Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-17
Gemperante Golunll1.
From the Spirit of the Age.
A WORD TO THE LADIES.

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Dear Ladies': Allow me to remind yo
of the power of female influence. My lii
are not speaking fattery, for will cred
you for nothing more than what God you
maker allows you to claim, without subjee
ing yourselves to the power of imputation
vanity. 1t is not yours to mingle in tn
rough and thorny scenes of life, and },
masculine authority control the destinies
the world; but in the nursery. at the domss
tic freside, in the social circle and other :e
tired and consecrated scenes, it is yourt'
give the first impulse to thought; to III
heart its abiding impress, and to charate
its hue and texture You are impartig
lasting flavor to those mountain springs, tia
are destined to send forth their pure or lol
luted waters into various regions.
You have the moulding of the feelings,
and the habits of communities. Your insru'
mentality, under God, materially effectsthe
destinies of empires. Princes and Kings
are sitting upon your knees and receidng
laws from your lips, while universal con'ent
has invested you with peculiar advantages
for you can speak and act, wher others 'an-
not you can reprove where othrs dare not.
The combined influence of you loveliuess,
beauty and affection gives terror to your
frowns, and resistless power to7Our smiles.
They impart force to your gument and
pungency to your rebukes. Yur Influence,
though soft and gentle as the ephyr which
impresses its kisses on the Aoay landscape,
is still as powerful as the shing winds,
which raise into mountain wss the surface
of the great deep.
How, then, shall your irhnce be exert
ed in the defence of mans bt interest, or
all that's near and dear to hi Shall your
influence come down upon'ur society in
dews of celestial mercy, to alre the erring
from the paths of danger; ohall it send it
out pestilential breath, to cIe, wither and
destroy? No doubt you aready to reply:
eve wish to exert our streth in proper
way" Lend it not, then to cause of AL
cohol. Snatch your childrerom its ranks,
and in the exercise of that thority which
is peculiarly your own, conand the world
to forsake it. Look at themy of drunk
ards You have aided in 6ng its ranks
and is there anything moreteful and dis
gusting than female intoated If you
are shocked at the idea, slid you not alb
hor and shun the first step.t conducts to
such an end Alas manJ your sons are
there, who have filled youup with worm
wood and gall Ten thous husbands are
there and o how many .rts have they
broken! They have causunauy amiable
wives to shed tears of bloond spend year
after year in unavailing ansh and having
wrapped themselves in s, ard laying
down on their beds of stI in the bitter
ness of their souls to curse day they were
born; while poverty, nett, strife, scorn,
bruises, are but part of ir sad inherit
ance. The wretches " once swore to
love, cherish and defend have become
your tormenting foes;d alcohol has
made them So Soon maof these wives
will put on the robes 'idowhood, and
then, with their little onhey must beg a
crust of bread at the doc charity, or DIE.
Such are the conquel of having such
husbands, and these husb once had moth
ers, and perhaps the frsep the maternal
guidance enabled thcmake in totteriDg 7
infancy, was moderate king. Perhaps
their mothers dedicatedn to it, and said,
alcohol is good, drink ly on, dear little
once. Crucl .Uothcrs hcriGce your own
child on an altar which worse than Mo-
loch's.
Now let me solemnhquire-how can J
you, how dare you conance an enemy, u
who causes you thus tose you own sex,
and compcls you thuslbuse your little v
ones? for on your heaalls the tremen-
dous curse! You aredeepest sufferers.
Methinks I see your'm swelling with Z
Just indignation. Lehave full vent
let it fall on the mons pate. You have
it in your power to pr it, you can in. o.
Auence your childrenlr neighbors and
your friends; and can reprove the -
drunkard with that sty which he must
feel and as man cannAnd 1 can tell you u
what else you can do can declare to all "
your admiring lovers1ey wish to secure D,
your heart and hand' must be divorced -
from Alcohol All will be taking the m
right stand and fled to, it will touch '"
them for adams Bust have wives any
how and rather tbot get them, they
will gladly forsake timers of the prince
and fly for refuge tooanner of E
TOTABSTINENCE. y