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-Z Od^/'^ss) THE DEW DROP IB PUBLISURI) TWICE A MONTH, B V FRANC. M. PAUL. franc. M. Paul.) ,, ASox. P. Sperry, .j ® £ rnt s. 'One copy one year, Four copies “ Ei;iht •“ one “ - 'TAVflve-*-' ^ Twent}’^-' “ “ Forty “ $u.oo - :iOQ 5.00 - 0.00 15.00 - 20.00 2. lounial for Soutij-: 3u i|f Sntcast iif tljf Cciir-tB nf €m|Jirflnrt, fiitil SssnriirfltiitB nf lilti' iiftinrt Ipnce ©lu Pollor a Bear. Volume II. WADESBOROUGH, N. C., FEBRUARY 15, 1853. Numbeu 1. POSTAGE ON THE DEW DROP. V.'e would invite attention to the reduced rales of pos. tage on our paper under the new law. The following are the rates if paid quarterly in advance: In Anson county, .free. Anywhere .wiiiiin the State, 1J cent. Aiiywh.^re outof.tUe State and within the United State*, 3 cents. Any number of copies of The Oew Drop over forty,, when sent to one address, will ‘be furnished for 50 cents-a copy. (n°,AlI letters, communications, &.C., must be address ed to Franc. M. Paul, Wadesborough, N. C. (Drigiiwt [for the Djew .DROP.J WHJERF. AS£E TUB BT A. r. SP.ERUW. Where arc the hours that so blisafully stole., So sweet and so noiselessly ^ly ? And where are the joys tiiat lived in tli<e soulj Then passed as a zephy/s soft sigli? Alt'! where are tliey now? foriny iieart beats again, And longs for the things that are past— For the eyes that beam’d Iove,aHd the red lips rich.sL.'^ain, Whicli in memory forever will i?.st. Ah, where? but ask not, for the hue of the lip, is faded and gone from our view ; And tears for their loss d!i our eyes to the tip, As the flowers to the lip fill with dew. And when the light finger of pleasure doth thrill My heart-sti'iug.s to joy/)uce more, la e.very soft note there is lingering still, Sweet memories of pleasures before. [for the dew drop^ TO TMB CADF/ffS OF A. CAl^OFil^A. C.\DETs ! we have hoisted our banner within The bounds of the “ Old North State,” XiCt us carry it forward to victory now, Oct us seal old King Alcshol’s fate .' -.Ca.dets ! ,we have hearts that are gallant and true, ■Let us figiit for the cause while we can, liet us strive while we’re young with an earnest good will, 'he future condition of maud opreading afar., d ihe breadth of tVie land, they mack, _ , aci wiK'i# ui4;y be- eosase Jlcaa. Tlie men of the next generation,—who will they be ? They will be tlie boys of this. Yes, thoie bright-eyed little fellows that I see, some cr.icking hickory nuts, or eating bre-ad and butler in the chimney corner, or studying Peter Parley’s Goograpliy,or cyph- icj ing a Rule of Three suns, or rolling hoops, or playing ball, or tthoeting marbles—these fellows w lio are more concerned sbout the size and taste of their bread and butter, or ■about I he. long le-stson that the sehoolmaster iuis given them, or the hard suna that they have to do before morning, than they are ribout how the world goes on—these are to be the men of the next generation. Come boys, hear it; ye bitte, and black, and gray .eves, look at me, mind what I am talking to you about. I say you will have to become MEN! Don’t you see old grandfather sitting by the fire smoking his pipe ? Don’t you see jiow his limbs tremble, and how feeble he is! lie belongs to the past generation—he is one •of the last connecting links between the past .and present generation. Well, he eanaot stay here long, and soon you will liear it said, Grandfather is dead!” Look at your fa- tlier, too. The gray hairs arc sprinkled over his head, and when he reads the news paper he puis on his spectacles. It will not be very longbefore father will have to go too. Who will fill their places ? Who will have so sit at it.he head of the table ? Who will ita«r«-to go to the counting-house or store ? Who will have to superintend the planta tion ? Who will have to practice medicine ? Who will have to be lawyers and preachers? Wlio wiUfeaveito go to Raleigh and Wash ington to make laws for the people ? Why, you boys! You that are now no higher than the mantle-piece, will soon become great tali men. * * ■* # ,« *■ ,* i urchins ar;e now men—fartaers, doctors, j lawyers, preacheiv;, politicians. Well, we want you to study hard, and be jgood boys, so that you may be good and i wise men. Well, John, you .tell me you j want to be a farmer. Let me advise you jhou' to do when you become one. Pay ; good attention to your farm bo indusUd- I ous ; raise all your provisions ; build you a j good comfortable house ; put your fences in ! repair, .and when you have corn -shuckings I and house-raisings be sure not to have any. rum, whiskey, gin,.brandy, hard ®r;sw.eet..ci- der. Be a gOf)d, honest, sober farmer. Do you not see how many rickety farm-houses there are, and bow everything about .tljejn is going to ruin? Whai is tl'ie cause ? Whis key ! whiskey! John be a teetotal farmer. Charles, you desire to be a doctor. You have chosen a respectable and laborious profession. It wilj be necessary for you to read a