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TP-ATT TPTTrn'TfT . iAAilliJijiJ Unlit. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY CIT. C. RABOTEAU, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS: $2 50 PER ANNUM, I ADVANCE, OR $3 00 IF PAYME.W IS DELAYED SIX IMO.M'HS. VOL II. RALEIGH, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 18-19. NO 20. i-li i Ti" ' " rrmc " If! '. IB m i n1 I TERMS. J promise bill yielded this question on the p ut of the The R.ti.miiit Timis will ho cont to Subscribers North, nml imposed on Congress tho duly of non it Twu Dollars ml n half per niimiin, it paid m ail- I interference. Hero w hs one point gained by the vuur... ' 1 hrra l)llura will be churned, il payment ! South. . Again, tunny of the Northern Senators m dvliyrd hh mouths. Tuese Terms will be uivuria- contended thut the iiilinbituiite oT ttic territories 111 adhered lo. had the right to restrict Slavery within their limits, ADVERTISEIIE'VTS. ' WM tlic Southern denied; the romprr.mi.se bill For even- Sixteen lines, or One Dollar for tin. Prohibited territorial legislatures from pawing any fimt, iii.ITweiity.fiv.- (Vnls fr each subsequent in- law either lo prohibit'or establish Slaviry within Ttion. Court Ordeis, See. will ho charged 85 p.-r j territory. This .v:is another point of. conces-' eiit. hijrln-r; Iml n asoniihl.-d.-dnclion will be made ioil to the South. The Northern Senators in U threw who advertise by the y.-r. sisted on ratifying the provisional laws of Oregon, CT Letters on business, and all Communications one of which prohibited Slavery; the Sonthcrn intended for publi.-.ati m, must be addressed to the '-.Senalnrsobjected. The compromise bill declared. Editor, and .f pcii'if. j such laws should coiitiiuie in force only until three J ; : j months after the first meeting of tho territorial le- ItOpl)' Of William B. Shrpard, jgislature. Here was a third point of concession To Tin; CoMJICSIl-ATIOJt Of TIIK Hon. Kpwakii yielded bv the North. 'These three nliestions lie. Stasia", n hushed i.n j-uis'-. Register, '. JIaijcii 28 in. ' When I published a Card in the Register pome ' weeks ago, correcting a 'statement in Mr, Stanly's speech, did so, solely with the view of exonera. ting myself from the charge of inconsistency, in I to carry their slaves into our Territories ?. The voting for Mr. Rayiier in preference to Mr. Bad- j Southern Senators maintained the .'affirmative, '.ho . ger, for tho United States .Senate. 1 sincerely I Northern the negative of this proposition; to re. hoped my statement would answer its purpose, and j concile which difference, it was agr oil in tho coin that the matter would be permitted to pass into the promise bill, the question should be submitted to oblivion which awaited it. The friends of Mr, Badger, however, seem not hi-be ro disposed, and i my delinquency in voting against inni, is I pre- sume, not to be forgotten. Mr. Stanly thinks it very extraordinary, that I was not aware of Mr. Bavner's opinions Uon the slavery question, because Jir. Rayiier was the e- lector in this District, and frequently addressed I it seems to me, can doubt, that it would have set thc people. Extraordinary as it may Beem, the ! tied this Vexed question, upon terms honorable to fact is so. I was not present on any occasion, all sections of the Union. when Mr. Rayner addressed the people, and if ho discussed or approved ef Mr. Badger's views upon slavery, I never hoard it. And if he did so, his arguments produced but little effect, for I believe every member from the District, except himself, voted for each of the resolutions which passed the Legislature. If my vote against Mr. Badger need ed a vindication, it received a most triumphant lie, in the passage of those resolutions, which Mr, Stnnly thought M ridiculous." It is not for mo to reconcile the absurdity of electing a man to the United States Senate, and then passing reso lutions in direct conflict with his opinions. The only excuse for such conduct is, that a large ma jority of the Whig party in the Legislature, were ignorant ol Air. uacger opinions on inai subject. Nor was it the first time in the history of the legislation of North Carolina, that gentlemen ! have been "elected to represent ihe interests of the State, whose feelings wero lukewarm, and who rather obstructed than advanced these interests. A similar state of things existed in our Legisla ture in 1810, which resulted in the loss of Mr. Clay's land bill ; which, if it were now tho law of 1 a-i he must have known, tlut there is no probabil ity land, would furnish North Carolina ample ! ity of Congress ever passing any law to that effjet, means to execute all her cherished works of inter- why did he oppose the only plan which prjbaMy nal improvements, without resorting to the prcca- ever will be offjred to the slave-holders, ol d' ing . rious resource of taxes, upon an impoverished what ho says, they ought to be allowed to do? people. . I Mr. Badger argues in his Speech, that slavery ha- I have neither the desire nor intention to vindi- rate my course in tho .legislature ' 1 presume tne supremo Lonn woiiiu ueciue agnimt tne stavo public feel no interest in tho. matter, 'nor am I dis- j holder, carrying his slaves into the Territory ; ov posed to trouble thent with it, : . The only point in which the people of Nort.i , why did he not give the slaveholjers the benefits ficUnbn is exhibited in the sun'1 extraordinary Carolina can feel any interest, as regards this con- of the doubt-",' and permit them if thy choose to i way tint his fiijndship for our Southern iniitn trovcrsy, is simply, whether Mr. Badger's opinions . r.m the risk, to carry tlcir property with them to ' &m is exhiliiH. ' C .11 you that ba.-hing your upon the power of the Federal Government over Now Mexico anil California ? They would have ; friends ? A plague upon such b.icl;iii;;.".' the subject of slavery are such as should be cn- ; been no worse off then, than they are at present. ,:ive no ,y stated reasons which, in my jit.Tg tertained by a Senator professing to represent the ' What the South surrendered by the compromise 1 mei:t, snfficiently jmtiiied my not voting fur .Mr., opinions and interests of the State.. This is a ! bill, I am unable to perceive; the question of Shi- ; ledger. If the .gentleman lor whom I did vote, grave question, and one amply deserving the atten- i very in the Territories is cither a political or a jn- entertained similar vi-nv?, 1 a:n so:ry for it ; as a lion of the wholj people ; and as Mr. Badger is a ; ! :! one : if j rdiiical, it must be settled by Con- ' citizn of North Carolina, I am rejoiced they were public servant and his friends have provoked this ' gress, where we have every assurance the Wil- nt( entertained by a large mai-irity of the lgi. controversy, I will take the lilierty of expressing ; mot Proviso will prevail ; if a judicial question, I lature. I did not attend the caucus ami proclaim my cpinion on t'.e subject, In doing so, I shall ; the Supreme Court must ultimately decide it. It j my ohjoctions to Mr. Badger, becau-e I was well judge of Mr. Badger's opinions from his publish- j is the opinion ef some of our ablest const;tutional I aware that by so doiii!:, I would merely incur a 'ti speech, and his recorded votes, the osi'y fair test by which a puidic.inan can be tried. In order to examine this subject fairly, let us first understand what was this tainous Compro mise bill, about which we have lizard so much, 1 gress should first usurp the power to attach a f r lut w hich is so littlo understood. 1 have not the ' eign territory to the Union, -and then govern that biil within my reach, but 1 think I can stato its I territory in such a manner as virtually to exclude meaning very accurately. When tho biil to or- ! a large portion of the people of this Country from ganize a territorial iiovornmcm lor uregou was before the Senate, a violent controversy rose bo tweenthe Northern and Southern Senators, upon that feature of the bill which excluded Slavery; tlie controversy became so warm, that all moder ate men were very much alarmed for the safety of the Union, and with a view of an amicable dispo sition of the subject, the matter was referred to a committee of eight members, four from the North and four from the South : this committee met and after coasultation, reported through its chairman, the Hon. Mr. Clayton, the present Secretary of ' Bute, the