Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1839-08-22
NO. 90.

Your Petitioners assure your honorable
bodies thai The public mind is reused and
| aoitatetl on lie subject of this address, aud
aw ats your decision with deep solicitude.
In every Parish, in every part of this
Stale, heartless and unprincipled men arc
now busily doins the work of ficnds; sedn-
Iously plying our youth, and industriously y
day and nishI decoying and debauchinS
our servants. And your present resula-
tons moi only provide no remedy for the
evil, hui agsravate it; siuce their only con-
sequence is. TO quicken the diligence oftho
desrroyer-who, lover and above his exor-
bitaul gans) niusl exlort from his victims
The price of blood. The sum which The State
demands for permitting him to rife and
ruin her citizens.
Your petitioners. therefore, humbly ell.
treat that this subject may NOT be slfrd in
committee room, bur may be houored
with The attention its importance merits;
thar it may be discussed by that wisdom
for which your bodies are Distinguished
Aud, while your petitioners do moi pre-
sumo to dictate, bul cou6de in your expe-
rirnce and jud gment to devise such reme-
dy as The case may demand-they respect
fully pray that The present system may be
SO amended, as 10 restrict tue retail Of ar
drut spirits to the shops Of authorized A.
polhecaries and Druggists, and 10 prohibit
all Others from selling them in any quan,i.
ty less than twenty gallons.
Such laws heins enacted, the peslieuce.
under which the land lnourns, will a, once
be stayed; the poison nlongers will no lon
ger he able to eude detection, The virtue
and energy Of your citizens will purge
every district Of those nurseries of vice
and crime, by which they are now infes.
ted; and this lille State, so dear to US all,
will pursue her career onward and upward.
emancipaIed from The most CALLING bon
dase. gathering into her lap the riches of
The earth, and enjoying The smiles of God
upon her agriculture aud commerce.
And your petitioners, as iu duty bound,
will ever pray. &c
On motion of Rev. J. N. Davis, il was
Resolved, That two hundred copies
of The adopted memorial be Immediately
printed for circulation and signature"
On motion of Rev MIR. kirkland. il was
Resolved, That the Chair be em-
powered 10 appoint committee to procure
signatures 10 the petition, and that an adj
journed meeting convene, at Ebenezer
Church, on the second Thursday in Sep
ieinber, to receive the report Of said CONF
Iniriee."
On motion of Rev. R. Fuller, it was
Resolved, That, in the opinion of this
meeting. the memorial to The Legislature
is of such Importance, as to renderit expe-
dient for MS together with its presentation
by our Representatives. to secure, If pos-
sIhle, special advocacy ffhe measure con-
tenplatcd Ivy us, in furIherance of which,
we earnestly solicit the Hon. John B.
'O'NraII and Alhert Hhett, ESQ.,, TO pre-
seu' our views 10 The Legislature at its
next session. and urge the abrogaton of the
license laws"
On motion Of Mr.. Benjamin NJ. Palmer,
it was
f" Resolved, That committee he an.
Ir inted To currespnnd with all the affiliated
societies Of the State 'remperanceSociery,
requesting them to cooperate with us in
recommending 10 their several Districts the
policy of peIltioning the Legislature to
grant repeal of the existing license
laws, and that copy of the memorial,
adopted by this meeting, accompany each
letter."
Whereupon, William Ferguson Hut.
son, Esq, aud Mr.. Benjamin NJ. Palmer,
were appointed.
a resolution was adopted. tha, the Edi-
tors of The Charleston papers, The Temper
ance Advocate al Columbia, and the Bib
lical Recorder, Raleigh. N. C. be solicit-
ed to publish this memorial, ana the pro-
ceejiuSs Of The meeting.
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