Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-09-07
The Devils Engine Started Again.

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Apples are beginning to fall, and al
ready . cloud may be seen issuing from
the smoke-stack of the devils engine
Yes, although cruel war is flooding our
land with the blood of the best ons of
the South, and the wall of sorrow of
heart broken, bereaved wives and moth
ers is heard in every neighborhood from
Virginia to Texas, men are starting with
double diligence to run the devils favor
tie machine, to make desolation more des-
olate, fends more fendish, and souls, al
ready blackened by Internal fire, more
deserving the eternal flames of hell. |
was always under the impression that if
the price of intoxicating drinks were run
up to forty or fifty times its old standard
value, but few would use it at all out |
was sadly mistaken. Who has quit
drinking because of the high prices of
brandy? Nobody that | am acquainted
with. While the necessaries Of life have
gone up to ten times the old price, bran
dy has increased forty field in price, and
tipplers grumble at it last and least of all.
The devil knew that to run up the price
of the beverage of hell to such high fig
ures would not cause him to loose one
soul, so he did it to snow, NJ doubt, tho
deep Gevotedness of his followers.
There is an abundance Of fruit this
year, and every still will be kept hot till
it is all useo up. Many money lovers
will rum stills this year that never run
+ them before, and many an old farmer will
be enticed by twenty dollars a gallon, to
send his fruit to the distiller, that always
heretofore made his money honestly and
n honorably. Do our brave soldiers wives
and little ones require brandy to max.
! them mole comfortable? viii it shoe
and clothe and feed them ? Will the
= men at home be more likely to help then
while under the influence of the spirit:
:. of perdition2 Will our generals be NOR
n likely to lead our armies to victory whel
7 intoxicated? Will. il enable the common
49, soldier to send home*inore of his month
, " ~pittance to his wife and childrsn?-
~ No, no, no, answers every intelligsr
christian patriot of the land. More tina
"a one victory has been lost to the South o
account of drunken leaders. With thes
lost battles, our independence might hay
I'M been gained ere this, and many of OF
dear friends, now ~lifeless, bleaching c
y the battle plains, would rave been wit
9 US enjoying the merited freedom of hsroe
O distiller, you are leagued with trail
,se ors and the devil. If you have commt
~. sense you can see that you are workt
TN against your country's independence, al
running the devils engine IN the n
road to hell. This is strong languse
but the truth. Yes, the man that runs
A. still, or runs his fruit to u still for al
ole thing else than medical purposes, VIII
he knows it will work against Rts ceat
eh' try's independence, would sell his eou'
70 try to tyrants and his own soul to t
devil. 0 d~istiller, if you love brandy a
~ money more than you 90 your count
ign or your own soul, you will still purs
IRE your present course, Notwithstanding
have taken the trouble to tell you oft
you do, l want you to keep a close 10
'o OIL out for the devil, for [ tell you he will
10 with you, and I pray you may see
mss horrid image with your mortal eyes.
l. How l wish you could see if it were /
ano one of his satanic majesty's grins Of !:
TO probation! How. | wish you conld
SO your own spirit standing by him ! fort
ARK likeness would be as true as if you w
al looking in a glass. | want the man v
. hauls you'apples to see the devil roll
at a wheel, when his wagon gets in
ana : mud. L. G. WESTALL
LIS Swannanoa, N. G. =
Al NoTE.-Please cut the above out, &
+ at send it to the d~istiller and to the Il
on that furnishes him fruit. I. G. w
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