compromise bill. This bill was regar ded as a peace offering, and nearly all the mod erate and considerate men, both in Congres and in the country, were in hopes it would paw, and calm this endless and dangerous discussion of Slavery, npon the floor of Congress. What were tlie features of compromise wuicb this bill em bodied J Tho Northern Senators had contended tha they had the right to extend the Wilmot pro viso over tlie Territories of tlie United States, and tl.st it was the imperative duty of Congress to do it this tlie Southern Senator denied. The cotn- ' ing settled by the bill, tho controversy between the j North and the-South was narrowed down to a sin ' gle point; and that was 'whether under the giiar ;' unties of the Constitution mil laws of the United I States, the Citizens of the South possess the light -the Supreme Court. If the Constitution, under circumstances, guaranties the rights of the South, I me vouri wouiu so ueciue; n u uoes nor, mo ; I South would not have resisted ; all she asked, Was I ! a fair decision of the question. This is a plain, and I think a fair statement of tho conditions of the compromise bill ; and no man It was against this bill, that Mr. Badger voted in company with, (I write from memory,) but two other Senators from Slave Stales, viz: Mr. Under wood, from Kentucky, who said his State was de sirous of getting rid of Slavery, and Mr. Benton, who is known to be peculiar. Such, however, was the desire of the Senate of the United States, to dispose of the exciting topic, that the bill passed ihe Senate, by a majority of, I think, three-tilths of the Senators. The bill left, the slave question, where the Constitution left H; this was the leading feature of tho bill, and every friend of the peace and quiet of his country should regret that it did not pass the House of Represen tatives, luri uiugcr, in ins prinicu speecn, assigns ms reasojri for voting against the bill, to be, that the South giined nothing, but surrendered everything ; he says it is his deliberate conviction, that alive holders should be. allowed to settle in California and then mikes an ingenious and technical argu ment to prove, that Congress has the right to ex clude slave-holder from doing so. Knowing then, ving been abolished by the laws of Mexico, the en if this wero so, which many able men" deny, S biwyrs, including Mr. Webster, tint Congress j has no right to aequira foreign territory, that it is I a casus omissus in the Constitution. If this nptn- ioii is a sound on, is it not monstrms that Con - emigrating to it-? ' Yet this is the legitimate de duction from the argument of Mr. Badger's speech. If there was any reasonable ground for doubt, as to what were Mr. Badger's opinions upon the slave question at the time of his re-lection to the Senate, all doubts most be removed by the conrse he pursued during tlie last session of Congress. When the annual appropriation hill was before the Senate, Mr. Walker offered an amendment which extended the Constitution and certain laws of the United States, over our conquered territo ries ; this amendment was violently opposed by the ultra Northern Senators. Mr. Dayton, a Sen ator from New Jersey, said in his speech, that he objected to it, because it would alter the position of certain great interests in the Country ; it would give the tiouthem slaveholder, removing to Cali fornia, the protection of the Constitution of the United States', he (Mr. Dayton) contending (hat at present the Constitution doe not extend there. Mr. Badger's name, without a word of explana tion, i recorded in the minority, voting against this amendmeat, in compuny with Mr. Dayton, Davis, of Massachusetts, Hale, Corwln, and all tho voilent fanatics. If tho old proverb is poht.