Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-12-18
NO.5I
efficient Tract Committee be spread upon
the minutes Of this Session:

efficient Tract Committee be spread upon
the minutes of this Session:
BEyNErsvrLLE, 8. C.--1s56.
To IL beg to call your attention to the Tract
Enterprise recently put in operation by the Grand
Division, Sons Of Temperance Of South Carolina.
Under resolutions adopted by the q. d., ct
Greenyille, in July, 1854, requesting the g. w r.
to appoint committee Of FIVE from the State at
large, to receive and to examine critically such
original productions as might be submitted for
publication in the form of tracts, 6. W. P. Moses
appointed .'fss&
3. D. Townsend, of Marlboro; T. C. Evans, Of
Darlington T. ]. Warren, Of Kershaw :. g., E..
Caughman of Lexington; H. Summer, Of New.
berry, as the Committee. -.
Before the Annual Session of 1854, some 5fye
Tracts had been submitted, examined, approved,
and u was determined, after rnising a sufficient
fund.- from voluntary contributions made by mem. :
bers of the Grand Division present at that session,
to proceed with the publication. This was done,
and stereotype plates preserved of each number
that subsequent editions might be struck on
rapidly and economically. 49,
Experience taught the Committee that the cost
of these Tracts, including oil necessary charges,
would be about 81 per thousand and It was de-
termined to sell them to Divisions, or TO other
Temperance organizations, or individuals at So 50
per thousand, where opportunities offered to sup
ply orders outside Of the mails, free Of transpor
tation charges or So per thousand when sent by
mail, and the postage paid in advance.
In this way it was intended to make 1T self
sustaining system-deriving means from sales 70
reproduce the stock as often as it should become
necessary, and Of course throwing the pecuniary
burthen of supplying every part Of the State with
these Tracts only on such as might desire and or
der them. sS-s>.
Operating thus, the Committee have succeeded
in stereotyping and publishing ten original Tenn
perance Tracts-all written by South CaroEnians,
in different parts of the Statc-nine Of them con-
tanning four pages each, and one Of them double
or eight-page Tract. ..r...e ~
The following is a list of the subjects discussed
this far:
No. 1.-THE necessity Of Prolibitory Law
for tho people OF the South" No. 2.-ssDocs
the present crisis of the Temperance reformation
in South Carolina demand the enactment Of Pro-
hibitory Liquor Law?" No. 3.-"The traffic in
ardent spirits considered in o pecuniary point of
view" No. 4.-"rhe right ofa Comnonwealth
to suppress the Liquor traffic" No. 5.-"Iss %
Prohibtory Liquor Law demanded in South Caro-
lima Mt prcscnt!" No. 6,-"A few thoughts on
the Liquor traffic" No. 7.-"No legislation
or Prohibition" No. $40, thou man Of dot!
there is death in the pot."-2 Kings 4: 40. Noa
| Gam my brothers keeper? Aquesion pro-
posed in view Of Probibitory Law" No. 10.--
1.-THE physical effects Of alcoholic drinks" :"
Some seventy thousand and upward Of these
| Tracts have already been ordered from various
parts Of the State, the packages forwarded, aldi
is presumed that most Of them have been distri-
butcd.
In addition to the Tracts, the Committee had
| referred to them also compilation of the Eccuse
Law Of South Carolina, by Judge 0Nesll.
This makes neat pamphlet of eight pages, And
500 copies were struck off ut first, with which
orders have been supplied at five cents per copy.
The undersigned is happy to inform all who may
take an interest in this matter, that he now has
Oh hand and will continue to keep, If possible an
ample supply Of the ten Tracts already stereotyp-
ed, and Judge O'NealPs compilation Of the license
Laws of South Carolina. -....
| Orders will be promptly supplied with an equal
quantity of each number of the series, when il is
| left to the Chairman Of the Committee to make up
lot; or, If preferred, any Of the numbers may be
designated, and packages will be made up in this
way according to directions.
This series Of Tracts, it is confidently believed,
will compare fayorably with any similar produc-
tions heretofore published but the subject is not
exhausted nor are these regarded Us the very
best that con be written. Let them suffice, how.
ever, as an introduction to the enterprise; and
when more comprehensive, strong, and convincing
Tracts are written and submitted the Committee
will cheerfully add to the list.
| Now that the Committee have demonstrated the
practcability of this scheme for enlightening tho
masses Of society," on subject but very little un-
derstood-in way, too, that will cost but little,
and that Little to be paid voluntarily by such per-
sons or associations as may desire to quietly and
silently argue the great questions Of Temperanee
and Prohibition with their friends and neighbors
it is confidently hoped that the friends Of onr
cause in South Carolina will take immediate steps
to supply every neighborhood in the State, and
that systematic distribution will pnt the serios
into the hands of our entire reading population.
| In this important work Of scattering the Tracts
broadcast, ministers of the gospel, Tract commit
tees, Cadets of Temperance, and the ladies who
have become visitors to our divisions, may power.
fully as they no doubt will cheerfully, assist US.
II the great argument can thus be put into she
hands of the people before prejudices ore excited
by the sophistry ofdemagogues, who may here
after feel inclined to mount the stump in oppose
ton to prohibitOry legislation, thevictory will be
all but gained. - 49, S,
All the funds derived from the increasing sales
of these Tracts will be faithfully employed in the
productions of the numbers already extant, and
in publishing and stereotyping such new produce
ton as may be submitted and approved from timo
to time.
Trusting that this exposition, brief and imper-
feet as it is, will commend the enterprise to your
favor and support, remain, Fraternally yours,
B. D. TOWNSEND,
Chairman Of Tract Committee.
In relation tothe minutes of this session,
Bro. Townsend offered the following Reso.
lutions which were agreed to-: ~ =.
Rssolcsd, That the proceedings of this Session
be sent to the Editors of the YoRKvILLE ENegI-
RER, for publication in that Journal, and that the
Grand Scribe be requested to furnish the publish
er of the same, with list of the Subordinate Di-
visions and p. o. address of each, and that each
of said Divisions be furnished with 10 copies Of
the paper containing the proceedings, at the e1-
pense of this body.
Rssolrcd, That all papers in the State, ,sfriendly
to our order, be respectfully requested to copy tho
proceedings Of this session.
On motion of Bro. CASTOR,
Resolced, That tho Committee. on the puhlica-
ton Of the Minutes0f the Grand Division, from
January 1851 be authorized to have five hundred
copies of tho said Minutes published, without La
bity of the Grand Division.
Bro. II. Summer of the Tract Committee
submitted the following 3
.- REPORT: q
The Committee would respectfully report on
the statement Of the Chairman Of the Tract Com.
mittee, that on examining the same, they hud that
Al IL h,stf-