Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-10-22
MAGNOLIA.
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
TEMPERANCE.

When this article is thus headed, it is not prob
able that tthe of it will be devoted to its regu-
| lar discussion. Yet how beautiful does it stand
in vestal purity as the fortress of our thoughts and
the mother Of good.
The year 81 is drawing to close-we are al
ready in the sere and yellow leaf; in short
month more it will be gone, and winter, gloomy
winter will be present. We already begin to
look around and say, what has been done? Go
rious ras the summer Who does not remember
when all York was present to do honor to the glo-
rious cause which is before us; and since, the
same onward, noble feeling has continued to pre-
vail. The jail without q prisoner at the opening
and adjournment of the Court speaks volumes in
favor of the glorious efforts of the people Of York,
in favor of Temperance. And yet, how much re-
mains to be done!
The work is only begun. Stand forward aged
men Have you done your duty? What is the
influence of your example? Some may give US the
full benefit of Total Abstinence; others may drink
dram It is against that We would protest.
Palmer, of Charleston-who lived to be 96-atier
he was 90, signed the Total Abstinence Pledge -
Why? For the good of the younger generations
around him. Think you any nobler offering could
have been made in the old age of that Patriarch I!
1t was literally the Past testifyng to the Future;
and like Melchisidec blessing Abraham, it blessed
IL. A - To4o hofs
To them in the prime and vigor Of manhood
would say, Temperance demands much Of you -
You are those who ore to bear the heat and bur-
den of the day. You owe to your mighty Maker
great uncancelled debt. In him 'tyou hre more,
and hare your being" and how can you better dis
charge it than by laboring for the good of your
fellow creatures The reformation of the inebri-
ate and the prevention of drunkenness are labors
of love which will always be rewarded Be up and
doing. The harvest is plenteous, but the laborers
are few
Young men, now is the day and now is the hour
of your safety! Avoid the leap. Shun the mix
ed wine Recollect that there is poison in every
drop of intoxicating drink-not only the poison of
alcohol but other foreign Observation-Disclosures,
buckeye, whitehead, tobacco, and various other
poisons constantly employed in the manufacture;
and YOU are to drink of these if you drink intoxi-
cating drink In truth, the serpent with poison
GUS fangs, lies coled at the bottom of the cup of
intoxicating drink. As you put it to your lips he
strikes fatally! Cast it, therefore, from you, and
address yourselves to the great work of reforma-
ton. Save yourselves, and each sape another! -
The Romans crowned with oak, him who had sa-
we'd citizen from death. Will you not deserve
much more enduring crown if you save fellow
being from the error of his ways? The work is
before you-the prize is easily to be obtained
Will you fail? hope not Be like the gallant
men who bled for liberty. Recollect in the dark
est hour they failed not; and that with stout hearts
and strong arms, they overwhelmed Ferguson on
Kings Mountain, and thus turned back the tide
which was spreading ruin and subjugation over
the State Do so likewise, and let the banner cry
of temperance all over the State be, "York to the
rescue"
Woman lovely woman, yours is great part IN
the work of Temperance. Your wrongs, your
rights, your weakness, your virtue, your beauty
and loveliness, all, all are or ought to be, on it's
side, for your safety is never in the home OF the
dlunkard. There may be found tyrany, hatred,
vice, poverty tears, signing and sorrow. 1t is in
the household of Temperance that happiness sits
enthroned on the brow of the wife and mother;
and industry lays her "hands to the spindle and
her hands hold the dstaf." Help, therefore, la-
dies in the good cause it is your cause, and your
labor of love in this respect will bless you and
bless your fellow creatures. o..