Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-01-15
A GOOD ONE.

Hoist, our carriage-makng friend in Chester, is
q queer man. He makes good carriages; writes
capital advertisements talks and works up to
science and, as will be discovered from the fol-
lowing, can hit the nail exactly on the head The
article just in time for municipality, appear
ed in the Chester Sandard:-
FELLOW Ss:-W ben evil becomes q pal
pable curse it behooyes every citizen to use his in
huence, however humble, to stop and check its ca
reer. Our town, a few years ago an obscure coun-
try hamlet has, by the enterprise of our merchants
and leading business men become n prosperous
place. But can this prosperity last wheE vice, fol-
ly and drunkenness are permitted to have an un-
limited sway? Is it right and just that for the con-
venience of the few the many shall suffer? Justice
answers, No. Can any man of common sense, faith
er of family owner of slave property, look with
Indifference upon our present state of affairs
where drunkenness is the rule, sobriety the excep-
ton?
Most men, however depraved, remember the
sublime passage of the Christian prayer-"Lead
us not into temptation, but deliver US from evil"
Divide the passage-who tempt US? The grogsel-
lers! who are to deliver US from evil ?-The pub
lie authorities.-If an Abolitionist were to come
among US, he would be tarred and feathered.-lf
any of US were to see an incendiary kindling the
match to fire neighbor's dwelling, to kill him
would be justfable. Is it then reasonable to have
our neigLbors ruined by intemperance, or to see
an otherwise good man firing his brains with the
fumes of alcohol, or burning up his vitas and fill
ing drunkards grave?
This evil is like all others, ever on the increase
and where will it stop, unless our citizens, who
are sufferers, veto the license? Reflect moment
you have Male Academy-Why is it that it is
not more prosperous? The location is healthy and
the teacher highly qualified and competent.-Lis-
ten-Parents will not send their sons into vortex
of destruction. Country gentlemen have told me
this themselves The mother who cries bitter
tears when her darling son chooses the sea for
living, fears not the ship the ocean wave whose
praises the maids love to sing. No, no; it is the
drunken sailor-his associates and their baneful
influences she breads. Is there man in this town
so blind he cannot see it would greatly enhance
our prosperity if hundred students were being
educated at our Male Academy? Wealthy families
would then settle among us simply for their chill
dren's education. Tar will drive away rats, but
really it is novel project to drive away good citi-
zens with whiskey.
Can any thing be thought more contemplate
and degrading than to see young lads, not out of
their teens, in oil the majesty Of manhood, coming
out of a grogshop, splitting, smacking their lips
and wiping the mouth with @ true Baehanalian
air? "Bobb, that was good stuff" such can be
seen every day. How many shareholders know
that their negroes at early dawn go and get their
morning drains, as regularly as their horses get
feed or water? This can prove by respectable
authority. But of course it must be right when
the master, as citizen, countenances such things.
Let it be distinctly understood Throw no blame
upon our present Council They are good men,