The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-04-07
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81 tbe Rev. e. X. Mar8i0H

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Can you say mo-? Millions can say
"Yes'' Not one in a hundred can say
No! It Is one Of the first and highest ac-
complishments for a-young man to be able.
on all proper occasions, to reply firmly,
kindly, and decisiyeIy-Ro. Young men
are constantly solicited to enter into plans
or pursuits for amusement, for the gratifi-
cation of the passions and appetites; for the
advancement. OF doubtful schemes or the
abetting Of evil practices to which consent,
once given, Is prophetic Of inevitable des-
truction You are solicited by gentle-
man of charming manners and fascinating
address TO take game at some play, for a
trifing bet: you are shared, as a spider
s'Fopes in the silly fy, and you Law the
corner stone Of the character Of a .black
leg;" and twenty years after you will bear
in miEd what rich deposits were sealed up
forever in that corner stone, and what woe
and shame and Worthlessness you have en-
tailed upon yourself, by not repelling the
enchanler, and resolutely answering MOL
You will be inportuned to drink, in all the
phraseology Of politeness, by men Of wealth,
fashion and the learned professions; an ten
to one, IL some of our reiigionists, and even
clergymen, do not join with them to entice
you on: but the current once entered, the
Circean cup once sought, the voice of reas-
on and conscience once hushed; and then
you need only read the end Of millions to
know your fate. We tell You there is no
hope. nor safety, except in courageous
negation. Tell every man No; and though
you may offend, you viii triumph. Heay-
en- and good men will sustain you. Be
ware Of the enchanted ground. The mer-
chant. has just closed trade with planter;
and turning to him with smiling face and
most afectionate air, says, NOW do me the
honor, sir, to take a 'refresher' Of little
the Oldest and the best the land affords. -
The customer hesitates. AT home he is
Presbyterian Ia Baptist-a Methodist-an
Episcopalian-or, perhaps, only Son Of
Temperance: he fingers; shutters; but the
merchant has him By the arm, and like a
ballllf with his victim, MAJ ches him Off
Poor, Inconsistent, weak, irrcsolute man
hecould not speak it out. No was ringing
in his heart,--crying from every sensibili-
ty; consistency, manliness, example, all
cried No; but he had not the utterance; he
could not speak it. On he goes like a bull
lock to the shambles, and drinks! True,
the single drink was bagatelle But,
then--he hangs out the white flag at home
at church-at the pleasure party in his
own vicinity; but he feels the ineifable curse
Of Inconsistency when abroad. He learns
to despise himself.--he has cause; for the
want Of self respects the direct assurance
Of doom. The man who goes, on to ruin
leaves sad legacy of shame to his family
all because he would not say Mol a Ger
tain General once asked an acquaintance OIL
mine toltakeHa glass Of wine with him. -
The young man never used wine drank !
no liquor; but he was fattered by so dis |
tingulshed a genlleman's attentions, drank,
and whena ruined man said he took his
start at that point. hecould not say No. A !!
friend said to an acquaintance of mine,
please endorse my note. lie could not re-
ply, No; yet feared the consequences, and /
hey came; sad, dark, ruinous. He was
oankrupted BY that one signature, -eould
not say Nol
The new temperance law passed by the
asst Legislature requires that majority of
I'm legal yolers OF the citysor if out Of the
lily a majority Of the voters ina police dis
Iict should sign a petition in favor of an
applicant before lie can obtain license to
.etail vinous Or spirituous liquors. Many
will ask respectable citizens to- signa such
editions. The graves still cries Tor a few
more of the same sort with which drameries
md drinking saloons have been gorging it
or years aud must be fed Death has his
lights heis a great democrats and first
lass power sign this bill of privileges let
i'm work: men must die, the wine cup is
urer than the revolver Of the sword. There
re not yet widows enough nor enough Of
,oor homeless, unpitied orphans whose
1retched father drank up their school books
heir sunny hours their comfortable beds
heir good eloLhes-their happiness their all
ave the inheritance of shame and want j
lend roundyour prayer for another license.
AXE the skull OF drunkard' S skeleton and
II il with the blood Of the last martyrdom
ictim Of the cup instead Of the inkstand and
o round to your fellow .citize The legal
oters aud give them a chance to record
leir namesin aeonsistenta AMI becoming
lanners Roll on the business the jails will
Jon be vacant If the law operates as we'll
J II is designed to. The manufactures OIL
IL. Penitentary viii be diminished the hos
ltal4unds viii give out, So much revenue
III be lost tosIhe town o. county Sign the
apers There he goes Nth his paper what
sight to behold Ale manly pursuits all
Are useful enply oments dis
onorable2 How does he feel rudging b
Sund and begging legal voters t. excuse 8
NJ from hard work and let him set up an.ins I
nnal maehine that viii IS bound 70 Ill,
victims can BE worked 81 he --latest and :
ost worthless d sn alive When you see the
.ttltlon when III is presented tor your So