Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-11-10

est tribunal of the State have declared that the
worst view which the Legislature could take oI
LIQUOR would be to regard and treat it rs Arsen.
ic, which man is allowed to transport, keef
E and use as he plcasasan that if one get drunk
he can no more beyprosccuted for it than he
can for taking Arsenic
The Liquor law isIalso practically nulifed ir
Boston, even at this early day, and all of the
indications promise That the statute will be re.
pcaled in every State that has adopted it sooner
than was the memorable English law of 1876
1t was said by the papers and by visitors to that
city, that more Liquor was sold in Boston on
the day and just before the Maine law went into
operation than had sever been known before
The people despairing of getting their refresh
ments by the small from the retail dealers bought
large supplies and concealed them. These sup
plies are now in and!about exhausted, and thou
sands are waging war to the knife. and the knife
to the hilt, physically, socally, politically, pro-
fessonally and commercially against all friends
of the cxecrablc law.
License to Retail was once refused in Abbe-
vile village, and what was the effect of it :!
Why North Carolina Wagon happening to
pass through the village on the Sale Day next
after the embargo went into operation, party
clubed together, sitncrs and saints, including
Church Elders, Deacpns &C., men who had never
drunk to excess before in their, lives, and bought
barrel of Brandy, which was unheaded on the
public square, where:eyery body got drunk. l
was told very recently by an eye witness. that
Abbeyille has ncver--beforc or since witnessed
such scene of intoxication as was beheld that
day. The outbl stof Indignation was so fierce
and overwhelming that the Town Council imme-
diatcly regranted License, which has continued
over since undisturbsd and is likely to remain
so, as long as that1noble District retains her
proud intelligence and generous beraity.
A similar experiment was tried in Anderson,
under the auspiciesspf Judge WHITTIER, when
the same result followed as in .Abbcyillc. Yet
I learn by the papersaha the "No License Par
ty" in that lovely village as well as in Green
vile, have carried sfbe late municipal elections
and arc going tosrsenact the same farce that
they performed before and that we are r-i',--- e-
= tits pity titler a,nan, nor a, neigh.
borhood, nor a nation will take the advice or
experience of othcrs but must needs buy some
of their own, by sometimes paying very dear
for it. 1t must come of,vanity and self:csieem
prompting man orcommunity 10 suppose that
he or they are bctterthan other people, or more
capable Of conducting such an experiment
The belief which leads every man to imagine
! that he is an excepticnto death, disease or any
other misfortune, which has not yet befaen
him. must originate in the same cause. Such
people, and believe there is no other kind of
people, forget the common place trusm, which
have so often repeated, that man is the same
everywhere and at all tmes-that he has the
same constitutional and natural love of stimulus
wherever you find him, or if he does not love
the stimulus he loves the freedom and right to
enjoy it and will never yield that right. There
is much of all human nature akin to the ancc-
dote that is told of ALLATrUs, who would not
marry because he wanted the privilege of taking
orders and would not take orders because he
wanted the privilege of marrying. Tell man
hc shall not doa thing and you at once offend
him. You arouse his combativncss and indsme
all of his worst passions, so that he will do it
then in spite of you and his bctter judgment.
Once more, Messrs EDITORS, admonish the
sovcreigns of Edgefold to beware what they do
on Thursday next To remember that we play
with Rattle-Snake, or rather with a powder
magazine, when we, sport with the passions of
men, that it lie easy to kindle flame but hard is
the task to quench it. Whether th, advice
shall be needed or disregardcd as grauitous,
remains to be seen. know that there is no.
thing of which man is so liberal as his advice,
simply because it costs him nothing to give it
and his vanity is flattered at being thought able
to counsel others rs we'll as himself. Be this as
it may, without any wish to insult and only TO
inform. will proceed to give my closing coun.
sci to the people of this excited community.
Which is, that they had better make virtue
of necessity and seemingly acquiesce in that
which they cannot prevent. Men will use stim-
uli and they will use them in Retail or Grog
Shops. You may suspend, palate, or oppose
it as you will but license must come at last.
England after all sorts of opposition and taxa
tion of stimuli has reduced her policy with re.
gard to them to three maxims-First, That rs
she cannot destroy the appetite for stimuli she
must encourage their use and not their abuse
and that the best way to do this is, Second, To
allow every body who pays tax to import OF
produce stimuli, and Third, To allow everybody
who pays license to retail the prepared arti.
clcs of that stimuli In fine, she has arrived at
the same conclusion, that we will soon reach il
our people go on in their mad career, that the
only way to treat stimuli is to allow their free
use, but at the same time to temper that use by
advocating and practising
TEMPERANCE BUT LICENSE.
DR. WALL once, at dinner table, very
unwiscly persisted in playing with cork,
in such a manner as displayed hand long
divorced from soap and water. One guest
expressed his surprise to another, and, in too
loud whisper, exclaimed, Heavens, what
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