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Alcohol causes muscular fattoue and therefore lessens the power of mus cular endurance. The man who at a log-rolling, or other times of competi tire test of strength, allows himself to take a drink, has greatly the disadvan tage of a man of equal strength without the drink; however courageous he may seem for the moment. m INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION'. If A man who belle res in the power of alco hol to stimulate hU brain for unusual exertion, will attempt a composition while stimulated with liquor to any con 4ldcrable extent, and will read bis paper over after he has entirely recovered from the stimulation, he will bo easily con vinced of the little dependence to be placed upon it. We heard a physician whofhad been a practicing eighteen years, dnd one of the most .eminent andjfsucce53f ul ptayoidans lU 'tffwJjna, by the way, we heard him saythathAhad never known a case of which It could be said that liquor Alone had saved Ills, that is to say that nothing but liquor could have had that effect. The liquor organs are indulging laregly in the game of brag. They are getting notes, real or imaginary, from correspondents, by which county after county is set down for the liquor cause by large majorities. Ilold on friends I You are too apt to set the people down as fools. They know that a postal card and a liquor advocate may bo a grog- sell ex to write it, is all that is necessary to get up the votes of a half dozen counties in that style. An editor with a pencil and a bit of blank paper, with out a postal card even, can score up every county in the State in a few min utes. Give the people credit for a little common sense. 31 A KB Till! MATTER I'LAI.V Kditors Our Rights : I met a colored man to-day and asked him if he was for or against Fro- ilhUion IT answered promptly, "I am against it sir." And why are you against it, I asked. "Because it is an evil, and ought not to be sold in this country." Oh, said I, you are in favor of Pro hibition. "No, no, says he, I tell you I am op posed to It and shall vote against it, because I want the heads-knocked out of every barrel of liquor in North Carolina." I finally succeeded in getting him to understand that, "For Prohibition," meant to keep men front selling liquor in this State. He is strongly in favor of Prohibi tion, but would have vote against it through mistake if let alone. The friends of Prohibition in each precinct, should guard against such mistakes on and before election day. M. LETTER FD09I KENTUCKY. Mb. Editor In response to a call in your last issue, which reached me this date for funds to be used in canvass ing the State in the interest of .Prohibi tion, I enclose herewith two dollars to be used for said purpose. I also enclose a stamped envelope that you tnay not be put to " expense In forwarding the money where It Is required. The small donation is from myself and wife. Although we are far removed from the dear old State, we love her still, and pray God that Prohibition may win the day in the coming contest. Having served twenty years in the United States Army, from June 1861 to date, I am thoroughly convinced of the evil of Intemperance. Not only was liquor the cause of nine-tenths of the sickness rad trouble I have witnessed among our men, but two of my own company (when I belonged to the artil lery) were drowned while intoxicated, during the spring of 1SG7, at the mouth of the Columbia river, iu Washington Territory, and a young Baltimorean, Charles Adams, died in the Post guard house, at Raleigh, N.C., while in a state of intoxication, during the fall of 1S70. For the above reasons, for the good of my fellow-men and for the prosperity of the Old North State, I cheerfully subscribe my mite, and only regret that I am not able to send ten times the amount. With our kindest wishes for the suc cess of the prohibition movement, I am Very respectfully yours, It. . Zskildson, Hospital Steward, U. S. A. Newport Barracks, Ky., ) July 2, 1881. J JfEWS ITEMS. Not a single lawyer of any promi nence west of the Air-line Railroad is opposed to Prohibition. This was re ported publicly at Asbeville during the late meeting of the Baptist Sunday- school Convention by those who knew. The Wadesboro litrald Argu says that the report comes from Captain D. McNeill, who has recently returned home from the Western part of the State, that Prohibition is on a regular boom in that section. A gentleman who has lately visited and traveled in Guilford and Rocking ham counties tells us as his candid and deliberate opinionihat Prohibition will carry those counties. He says that he visited the Anti-Prohibition District Convention. There were twenty-five delegates present, and just about no one else. ' The people regarded it with in difference. At another Anti-Prohibi tion meeting he dropped in upon there were just about the same number of the most ignorant classes present. ,E. F. McRae, Esq., President efthe Shoe Heel Association, writes: "Dr. T. II . Pritchard delivered an able and logical address on Prohibition in this town last night (July 4th),, to a large audience, both white and colored. His speech had a happy effect in strengthen ing the weak-kneed and driving convic tion home to many hearts. The cause of Prohibition is gaining ground, and, as a leading colored man who is still on the fence