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

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drunkards-who will turn round and curse their
patron Temperance" License" has not
transcended his liberty if he roll out forty drunk
ards day. He has paid for the right to make
drunkards He makes them according TO laoc.
The licensing council with one hand grants pow
er to make drunkards and with the other passes
law to punish the man for deeds which he
will do only when he is patent-right drunk.
knowing the diabolical dceds, such rs bias
phcmy, gambling, fighting, adultery and murder
which some men commit willie intoxicated and
then alone, we ask how can the licensing power
grant license TO make drunkards, without grant.
ing by implication the license to do the wicked
ness peculiar to drunkenness! Arc VIC not
cautioned against being "partakers Of other
mems sins? p And what would he the nature
of that copartnersp in sin which could give
more stock in the sins Of others than the one
existing between the liccnscrs of the one part,
including their lawful agent the grog gseller, and
the drunkard whose garments are drenchcd with
spew and Rum and the blood of him who an
hour before was friend-perhaps a wife-of
the other So much for ndmc-a name bel
ligcrent1y and uncompromisingly heterogeneous
in its compound.
As "TEMrERAxcE But License sccms to
have the gift of continuance, We shall offer a
few suggestive intcrrogatires that we may OBJ
tain, if possible, = better knowledge of the
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seem that all is going on well, after Rspubli-
can and Southern" style when "wet" coun.
Gil are ruling in the village and grog-shops opcn
drunkards rceling, blasphcmies echoing, sober
people interrupted, good men and women bowed
down. This is not "Mainism" but true Soutt-
craism Shall we call it one Of the "institu.
tions" of the South! But when "dry" coun-
Gil are put in office, they are no sooner seated
than the pillars of the temple Of liberty begin
to trcmbe and the very earth gives signs of
woe. Alackaday! Are the minority to rule when
in favor of license, but not so when opposed TO
it! Does every one obtain his right under the
administration of a "wet" council Are the
rights of any taken away by a dry council!
Shall Edgcfeld Village govern herself. "TEM-
rEEANcE But License tells us-First, What
he is not-"Censo General of Edgefeld, not
the champion of drunkards or drunkeuncss,''
and Second, What he iS-"The unaltcrable
advocate of temperance and sobriety." Let US
sec how we'll his negative name suits him. He
says of those whom he terms enthusiasts for
total absiincncc"-"I suspect them of being
slaves to Gambling, Tobacco, Tea, Coffee or
Opium" .AgSin, "Repubcan America" it is
folly to expect that "she will bow her neck to
the many headed monster Of bare majority of
reformed sinners turned prosecuting s,ints.'
This smacks little of 4 chagrined "ccrsor." AS
to his not being champion of drunkards or
drunkenness" we are willing 10 leave tho dec-
sion of that to those who vote 4 "wct" ticket.
IN addition to the anslysis to which VIC SUBJ
jcctcd one-half of his signature, we may add
that his claim to be an unaltcrab!e advocate
of temperance and sobrety," is equally stagger-
ing to common sense when we read Of the
"cigar" and "drink" (Whiskcy, Rum &c.,
"they are enjoyments unless abused, and neces.
sary evil. even them" The talicising is ours.
We have nothing to do with cigars at present,
but according to the above quotation the "abuse"
of drink, lie. drunkcnness,is is Unnecessary" An
unalterable advocate of temperance and so.
briefly" who holds the belief that existing
drunkcnnessis is necessary! five have mistaken
"TEMrE RANCE But LICENSE" it is an honest
mistake, attributable mainly to the fact that no
utterly failed to specify the nccessitating cause
or causes. If he should take refuge under the
decree eternal"-quite convenience in desti-
tuition of srgument-we can only reply that the
same cause existed for the election of dry
council, and "TEMPERAScE EUr LICENSE" may
reply, it exists also for his writing against the
procedure, and may add also for this reply.
And unless dccrccd otherwise, "TEMrERANcE
but LICENSE" shall have further notice.
TEMPERANCE NO LICENSE.