Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-09-10
EDGEF1ELD, S. o.,sEPTEMBER 10, 1856.

perished from the want Of attention. A few
glorious exceptions such as the Head Spring
Society, Newberry District, and the Char
lesion Mariners Washngtonian Total Alb
stinence Snciety remained. ID, other organi
cations, the SIMS of Temperance and Reca
bites, it was supposed might supply the place
of the State Temperance Society, and it
subordinate Total Abstinence Societies.
But in vain: their work, noble and useful a
it is, could not and did not meet all classes
of men, women aud children. Hence j
became necessary to organize the State
Temperance Society. This was done or
the 9Th and 7th of August, inst, at Green
vile; and now brethren and friends, people
of South Carolina, we claim your aid te
give the State Temperance Society its for
mer prominence and usefulness by concer
ted action on your part.
This presents our second head. To you
therefore, we say let there be no division
among temperance people. Every order
and organization are respectively entitled
to be represented by sending up delegates
las many as you please to the next meet
ing of the State Temperance Society, in
Columbia, on the Tuesday after the fourth
Monday in November next. 10 the mean
Time organize Total Abstinence Societies in
every city, town, village and neighborhooc
in the State So too, revive former or cre'
ate new Divisions and Sections of the Sons
and Cadets of Temperance, and Tents o
Recabites. Remember that in peace you
must prepare for war. The war between
sobrie'y and drunkenness is not now exact.
ly upon US, but it is near at hand; they
who cry peace, peace are deceivers. The
Safe must be ruled By Intoxicating drink OF
temperance. The next session Of the Legis
lure is an important era in the great ana
holy uork of saring The people from them
selves. To forward this we need,
Sd, A Temperance Newspaper! Have
you forgotten the Temperance Advocate 3
Have you forgotten how few self-sacrii.
cling men established it? Have you forgot
ten how nobly it sustained the temperance
cause against all colners and goers! Ii
shed light in every dark spot in South Caro-
linz. Even the Briar Patch, where one oI
the young men of the Theological Semina
~ was threatened to be rode on a rail for so.
Letting subscriptions, received its light, and
organized Total Abstinence Society. After
long sustaining the battle, it fell more from
neglec, OF its friends, than injuries of its foes
The Temperance Standard, the child Of
zeal. and uncnmpromising private persever.
ance, is also, after much good and useful
work, in the tnrnb OF the capulets. Men
brethren aud friends, why is this 2--Do we
not need temperance family newspaper
What are two dollars per annuIn in compar.
ison with it9 My friend Andrew Wallace,
Of Columbia, used to tell me that the TEN.
p.rance Advocate on the day Of its issue
was that first called for by each Of his chill.
.!ren. We want just such paper now
Our families, wives and children are no pol.
ficians; they care precious little about thu
liery articles, wherewith our papers abound;
but they care and feel for that which is TO
make them happy here, which is to dry up
,he fountains of intoxicating drink. They
are stretching out their hands for Temper.
ance Family Newspaper, to he full OF lem.
perance, knowledge, Science, Art, History,
past and present, Moral Tales, Religion, and
ews. Such a paper sustained by one ed
ltor at Columbia, and q corresponding edI
TOR in every District, city, town aud village
will be the organ Of every order and assn.
rlaliun of Temperance. and will also BIZ EN-.
,,natically the Peoples Organ! Who will
subscribe for such paper! Let every
friend of Temperance, every Son, every Ca.
'el, and every Recabite answer the question
by taking up subscriptions and sending the
:rsut to the undersigned. Act thus, and
we will som have a temperance pa"er: rea
ty To aid in asking from the Legislature
secu iiy for the Temperance Reform.
din. At present, we ask from acise, viriu
ous, and patriotic Legislators law which
snail prohibit by the srverest sanctious the
manufacture or sale Of Intoxicating drink 10
be drunk I'll The place achere made or sold,
! Ills, il seems, cannot be consistently denied,
The law now permits distIlIer to sell with.
out liceuse spirituous liquors manufactured
from the growth, or product, OF his own
plantation, in quantities of and above a
quart, provided it be carried away from the
same plantation; and the llth section of the
Act of '49, directs that under a license t'I
sell by the quart, liquors caunot be drunk al
The place where sold.
We ask this principl to be carried out
AT present, ace ask no more! Before its ef
fects will fall all distilleies, grog-shops, and
taverns aud then to all South Carolina, so
Der and in her right mind" we will say
"prohibl The manufacture, and sale Of in.
toricating drink, eacept for mechanical and
medical purposes" When this is done we
shall cease to agitate, but not before.--Then
we will look around upon our free and hap
py State, and crown her with the noblesl
wreath which can be pucked from her Mag.
nolias and Palmettoes, which will be as much
superior to the Roman crown of oak leaves
for saving a citizen, as the State is superior
to any one of her single citizens.
JOHN BELTON O'NEAL,
Pres't OF the State Tem Society.
Prospect Hill, Greenville Dist, August
llth. 1856.
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