told us just now, a majority of the colored voters of this community are for it, and that many more would be all right for it before the election, in cluding himself, perhaps. The news pours in from all quarters hat Prohibition is gaining ground. A friend writes that the Rev. D. D. Mc Bryde delivered an able sermon on tem perance last fcaDDain at uiun unurcn, and that he and the Rev. H. G. Hill will open the campaign this week. The Prohibition pic-nic at Burgaw was a tine success and a large crowd was present. Capt. R. P. Paddison, of Point Caswell, presided for the day, and Bruce Williams, Esq., acted as Secre tary. The proceedings wer opened with prayer by the Rev. Colin Shaw, af ter which addresses were made by Mr. E. W. Kerr, of Sampson; Judge Cant- well, of Columbus; Rev. W. M. Kenne dy, of Duplin, and Mr. McMillan, of Pender. P. 11. D. gives the Battle Ground this account : The Prohibition meetine at Hizh Point was a grand success on July 4th. Early in the morning the people came from every direction, with banners streaming, and so continued until 11 o'clock, when the speaking commenced at the grove, one-half mile east of town. The procession from Randolph was 1 miles long and nearly as long from Davidson and rorsythe. The Winston Light Infantry came down in a body and the Salem band gave us excellent music, and it seemed as if a large por tion of the citizens of Winston came to shake hands with High Point. Borne of the best citizens of Greensboro were here too. Most persons think there were ten thousand people present. Judge Merrimon gave us one of his best speeches, about two hours and a half long, and was listened to atten tively to the last. Mr. Luther Benson, of Indiana, spoke for dn'hour and made a very happy effort and telling speech. Then came Rev. Mr. Price who made one of the best efforts I ever listened to. I think his speech will give us at least 100 colored voters for Prohibition. Tne people in tnis section are. in ear nest, and if prohibition is not carried in the State it will not be our fault. I hare never witnessed such.enthusiasm since the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." What Judge Russell Says. We published the views of Hon. D. A. Jenkins, Hon. W. A. Smith, Judge Reade, Bishop. Hood and others, on the subject of Prohibition as a party question, all denying the right of fdur men to assume to be the Republican party. Here is what Hon. D. L.Rus seli; member of Congress from the Wilmington district has to say : Tlie attempt to commit the Repub lican party: , to free whisky and legal ized drunkenuess, will, in my opinion, be repudiated by the great, mass of the party , in the State. Prohibition is a great political Question, but, bo far a the-ola parties are concerned, It is en tirely non-partizan. The Republican Committee had nothing to do with it. No Republican who is capable, of en tertaining a conscientious conviction, whether prohibitionist or anti-prohibitionist, will be influenced by the ac tion of a committee, who assume without authority to transfer and as sign the party without regard ; to the views ana convictions of its members. Result of Ueeme. -We copy the following from the Wes tern Carolinian published at Hickory'; N. Cm by J. P Murrill. The editor seems to know of what he writes. If these things are true, and we do ' not doubt them, the conclusion is irresisti ble that North Carolina ought not to license an agency that produces so much" evil. The Kinston Journal says : "We have information from a prominent gentleman at Jacksonville that Onslow Will go against prut rviSy majority.' He says v h only four prohibitionists rh I Jkehtilie township." May the sf are there any good people in OnaZow? Pro hibitionists can never be made to be lieve that Onslow has any chance, for salvation if it goe3 1,500 against prohi bition." We clip the above from a late issue of the Wilmington Star. Onslow coun ty has about 2000 voters and we regret to hear that only one fourth of them will vote for what a large majority have so long stood so much in need. Without Calling names let us state a few well known facts in the last forty years history of that people and see how much they have lost or gained by whlsKey. A distinguished merchant (a widower) raised and educated two sons, ana died leaving them their mothers fortune. The elder was elec ted to the State Senate and with his talent, with temperate habits, might have been a good and useful man. In a drunken debauch in the city where the Star now opposes 'prohibition, he married a prostitute and insulted and.disgusted his brother and friends, disgraced the home once hallowed by a virtuous and fond mother and early filled a drunkard's grave. The younger Drotner became a drunken wanderer and ended a short life by suicide in a neighboring State. A talented physi ciau drifts into the tide of dissipation, neglects and abandons a growing prac tice, spends his time and means, at liquor and cards and reduces an inter- il II A- A.1 -.' rauuK mujiijr lu me verge 01 oeggary and despair. A young man of splendid business Qualifications followed the ex ample of his elders, became a common drunkard and cursed the habit he could not forsake and which hastened him to an earlv crave. Jacksonville had stores in all of which liquor was sold and drank, but there was no academy for the cultivation of the mind and no church in which