Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-01-08
From the Greensboro Patriot.
AnOtherl Distil1erv

l am told that you are about to start a
disti'lery in your neighborhood. Viii YOU
listen to me for a few minutes? Do Won
know the qualities and use ana general eff
fects of the article in the manufacture Of
which You are about to engage? Have
you seriously reflected upon the c~onseauen-
ces that may and will result from your dis
t'llery upon yourself, upon your family,
your own sons, your neighbors, your COM
mun'tys Do you feel satisfied that it is
right, innocent, moral, and nil be usefuz.
NAT II any harm comes, it will be occasion
al and incidental, that the prime object
and the general effect will be good and
o~sneece"tg most respectfully and ear
nestly ask you the reason why vou have
concluded at last to engage in this occupa-
ton Do you think it will benefit vonr
family and your neighbors and mankind .
do you suppose your duty to your God re-
9uires you to make whiskeys Do you be-
heve that it will promote public health.
morals, and happiness? Do you ppos
it will promote the sobriety, order. econo-
my, thrift, &c, of the neighborhoodg T
ask you in the name of God, in the name
OF humanity, in the name of religion. in
the name OF wives and children and hu-
man souls, IN the name of death, and hea.
ven and hell,-have you any reason in the
world, except to make naoney? Is that >
sufficient reason? Does it satisfy vonr
conscience | tell you, my dear sir. the
time is coming when you will feel that Il
would nave been a glorious martyrdom to
o0e starred rather than to have made
money by such an employment. Nearly
every drop of liquor which You distill n
tnis age OF the world, and at this period of
our country's want and peril, win be .
ghost OF evil to haunt you all your life
They will start up and stand around vo,
IN the hour of death, and they will be
heavy on your soul forever. You are abont
to manufacture widow tears and orphans
signs, ~profaneness, indecency, pauperism
madness. suicide, misery and woe. Won
are about to let down a pump into he'll and
day and night pump up and pour over our
iand, into our houses, over human hearts.
over human souls a burning tide of sin and
misery and anguish. OF, nv dear sir.
don't DO it; conscience says .don'tsdo It )
the angel of meicy and humanity saws
don't do it heaven and God saw don't
DO it, truth, justice and r~etribution saw
don't do it, happy homes and peaceful
families say don't do it, patriotism, relig-
and your better self say don't do IT,
From every part of Gods universe there is
coming up and sounding in the ear of your
soul a prohibition and denunc;at;oa lond
and thrilling as the trump of God that
wakes the dead to judgment. Against all
this, the only protest-the only counter
persuasive comes from the devil, who holds
in his hands, aud offers as your regard.
the flched earnings of the poor. misouid.
ed, imprudent, weak and tempted victims
and patrons of your distiIIery. NV dear
SIR, impIore You to have mercy on your-
self and on the neighborhood and county
Remember that abe shall have Judgment
withous mercy that showed no mercy.n-
+" With what measure We mete, it shall be
measured to you again" beg o 70
think over all this, and read it ajond to
your family, for their temporal and eternal
good and your own. HUMANITY.