great deal, observe a great deal, .and think a great deal. You have our good wishes that you may- be successful. But we wanfto guard you against one thing. Be very- careful how you prescribe old Alco hol as a naedicine. Be very carelkl ho-w j you tell ajiy one to talre good old French Brandy for dyspepsia, or bitters to give an appetite; for a great many people have be come drunkards from taking spirits as a med- j icine. Be, as far as you can, a teetotal doc- j tar, j And William, you have ciiosen the pro- I fession of, law. I suppose I shall see ymur j advertisement in the paper, William , I Attorney -at Law-, praetieas in the Courts of — and . Be conscien- ‘ honorable. You will be ob- % great deal about the wick- ■ the people. will ' .^Jid'a-obbcries, .id yovi will find .liquor is the cause, of nearly When you see the poor crim- bar sentenced to be hung,--when ■■!ieart-bi-<r*ken wife, and his inno- ' children dislionared forever, eflect that drink was the source ..IS evil-—then resolve to be a teetotal ._f er. Do not say, “ If I talk about Tem perance, and the people become sober, I will liavo no practice.” Spurn tte dkgraceful thought, and help tlie good, tiie glorious cause. Weil, Henryg if the Lorji calls v-ou to be a preacher, you will hardly preach to the peo])te to drink drams; neither will you drink yourself, or should you drink you will not be the useful minister that God designs you to be. Be a teetotal preacher. And Janies, and Thomas, and Frank, and Robert, and David, you are to be ou ' resentatives in the liCgislature, CoiigressiBen. When ymu go to ti. .s- lature and to Gengress, do not get drunx, do not drink any wine, for you will not be prepared to discuss the important matters that shall lie brought before you. Be al ways in your seats. Always cast your votes; and never be afraid to vote for any thing which will promote the good of the people. Do not be afraid of loosing [Kjpii- larity. Better is it for you to discharge your duty, and have a clear conscience, and fey so doing lose, your popularity and stay at home, .that to do wrong merely to have a little honor. If the men of the ]iresent time should be too cowardly to vote for the Mis sissippi or Maine Liquor Law, do you say Aye! in a manly, loud, emphatic voice, and thus stand up for the rights of man, and the good of tlio Old North Slate. And now, beys, when you become men do not forget the advice I have given }-ou. The Bovs’ Feiend. Daniel Webster’s last audible prayer was, “Heavenly Father, forgive my sins and re ceive me to thyself, through .ifesus Christ.” The finest talents, the most exalted station, the greatest deeds, cannot give one a pass port to the favor of God : to obtain it, there is but one way—one way alike to the high and the low, the rieli and the poor, the learn ed and tlie ignorant, the child and the man, Twenty years have passed away -; school- .and that is through the Mediator Jesus boy days are past. I no longer hear your | Christ, who declares himself the way, the merry, ringing laugk You who were little Truth, and the life. jF,Oa THE DEW DROP.] Tiie <fiS£<>resE«e feelweoMK YoajttSa asatl .?x ‘SToiti'iig niaM. In these degenerate days of ours, we ho ve no youth among tlie .masculine gender. No sooner has a lad arrived at the age of :six- j teen, than he begins to curse, swear and I ssvagger like a graduate in the school of i profanity and pompousness; chew tobac.oo I as a horse eats ha}-; smoke segars as if his ! reputation were upon the commitment or i non-conunitment of the act; drink rum as though his character miglit sufl'er disparage ment if lie didn’t indulge according to the j haibits and customs of ins eklers, and try to j ciilliv.ate jUiiskers for the sake of exciting the envy and jealousy of Ids playmates. How proud is the fledgling when he first I discovers a few pinfeathers starting from his i callow chin ! He is no longer a child then, but a man in every sense of ihe word. Should his mother ever have the temerity to scold him, he calls her “ no gfini!6maii,”flnd if the father undertakes to chastise him, fee complacently draws fais fingers across his upper lip, a« nuidi as to say, “If you, lay hold of me, you take the lion fey the beard Oh! these modern youths! They ai’o brigiit enough without any extra rubbing ; let them alone. All they want to become perfect men are heatfeenkh rvhiskcrs, a -standing shirt collar, high heeled boots and a big liockct-beok. If they don’t -.siune then in full laeridian splendor they never will. Jkit what looks worse upon the cheeks of a boy tiian a pair of precocious v/hiskers ? 'They resemble, to my mind’s eve, a pa-ueity .ot half-scared lichens, encire'uig-a sickly fun gus. And then, as for chewing tobacco; I to see such a temple of’prlmai purity, clean 1 and new from the hand of the Great Arch- jjAstJu fee(ia.