men could approach the mercy-seAt and ask God to save their souls. About this time a Pious zealous christian minister settled there. A large store house was pushed back and converted, into a church with Mason's Lodge above. A lodge of Sons of Temperance was organized, also Daughters of Temperance. An acad emy was built and a good school was kept in the town, old buildings were repaired and painted up and new ones erected. Thus for a few years did in temperance, vice and immorality yield to better influences and virtue, tem perance and Teligioa lent peace and prosperity to the land. The physician returned to his patients and his family peace ana plenty. Tne oung had iueu were ireea irom temptation and gathered strength which has lasted some to this day. The minister died. the temperance societies disbanded, whiskey and" the devil regained the territory and matters have gone from bad to worse ever since. A well raised promising young man : was elected sheriff of the county. Hd had money and he had friends.;- The tempter was on all sides and what commenced as a social enjoyment ended a complete en slavement. He became a bloated sot, spent his substance,, went from his office to a drunkard's grave and. his securities paid the bills. Next a pious old father prepared his eldest som to become a teacher. He was qualified, sober and popular with both pupils and parents. He was elected .Register, moved to the county seat; fell a victinr to the destroyer and was soon followed by wjfe and friends from a fit of deliri um to the grave Two, yet living, who have lately been sent to. Raleigh as Legislators from that county we have seen lifted into a cart or ouggy two negro men and hauled from cou beastlv we beer pardon manly dr ' JSpac W1U nDInauow-a-fonuitwirwf tne lst or me nuqareas we coma name u who have ; 'Harried long " at the 1 wine" squandered fortunes, robbed orphans, shattered constitutions and " Jeft homeless and penniless widows and orphans. One notable case must not be omitted. A brilliant youth, of most ; respectable and ' hot obscure parentage, stood first at the University returned to doting parents and admir ing friends with the brightest of futures spread before him. He married a most estimable ana aecompnsnea jaay ana had children. - From, place to place and; with varying fortunes he had struggled with his increasing appetite until finally so overcome, in tne same city where the Star now opposes pro- . hibition. that his loner suffering wife was compelled to .take her only -surviving child and return to the parental roof in Onslow. He came to himself i , 15 J XL . .!i J.S auu reanzeu tue suuauuu. ....... Wife," child, money, characterand friends all gone. He returns to the old . home. Father, mother and others are dead and gone. The old neighbors and their sons gather at tbe precinct voting nlae on the 11th nJk. to have a prohi bition meeting. Heis-acaong them an active worker. He has eaten the husks of intemperance and nbw returns to his father's house.. He knows' his weakness and asks the Star and the good people of Onslow and all others . to aid him in putting away a tempta tion which he ana thousands of 4be9 like him are not able to resist. In tJod's : name we ask how can you refuse his appeal ? CLIPPINGS. Dy The Biblical Recorder t brings this to the front : A friend informs us that a gentle man opposed prohibition, in a conver sation the other day, because the peo ple will become too prosperous if they cannot spend their money for drink! He said that all the poor people would; soon be able to buy themselves homes: and become too independent to hire themselves out, andhence labor would become scarce! We presume that strong drink paralyzes and destroys more labor than all other causes 1 com bined. Will any one be blinded by such nonsense? - Signs of the Times : It is impossi ble to take up a daily paper ana hot find in-it the record of some- horrible crime ! resulting from drunkenness. Some child is mangled by a drunken father, some wife is mutilated by; a drunken husband, some father or mother is murderea by ti drunken son, thus read the papers day after- day. Who says that we are not iready for ; frohibition ? Are we prepared to al ow this flood of violence and crime to sweep on ? Are, we prepared to still place the lives- of our loved ones in awful jeopardy ? No ! Then, let us go to the root of the matter ; let us destroy from off the face of the earth the vile traffic- that imbrutes and make crimi nals of mankind. Herald and Presbyter furnishes this : Rev. Dr. John Spauldlng gives some good thoughts in regard to wealth ac quired by turning bread into whiskey. There are other statistics. What be came of all that poison?; Were the families of the makers benefitted? How about the laborers ? Where . are they that drank the spirits ? Would it not have been better to turn the grain into meal and flour? Did the, deceased dealers die in peace? Are the present distillers on their, way to heaven ? Are the present citizens sat- isfied with their wealth, built on the basis of human woe? Will there ever come an end of wicked rulers, who re fuse to suppress the wicked traffic in rum ? How long, O Lord how long ! While we were on the cars between Raleigh and Greensboro on our late visit to Winston a vote of the passen gers was taken; on the prohibition
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