-
solate our fields and slaughter our wives and
children! How soon would every man rally
to a common standard of resistance-wave
after wave of glittering bayonets would flash
in to-morrow's sun, as they rushed like a
And yet, the desolating footprints of as
vile an enemy as this, is already on our soil,
and zoe kuow 1t ! and yet how few there be
who raise an arm against him! More than
/ thirty thousand Of our brethren of the South
/. are annually slain, with more than red wars
f c~ruelties, in their own homes. Their clotted
: blood dries and crumbles on the hearth-stone
G to-day. The fires kindled by intoxicating
f drinks sweep like an avenging storm through
our liquor-curst land. The demons clans
loiter around field and houses, and the incar-
nate slaughter goes madly on in the high
ways and by-ways of city and country 4
scourged Humanity cries out for war ant
: vengeance. The tocsin echoes from the blu
mountains to the crispy beach. The roll
the Temperance drum is heard in the vale, an
st the pealing blast of the Teetotal bugle burst
i from hilltop and valley. Can that man be
X Patriot who can look on unmoved, while hi
to feIlow-men bleed, and groan and die!-whi
as women and children cry to them to be aveng
mt ed of liquors outrages!
Sons of North Carolina, and of the sum-
,p- South every where, our fair land is scourgC
ST from mountain to sea-shore by the maraudir
lot hordes of this enemy Defend it nom, viii
Mt you NAV. Breast the conflict with bra
w hearts and strong arms. Resolve to dri'
ibe back black republican whiskey, as well as t
Dr. makers Of it, when it or they come in o
EN- midst. Stand shoulder to shoulder in DO
ish these causes, and press both columns on. l
: of the s~entinels stand on the towers and owe
the look the plain. Rain the hot j~avelins of +
ish- 1butH justice upon tiic COMP of 10th tht
aggresSors, and until the shock of q bra
crusader, win back our fair and beautiful la
from the aggressions of the whiskey iend.
be- Temperance men-be firm at your post a
was in the discharge Of your duty. Otis Ro
t to demands your help" Continue to addr
the the People. Attend your Division mectin
nder Circulate Temperance reading, and do
cath forget to pray to the God of Temperance
was help and success. Heaven speed the day.
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