Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-11-17
co M M u M ICA T I D N S.
FOR TIE ADVERTISER.
LICENSE IN EDGEF1ELD VILLAGE.

LICENSE IN EDGEFIELD VILLAGE.
MEssRs. EDToRs: One more communication
on temperance but license and dismiss the sub
ject Your correspondent, signing "TEMpER-
AscE NO License has in his obscure and i'll
tempered sopIlistry, totally mistaken and misre'
presented the grounds and argument that hold
with regard to License. He devotcs half 4
column of metaphysical reasoning to prove that
there is something unnatural and Inconsistent in
the incongruous" signature of TEMPERANCE
nut License" We'll, this signature embodics
y mayn which has for its sanction no less au-
thority than that of Lord BACON, and maxims
are said by Sir JAMES McIsTosIr, TO be the con-
dcnscd good sense Of nations The phrase
"TEMrEEAScE Eur License simply means tho
temperate use and not the Incorporate abuse of
| liquor, and so think your readers have under
stood it. Hence your correspondent must study
the Special Pleading of Chitty Il little better,
and the .tailacies of Logic u little longer, to con-
virt my signature of inconsistency"
IIc next propounds certain inerrogatories,
which shall proceed briefly to answer lie
first enquiries if "Wc shall call it one of the
institutions of the South, for wet councils 10
rule in the village, having grog-shops open,
drunkards rreIing, blasphemes echoing, sober
people interrupted, good men and women bowed
DOWN. answer certainly not. We will call
grog-shops, or something like them, an institu-
ton of every nation. Still | am ready to call
then, Souihernism, even when attended with
the evils of which your correspondent complains
rather than adopt Tie Mainism. have never
claimed the privilege Of using stimuli, as an in
stitulion, characteristic peculiar to the South,
my whole argument on The contrary, has been
TO prove that man, wherever you find him, will
use stimuli whether necessity, pervcr>ity, dcgrl-
da,ion or habit be the cause. That this prin-
ciplc of his nature, like all other principles, is
eternal, so much so, that any law contravcning
it, is unnatural, unconstitutional, and never has,
nor ever can bc enforced. In support of this
Iappealed to the History of social oppoSion
or forcible legislation against spirits, tea, Coffee
tobacco, &C., and established. as conceive, that
such opposition was in vain-that England and
other enlightened governments becoming aware
of this, now tolerate the use ofsIimuli, however
unpleasant or injurious in many respects. To
make the application, then said that Maine or
Massachusetts might retry the Alainism or en-
pertinent at which England failed. but that the
South would be content to accept these frequent
failures of the strongest Government in the
world, as conclusive against the ability OF legls-
lation to stop the use of stimuli, and would ac-
corlingly resist amy attempt of the Sons
of Temperance" or others to force the liquor
law upon Il Stale or District. Your readers then,
Mcssrs. Editors will quickly perceive, the unfair
ness, misconccption, or want of perception in
your correspondents first question. But will
tell him what is another Mailisni, or Northern
ism. The South has little or no shipping, while
Maine has nearly twice rs much rs any State in
the Union. We'll, these same ship.mastcrs of
Maine, who will not use wine at the sacrament,
because as they allege Christ never used it, and
who are so uncompromi,ing in their hostility to
liquor: arc now engaged in supplying China with
Turkish Opiun,, in Il sort of smuggling specula-
ton, to the amount Of millions Of dollars worth,
and that too against the wishes of the Chinese
government and in The face of laws that would
make the bloody Soon blush. This warrants
me to suspect, that ourYankcc friends would also
brave the Federal and international law which
makes the Slave trade piracy, to supply the
South with Africans, provided our people would
buy them 1t was in proof before Il Committee
of the British House of Commons, that vessels
from Maine and other Northern States, furnish
ed Brazil with Africans rs long us that growing
kingdom allowed her subjects to buy therl. So
much for Yankee sincerity in Abolition rs well
as Temperance.
Your correspondents second intcrrcsatory is
Shall Edgcticld village govern herself" To
this reply, assurcdIy she shall. But l deny
that in refusing LICENSE, she is governing herself,
or if she is, she is also governing or attempting
to govern The District. Christianity and human-
ily AS well as civilization and the good of socic-
ty, require that all persons who live upon the
highway, shall entertain travellers. 1t is con-
dilion and implied obligation, annexed to resi-
dcncc on the road, that VIC shall not refuse our
feow-mcn food and shelter from hunger, rain
and cold, rs have seen done in the wcati,icr
portions of South Carolina and elsewhere. The
very existence, foundation and constitution {
of society forbid it. Yet if Il traveller has the
right to demand hospitality at the hands of any
resident upon the wayside, how much greater is
his right to have bed, board, beverage and other
accommodations for himself and horse, at the
capitol of his District This village is not, rs
| have before said, a manufacturing commercial,
or educational town Of private property. 1t is
a political county scat, established for the pur.
pose of administering justice TO every citizen in
the District and for furnishing accommodations
to those who come here on business The in
habitants who live in this village arc but the
voluntary agents and dependents Of the District,
and whenever they get tired of their residence, lei
them change it, by allowing those TO come here
who will behave themselves ard respect the
rights of the country people. But as long as they
remain in this village, our lawyers should settle
the disputes of the farmers, our merchants
conduct their exchanges, and above all our Ho