Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-05-07
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
WHO IS HE /!


Who is he that 'steas the livery of Heaven" to
promote his own selfish aims who is he that
perverts his judgment, that suffers the dictates of
conscience to be hushed into silence, while he de-
liberately specuates in the lives and souls of his
fellow men? Is it the gambler who lives by steal
ing? True he deludcs the victim of this mental
ntoxication on to ruin but be too feels its deri-
Gus influence. His own mind bends beneath the
wild excitement of the game, or even be, reckless
william as he is would pause before the last dollar
Of his opponent was gone and the pallor Of des-
pair had settled over the flushed and eager coun-
tcnance Is it the demagogue who makes profess
sions Of ultra patriotism on the "hustings', yet
whose ambition scars no higher than the emolu-
ments of Office? True, he seeks selfish end by
hGmbugging his fellow-mcn and pampering their
vanity by absurd encomiums on their honesty and
integrity, when by his actions he shows that he
esteems them fools and scoundrcls. Yet, while
he filches their money, and cheats them out of
political rights he leaves their souls to grope their
way in the long journey of eternity. Is it the
Minister of the Gospel who neglects the duties of
his high station and instead of leading his flock
by the sstill waters" desecrates the pulpit with
political squabbles and inAamatory denunciations?
He may be the dupe of fanaticism-he may think
himself right. He tempts others to sin because
the devil has first tempted him-so that even he
has palliative excuse which lessons the enormity
of his guilt.
If none of these characters answer the descrip-
ton, who then can it be 1t can only be the
man who makes and sells intoxicating drink to his
fellow man. lie will generally be found to- be
cool, calculating, clear-headed person, WHO con
squeeze FIVE cent piece into dime. lie acts
not under the excitement which drives the gam
bier on and on in his career of crime, nor under
the stimulus of fanaticism VIII eh causes the min
lister to poutc the sanctuary of God with the
frothy defamation of the demagogue. Debe-
rately ard coolly he speculates in the lives and
souls of men, spreads out his temptations, like
the fatal syren, to allure all into the snare casts
his net over the land and like fisherman of He'll,
drags down thousands to
"Their At habitation, fraught with fire
Unquenchable, the house of woe and PAIN.
True, he sets up some fimsy pretext to justify
this, the greatest injury which man can posi-
bly, commit to society and to the individual. One
of tue pious hypocrites dives into the intricacies
of logic and drags up by the locks the forcible ar
gument that if he "don't sell it, some one else
will'-in other words the sin Of others justi6es
his iuiquities. A deep aud plausible argument,
but alas for the G,llacy of human judgment, the
recording angel will wrie-liar-uuderh his name.
Another pup Of this litter, more stolid and in
different to censure, will canddly confess that he
finds this nefarous traffic too profitable to abandon
it, lie marks ont in his fancy some future day,
by which time he shall have accumulated a for
tune and can then quit his trade in the health, hap
piness and souls of his neghbors, and begin his
preparation for Heaven. 1t is useless to say that
day never dawns.
"When the summons comes,
To ioin the innumcrable caravan
That moves to the still realms of death"
he is found dealing out his pints and half-pnts, in
some dingy bar-room, filthy grocery, or pig-stye-
looking st-house, and the angel of death strikes
him down just as he has dealt out the poison to
some poor, unfortunate drunkard.
Another philosopher profound, Of this same
category, unable to find any substantial argument
to justify his course will try and laugh you into
the belief that there is no virtue, truth, no God.
With some sweeping statement or rimpious jest, he
turns to the Baal of his idoary, and the voice Of
reason can never reach him. The arrows of death
can. Even while he Is msquoting the Scripture
ove the flowing bowl, raising the ribald laugh by
some obscene jest and sneering at every thing
virtuous, temperate, noble and good, will the ar
row come that will lay him low, and he will go
before n God of Purity, Fidelity, and Lore, with
the curse, the sneer and the scent Of wine-upon
his blaspheming lips A thousand witnesses will
be standing near to attest his guilt and they will
heap imprecatons dire, upon the vicegerent of
Satan, who tempted them along the dark paths of
iniquity. The wife will be there, to tell how her
husband was scduced from his love of home and
the innocent felicity of the domestic circle till a
last, on q stormy night, he lay down beside his
jug and when morning came, Heaven had spread
wreath of snow over his frozen bosom to hide
him from his tormentor The dcsolate widow will
claim son at his hands, cut off in the bloom Of
youth, while the rudy glow of health yet man
tied on the check and the young heart bounded
with high and buoyant hopes Where then will
the liquor-seller hide his head?
Did those who live by the traffic, really wish
for information, they could see their errors from
the fact that, "a good tree cannot bring forth
evil fruit" A tree which produces go much
bad fruit must be corrupt, and the man is wilfully
blind who pretends that he believes, trafickng in
liquors, to be an innocent employment. Yet the
churches tolerate both the making and the selling.
So long as the members preserve certain gen.
teel piety and pay their share of the church ex-
penses, they are at liberty to spread temptations
for others, and ignore all those charitable, philan-
thropic and humane evidences. of true CONVEX
sion, which make religion so attractive and so en-
noblng, and without which it becomes blank
vast temple without divinity. JUNIUS.
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