Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-10-12
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ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 10th, 1861
We had the pleasure of hearing, last night IN
The M. g. Church, South, a sermon by the
Rev. S. S. Roszell, formerly of the Baltimore
Conference. 1t is not our purpose to presume
to portray, in pen painting, the poetic beauty
and power, and rhetorical fascinatlons OF the
discourse, but simply, melted by 1t, to
touch with our galter-toe, the tWo.legged
animals without feathers, upon whom the
eloquent orator set his boot-heel so heavily, 10
righteous indignation. - !. ,.-7.1.,
sMr, r, was stationed in Alexandria twenty
eight years ago, and IN walking, through our
town, yesterday, he was surprised and sadden-
ed to see over almost every otner oooI' Iile
word sSa-lo-o-n' written-a name ATTENDED to
dignity the devil, and give music to dam
nation! j. rio 81 .I@,
Tn -days departed, putrid pens where brandy
and beer were sold for Satan's swine to swill
for cent, were properly pronounced rum
holes,' and 'grog-shops;' now they are dig
nifedly denominated 'Sa-l-o-o-n-s;' and the
effort to gloss with gentility such puddles OF
pollution, is as absurd and ludicrous as 1t is
Infamous and disgusting.
The English definition of the French word
salon is Ssgreat hall; parlor;'' and the ap,
nropriation of the term, betrays the cracked
condition Of the Uranium of those who drag 1t
from decency to adorn degradation, solely to
subserye the purpose of parsimony; tor, seen
from. the sidewalk, such sinks of iniquity
usually prove to be but dirty diminutive dens,
with few filthy glasses on a grease covered
counter: dozen black bottles on some sin
stricken shelves !; as large a crowd of curslng
customers as the contracted counterpart OF the
domicile of Diabolus can accommodate, and
the 'Sa-lo-e-n' proprietor-the dlgnifed COM
mander Of very small craft, sailing under
French colors to give it tone and slze-who
carries his soulin his pocket and peddes it
out for bait, pleceneal tor penny, to anglers
in the bottomles pit-Who has drowned his
black heart In brandy and beer, and buried 1t
beside the cold corpse Of his conscience, in a
cesspool of SHIN the language OF God 8 gift
ed ambassador" )" the wet nurse brought up by
the devil, to suckle grown-up babies Of the
bottle measuring out the milk at a dime for
"a dram
. We know men who were strictly temperate be
before these vile webs of harmless ale and
beer woven by greedy, graceless human spiders,
all over our once decent community, to suck
the sober blood of morality from manly veins,
and shuttle for the rigid remains OF ruined
reputation, who are now by-Word and a re-
proach-men who, four years agone, were
prominent church members; honored esteem
ed and loved but who are now dancing, thea
tre-going, rum -guzzling, mutilated images OF
manhood-incubus on the shoulders OF sensl
bilitry; and all because Of these degrading dens
of destruction these treacherous traps OF
Tartarus, set by Satan's swindling satellites,
and licensed to bait with porter, ale and beer.
Gods blasting curse will surely fall upon those
in authority who permit these wet nurses
brought up by the devil, to dig graves IN
darkened homes, to bury the brightness OF
Hope within. :,
The fullness of time has come for the
pestferous funge' to be raked out from re
roots of humanity, and turned in the ~. %
dry, lest the prutrescent pile infect our whole
social atmosphere, and conduce 70 11G1.~.,
moral cholera throughout our entire commu-
nity-for the Pulpit and the Press to let loose
their long line of burning batteries upon the
bloody banner of Bacchus, until his soulless
subordinates haul down bis fauntlng Tag, and
strike their colors to General Reformation. :,
May the sword Of the Lord and OF Gideon"
speedily descend upon every 'Sa- loon IN
this community and country, and not one
vet nurse" be lett therein: to ''suckle the
groWn-up babies of the bottle
q FLORENCE FAY
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recent election in Connecticut, the Hon. Il.
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