The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-06-01
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despotlsm SO revolving to all the
finer feelings Of the human heart: m
hI While Louisiana, as u grave and
prudent matron, smiles approvingly on
her fair daughters, and says, Il too,
will join in this holy work. y.
Florida, blushing in maiden inno-
cence, disdains to have her virgin puri-
ty defilcd, and her sweet perfume,
waited from thousand flowers, con-
taminated by the besottcd wooings and
foul breath of the rum-tiend.
Tennessee, the child of the Old
North State, sets her vencratcd mother
n glorious example, and bids her emu
late i'll the blessed cause Her first
men are in the field, the sound political
and judicial wisdom Of Dilahunty
has awakened her people TO an invcsti-
CATION Of the subject; while the con.
vincing cloqucnce Of Haskell, Camp
bell, Pavatt, Brownlow, and others,
is arousing spirit of eternal hostility
to King Alcohol.
kentucky, "thc dark and bloody
ground" is not a listless spectator of
the stirring scenes around her. She is
girding up her loins for the toray; and,
when she speaks, like the steady, uner-
ring aim OF her Riilclnen ut the battle
Of New Orleans, it will tell, as then, a
sad tale to this great enemy of their
country.
Ohio, the great giant of tic mighty
West, which, but little more than a
quarter of century ago, was vast
uncXplorcd Wilderness, but now stands
third in the Union for agricultural and
commercial wealth, and political
strength and Importance, initiating her
superior growth in these respects, has
advanced far ahead Of her elder sister
States, and cngraited upon her Magma
Charto, us though "writtcn upon tables
Of brass with the pen of iron," the de-
cree of violation OF the chartered lib
critics of people, totally ut variance
with one of the fundamental principles
OF her constitutional government, for
her lawmakers to pass any Act by
which the sale of ardent spirits can be
TOLERATED or lar. soil Wiiu wifi dare
say that tie Buckeye State will not
now be free!
Indiana and Illinois; Michigan and
Missouri; Arkansas and Texas; Cali
tornia and New Mexico; Oregon and
Wisconsin-ui, all are moving to fill
up the ranks on this great, sublime,
moral battlefield, to strike at once a
decisive and cflcctual blow for the re-
lief of down-troddcn humanity, and for
the honor and glory Of God!
The venerable Patriciul here ceased,
and sank to the earth, overpowcrcd
with the sublimity and grandeur of the
prospect spread out before him.
But say, honorcd Patrician, speakcst
thou truly the words or Prophecy, or
is thine the language Of the wild cnthu-
siast, proceeding from the cxtruvagan-
ces Of disordercd brain? Speak
Tell me, can these things be in store
for happy America; and shall we i'll
deed realize the full truton of all thou
hast told me?
For shame, thou doubling, inhdcl
man Canst thou not read the signs
of the times, written as with sun
beam athwart the clear, expansive
vault Of heaven ? Aye, all these things,
and more than these, shalt thou behold,
ere the great millenuial day of Tenn
perancc shall burst upon the cnraptur-
ed vision of the word Then shall the
angel, whose mission it has been to
bind up the brokcn-hcarted, to direct
the wanderer, and treasure up the tears
of the disconsolatc, us in II bottle, to
stand as perpetual memorial before
the throne of the Father, to lsindle his
wrath against those who have caused
them to how-the Angel of Mercy and
Bencvolcnce, shall then lay aside the
pitying employment, which has SO
long cngrosscd its attention; and, on u
far more delightful mission, and on
wings Of gold, speed his way to earth,
to all who have come up to the help of
the Lord against the mighty. Then
shall due honor be given the Whites,
the Careys, the Coughs, the Hunts, the
Grants, the Gallys, the O'Ncalls, the
Dilahuntys, and all who have led for
ward the mighty phalanx Of this irwin
ciblc and victorious army; while not IL
soldier in the entire ranks, however
humble or feeble, if he have alike rev.
erenced the kindred virtues of temper
ance, faith, godliness, brotherly kind
ness, charity" but shall have joy and
rejoicing.
The old man ceased to speak, and |
tervently exclaimed, God grant that
not single one Of the vast array may
be found unworthy r'
"Amcn" responded the venerable
Patriarch, with q sound that seemed to
pierce the sky, and he vanished from
NY sight!
Raleigh, N. c., Jan. l, 1852.
Those who abandon themselves to
drunkenness, if they do not die of In
fl,, of ~, fl,a n