Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-01-22

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ions9f doHarsi The loss of time. and the
cost of crime following the use of this LIQUOR.
would, if properly estimated, much more
than treble this amount. PROT. Deems has
the following, among other calculations, as to
what might be accomplished with this mon
ey:
II whole expense of administering the
Federal Government, in all its branches, for
four years, could be paid as the salaries of of
icers became due, and there would be q con-
siderable surplussge of interest
1t would furnish every male in the United
States, over five years of age, with a COM
plete suit OF decent clothes, and put a sub
i stantisl copy Of the sacred scriptures in the
hands of every family in the nation. and
then pay the subscription price of a re-
J ligious weekly newspaper for every family
for one year.
z " 1t would furnish a copy of the Bible to
every family on earth.
1T would sustain twenty Colleges of eight
Professors and one hundred and eighty STU.
dents, paying the Professors the average sal
aries now given, the necessary expenses of
all the students, increasing the library and
philosophical apparatus annually-and all
this it would do for one hundred years.
THE people Of the United States are an
nually spending for ardent spirits, an amount
which in twenty years, would buy all the
lands, houses and slaves, throughout the
country"
9 Prussia consumes annually thirty millions
of gallons, at a cost of about forty millions
Of dollars.
Sweden consumes annually twenty-five
millions five hundred gallons, at a cost of
about sixty millions dollars.
4 Rncc;a n, o--.I1- k.-k---
1millions five hundred thousand gallons, at a
pcost Of about fifty millions of dollars.
7 Gould we obtain the amount spent annually
for strong drink in Spain, Portugal, Germany
land other eastern countries, then come over
to the western continent and count in Mexi.
go, the Republic of Columbia, the West In
dia Islands, and all the countries of North
America, and add them together, We would
have an aggregate far exceeding seoen ham
dred mttliens Of dollars! Consider, in ad-
dition to this, what a vast amount of idle
ness is associated with the consumption of so
much liquor. Every dollars worth of LIQUOR
Fmay fairly be supposed to carry with it into
(ioblivion its worth of time lost from labor. and
also produces crime that costs as much more.
This Is not all impoverished families are to
;be supported, and that support is to be drawn
by q tax from the pockets of the temperate
land Industrious. In Ireland there are over
two millions of persons entirely dependent
on charitable aid; most of them were brought
: to poverty by intemperance. Most of the
paupers of every nation owe their pauperism
to strong drink. The loss of property by
: accidents occasioned by intemperance. a.
mounts annually to many millions. The
anount of shipwrecks annually, as stated in
the British Parliament, was e. $40, 666 two.
thirds of which was the result of dissipated
seamen. Apply the same rule to other COM
mereial nations, and make an aggregate, then
add the whole list of costs together, and tho
the heart may faint as the astonishing re-
suits appear, the beholder can still say, "the
half has not been told me" For the train of
costs that often follow a single glass of liquor
: are often so great, that none but the omnis-
> cient God can comprehend the final results.
A mans character often constitutes the sum
of his fortune, but how often does intemper-.
/ ance take it from him, and leave him a help
less and degraded wretch. Gradually he
! slides down the declivity; from being light
~ esteemed, he is condemned, rejected, scot.
, fed at and totally abandoned. And what
! better could he expectr For intemperance
not only eliminates the soul, as other sins,
it also sinks a man to the level of the beasts
~ O0LAN hAhAs " y OuOV Nv lS uuk nc is
ut for any action that is mean, low. wanton.
or ludicrous. Now he l~aughs-now helcries
now he can ~jump-now he is diseased
tnow he is modest in the extreme-now he
is stripped of all shame-now he apes a lord.
and now he wallows in his own filth. AS a
swine, he takes the mud as a dog, "he turns
to his own vomit," as q skunk he fills the
air with stencil around him. He that was
once trustworthy, is now disclosing the sa-
cred trust that was reposed in him, so that
the lines of Virgil are true :-t' Mad drunk
enness discloses every secret. He whose
mind has once bid defiance to the powers of
the tempter, is now yielding to the most de-
graded propositions" Such q course cannot
fail to sink a character, and a lost character
10 the surest preventive of fortune. n
In concluding this part of the subject, and
glanclng back over the train of evils enumer-
ated, we are impressed with the truth of Lord
Bacon's remark "All the crimes on earth
do not destroy SO many of the human race.
nor ALLEVIATE 50 much property, as drunken
ness" The long train of evils, drawn on by
the Juggernaut of hell, has been pithily sum.
med up by q correspondent of one of our
weekly journals: "Intemperance covers the
land with idleness, poverty, disease and
crime-6lls jails-supplies almshouses-de.
mands asylums-engenders cont.eversies-
fosters OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES riots-euts down
youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength.
and age In its weakness-breaks the fathers
heart-bereaves the doting mother-extin.
guishes natural afection-erases coniupal
love-blots out flial attachment-blunts na.
rental hope, and brings down mourning age
in sorrew to the ~graye-invites the father to
butcher his ~ofspring-the husband to masa.
ere his wife-consurnes woman-detests life
curses God-breaks the Sabbath, and de-
spises Heayen-suborns witnesses-nurses