Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-23
JUDGE O,NEALL.

The life Of this venerable man will furnish Il
right noble chapter in the history Of humanity
chapter fraught with very treasury OF pre-
ccpts to supply the young and aspiring with
worthy incentives, manly purposes, and never
failing zeal for the right and the good-a chapter
from every page of which will stand ont the great
lesson that for honor, for fame, for wealth, for
the highest reward which man may attain on
Earth life of strictintegriy, Of high moral pur-
pose, and of earnest warfare against the power Of
evil and in behalf of the cnnoblng truths Of our
religion is the best, the very best. The press OF
the State, or rather the masses Of The people, are
beginning to appreciate the virtues and ackncwl'
edge the commanding ihhneuce of this eminently
good man. Among all the "signs of the times, .
none is more auspic"us.
The Laurensvile N'rald, in noticing one of those
amtabe speeches, makes the efollowing allusions,
the truth of which is best known to those who
best know Judge O'NEALL:-
"For the first time in our life, it was our pleas
IRE TO hear the Hon. J. B. 0'Neall deliver one
of his most excellent Temperance Addresses, on
Tuesday evening last, in the Court House; and
We have never listened to any address of the kind
with more interest aud from which We received
more instruction. The house was well filled with
a respectable and intelligent audience of ladies'
and gentlemeu-harring one or two, who evident
" had ..hecn looking at some one indEighg.' The
Judge spoke for over an hour, anil all who listen
ed were sorry, only when he endel 1t would
give us pleasure to lay the address, in full, before
our readers rs We think it would awaken M in
tcrcSt in the gaol cause among cur citizen; but
our time will not permit us to give even synopsis
of it. All who have ever heard Judge ONcal
speak On this, his favoritc subject. know with
what honest zeal and ability he handles it; conse-
ouenty we should add nothing, either to his char
actcr as lecturer, or to his subject, by giving
m abridgemcnt Of his continuous good address,
No man in the country has sacrificed more of time
ard money, in the great cause of temperance than
Hon. j. .. O'Ncall, and our admiration of his
character in all its social and moral attributes
has risen almost to reverence. lie has been the
means of doing more good to his fellow men than
any other man in the State, and his present yigor
of mind and body may he attributed to two inlpnr-
tnnt acteristics, viz: poul conscientious
ness that he has performed the duties of his life
honestly and acceptably to his God and his fellow
men, thereby securing to himself an irreproacla.
ble and easy conscience and his strict adherence
to t importance, in the fullest meaning Of the word
lie has '.lived down" the calumny and detractiou
which envy and .,far had raised against him, and
he now stands, hale, hearty, proud, and loved
man, with locks all ''silvercd ocr with the frost:
of seventy winters receiving from his former enc.
mics cha plets of praise and gratitude. We can
not accord perfection to any mortal man, but We
do think, il the offences Of the whole human fam
ly were of no greater magnitude than those Of
Judge O'Neall, this world Of ours would be Place
of universal joy and peace.