-I cally true, that a man is known from his associ- tes, Mr.l)a,dgcr selects his company, in voting, ve ry, unfortuaalcly. He opposed the compromise bill because the South gained too little, I suppose ; he voted against Walker's amendment because the South gained too much. I am afraid there never will be that equal justice meted out in Congress, j which his nicely balanced mi.id requires, and in j the mean time Ins constituents must ' go to the wall." Mr. Badger intimated in his speech, on the com- promise bill, " that he could point Out a very just j and equitable mode w hich would save the honor of all parties to this agitating question" and although twice asked on the floor of the Senate what that was, I believe he has never yet divulged ; I sup- pose it is quietly reposing along side of his friend Benton's plan of the Mexican campaign; and it i is to be hoped for the benefit of posterity, when all 'J the wars are over, they will both be published. j :That Mr. Badger is a Southern man with. Nor- ! thren principles, it seems to me no man cm doubt . propose for this state ,(d' things :. Let each sub who is willing to admit his speech and his votes , seriber who' gets a " single "packet," obtain anotb- ; as evidence of his opinions. When the rosolu- lions wtiicli passed tne : last Legislature were, l.c-., fore the House of Commons, they were bitterly pp. osod by his particular friends, one ol whom call- . ed them, " a trap for ..Mr, Badger." These res- olutions are mild and temperate in their character, ' and under other circumstance, tliey would have passed the House of Commons as they did the Senate, without serious opposition'.'- Mr, Badger and his friends certainly have no right to complain that the members of the legislature did not shape their course to suit his peculiar views. II'! was treated with extraordinary courtesy and great- ten derness, considering the nature of the case. The before the American 'Continent was stained with ancestors " of blessed memory," which was hot resolutions are presumed to speak the sentiments its pollulion-i. The history of ebrielv.and the va- ' 'it-led until the ''hollow cask " proclaimed of the people c.f North Carolina ; at all events, ; rious drinking cu Mums which have encouraged ; ' Huw the waning night grew old." they were the sentiments of the body which elec-.; and continued the vice ninong men, would ind. el ! '''h' was the "llap-lr.igoni "slicing small fa ted Mr. Badger ; and if they arc not his, ho is : bo a curious lii.-tory. I have gleaned the follow- per set on fire and floated in a glass of liquor, bound to suppose that he Was elected under a mis- apprehension of his political opinions. Under ( such circumstances, he has a bright example ol wh it conscientious men di em to be a duty, in the conduct of his immediate predecessor and tieigh- bor;, an example the more forcible, as -it is taken. I went of enacting staiutory laws, as a preventive from a party Who by some of his friends, are said J to diunUiines:., i mo" new idea," us many sup to be particularly fond of office. . ; I pose. One extraordinary feature in this Controversy is, ' Tho French, Italian nnd Spanish people are that the advocates of Mr. Badger claim to be the peculiar friends of the Union, forgetting that his votes against the Compromise bill and Walker's amendment, were calculated to keep up the cx- citement and ultimately endanger the Union." Mr. Stephens, 'of Georgia, one of the eight Southern members of the House of Represonta- tives who voted with the free soil parly to defeat theCoinpromise bill in that House, said on the floor, that he would vote against the Territories in every shape, unless slavery was admitted express- ly. This course, although hopeless of a good re sult, is nt least manly : and I suppose tho bold Georgian intends, when voting is found useless, to stand, to his arm. s Mr. Bulger is not, I pre sume, prepared for that extremity", I cannot under- atiind mw;whiUt voting against a measure cah:ii- I fated to strengthen the Union, his friemUwho' sus- I t.iin him, can claim any merit, as peculiar friends i 0f th Un'wnj unless Mr, B-i.lg'.r's friendship for 0f jf wi without doing any good ; and 1 preferred kwpinjahnf fr-i:n the contest about i tie Senatorial el -ctl in. It al-.viys iiff.irds tne very i pjj pleasure to act with my political friends. i when 1 can conscientiously do t-owithout violating a still higher obligation my duty to my constitu ents. When such a crisis occurs, I have no eth er guide than the dictates of my own understan ding; nor was I aware thut In voting according to its promptings, without attempting to influence others, I was giving just cause of offence to any one. If the