^pjgd with the filthiest of the-filthv, iis eiiutig/i (v.rfi--the stofnaeia '.Ann osj 'Ah. As to y(-i..,ousriibR»ing uwohol-—that double I Ji,stilled damnation to j oung ..uuls—for the ■sake of beiiig thought men--I would rather that a son of m.bio should saw his legs off, or venture upon a speculation in Califarnia. than bo guilty of such a mind-defeasing and body-destroying practice. Then to hear a lad, before he is old enough to wrestle with a full grown grass hopper, boldly confront his parents, and set at defiance the kast-s of Heaven ami the minions of hell, is indeed most awful. I don’t mind a feoy’s swearing a little, just a little, according to what fee k allowed by those who are older, and think they have a riglit to sw’ear as the}- please. For instance he may make use of such expres.sions as “By Golly!” “By Gosh!” &c., without trespassing on older people. But here in this burg Gi sweai-ing, gambling, .swaggering, hy})Oci'isy, foolishness, foppery, affectation and all sorts of sin, I see no difference be tween boys, young men, and men of mature years. Put them all together in a bag of colossal dimensions, give them u. good shak ing iqi, and empty them out in a heap, and it would puzzle old Nicholas himself to tell which is tlie boy. 'Hiis is a great country, my friends; it grows with its growth, and tlie vindergrowflj groweth with marvelous rapidity. Heaven only knows what we shall arrive at in the end ; but I sincerely hope and venture to trust that we shall all arrive at some end at last. ,So mote it be. Louisville, Ala. W. C. B,. 'There are between 10,000 and 12,000 children in the city of AYw York who nev er enter a church or school, and who can not read the Bible. Many of them have no home or friends, and they live by petty jiil- fering, in the greatest vice and degradation. They haunt the docks, are seen in dirty groups at the corners of the street, on land ings and in the lura-cellars. Hero are heath en at home. What is doing for them.^— W'hat shall be done for them ? are questions of deep and vital interest. Tiie children must be cared for. “Mother, Ithas/ryou for reminding me of it,” said a little girl to her mot’ner, on be ing put in mind of something which she had almost forgotten to do. Do all little girls possess this sweet and obliging spirit ? j Breaking your faith may gain you riches, 1 but will never get you glory. Dcliyercd belore tlie Heorge Waiiiin|i;toii Seetittii, .Cadets ef Temperance. BY J. T. JAMES. ALy Young Brethren: T rise before you, voluntarily, this after noon, to address you upon .a subject which lias agi tated some of the greatest councils of Europe and America. A subject, xvhi ch lia.s for its object, the great reforma.tion of mankind from the evils of intoii-iperance, and of the deliverance of all from tba.t fiend, which scouring land and sea, snatclw PS from our fond grasp, the brightest, the, purest of the gems which adorn our coun- try’-s name. >Stiil millions upon millions rush onward nnoouscious of the awful precipice, which yawns beneath ; until, with one false bound, they plunge head long a,n,d:aiie dashed to pieces on the rocks below. Brothe.r Cadets, let us visit the llumshop. As you enter, look around and before yon. The Bar Room is an eld delapid.a.ted cel lar. The hideous oaths and imprecations, wafted on the poisonous breath that pei’- vacles tire place, are offensive and obnox ious to the ear. Look in that corner stretched on the damp bare earth, lies the miserable form of the drunkard. Look uj)on his face. In its rugged outline may be seen, the marks of former greatness. The nohle forehead now covered with the. wrinkles of premature age ; the, protruding chin, and the finely arched eyebrows, w.hich cover his now sunken and deep sot eyes, bespeak him as ha\ iiigbecn in times gone 1)T, one, of Nature’s choicest and most •gifted Noblemen. I'he rum'seller stands behind his counter dealing out poison to his wretched customers. Ohlhorrii-l! hor rid sight ! T ''n,s_ to see poor guilty man, thu.s lost m sifiiip . ,, vuin. Pi-otfei- to him the c.up bliss; a .'k him to -.ngn your pledge, and be 11 dash you a'.sidc ; then with a maniac’s grasp rais.© to his lips tlie poisonous draught of dcal.ii. Let us now pass to the fashionable sa loon. It is crowded with the young and wealthy. The ruby wine sparkles in the silver cups and this rum sellei-.yleaiing out death, is looked upon as a man of politeness and fashion ; because he is rich ; because he has money. And how has he earned that money ? Aye whence does it come ? Answer me yc -widows, whose husband, were once v'onr glory, your pride, and your protection, but who have sunk beneath the rum seller’s poison. Answer me, yc or phans, who no w fatherless, wander through the streets, without a parent or protector, seeking the cold charity of a heartless world. In this fashionable saloon, once moved the drunkard, spoken of before. His lii.story is too, too sad to relate. It isofliuttoo com mon occurrence, to deseiwe a passing no tice. When bu t a youth, he practised for tlie bar. When liut just