Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-07-10

twenty-five years, have either been ruined
by it themselves, or some of the children
have been thus ruined, and degradation and
poverty have followed. Of the remaining
eighth, not over one half, or one-sixteenth
of the whole number, have come out of the
business themselves sober men, with money
in their pockets. This may be considered
an unwarrantable statement, but investiga-
tion proves its entire truth, as all may ascer-
tain by carefully gathering the statistics of
the traffic. The "truth of history is, that
while rum-sellers may "wax fat and kick
for time, living lavishly on their counted
ill-gotten gains, the day of rctr ibution comes,
and their fall and infamy is complete.
But what of the Joe's9 They have been
and still are numerous enough, to have their
sad fate warning written in "characters of
living fire." over the door of every drinking
house in the land, and proclaimed in thun-
der-tones, in the ears of every one yet free,
undying hostility to the accursed system
that so debases and mars Gods noblest
workmanship.
eff you had not drank rum," &c. How
many endowed by nature with intellects
susceptible of the highest cultivation, pos
scsscd of rare social virtues, would have oc-
cupied the place for which they were appar-
emily designed, but for rum, l. e. the traffic;
while those vastly inferior in every respect,
after having led them step by step along the
road to ruin, scornfully spurn and tanta-
lie them over their fall, and what they
might have been, but for rum.
"Ifyou had not sold ~ words full of dread
full import; the whole truth in SENTENCE
Sell, drink, shame, poverty, death! Strange
it is, that those who visit for purposes of
drink, the liquor sellers internal precints,
should not have found out the close connec-
ton between the sale and their own ruin !;
that their money and the suffering of their
own families, fills the rumseller's till, and
feeds and supports his that he gives his
money the power to lord It over him.
Strange did we say that they do not know
it, They do not know it! Then why do
they drink? Accused appetite, dreadful
infatuation, leads them on. The fatal wand
of the rum-seller's fell spirits is over him ;
he would not drink, and yet does drink he
would be man, and yet makes himself the
brute
What then can save him !? Just such a
law Of inhibition strictly enforced, as that
now on our statute book. 1t steps in be-
tween the victim and his. destroyer. 1t lays
its strong grasp upon bottles, decanters, and
barrels, and moves them from his reach, it
stretches further and wider its fingers, and
seizes upon the person of him who is the
front and head of the mischief, and, fneeds
be, put him also out of the way; goes still
further, and closes the doors of his lazar
house. Appetite impels the victim to seek
for its wonted stimulant, but seeks in vain.
At last it yields to necessity, reason returns,
freedom is gained, and he who but recently
was slave, now rejoices in thrice welcome
deliverance.
Glad result Friends of temperance are
you not willing to labor with increased dill
gence to accomplish it. There are hundreds
of Joc's yet in the State, bound hand and
foot in the CALLING bondage of the traAicker.
1t is for you to save them. There are still
scores of the foul fends who continue in Sc.
cret places and dark corners to ply their en-.
ginery of death. Seek them out, apply the
remedy, and save them from self-destruction.
Heed not their threats or winnings. Find
them out |! so shall you prevent double sac.
rifce.