Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-07-26
An Appeal 10 Females

BY MRS. sIGoURNEY.
"We are verify guilty concerning our brother"
When to expuuge foul blot from ma.
tional character, the great the wise, and be-
neyolent, combine their energies, II becomes
not those of humble name, or obscure sta
ton, TO remain Indifferent. The weaker
sex, who depend for safety and protection
on others, have immense interest at stake, in
the morality and purify Of the community.
Their plea of want of power can scarcely
be admitted as fair release from respon-
sibiity, since the morallsts, and even poll.
ticians, Of our OWL day, have asserted that
no evil can obtain great performance in
the community without the permission OF te.
males.
The cause oftemperance, which has al.
ready wrought, such wonders, and has still a
giants work to perform claims their earnest
Cooperation. Surely they whose duly and
facilities are ivolved in the domestic and
maternal relations, should be peculiarly and
painfully watchful against every approach
of a sin which desecrates homes hallowed
sanctuary.
We do not, of course, address those who
have given their hand to the destroyer
who, in the strong language of inspiration,
have" made covenant with the grave, and
with hell are at agreement" We are sen.
sible that scarcely any agent, save the voice
of Him who raiseth the dead, is available to
break their bondage. But they who, with
regard to this insidious poison, literally
obey the present " touch not, taste not, han.
die not" and suppose themselves abso!ved
from all other et1orI--are they therefore a6-
solved.
NV sisters, If we assent 10 the PROPOSE
ton that not to prevent sin, when IN on
power to do so, is as blamable as to have
aided in its perpetuation, are we justified
in supiueness, while such multitudes are 90.
ing down to the grave, with this leprosy in
their skirts ard in their souls : DO we' to
the teaching Of example, add the whole
weight of that influence which the courtesy
of an enlightened age, and the condescension
Of the religion Of Jesus have in tn 'se latter
days accorded US II we are conscious Of
remissaess, let the words Of the poet ad.
monish us
"Lo our not doing is set down,
Among our darkest deeds"
To, the word Of inspiration 'counse' us 10
avoid the anguish with which the errIng
SONS Of Jacob exclaimed, 1--WE are verify
guilty concerning our brother"
Intemperance by the fireside-at the
nothing to do? We whose affections have
taken roots by that 6reside--whose pro:
vince it is 10 make that household board
subservieut 10 health and heavenly gratitude
10 whom that nursery is the garner OF the
fondest hopes for time and for eternity;
shall we perceive, amid those sacred
haunts, the footstep of the enemy, and slum'
Der 7
Wife !--who by solemn vow before
men and angels, has entered into a union
which death can sever, has it been your tate
to see the vice of intemperance casting q
deadly shadow over heart in which, next
to heaven, was your confdence2 And day
by day, and hour after hour, as you watch.
ed its fearful ravage, have you been vigil
an. to upbraid, not to argue reproachtu'Iy'
but to repress your own to sorrows to rem.
der.home desirable, to reawaken those at.
fections which are the guardians Of purity
and peace ? Above all, we're your suppl.
cations unceasing 10 Him who " turneth the
heart of man as the rivers Of waters are
turned 7" If so, though the harvest Of
your labors may have perished-though the
disruption Of your hopes nothing earthly can
suppl ly---stl you will have escaped that
deeper torture Of rejecting that you are
verify gully concerning" i'm who was
once "your more than brother-and your
next TO God"
Mother !-whose duties are laid deeper
than any VOW of the lips, even in the immu,a.
bic strength of love that canno: swerve,
have you counseled your offspring in this
matter, L" rising up ear ly, and late taking
rest T'-Among those habits which modify,
character, did you inoculate the control Of
the animal appetites--,he superiority Of
happiness derived from intellect and virtue,
to the flce.ng pleasures ofsense--the no.
bleness Of subjugating the flesh to the spirit?
Did you oppose with your frown, with the
force of your authority. the first alteration
from these principles2 Did you fully set
before them the ln6rmity of their nature,
the dangers that surround them, the necess.
ity that they should seek help from God I
A, dawn, and at MONDAY, and in the hush
of midnight. was there lifting up ofyour
heart, that they might be temperate in all
things Z" Yet, should it be your lot to be.
hold one whom you had nur'ured. blot the
inheritance of his ancestors, and sink into