The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1856-08-21
Grmperamr aharrss.
To the People Of South Carolina.

FELLOW CITIZENS -Four teen years have
come and gone since, as the organ of the
State Temperance Society, l addressed YOU
"n the great question of Total Abstinence
fom all which, can, 'inioxicate!' In that
time what changes have taken place! The
Washington Reform aud Moral Suasion
were the cries which grew louder and loud.
er, in every temperance circle. They were
things ofsbut a day-the Washington Re-
form perished Moral Suasion has been rem
dered almost powerleSs BY the fact that those
'0ho most need suasion. TIE manufacturers
and oendorS Of Intoxicating drink, will not
listen, and, like Deinetrius, the silve,sinith.
they cry out against Tie followers oftemper.
ance, as he did against Paul mt Ephesus.
saving, "Sirs, ye know that by this craft
(the making or selling of intoxicating drink
.:we haze our wealth. "Moreover. We
sec and hear not only" here, "but almost
through, all America the men Cary, White,
andsoihens have 'iurred turned away much
people saying. that there should be no in.
toxicaIingl drink "made with hands," and
that none should be sold or drunk, $50 that
not ouly this one craft is in danger to he
set at naught," but also that the great tenn.
Ile' oftenIperate drinking .'shoulL he des.
pissed, and her magniicence should be des
troyed whom all" America "and the world
worsLippeth."
This prosecuting cry here, as in Ephesus.
has fille,l the people with wrath and they
are made to cry out 'great rs the making
ard sclting Of Intoxicating Girink," and they
are ready, it not TO lay their hands on the
devoted Reasoners Of Temperance, Moral
.Saasionists you may call them, at least t"
circulate all falsehoods of and concerning
them. as for instance of Cary, when he was
reposing from his laborS in the bosom Of hi.
own family at College Hill, Ohio, 'Mot he
had been seized IN Alabama, and inearcera-
ted as an 416otitionist." or Of White, while
l,e 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 mad
ness. Is present, cry out, "Shame shame ~
The State Temperance Society at their
recent meeting at Greenville directed their
President TO address the people Of the State
III performing that duty, beg leave to call
their attention. Is, to the State Temperance
Soriety itself; 2n,l. to the necessity Of con.
certed action on the part Of the people to
put down drunkenness; Sd to the necessity of
establishing u Temperance Newspaper 4th.
to what we desire on the psrt Of the Legis.
lalure to secure temperance to the People Of
The State Elk q" H.r.su
lst. RecolIecl, friends, ii:at tiie State TEN
perance Society was first organized in 1929,
that at its head sat the noble venerable, and
revolutionary form ofthe patriarch Of Colum
bis, Col. Thomas Taylor. lie and his society
have long since passed away. But does not
his pure and chld-hke spirit, abide in some
part Of Colpmbial Has his mantle descen.
ded from the chariot Of FIRE, upon no inhab,
liant of his o,on to,0a.
in 1888, new State Temperance Society
was organized, and Chancellor job Johnson
was placed at it's head. In lS4l, the under-
signed .wns, called to the Presidency. wlich
he has ever since occupied. In 1912, 3, a, s.
@, Y, g, o, so and 81, il carried the ban
ner Of temperance, total abstinence. all ove'
the State Why did it cease 20. do so il
80, ,53, '54 '55i For two reasons: 1st
tl,e people became weary in well doing th,
total abstipeuce organizations generally per
khed from the want Of attention. A few glo
fious exceptions such as The Head Spring So
4 ciety, Newberry District, sad the Chsrlesto
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