The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1848-10-11

3. as; ass1;,,ps, .ihe. Banncr Of Temperance.

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Neutrality-suspicious., Thursday morn
i,igSaceor,ling to previous arrangement,
James Tdpper, CIV. P.9f the Sonslof
nfa 'fianpcrance in this State. Brother
,Wbilden, ,Atcrideth, Hacker and myself,
len this city for Sumtervillc, distant hy
route,s sof.conyeyancc,, over onc hundred
nndthirty. miles, led thi,lIcr by n petition
signed by 81 individuals, for charter
fora subordinate Division. We arrived
nt ,Mhidleton Station. The ncnrcS. point of
tic Railroad, twelve miles from Sumter
vile, about s o'clock, +. NJ; here we
netlkind friends in wniting, with vehicles
teadyto: convey us to the village, where
we arrived about so'clock. Immediate.
" npon arrival, the gentlemen set about
making arrangements, 10 open the Divis-
i'm. As the Sail which they intend to.
r,Pv in future was not quite finished, and
n0rsui,ni,le room was III their command,
,l,eiNie,i,odst Episcopnl Church, standing
IN l5icantiful gn,sc in the edge of the
villngc, was kindly rendered them. AS
soon astl,e calls which our appctitts had
been muking us for some time, could
he complied with tho means for which
were niMntlnnily spread hcfurc us, we
repaired 10 the Church. Aficr the ne.
cessar, preparations had been made, the
list SofS petitioners was called and sixteen
answered 10 their names. but, one Of
whom, Was u Son Of Temperance, (the
Rev..N. Gr,llium.) We then proceeded
10 Infinite them; this being done, tho
brethren elected their officers, and VIC
installed them forthwith; by this time, i,
was s7l2 o'clock, but their anxious desire
fullysto understand the principles Of the
order, and The duties of cach officer, in
ducel the CIV. p. to give them such
information and instruction as the late
.ssaess Of the hour would permit, ut tho
close of his Sremnrks, the w. II. (hc Rev.
Wm.Y1.ewis.) informed us, that by pre-
vious$appointment himself, and the most
Of tiies5 citizens, were going to attend
ldrge Temperance celebration md Bar
becuc nt a place chilled Providence, got
ten.up, md TO be- conducted upon the cold
water principle, some twelve miles dis
tant,. and in the name Of the whole, in.
vited us to accompany them. We re-
sponded with one voice, that our n ion
among them was to promote the cause Of
Temperatures; therefore we were ut their
disposal until Saturday morning, when it
would be necessary for us 10 depart for
home. The Division then adjourned.
9Some ofsthe brethren went in,mcdinte-
ly and chartered n stage couch. that hap.
pened to be idle for thnt day, to convey
s,o the celebration, aud we retired to
get q few hours sleep.
BY eight o'clock, A. NJ, in the bcs,
possible humor viii, ourselves, AMI with
grateful hearts for the kind reception we
had recaived from the new brethren and
the citizens OF Sumtervillc, We were
Whistling along in the stnge coach to
4 the great temperance celebration. We
arrived on the ground about 1912 o.
Glock, where We found q large concoursc
ofspeoplag already assembled, "nnd tho
cry Wassiill they come." Byl2o'cluck
tlsare tI,nsaI,nve boon between six. and
dight hundred persons on the ground
fhetinecling was called 10 order by tho
PftsiticIit, and q tcrycDl and soul touching
prayer Wds offered zip 10 God by The Rev.
HaylWe,L SPain. .James Tnppcr, Esq.
(G.5lV. 5PSofi The Suns OF Temperance, }
was then Introduced 10 the au,Iience,. who
forr,he space Of hour, held then, chnin
bound;tosi,c spot, for Notwithstanding tie
most ot the gentlemen, we're compelled to
stand;s yet scarcely q single individual
moved from his position during his power.
full address, IL is, beyond my ability to
do him justice, shall therefore a,te,np.
nothing more than to say, lha. IN the latter
artsofsI,isaddress, l,c directed their ut.
tcntion to the Order Of the Sons of'rcn,-
peraDce, and weilinlny tho order in Soutl,
Carolina be proud, they have such un ad.
yocase, He remarked, that we were
strangers among them, that, we had como
for the specific object, to establish a. new
Order in their midst, and aas every man in
the community must not only feel inter.
es,ed, but had q right to klow, something
about any and every, new ,instiiItion tina.
right be introduced, ,jnto il, he would give
them on account Of the origin, the object