Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-07-24

perance Let those families that have ventured
upon the experiment give back the answer. II
comes to US from grave-yards borne upon the
groans of fathers, the sigh of mothers and the
cries of orphans. "Tain up child in the way
he should CO." is the Divine injunction; and a
most precious encouraging promise is append
ed. But are those parents training their children
in the way they should 60, who are training them
to the daily use of spirits in the family? Would
man introduce viper into his family to become
the daily companion of his children, and expect
none of them to be bitten and die? Who, then,
does not pray most earnestly to be delivered from
the anguish those parents ought to feel, who see
their children turn out drunkards when the piercing
reflection forces itself on their minds: Z" We gaze
the start to This in their early training?"
Gicen as a matter Of hospitality to frie"ds.-A
most fruitful source of intemperance was this in
its day. But happily, in all places that have
kept pace with the age, the practice is now done
away, and it would he regarded as impolite, and q
ground of offence, rs it is silent way Of saying
to q man: understand that you still lore a dram; i;
come let us hare little In some obscure parts of
the country, at least quarter of century behind
the age the practice may still he kept up, but not
in good society We have word of Scripture on
this subject that seems to have been but little re-
earded. It is this: s'Wo unto him that gveth his
neighbor drink that puttest thy hottie to him and
makest him drunken also. The cup of the Lords
right hand shall be turned unto thee; and shameful
spewing shall be on thy glory"
Medical Prescriptions.-Usingt the article as
medicine, or taking medicines in spirits has been
an occasion of extensive intemperance. What
case more truly deplorable, than that of mans
pleading medical prescription, of some twenty
years standing, as his plea for the use of spirits
who had then suffered repeated attacks of delerium
tre,nens, and who was gone past hope not from dis
ease, but from intemperance. Physicians be-
ware
The place spirits once occupied in mercantile hon-
ses.--The time was when merchants, kept on
hand variety, and every man, woman and child
that patronized them must needs drink little
Just because it was so warm, or because it was so
cold because it was so wet, or because it was so
dry. But this most pernicous habit, like that Of
setting out spirits in the family is in all respecta-
BILE places most happily done away. 1t was in its
day, an occasion of widespread havoc. Some
there were who would always take too much when
the opportunity offered. And where this was not
the cause, it was initiating others, and it was keep
ing up the taste; and it was doing what it could
to render reputable n custom not only, in fact,
disreputable, but useless, injurious, dangerous.
Suppose, that, MS a merchant 1 could ny holding
out spirits enlarge my accounts, would it not
be, on the great day of final accounts most with
erng recollection that for the increase in my bu-
siness by the use of spirits had the blood of this
mau, AMI the ruin of that family and the peace of
the other neighborhood on my head! Who would
not rather do less business unmingled with
blood? "Wo unto him that gveth his neighbour
drink, that puttest thy bottle to him."
Its counerion mih military opsrations-I speak
not now of the use of ardent spirits in actual SER
vice in the field, where they are positively iniur-
Gus; but of their pestiferous effects not only on
days of public review, but on ordinary days for
drill. Why is it that military men are so often
ruined by intemperance 1t is the abominable
and detestable practice of treating which has cast
down so many strong men to rise no more. Is it
not pity that a man must ruin himselfand others
with him in order to be popular? 1would rather
live without the popularity which comes in that
way. Why cannot military officers say-why can
they not speak it out: "Gentlemen, we don't use
the article ourselves-it is disreputabe, nor can
we offer it oyou we are standing on principle" 7"
I approach now On occasion of intemperance
which has perhaps more than any other retarded
the Temperance Reform, while contributing more
than any yet noticed to the production and perpet-
uation of drunkenness. If to become indignant nj
the bare thought be not high virtue, then must
the writer confess that he has always erred in
thinking and speaking of it, But what it may be
asked is that occasion? To that l reply By
THE BRIBERY OF OFFICE SEEKERS IN THE FORM OF
A TREAT, as they 60 about over the land, through
out the length and breadth thereof, for the votes
of the free people of these United States. tenn
pora, o mores' Ubjnam gentinm sumus? Q~em
rempuJhcam hdbcmus?
But will, indeed, the sons of revolutionary he
roes and statesmen thus trife with the right of
suffrage, bought with the blood of their fathers
"Tell it not in Gath ~ Publish it not abroad to
the despots of the Old World. Will they barter
their birthrght, together with the other rich bes-
sings bequeathed to them by most worthy ances-
try for mess Of pottage? Did you say nay-but
for a mean potation of sinking whiskey! Alas
that so many of them value no higher their dear
bought liberties Was it for this that our gal
liant forefathers tenanted the swamps and lived on
roots, and marked the course of their march by
blood from their frozen feet, and went through oil
the horrors and sufferings of bloody revolution
What mighty engine this system Of treating, for
aspiring and designing demagogues. If it ever
becomes true that ardent spirits can control the
suffrage of our people more than it has done,
then farewell long farewell to all our boasted
greatness. Clad in the habiliments of mourning,
prepare to take your place in the funeral process
sion of these United States and to chant their re-
ouiem in unison with the sad voices of Millions
To appeal to no higher principle, where ask, ia
the freeman who will suffer himself longer to be
thus insulted who will tamely allow himself to be
approached as entirely wanting in patriotism-as
man of no mind-as belonging to circumstances