Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-06-04
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
"THE THREE MEMBERS OF THE TEN
PERANCE SOCIETY,""


MEssns EDIrons :--A beautiful engraving o.
three horses drinking from trough, under a spout
of cold water, with the above name, was sent las
year by the Editors and Publishers of the Albion
in New York, to their subscribers. My subscription
is almost coeva with my membership in the Tenn,
pcrance ranks of course received copy-an(
it hangs nov in my drawing room. have often
fancied, that the Editors and Publishers intended
it as fling at the .follomers Of Temperance.
No matter what was intended, we can, and
hope will make capital Of it. The horse is the
most noble, and most faithful Of animals. He
bears his master drunk or sober, safely. But he
is never drunk! Hcwas beautifully described by
his mighty maker, when be asked Job, "Hast
thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed
his neck with thunder! Canst thou make him a.
fraid as grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils
is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and re-
joiceth in his strength; he goeth ON to meet the
armed men. He mockcth at fear, and is not af-
frighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering
spear and the shield. He swalowth the ground
with ferceness and rage neither belieyeth he that
it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among
the trumpet's, Ha, Ha anu he smelleth battle afar
off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting"
This noble animal, the friend, servant and compan-
ion of man, is cold water drinksr; yet he never
fails in his masters worst extremity. In Mays
headlong charge, Mt the battle of Rcsacn de Pal
ma, he finched not although he bore his master
against the blaze and ball of the cannon. In
late charge of cavalry in Persia, on a square, the
intrepid adjutant leaped his noble horse ,upoa the
face of the square and literally staked him upon
the bayonets, thus the square was broken and de-
molished under the furious onset of his followers
the 3D. native cavalry. But although she mocketh
at fcar, he never does it drunk; and in this par
ticular, how much superior is he to the madman
who rides him. / never remember to have heard
of any horse-save one, which tasted of the intoI-
icating bowl. I. is related Of Lord CORVALLIS,
that after the battle of Camden he called his char
ger to the house, where he had his quarters, and
standing on the steps, he held the bowl of punch
from which he had just drank, to the mouth of
the noble brute, which drained it to the bottom,
and politely bowing to his master retired to his
appropriate quarters. Such draught was perhaps
appropriate to the horse which was to carry the
servant of King over the mangled bodies of the
free yeomanry of the Carolinas. 1t was perhaps
right, that the conquror, red with the blood of
the defenceess, and whose ears drank in with de-
light the lamentations of the widow and the or
phan, should drink the frey draught Of madness,
and that his horse should be equally maddened
Generally, however, the noble horse would die
rather than drink of the nauseous cup of intoxica-
ting drink He drinks cold water and rejoices in
his strength and usefulness. Give him food and
water and he bears his rider over the deserts,
the plain and the mountain At his command he
plunges into the food, and bears him safely
through its surging waves harnessed singy or
with others, he bears his masters family from
place to place, or turns up the furrow, or trans