Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-02-02
piled stupidity, that there is an eleventh.

plled stupiolyt tHat tnoiO 10 Oh @C'oO0i'"sA
hour. a.5a a ap ~
Four or five years have elapsed, aud he |
is still in she same state Of beastly degra-
dation-his property entirely gone, and he
occasionally earning few cents, with
which to purchase the poison which is ]
consuming his vitalS, aud rendering him !
stupid and dead to every motive that can
be urged for reformation. At
5 Two of the sons of this unhappy man
have gore down to death in an awful daan-
ner. Another, in an affray occasioned By
intoxcation, received such an injury in
the head, that his intellect has suffered,
aud he is subject to fits ofpartial derange-
ment. The other two are very intemper-
ate one of them apparently lost to all
sense of shame.
i The circumstance attending the death Of
one Of these young men were extraordinary.
He had become subject to fits in con
sequence of his Incorporate life I; and his
wife following the same course, they were
obliged to give up keepinga public house,
and he maintained himself by fshing.-
He frequently stopped colored people and
others who were advertised as runaways,
; and obtained a reward for returning them
|, to their masters. He was brutally crnel
: in his treatment of those who thus fell ia
: to his hands, and on one occasion, having,
. apprehended young negro man on sus-
7 picion of his being runaway, he confined
r him and taking him in boat to his mas
d ter-who had sent him from home on
!. business-as he was returning, he fell from
h the boat, probably in fit, and sank like
: lead into the mighty waters. On the
: following day search was made for his
n body, which was found swollen and disfg-
I ured, aud laid in the grave. 81.
!. His brother, the youngest of the five,
e had not reached his twentieth year, but
:, had given himself up to the influence of
Y the vice which has proved the destruction
bof his family, until he also was subject to
f fits Not many months ago he was Seized
It with one, being then intoxicated !; he was
n recovered by the by-stauders, and crawled
A. to small sloop lying partly. on the shore
Y, for repairs he laid himself down there
H. aud was found, ten minutes afterwards
.ir dead, with his head partly under water
We 1t was supposed that another fit had seizee
ey him, and that in his struggle be had fallel
in and suffocated. 's @ 500
This is melancholy history, but tru
to one. Many circumstances rendering i
he more striking are suppressed, as some 0
er the parties are living. The old man, bu
In a short time ago, was warned again, an
II the question put to him, i" What are th
to benefits of this practice 7" SIT tatten
he Craze CARDS." he replied, with a distorte'
ed countenance and ID horrid laugh. ,....as.s,
nd Yes, such are the dire results of In
oss temperance and of intemperance ne
ng, born with one, but brought on by tenn
he perate use of ardent spirits. These fact
not arewell known. They are published wit
wn tt hope of their proving restraint I
nly some one who, trusting in the strength
ous principle, may occasionally taste this d.
she strnctive poison. H .. ...t4
en- $ Look not upon the wine when it
N T; red, when it giveth its color in the Gu
ell when it moveth itself Alright: at the la
on it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth Ill
re- an adder Go to God for strength to r
sist temptation practice entire abstinen
sed from all that can intoxicate repent of 81
Ter, and trust in the mercy OF Christ and "
her shall be safe for the present life and th
and which is to come.