The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-02-26
For the H.Isbnrongh Recordef.
an Appeal to The Soldiers Of Tie Con-
fsdsmte States.
GRYrIExEN;-I almost said heroes.


you oil moral heroes, for moral heroism i'm
plies turtitude and seii-deaial, and we at
home, your faihers. mothers, brothers, sisters
and friends. hear with sorrow anil dismay
that YOU, our pride, our hope, WAC at the call
of danger to your country. sprang so gallant
ly to the rescue, freely barred your breasts to
the shafts Of battle. and in most unequal
circumstances repeatedly drove back the
countless hordes of our enemies, are. many
Of you, fast yielding to Intemperance, foe
insldious and contagious, BY which il is more
disgraceiul to be conquered than BY your
Northern enemies, who would rather see you
conquered by il than by themselves, since
their aim would be answered without expos
ing themselves to your terrible steel. Oh.
dear country men! whittier are you drifting?
For the cause these. things ought not to be.
You profess to feel that your cause is noble,
Just and holy. A noble cause ought 10 make
noble champions, inspire them with its own
nobleness, and raise them 70 the height Of
the great argument. Whai protector OF
noble woman would not feel himself elevated
by her confiding pressure upon his arm and
her aid-asking eyer You have such god
dess. Liberty. leaning upon your strong arms
and turning upon you her imploring eye to
save her from pollution. She should make
you lords of the lion heart and eagle eye.
But we hear that some of YOU are unsteady
ing your step. relaxing your discipline. low
ering your regal post, and losing your con-
scious look Of Independence. and that too IN
the presence of the enemy, by putting another
enemy in your mouth TO steal away your
brains. NV friends, believe NOT the selfish
logic Of drunkards, who want companionship
10 countenance their excuses, nor the still
more selfish persuasions of distillers, who
buy up the children's bread to convert IL in
TO aduterated whisky 10 madden the brains
of their fathers and bring them down in shame
and sorrow to premature death or decrepi-
tude If anything is proven, it is proven
by the endurance aud almost superhuman
victories Of the water drinking heroes Of
antiquity. by philosophy, by logic, by ex.
pertinent, and the almost uniform testimony
of great physicians. that the use OF Ardent
Spirits is weakening. Hear what the great
and good DIR. Rush, the Father Of American
Medicine. says: 1. !" These liquors were
formerly used only as a medicine" 2.
!" Since the introduction of spirituous liquors
physicians have remarked that a number oil
new diseases have appeared among US
3. 81 have only named fep Of the prlnci-
pal disorders produced by spurious liquors
1t would lake op volume to describe how
much other disorders natural to the human
body are increased and mpicated by them
4. "SpiritUous liquors destroy mure lives
than The sword. War has it, intervals 81
destruction. but spirits operate at all times
and seasons upon human lille" 5. There
cannot be greater error than TO suppose
that spirituOus liquors lessen the effects ol
cold upon the body" 6 81 Ii IS equally alb
surd to suppose that spirituous liquors lessen
the effects of heat upon the body Z. I"
maintain, with equal confidence, that spiritu
Gus liquors do not lessen the effects Of hard
labor upon the body 5. Hear these anfn
words OF doom, " a peopis corrupted tg
strong drink cannot long De q free people. :
6. IL mus; brg leave IL inform them Chat j,
intemperates) that they must leave off Sltt
denly aud entirely NJ man sas ever gradu
ally reformed from Drinking spirits" 10
" He Chat is the reforming iDiemperatr9
must not only avoid tasting, but even smell.
ing them until long habits Of abstinence have
subdoed his affection tor them" III. Il,
prevent his feeling any inconvenience from
the sudden loss Ol their stimulus upon hn
stomach. he should drink plenlifully .
camomIe or Of any ether bitter tea" Thes.
eleven brief sentences. taken IRON the Dr.
work published 10 1885, very inadrquatrl,
set forth his appreciation Of the evils Of H.
temperance.
You would not think that over estimai,
the degree Of public alarm on your account
il you ccnld see IS | see how the public i
stirred on receipt Of intelligence that In
temperance is fast conquering those VIII
conquered at Bethel. Manasss, Springfield
Carthage, Greenbrier. Belmont, Leasburg am
other striker 6elds--how Christians Of al
denominations are forming themselves int
union prayer MEETINGS TO pray for you, no
so much 10 save you from your mortal a
your alcoholic foes - how your tende
ones, your mothers. wives, children. love,
ones, who have adopted you IS their eli
sen champions; who have worked for yol
far into the night, until their heads reeled
their eyes swan and their fingers ached an