Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-09-29

perance. Dstilleries would be as numberless now,
as they were three centuries ago and their Nectar
would still be as universally quaffed and still be re-
garded as
The feast Of reason and the flow of soul"
Therefore, hope the enthusiasts for total absti-
nence will pardon me, when suspec, them of being
slaves to Gambling, Tobacco, Tea, Coffee or Opium
And Icontend, that proper feeling of philanthropy
should make thsm look with some charity upon
men Of different age, station taste or Temperance nj
with themselves, whose constitutional misfortune it
may be- to love liquor better than any other s,inu-
us aud 10 indulge in it to excess. 1t We're perhaps
better fur mankind, if even Cinnamon, Cloves, Pep
per or other Barks and Spices could take the place
Of liquor but as mems tastes are as various as their
faces, is no use to dispute about them or for one
man, or set of men to say, what stimulus another
shall use or how he shall use it, whether in gros
shop or in his private parlor
Despolic Europe has never submitted to it, and
of course it is idle folly to expect that Repub
lcan America will bow her neck to the many head
ed monster Of bare majority Of reformed sinners
turned prosecuting saints. Tyranny is tyranny,
whether practiscd by one man or FIVE hundred, as
some one wrote upon the British House Of COM
mons at night, when tho body who sat thore by day.
were plundering the British subjects of their rights
And especially will the people Of the South resist
and even resent such an encroachmcns upon their
private and social rights prescribing to them what
they shall drink, or ,chere they shall drink it.
Here a. the South, the language of d:ctalio |
even, can rarely be used with ilnpunty, much less
the act. Our people are too proud, free and brave,
and have too much individuality to allow any such
intrrmed.ing and prescription. The language Of
the true Southerncr generally is Let me alone,
touch me not, keep away with your Socialism, Agra
rianiNn, hormonisn, Grahamsln, Spirtualisn, Main
ism and the thousand other isms suited to North
crn and French climes wish to control my own
fate here in my own way and then to shape my
destiny TO the upper or lower world. just as choose
and long do not disturb you, you have right
to complain. tel you again, let me aloac, or you
will wake
"The slumbcring venom OF the folded snake"
1t isa a trte remark that man is social ANIMAL un-
able to brook solitude who when lie meets his fellow
and particularly his friend, is anxious to welcome
him cordially and warmly in some stimulating pledge
hence the offer Of cigar, or the invitation to
drink, which are the two social vices of every pco-
pic that get the Of enjoying them for they
are enjoyments unless abused, and necessary evils
even then.
! hold that the keeping Of grog shop is not only
lcgalised traffic, but necessary one especially in
our village, where thousands assemble and want
dram but not bottle 1t ill-bccones this little Cnpi-
to to tell the people of the District that they shall
drink no liquor here in grog shops, where they can
select from variety Of beverages and have an at
tcndant with glasses sugar and other avors or sea-
sonngs Such language might do for Granitcvlle,
an exclusively manufacturing town and PRIVATE pro-
pcrty. Or it might como, with an awkward excuse
from Hamburg an exclusively CONN crc:al town, or
farther STILL it nigh, well be uttered by Greenwood
or Cukesbury, which are educational villages but
Edgcficld, or any country seat in an agricultural
country and especially in AZ rye district our.
uub ia''el'NS "hSn ~
exercise Of power.
Who has not heard of the Calumet, or pipe of
peace and friendship among the Indiana and you
may smile il you cho.se, but the pipe of the white
man, is tue pipe Of wine, always at hand and ready
to bo found in the Bar Room where he calls the
world to witness his independence in the Indulgence
Of the vice, instead of being guilty o. smuggling
aduitcrasion, anarchy and hypocracy, the legitimate
offspring Of this special and local Maine liquor law,
proposed by tl;rty-fve voters Of Edgc6eld Village
to the remaining two thousand nine hundred and
sixty-fre Of Edgcfied District.
AIessrs Editors, will use no harsh epithets, nor
tell the people Of Edgcficld that they dare not re-
fuse License, but will tell them that the Mainism.
Liquor Law, never will be tolerated at the South
and that It is destined To short lived existence at
the North, unless oil history lies, will abundanty
prove in my next communication.
TEMPERANCE BUT LICENSE.
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