grown, utterly ignor ant of the ;sjji and depravity of our cities, he was induced to take a glass at the fash ionable saloon. Everything here was so arranged by the cunning rum sollov, so as to exactly suit his ii-rst ©utiy . One gla.ss follovs-cd another until completely intoxica ted, he goes home and centres all his un manly abuse upon his inoff’ensi vc wife. Night after night follows until he neglects his business, and bis merciless creditors drive him from his once happy home. He follows his broken heai’tcd father and moth- e,r to the grave. But this does not check his progress. He must fall, he did fall, and great was tlie fall thereof The once no ble, gifted, high minded son of America, has fallen a victim at the shrine of Intem perance. The elegant, graceful youth, the darling and pride of his aged parents, the cherished one of his lovely M'ife, the dea,r father of his innocent .e'hildi’en has sunken down, down, to the miserable drunkard, the wretebed inmate of a cellar, never to rise again. Oh yo rum sellers, it is you who like a deluge, overflowing ojir laud, have pierced the given barriers, until at last you raised the serpent’s wrath and you shall feel his sting. It is you xvho have scatter ed death and destruction o’er our land. It is you who have made many a widow’s heart desolate, once the receptacle of joy and happiness. Enough for this picture of crime. Let us visit the rumseller’s death bed, stretched upon a rich and gaudy couch hj5 lies ^ the holy man of God is there—but ah ! no eoi> solafion can be afforded to his guilty soul. The cries and mournings of the widows and orphans he has made, over the lost hus band and friend, continually ring In Ms ears, as with the voice of seven thunders ; and while he tries to shut up the the b.trri- ers of his soul against their cries, his con science smites him on every side, wdfile his ill gotten -xyealfh around seem.s to mock his vain efforts at consolation. H® .«»- posure is afforded to the wretched sinner, the ruiuer of men’s souls. The clergyman loaves ; and the poor, lost, guilty sinner rolls in mental agony, .curses his God and dies. Btother Cadels—to-morrow is the amii- ■versary of an event which eventually led to the S])ititual reformation of the greatest part of the civlized world ; to-morrow is celebrated in commemoration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, and let us, as he commands us, “ love them that hate its; do good to them>vhich dcsp'itefully use us and persecute us,” that xve may be heirs of the everlasting kingdom aliove. And finally, my brethren let me remark, that another year has rolled on its course ; another year is recorded in the mighty calendar of time ; another year ha.s brought forth its fruit, both good and bad—and in the succeeding year, may wc endeavor to keep in mind the great principles upon which true tem perance is founded ; and let us remember the gi'cat, solemn, and binding pledge we have taken, to “ touch not, ta-ste not, handle not.” Let us forgot the past and look for- Avard with zealous eonfldence to the time when virtue, love and temperance shall forcitor /loiga in oiir ox' n, our native land. 'I'tflvls nt ratikui striiiig. Let A'irtue be your aim. Axmid exfravagauce in dress. Children have wide ears and long tongues. Catch the bear before you sell his skin. Borrow not too nraoh upon time to come. Better conje at the latter end of a feast than the beginning .of * fray. Never scoff at religion ; it k not only a proof of a -wicked heart, but low breeding. Beware of a reconciled enemy and an. un fried friend. Bring your line to the xvall, not the wall to the line. A tear is an oath in the sight ofheav-en to repent and refonri. Go ahead, is a good niotto—^look ahea^, is another. The devoted love of a mother to a way ward cliild, is the finest and no-blest in the world. No one learns to think by getting rules for thinking, but fey getting materials for thought. Borrowed tliougbts, like borrowed money, only reveal the poverty that compels the loan. Prayer was not invented; it was born witli the first sigh, the first joy, the first sor row of the human lieart. Deal gently witli those who stray. Draxv by love and pursuasion. A kiss is worth a thousand kicks. A kind word is worth a mine of gold. The nerve which never relaxes, the eye which .aeyer blanches, the thought which never wanders, these are the masters-of-vic tory. A wise man stands firm in all extremities, and bears the lot of his humanity with a di vine tenrper, Polkeness is the outward garment of good will; but many are the nutshells in whioli, if you crack them, nothing like ,a kernel is to be found,. A man of virtue is an honor to 'hiscoun- h’y> a glory to humanity, a satisfaction to liirnseli, and a benefactor to the whole world.. He is ricli without oppression or dishonesty, charitable without ostentation, courteous without deceit, and brave without vice.
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