Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-02-05

FOR THE SPIRIT or THE AGE.

MR. EDITOR: In your issue Of the 2Sth
uIt., my attention was arrested by the
caption, " Christians making Whiskey."-
Ny first impression was, that the writer
must be a non-compos ; after reading the
article, however, l Z discovered that ne only
meant to charge certain members OF the
Church with the nefarious practice O con-
verting grain into poison. The writer can
not be ignorant of the fact, the meian-
choly fact, that all members of the church
are not christians. There is hypocrisy in
the profession Of religion, sometimes; and
if the writer had headed his commnnica-
tion-Hypocrites making whisksy-his
readers would not have been surprised.
/ now take the liberty, Mr.. Editor, Of
advising your correspondent to be more
particular in future, and not Islander the
christians Of the land, or %confound them
with the despicable whiskey distillers, en-
gagged in making the. accursed stuff, and
vending it on the Sabbath. All these, says
your correspondent, are members, and some
them Elders of the church. What FL
ders of the church, selling whiskey on the
Sabbath? Pray, sir, to what church do they
belongs Can such a nefarious practice be
tolerated by any Church 10 North Carroll.
MAJ Why, then, are these miserable wretch
es, members and elders of the church, not
communicated? Hear the word of God,
in condemnation of violating the Sabbath /:
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it
holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do
all thy work: But the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son,
nor thy daughter, thy man-serYant MOI
thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates: For in
six days the Lord made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that in them is, and rested
on the seventh day, and hallowed it"
The Sabbath, therefore, affords frequent
opportunities to contemplate the gloriou,
works of creation, and TO adore our great
Creator. 1t is a day dedicated 80 God
it should be spent in His service, and wos
be unto the member or elder of a church,
who violates it in making and vending
Whiskey.
Mr.. Editor, we have war and pestilenc,
in the land, and unless the authorities O
the State shall interdict the conversion O
grain into whiskey, we shall soon hav
their accompaniment-tamine. The Con
vcntion /" invested with supreme Legislative
executive and Judicial powers" is now il
session. This subject has been brough
to their notice, and as yet, no action ha
been taken to arrest the progress of thi
enormous and crying evil. Some twenty
five or thirty whiskey distiileries are no,
in full and blasting operation in the ms
tropolitan county of the State, low man
in the whole State, we have not the mean
of finding out enough, however, to fam
ish the families of the poor soldiers no,
in the service of the country. The wretch
who will take the bread out of the mouth
of the wives and children of the soldier
TO put a dollar in his pocket, in a eris
like the present, should be Kissed, sp;
upon and despised by all honest men,
Those who have it in their power to re
strain this evil, and do not, deserve Il
same treatment. Unless those invest,
with 'supEeme power" interfere in tn
matter they need not be surprised to lear
that the people. the suffering people, tai
it in their own hands. 1t is the truth
history, that in all ages and countries, whe
famine has been introduced by the ne
lect of the government and the improv
dent conduct of Sharpers, the people ha
redressed their own grievances. Ver6a
non amplius addam. j. M. j.
Feb. 9th, 1862.