Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-03-03
For thG-AlxorGacr.-
IIQoUR SELLING.

Mr. EDITOR IL know like, Falstat knew tho trro
prince" "by instinct" that S." is used up and has
nothing more to say have special good word 10
say to you you 30 clever US to give the craft
fair play.
YOU say in your Editorial touch the gentleman
quietly" Now, cir, this is the very thing am con-
tending for all the time. But YOU and a tue rest Of
mankind see that this is not done for there never
vas class of gentlemen treated more roughly than tie
liquor dealers. We prosecuted from ono place to
another and we can't propose to get license to rssa
but thcre is a howl made against us. And just let
some poor devil drink himself death and die in the
gutter or at home, by liIucr sold him, but
prosecuted, and men call up the question Of being
uscfu! to the community, when the Ian has already
decided On it, that it is.
But We are not so well pleased with the law after
al. You may usk "why:" l answer by showing
new way of prosecuting liquor dealers DO you see
that dlcher, with pipe not one inch from his nose,
jus; frozl the /" oull cCurthry?" Does lie have to
&c, license to dig? Does he have to give security"
that ic will not break the law? No. Why ia this
herause our prosecutors presume that lie is gento-
man, and protects him as such in ditchng-so with
the shoemaker and uilur, and blacksmith, and thus
the State in its great Legislature, has actually taken
~ hand to persecutc W., ard make declaration in
rccreu"c to us, degrading to us, by not preserving
tho for us which you no generously give US
"scrtlcnen." All, sec u Daniel come to judge
mcnt," in you. Now know officers have to give sccu
rity and take an oath for office; but that is because
they manage other mems interests; but we are just
making our own money out Of our own labor,
and yet the law prcSumes that VIC arc not so much
gentlemen az IN Irish ditchcr or crout-making
Dutchman. AS long rs You call US gentlemen" l
wish you to come out rs candidate and knock this
law with its devsh distinctions against US, in the
head We will give you rousing vote in spite of all
these sing song Church hypocrites who talk against
u.s. Yes and some of them in their religion you know
love much water but when they find havo put
it in my barrels Of liquor from which sell them
dram, they get rs mad if they were Quaker and it
is the case of some who believe in pouring" Oh
no, they wont let Inc pour water in my barrels.
40, wad the power some gftie gle US
To sec ourselves others us, &c"
To prove to you sir that this is no idle threat can
show you the proof of our hold on tho public mind in
opposition to those believing in "tother side Of Jor-
don" Just walk down street on any Sunday morn
ing and we can show you that two to of thepeope
would rather bc about us than With them, and our
congregations have moro life and spirit and sense,
thun theirs, white and black.
Now don't confess that we sell to negroes but
you know they get drunk and make disturbance some
times I am not sucL fool Us to say that they got
drunk OH water. Water will not make negro drunk.
It comes from somebody. We have it to sell.
word for you Mr.. EDIToR; you say that we will
60 into "spontaneous combustion" Now that is
joke indeed of course you al!udc to liquor Don't
you know that We get the Mercantile liquor that il
watered and druggcd with pepper and such things as
make it seem hot But will tell you it wont burn.
You might as well try to "sct the creek fire."
have had some good compliments by my brother
tradcsmen for independence and wit, which makes
nc ready any time to drop you line like the above,
defending the Liquor Dealers.
A (oUAsD LIQUOR DEALER.
P. ST. should like to get the people to believe we
ars martyrs in this good cause. 9. L. D.
SLAVE TRADE RE-0PENED.