The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-08-29
Temperance Meeting at Klngstree.
. MINISTRIES, S. C., Aug. 10, 1854

NlN0olh6E, ~ ", avg AoS W.
a meelingeof the citizens of williamsburg
district was held at the Presbyterian Church,
near Kingstree, this day, having for its object
the, taking into consideration the proprioty of
pettioning the Legislature to enact q law or
laws entirely prohibiting the sale of intoxiea.
ting liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical,
or other scientific purposes. 8,
1t was organized by appointing Col. David
D. Wilson President. The following gentle.
men were then appointed Vice e@Presidents, viz:
Joseph Scott, Sr, Dr. James Bradley, Capt. j.
A. Sa,ters, j. a. Gordon, Henry D. Shaw, Aa.
ron F.. Graham; aud William F.sBIakely and
Edw. ]. Porter were requested to'act as Sec
retaries. ~
After an eloquent and fervid prayer by the
Rev. James A. Wallace, the object of the meet:
ing was explained, and the President announc-
ed that w. G. Footman, esq, would address
the audience on the bject of discussion Mr..
Footman rose, and in an address Of considera-
bic length, depicted, in an impressive manner,
the evils Of intemperance, and forcibly urged
the necessity Of some restraint upon the WINE
cup more stringent than any yet imposed
some more powerful restriction than any yet
applied-to stay the rarages of the destroyer,
whose hand was laid alike on the high and the
low, the young and the old. He trusted that
a remedy existed somewhere. The influence
of religion had failed to check the increasing
power of intemperance, and moral suasion had
exhausted her powers'in vain. He looked to
the Legislature of the State TO arrest the traffic
by some means. He thought the remedy lay
there, and hoped it would be attempted, at all
events The address was well worthy of the
cause, and delivered in clear style and we'll
emphasized tone. 1t elected much applause.
John g. Presley, esq, then assembled the
platform erected for the occasion, and for about
an hour and half enchaned the audience by
a very well considered argument in favor Of
some probibitory law to prevent the traffic in
intoxicating drinks. He discussed the consti.
tutionalty Of a prohibitory law, the failure of
the license law to effect the objects intended
to be ,'femedied thereby, the Intellectual at
tempts Of temperance societies to arrest the
progress ofintemperance, and the necessity of
laws Of different character from any yet en-
acted, whereby the dramshops may be forever
closed. He answered conclusivey the many
objections raised against the passing of a pro.
hibitory law, and elected the admiration of all
present by the force of his reasoning and the
strength Of his arguments.
The Rev. James A. Wallace succeeded, and
with his wonted eIoquence urged the propriety
of abolishing the present existing laws in re!a.
tion to the liquor traffic, and the necessity Of
adopting others, more stringent, and better cal
cuated. If not to reclaim the present genera
ton, at least to preserve the rising generation
from the unhallowed vortex Of intemperance
that threatened to engulf them.
Aaron F. Graham, esq.,, moved that the pro-
ceedings Of the day be published in the Charles
ton papers, which was adopted.
: The meeting then adjourned to the green in
front of the Church to partake of bountiful
collation., prepared for the occasion by coutri-
button of several, friendly to the temperance
cause. D. D. WILSON, Chm.
EDw. j. PORTER,