Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-06
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TO THEsoNs OF TEMPERANcE IN YORK
DISTRICT.
A convention Of Delegates from the different
Divisions in the District met, on the Goth ulimo,
for the purpose of interchanging the greetings Of
friendship. and brotherly love- and Of consulting
on the interests Of temperance. By appointment
Of this Convention, we address you Q few words
in reference to the cause. Cheering were the re-
ports which came up from the different Divisions
Of the prospects and progress Of tie noble work,
which for,near the last two years has been perme-
ating like a health giving stream our district, sod
clean sing it from the corrupting and blasting in.
Auences Of intemperance. Yes, 1t was cheering,
because it told Of q permanent good-sn enduring
blessing, which had sprung from An organisation
that the skeptical may deride, and the miserable
dupes Of iniquity may we'll fear. Many who
once doubted, have at last arranged themselves
under the banner OF temperance. and have i'm
pressed on their hearts those bright magical
words-LovE, PURITY and FDELIrY. Such is the
potency Of moral influence ; such is The power Of
a wise and prudent public opinion, openly and
fearlessly, yet courteously and earnestly expressed.
We cannot estimate too highly the scope Of moral
influence. 1t is q rill which springs IN the noun
tains, and steals unobtrusivsly among the hills,
until it spreads out ipto. q broad and majestic riv-
er, and stretches away to the ocean with r~esistless
success.
We shall not attempt to impress npon.s your
minds the baneful effects Of intsmpsraues. It
would be an set Of oonceited arrogance in Us to
presume that you had enlisted In this ivirtuous
warfare without an intelligent conviction Of the In.
furious influence Of the widespread evil which We
are pledged to combat. You have seen, and may
daily see melancholy illustrations ofthe blighting
effects Of the drunkard's drink. You haysread,
and may daily read in the newspapers Of the day,
terrible commentaries on this dreadful scouree.-
The bloated victim, as. be reels Ii besotted degree
dation, his wild blasphemy, the midnight caroussl,
the impious Bachanalian rites, the cleaning dag
ger, dripping with human blood-thess are the
orators from whose terrible eloqueuce you can
learn the lessons Of purity sud temperance. Bot,
gentlemen, lis rather to you as 90 association,
connected together for the promotion Of ashigh
and philanthropic purpose, tina, wswould sddress
ourselves Itisbyy you, rs thsairsady eulishtsned
advocates of q noble cause, we would be heard
We have associated together for the pdrpoas, not
so much Of prompting our own welfare-our own
individual reformation-as for the diffusion Of
those sentiments which wesdvocate. We have an
organization as perfect, perhaps, ss human fors-
sight could invent for the eonsurnmaion of sush
an aim; and what we propose, is 70 eensidsr the
! obstacles likely to .hwart our purpose and mar our
endeavors.
We WELD d power for the promotion Of good, 80
great and Of such vital fmportsnce, that We may
well tremb!e at the responsibility resting upon us.
We have come forth to battle against . foe veto.
rioas In 8 hundred fields, and whose brutality,
cruelty andtruculeuce have left a shadow on ma
ny'a widowed heart and orphaned home. Bat
shielded by the pauOply Of truth, against which,
as against t'ths fourfold- visaged -Four, distinct
with eyes," every lance must fall powerless, we
must come off conquerors; or il We fail, We fail
from our own iuaction and ingiorious indolence.-
We willsfail because satisfied with partial success.
or deluded by the appearance Of victory, our
stealthy foe strikes when our weapons aare' sban.
doned, and OUT strong towers left unguarded; for
the history Of the world. establishes the fact that
in moral as in other revolutions; partial SUGGEST Is
often little better than defeat. ,'
The sinful indulgence of the ~1sraelites preser.
we'd o remnant Of the inhabitants Of Canaan, con-
tgsry to the express Injunction Of God I; and that
remnant was long q thorn in Israel's side, and
threatened often to wrest the scspter from Judah.
Despite her good. kings, the "High Pisces stll
remained to call down the vengeance of Heaven,
until 1.-THE Lord covered the dsughter Of Zion With
a cloud in his anger, and cast down from Heaven
unto the earth, the beauty Of Israeli So too,
from o compromise between the primitive faith Of
the Apostles and the idols of Pagauism, arose the
proud and voluptuous psgeantry OF Catholicism,
and the crushing terrors Of the Inquisition. mi.
The lesson we would ~inculcste from these ex.
.amples is, that truth cannot compound With error.
1t behooyes the ''sons" fighting under their ..bsn.
ner of light" to read wisely the history OF, the
past-to watch closely the events of the present
and to reflect on the indications: Of the future.-
Remembering the irresistible po#er Of truth and
acting upon the belief that, there. is in mau o
moral sentiment, that. will, when fully awakened,
enable him to throw of the thraldom of the de-
grading vice Of Drunkenness, and to resistths fss-
c~iuatiols OF the charmer, t.'charm he never 50
wisely; )" it is as truthfully necessary tina. We be
vigilant in improving every opportunity Of dissem.
mating the virtues Of temperance, and. earnest in
the advocacy OF a cause fraught with so many
beneficial results to the world.
No'one has failed 10 observe the present Ore.
vailing religious sentiment. We deem It q happy
omen that ssuchi is the case. We pray that the
ripple may widen and widen until it reaches either
shore Of the vast soa Of humanity. Wherever
true piety exists, churches viii rise on the ruins
Of still houses and rotail shops; and q pure and
elevated religion, like the dews of heaven, will
water into life and vernal beauty the Indigenous
tree of Temperance. However much we may
admire temperance as good per Sc, tits as the hand
maid Of religion that it possesses q peculiar at
traction Purifying and eievating the man, it
prepares him in some measure for the divine inn
plantations of religion. fort the ''beauty ofhofiness."
Let MS then look to the pervadirg religious senti.