day has arrived in North Carolina, when the intolerance of party will not allow private judgment to any one, I admit it is of no conse quence to the people, what are Ihe opinions and votes of their public functionaries. WILL: B. SIIEPARD. Elizabeth City, April Sd, 18 19. " SINGLE PACKETS." We commend the following pithy remarks, from the Presbyterian Advocate, to those of our sub scribers who receive single packets by mail. The remedy proposed is a capital one, and we hope it will be tried. We have on our mail books scores of whit are technically called in the offioes " single packets," that is where only one paper goes to a post-office. These " packets n have the name of the subscri ber, With that of the post-office, written npon the wrapper, and not on the paper. ' The wrappereare directed first, to lave time, and the paper put into Ihcm afterwards. Wjicre more than one piper goes to an olhco the names are written on the pa pers. Whenever, therefore, a subscriber gets n paper with his name written not on the paper, but on the wrapper, his is a single packet. What we want U. be at is this :. We would like lo have all our single packets doubled, trebled, quadrupled, or more, il it might be. It is troublesome lo send out these single packets very troublesome in propor- "on to the gains. We can fix up two or three pa pcrs for the mail nearly .is soon ai we can one. Besides, wo always realize a feeling of anxiety in regard to these little packets, in sendingone paper away hy itself so far. Wo feel for them in their 'lonely and uncertain journey. As to tho larger I j packets, (lie very bulk will command some respect forthein from post office clerks. But these solita ry little fellows, in their seeming insignificance, may probably be licked into some corner, or miss heir way, and be lust among the hills and hollows, A small package does not arrive so certainly' at its destination as a large one. Wo have a remedy to er. subscriber or two whose papers niuv tro wit! uis lor company. . n is a pily to have one paper lake such long journeys, as some do, "solitary and j alone. dive Ihein company, and they will travel more swiftly and surely." reach their destination more DlUVkE.WESS. Tiiis pernicious Vice is not peculiar to our day and generation. Temperance reformers lived and temperance reformations were agitat.il in days whilom ; and ihe virtue in statutes and proclama- ( lions against drunkenn.'s.o, was f illy tested, !'.nr ing facts from the .history of olden Time, w hich ni iy advise some of your readers lor Ihe first time that tin original stock from which most of us oil; inuluil, were ns familiar with excessive drinking as wo llieir descendents ; and also that the experi- j not justly chargeable with the .lutttunul sin of ! I drunkenness they partake of the luxury of the 1 J grape, which, it is written, makoth glad the heart of man, and do not indulge in strong drink at 'net. ' I parties ntid winking matches, as do the Northern ' nations of Europe, and we their descendants. j Bacchus is and was the ajiproprinta fabled deity of the joy and conviviality which the juice of the , grape occasions ; un.l h.s.i reprevenled as a 1 youthful nnd graceful divinity, in a'.l the ancient I gems, tljlues and paintings joyous unci yolupta- oii?, il is li:i., hat neV.sr intoxicated. Among the anc'enl-, and uiuoug the wine producing nations to this day,; drunkenness was and is represented by the hideous and disgu.-ting finiiie of Silcnus, ; is linn-drunk, and he flings the pots about the house Ihe fotei -fuller and .aiteii.laiit of IJ ic.r.hus. The calls the hostees bad names, breaks the windows, convivial customs of Northern lluroie iind of this : and in ttpt to qiiarr.d with any man who speaks to 'country as.siiuii.ite tit the be-.ti.i S.len.n, rather ' him; the 3d is win-: drunk, heavy lumpish and slee than to the ''.joyous and graceful liicc'ms; but j iy, and cries fur a little more drink and a few more they are.' nniforml termed the '"'Bacchanalian,"-, from the notion, probably, "that a wine-l.ibher 1 quite ii.':.'!y to beeo.ue a couliiuie.l ineliriate. ; Canniin, the historian, a.s.