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Extract of a letter from Bladen county :I am aware that my subscription year for tho Spirit of the Age has come to a close, and feeling desirous for the promotion of sobriety, peace and good order, I feel anxious to have the good Spirit a weekly visitor to my family and neighborhood another year. It is heart rending to see the awful destruction that intemperance is making in our (otherwise) happy land. On Friday last, at the fork of the roads below Elizabethtown, I witnessed one of the most affecting scenes I ever beheld; there I saw a living man wearing a shroud, standing on a scaffold or trap door, there I heard the funeral sermon of the same living man preached by the Rev. H. A. Monroe. Just before the sheriff cut the rope that was to usher the spirit of of the pris-“ I oner into the presence of his God, he said ^ j to the Preacher, in a low tone of voice— ty ' say to the audionee, and particularly to the |y | young men, beware of the wine cup and a i evil company, for they have brought me to a- I where I now stand. The individual here alluded to, was Thomas McLelland; he was raised within a few mile* of where I reside ; he was accustomed to get his daily drams while growing up. His parents left him in affluence, and when he was executed he was not worth one red copper. I!S-odif-utial
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Spirit Of The Age
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Wed, May 20, 1857
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