Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-06-26

FROM KINGS CREEK.


NssSrs. Editors ALLOW us to solicit place in
the columns of your worthy paper, with view
to express the opinions of persons in this section
upon subject. which has created considerable e1-
citement lately in our district. First, let ne cor
rect mistaken notion with regard to the authors
Of few articles in your paper on treating at el-
ections &c. In place of examining the import Of
those articles and adhering to the truths therein
contained, people commence guessing-school,
and in searching around some of them even anath-
ematize and denounce the authors and their arti-
cles. When "Juvenar opposed the treating poll
cy, the enquiry ran thus: "Who is Juvenar that
be dare write against long prevailing custom and
say such hard things against high-miuded gentle
men?" And, again, when short article appear
ed in your paper CT the 2sth ult., from Antioch,
the guessing was resumed, accompanied with both
praise and censure. Some thought the writer was
Rev. WADE HILL; others A. HARDIN. Guess Oh
it was not Rev. WADE HILL, nor was it A. HAIR
DIN; yet neither of them will not shrink one whit
from the aTowal of the sentiments therein con-
tanned We are sure, when those men, or either
of them, speak out they will oppose and expose
the evils growing out of this custom of treating
with strong drink-tbat order-rending, peace-des-
troying, ppctitc-degrading, sou!-benumbing thing
called Whiakcy-the devils bait, the candidates.
treat, the drunkard's :sVeet and the youths cheat
tho foe alike to moral, social, political and re-
ligious good
When "JaTcral" shows you the evils of this
| treating practicc-paints the degrading policy of
selling your birthright for drink of whiskey-
does he furnish you cause for hunting him out
as foe-for seeking after him as for wild game?
If you still insist on knowing who he is, we tell
you it does not matter who he may be, provided
what he says is truth However, lest you keep up
the inquiry of Who? instead Of What? We will
let out the secret He is young W1cxL1rT-the
morning star of the much desired rcformation.--
! He has fortunately made his appearance amongst
US, when most needed, that we may become con-
versant with the principles of moral and religious
reform, without going back to the Fourteenth
Century to learn them. Get acquainted with him,
for he is fast friend to the Republic. As for
| "II," who was taken to be Rev. Wade Hill or A.
Hardin, and abused in their names, he wrote a
short but firm epistle, setting forth few facts
which the world cannot gainsay. We offer no 9TH
er eulogy for him, besides calling him our home
and modern Huss, who Huss-like is carrying out
the views and doctrines Of Wick!iff!
As this seems to be the commencement of new
epoch, let US examine the nature, the cause, the
"why and wherefore" oil the movement. Ninety
years back our forefathers were under the laws
and groaned because of the expressions of Great
Britain. They petitioned, demonstrated and pro-
tested against the unjust tyranny. They OF las.
fought and bled and many Of them died to pro-
cure for their posterity the liberties of free
people; and through the pcrserering energy and
the patriotic spirit Of both men and women, ond
under the blessing of Heaven, obtained the great