-ils tlnit the vice of iji.euip' -r..nce, cntri. t..l by Ihe KiiglUh i i i heir lung wuis in liie in-therliiids, ' liit learning to .li i.vn thciii-ielves wiili immoderate drinking, audi.y thinking others' healtiis to iirtjwir th.-.r o.vn.'1 : lie also siysof all Northern nations they (the I'.iiulub) had bex-n before this, most co.ii iiieiided for t!i -ir s.)'jr.ety.' And Nash, a wil of the r-gti of KHz iVth, has also I 'ft recorded these words: "ijaperliuity in drink is a rin that ever since we h ive mixed oureulves with tlie. Lo Co!.!!trie, u rounted honorable; but. before we kur.v their lingering wars, was held in that high- ; '"! ilegree of h-..tred that might be." He further mius, that iK'lore thefe wars, a ilrmdun m m in tho ktroets y.-o'uld be spit tip in, and " all friends warned (ut of his company." So prevalent did the vice become that CamJin says, " in our days it was first restrained, by severe laws." Many statutes wete also passed against drunkenness, in the roign of James I. Excessive potation had a dialed and phrases as peculiar and barbarous among our ancusters, as those employed in these days. " Half-seas over" is of Dutch origin, from a ilupifying beer from the Iiw Countries opzee over sea. " Rouse and carouse " are Danish terms of jolity rouse was a large glass, in which a health was given, the drinking of which by all Ihe company was a carouse but tliere could be no rouse or ca rouse unless the ghsstt vert emptied. Although we may not at this day use the same term!, still we have not lost the practice. Who ha not heard of the animating cry of " genllemen charge your glasses," a public-dinner or tapper party? And from tha host, at a private dinnjr or supper, " gentlemen off with tlie hcl-ta ps." ' In Germany the word is "garsuz," drink all out. '- Then there was the drinking " super-uaccu-lum" this required the cup or glasses to be In verted, tlie edge placed upon the thumb-nail, " In proof that every drop had been swallowed " tf mote than drop remained, or tliere was a failure 10 invert the glass, then the host would cry out, silci-wiccnlum, and the guilty one, by tho laws of drinking, would have Ins glass tilled again, and In) must drink it oti'a second lime. " Carouse the hunter's hoop," alludes to an ancient custom of having hoops marked on the drinking-pots, by which every man was to measure his draught: thus Jac k Cade in Shakspeare, says the three hooped pots shall have ten hoops, and I will make 11 Won to drink small beer." Our worthy ances tors also used poj-tankards " at their dunking matches, which it would be well for our modern Bacchanalians to adopt in their rival combats these peg-tankards had a row of eight pins from top to bottom the tankard held two quarts, Win Chester measure, so that there was half a pint be. twecn each pin tho first person was to drink to the first peg the second to the next, Sic, making all drink alike; ami it is written, that "as the dis tance of the pins wai such as to contain a large draught of liquor, the company would be very lia ble to get drunk, especially when if they drank short of tho pin or beyond it, they were obliged to drink a gain." . So prevalent had these "drinking-louts" be come, that We find in Archbishop Ansehn's Ca- nous, adopted in the Council at London iH 1102, ths! 'the " priests were enjoined not to ge to drink ing bouts nor to drink to pegs." And King Ed: gar, " because his subjects should not offend .in swilling and bibbllng as they did, caused certain ciation, and the displeasure and example of vir iron cups to be chained to every fountain an j tuous men.' Still the vice continues, if it has not well-.ide, and also at every vintcr's door, with increased. We have now our 'sprees, revels, iron pins in them to stint every man how much he .jollifications and bustifications.' Men are now should drink, and he who went beyond one of those pins forfeited a penny for i v. ry draught." I will mention but one more " invention "of our " which an experienced toper could swallow nn harmed while yet blazing if not too drunk." TIiiib I'lilstali'says of l'oins' feat, that he "diinks off candle-ends for flap-dragons." It is a very common expression to gay of a drunken man, that " he is Us drunken as a beast," or that he is " beastly drunk." This libelloi.i phrase" tipon the brutes, which we