Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-03-31
AVTI-WRIsKEY ITEMS.

ATTI-WHIsKEY ITEMS.
THE LADIES Versus WHIsKEY.-A pc
from ladies in Tennessee, was recent
ly read in the Confederate Congress, ask
ing the ~interpos,tion OF that body to pre-
vent the distillation of grain into whiskey.
We are gratifed to see the ladies placing
the seal of their disapprobation on this
abomiuable practice. They can do more
than legislatures to~stop it.-Bt5Iicql Re
corder.
CLOSED UP.-Ouy Columbia exchanges
Of Saturday morning contained a ProcIa-
nation Of the mayor Of Columbia-Dr. j.
II. Notwithstanding all bar rooms,
drinking saloons aud liquor sbops,to be
closed.
On Friday last martial law was proclaim
ed IL Salisbury, where sobriety and good
order prevailed. In Charlotte drunkenness
and rowdyism triumphed on that day.
It is to be hoped, and We may say ex-
peeted, that the commissioners will very
soon shut up the ruln mills withia the
corporate limits of Charlotte, for the brave
soldiers-many ofthem-while passing from
and to the tented field are tempted, corrupt
ed and disgraced by the too free use of ar
dent spirits. Stop the sale.
The above from the Charlotte BuIleUia,
in regard to martial law teipg proclaimed
IN Salisbury, is news to us,-would that it
was so,-and in every town throughout
the Southern C~onfederacy. We think the
!, times absolutely demand it.-SoIss5ury
J Banner.
Wn1sKEY AND PoLITICs.-Ono Of the
persons who brought to this place the news
of the fall of Newbern, after reciting all the
circumstance as seen by himself and oh
, tanned from other eye witness, concluded
5 With this remark "And gentlemen, we
. are doomed to witness just such disasters
SO long as whjskey and politics control our
!, army interests - Salisbury WotchDlaR. J,
CLOSING THE BAR RooMs.- Mayor Boat
. wright, having received orders from the
d Governor and Council, has issued bis proc
n lamation, ordering all bar rooms and othar
n places where liquor is retailed to be closed
!, after to-day. We are highly g~ratifed With
the action ofthe Council In the matter, and
: hope it will have the desired effect. This
0 may be called not only a temperance but
0 emphatically a bread movement."-Co>
d LumabaG C~drohn5ap of the 18th.
DRUNKEN OFFIcERs.-If a common sol
dier is found drunk, he is sent to the guard
house and severely punished; but officers
may drink to excess, and may be seen time
and again under the influence of ardent
spirits, add yet no steps are taken to re-
J, move these officers from their commands.
or even to censure them. Strong drink,
= when excessively INDUCED in, blunts the
- moral sense, unbalances and stupefes the
Judgment, and renders its unhappy victim
= unfit for any employment. Let action be
! taken in relation to officers as well az sol
= diers. Let the army be purged Of profit
Sates and drunkards. We have suffered
greatly already on account Of ncom peten-
~ cy, drunkenness, and sloth 10 our armies
if Let the authorities look to these thin. s. |
10 they should fail to apply the remedy, the,
re- will be held responsible by an injured an,
IL indignant people.-Raleigh STANDARD.
Nor PLEAsED.-A few of cur subscri
u bers have taken umbrage, because "
exercised the right of a freeman and pat1ie
~ last week and condemned the d~istilIin
OF grain into whiskey, pending the wa
- and to punish US they have discontinue
Y the Express. We find no fault with them fl
q this. But it will not cause us to change o,
! curse in the least. Patronage, Dor the lac
Of il, money, nor any consideration thu
love for our native South, and the triump
Of her cause, can control cur actions.
We will uot sell our country for filth
!. @lucre, if others shall feel inclined to perp
- trate the traitorous act nor shall we 70
- arms and suffer any one to commit treast
with immunity and without rebuke, if '
learn Of it tatesritte Express.
we Captain Franklin Buchanan, Command