Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-09-10
Gell1perallte A6ar1ss.
TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

FELLOW CITIZENS Fourteen years have
come and gone since. as the organ of thu
State Temperance Society, addressed you
on the great question Of Total Abstinence
from all which can "ntoxicate In thai
time what changes have taken place! The
Washington Reform and Moral Suasion
were the cries which grew louder and loud
er, in every temperance circle. They were
things of but day-lhe Washington Re-
form perished; Moral Suasion has been
rendered almost powerless by tho fact thar
those who most need suaslon, the manydc
turers and oendors Of Intoxicating drink,
will not listen, aud, like Demetrius, the sill
verslnith, they cry out against the followers
of temperance, as he did against Paul AT
Ephesus, saying, "Sirs, ye know that BY
This craft 1.-THE making or selling of lntoxic"
ting drink) "ue hare our wealth" More
over, ye See and hear no, only" here, bu'
almost through all America, the men Lary,
White, and others have turned AVA.
much people," saying, that there shout"
be no intoxicating drink "made with hauds,
and that none should be srld or drunk
$50 that not only this one craft is il"
danger to be set at naught," but also tl'a
the "great temple" of temperate drinking
should be despsed, and her magnifcenr'
should be destroyed whom all" Amrrc
"and the world worshippelh."
This prosecuting cry here, as in Ephesus
has filed the people with wrath, and the,
are made to cry out great is The making
and selling of Intoxicating drinhs," and they
are ready, If not TO lay their bands on the
devoted Reasoners Of Temperance, Moral
Suasionists you may call them, at least to
circulate all fasehoods of and concerning
them, as for instance Of Cary, when he was
reposing from his labors in the bosom OF
his own family at College Hill Ohio, :" that
he had been seized in Alabama, and incar.
cerated as an Aboiitionist," or of White,
while he was rousing the people more and
more to temperance, that he was given over
to intoxicating drink. Men and brethren,
do you not indeed, when reason, and not
madness, is present, cry out, Shame
Shamew
The State Temperance Society at their
recent meeting at Greenville directed their
President to address the people Of the State.
In performing that duty, beg leave to call
their attention, lst to the State Temperance
Society itself; 2nd, to the necessity Of con-
certed action on the part Of the people to
put down drunkenness; Sd to the necessity
Of establishing Temperance Newspaper !;
4th, to what we desire on the part of the
Legislature to secure temperance to the
People Of The State.
lst. Recollect, friends, that the State Tenn.
perance Society was first organized in 1929,
that at its head sat the noble, venerable, and
revolutionary form Of the patriarch of Co.
lumbia, Col. Thomas Taylor. and his
society have long since passed away. But
does not his pure and child.like spirit, abide
in some part Of Columbias Has his mantle
descended from the chariot Of fire, upon no
inhabitant of his o,0n toicn.
In 1888, new State Temperance Socie-
ty was organized, and Chancellor Job John
son was placed at its head. In ls4l, the
undersigned was called to the Presidency,
which he has ever since occupied. In 1912,
g, d, IS, g, Y, g, %, so and 81, it carried
the banner of temperance, total abstinence,
all over the State. Why did it cease to do
so in so. $50, '54. '559 For two reasons
lst, the people became weary in well doing
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