are daily guilty of uttering, is said to have originated during the reign of tho virgin Elizabeth and its origin is forcibly illustrative of the manners and morals of those glorious days. It was discovered in those days, not lh.it beasts, got drunk, but that men, while in the dill'ifenl stages of ebriety, showed out the most vicious quality of different beasts: and Nash, the satirist of that day, has recorded eight kinds of beiu-t drunkards, all of which he says, I leave seen practiced in one company ai on sitting, when permitted to remain sober among them to note llieir several humors." The descrip tion is as tMlhfnl as curious. ! v "The first is d. u ik, and he leaps and sings and hallows and danceth fur the heavens; the 2nd clothes; the 4 th is theep 'drunk, 'wise' In' his own ;.e weeit,' when he cannot bring forth right word; .' the 6th is m iudlin drunk, v.hen a fellow will weep i for kindness in the midst of his drink, kiss you, ! and then he puts his finger in his eye and cries : the Clii is martin drunk, when a man is drunk and and drinks himself sober ere he stirs; the 7th i ! g.iat drunk, when in his drunkenness he hath no ' mind but on lechery; the 8th is fox-drunk, when h? is craf.y drunk, as miny of the Dutchmen be, which will never bargain but when they are drunk." . - ' When a man was drunk enough to exhibit any of the above animal traits, ihen he was ' as drunk as a beast,' or ' beastly drunk. During the times of Charles II, it Is said the people kept perpetually warmed in 'drinking the King's health on their knees ;' and during Croin- j Jf. Master Doctor." Well," said the latter, I well's usurpation, when it was criminal to drink j could make a g-nd cure of her, I'll warrant : I the King'a health, the ' rautiug cavalier ' adopt. d , - a salve 'at I mike fr the juice of the juni a most ingenious method to continue their ' drink-1 f' tree, and by failing up a vast ol different kind ing habits,' and at the ame time drink a lentiment j o' thing 'at quite cure that in no time I" "peed," equivalent to the King' health. It va thi ; &'d Davie, " and what might your charge be.now, ' fhev nut a crumb of bread into their classes and- i for a box o' that 'intment 'at would cure her ?" before they drank il off, with cautious ambiguity " exclaimed, ' God send this Crux-well down .'" Charles the Second was a profligate prince. Soon after the Restoration, be issued a most re markable proclamation, dictated by Clsrcndon, re flecting upon liia debauched companions and which strongly marks the moral disorders of those depra ved and wretched time. So grave, pungent and truthful i this proclamation, It is worthy of atten tive consideration by the Temperance Reformer of eur times. It is against' vicions, debauched and profane persons,' in the words following ; ' A sort of men, of whom we have heard much and are sufficiently ashamed, who spend their time in taverns, tippling-houses and debauches, giving no other evidence of (heir ajfectitn ta ti but in drinking our health, and enveighing against all others wh6 are not of their own dissolute temper, and who in fact have more discredited war cause, by the license of their manner and lives, than they would ever advance it by their affection or courage. We hope all person of honor, or ia place and authority, will sn fir assist lis in discoun tenancing such men, that their discretion and shame w ill persuade them to reform what their conscience would not, and that the displeasure ot good men towards them may supply what the laws have not and it may be cannot well provide a gainst, there being by the license and corrupt!. :i of the tunes and Ihe depraved nature of man, ma ny enormities, scandals and impieties in practice and manners, which laws cannot well describe and con ejUtn!!y not ennugh provide against, which may, by the example and severity of virtuous men, lie easily discountenanced, snd by degrees sup pressed.' Most truthful words, fitly written and worthy of all acceptation. Gleanings from the history of every nntion and people that has had a historical habitation and name, sinre the Ark rested upon Ararat, might he made in proof of the existence of the desolating vice of Drunlenntss. - From the days of Noah until now, man, originally created in the likeness of his Maker, has continued to degrade himself and dishonor the Almighty, by excessive drinking. Centuries ago, then indulged in drinking bouts, driuking-matclies, rouses snd carouses,' &e.,and centuries ago they drank till ' half-seas over,' till they became ape-drunk, lion-drunk, goBt-dnmk,' &.c. Centuries ago these vile drinking habits were sought to be suppressed by ' peg-tankards,' Church canons, staiutory penalties, Royal denun- seen, not only half-ieai 'over, but also 1 drunk as beasts,' while the condemn, and the Church and good men unite to suppress it. Adversity br misfortune causes some men to seek forgetfulness of their troubles and sirrir. by excessive drinking others partake too fr.-elv , r the tup by reason of the unrestrained licence (ni l excitement which sudd v or cnntinntil. ir .s,.,- ty often occasions and others Hgain hecoine .li io,i -ards by yielding to the dissolute habits and c.irv.ipt practices of tlie times. Bui there are ni.i r.y in. n who have strength of mind and integrity of pie pose enough to experience all the c'liiiim's i.T tlie.r earthly sojournment, and still live and die temr ate men. :' : , ';.', However pulitically true it may be, thnl 'all men arc created equal,' it surely is not iihkalhj or menially true. Some men are mad- (..institution ally and physically inferior nnd weak others sound and strong some men have vigorous intel lects, others not some men will become drunkards 'any how' some can be restrained by the influ ence and example of the good and virfnous, 'to laste not,' while others can partake with impunily of those ' poisonous luxuries,' the temperate nse of which is tlie Gospel emblem of ' gladness.' Ebriety is a vice to which mankind have been more or less addicted ever since the Tlood, and all past efforts and experience to suppress it, pre dict its continuance as long as human nature is human nature. -But although it cannot be entirely suppressed, it can be easily .mitigated snd lessened; and it is surely the duty of all men by their example to diss countenance this enormity scandal ahd imptrty, which the luense and corruption of every age, and man's depraved nature, have occasioned, and which statutory laws and penalties have not and cannot 'enough provide Bgainst.' ; CURE FOR BAD TEMPER. David, a man of meek and kindly spirit, hd long sufferej from the patter-clatter, never-ending, scolding tongue of his tcorter half. One day, a herbdoctor greeted David at bis work with a "well Master David, and bow be yon 7" " Oh, I be very j wen, wunhs lo ye, out my wile nut so very mce- ly !" " Indeed," said the gatherer of simples, with a quick ear for an airmnnt, ' What may be the matter wi' he, Master David J" " Well,", (aid David, in his usual dry and quiet way," she hev a bad breaking out about her mouth every now and 'then, that troubles her and rne very sore, I 'ute " Oh," said the herbalist, looking anxiously up in David' face, "only a manner of a shilling I" "Well, that' dirt cheap," laid David, ,"Ifyoi cure her, I'll give you eighteen pence j there now !" With thi offer, the doctor et off home to prepare Iub nostrum, and straightway hied the ve ry next dy te David's house, box in hsnd. 1'hw he found .Mrs. Price, and went at onf t bust, ness.. "Well, Mrs. P. yorrr master tell me tM you hev betimes bid breskin' ont ahaut the mouth, and I have bronght a. box o' fine 'intmci.t '.. .. II ,,t ii,:,, ... ... w.m on. yr i mums announcement, jirj, P. tiring no, at once seeing her husband' jr, raised the brush with which she was sweeping the floor.and pummelled tlie doctor to her heart' con tent, f vn following to beat him in field fre n her house, he screniing m II the while, "Oh, Mifaus Price, be you sr- me'm-1 V From that da v, how ever, Mnl'tiue ha Jueen, wholly cun-d rf her scolding i. b. s. IJkvhI has only to look up in her face ant! ')-,' l'o get a bo o' that ':,:?innr,:' and there' ah end" of the matter. David hoiiomblr i paid the doctor hi is. fts. and treated him to msk'e " him forget his pummelling. The whole of these cir cumsuincc are iUUtly Uue Durhwn Cftron.
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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