Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-10-13

most affecting incidents Of the last ceremonies,
was the attendance of several of the veteran Pal
mettos of the Fairfield and Richland Companies,
who acted as pall-bearers on the occasion.
--= Winnsboro' Register.
Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER Eo.s.
To JESSE, who is q Distiller, habitual Drtnker,
and Retail Vender of Spirituous Liquors, and,
professedly, Christian man:
My dear Sir Heretofore have addressed you
as distiller, and drinker Of spirituous liquors :
I now address you as q retail gender Of the same.
8. OF retail vending spirituous liquors. Dear
Jesse: You do contend that it is moral in sight
Of God for you and others to sell at retail spirit
uous liquors, to be consumed by men and women
in habitual drinking. And /, Because these are
the products Of your labor ON your farm in the
same sense as is corn, -four, bacon, cotton, &c.
Ans.-Not so. do concede it moral for you
to cell alcohol and raw spirits, as articles Of
merchandise adapted to supply the wants Of men
in some culinary uses, and in the arts, trades,
and medicine, &c but Edo deny that either alco-,
hol, or spirituous liquors (raw spirits) are the
products of your farm. any more than is tanned
leather. To sell whisky, &c., is to sell. not the
product Of the farm, but of the still-house-of
chemistry; it is to sell the product of manufac-
ture, and not of agriculture. Nor is whisky, &c.,
adopted to afford supply to the necessities Of men,
to but very small extent in culinary uses, and
in the arts and trades, and medicines; and not
at all when consumed habitually in drink, nor for
the sustenance of men as food and clothing are.
charge, therefore, that your retail selling of
spirituous liquors, with the intention that these
be consumed in drink even unto drunkenness, is
immoral: your guiltiness consists in your inten-
tion here You do sell with the expectation-the
full conviction-the entire persuasion Of your
mind, I may even say with the certain knowledge
that your sale will be consumed in drink, even
unto drunkenness.
Your intention in this matter Is most manifest
in the facts. l. That you do not deny the said
intention. 2. You do advocate the morality Of
habitusl dram drinking. 8. You do advocate the
wholsomsness Of drinking whisky, &c., for heal
thy persons, and its preventive powers over
causes of disease, and its restoring power to
state of lost health. A. You do know, that the
consumption Of spirtituous liquors here does far
exceed the wants of man for culinary uses, and
in the arts, and trades, and medicine. 8. You do
know, or verify believe that the surplus, will be
consumed in drink. 6. You do repudiate all Tenn
perance societies, and total abstinence from
drinking whisky, &c., as erroneous practice. Z.
You never dissuade your customers from habitual
drink. 8. You sell at retail for the sake Of the
profits in dollars and in cents which you gain
thereby g. You do recommend your whisky as
"the very thing for drink, and you call it "pure
and good" free from all poisonous drugs to, hurt
mankind in drinking it. 10. You do highly re-
commend your whisky, &c., as Q good thing in its
place, and that the belly the place for it." IL.
You never do sell .undiluted alcohol but raw
Oh ;oo o1p ;uoIu
med in drink. H. You do make war on the res
traint of the civil law and the ballot box, in the
matter Of retail selling whisky, SC, to be consul
med in drink. Now my dear Jesse, in view Of
all these things, the conclusion is irresistably
pressed home upon my mind, that your retail
selling spirituous liquors is done with the intes-
ton that these be consumed in drink, even unto
drunkenness. Therefore, in so doing you are
guilty of an immortality, because your intention
is evil
2. Here again you flock horns" with me, and
plead your right to sell your whisky, SC, atretail
irrespective of the uses or abuses to which it will
be applied by purchasers, and thus deny your
agency and responsibility in the i'll results.
Ans-In your retail selling spirituous liquors,
with the intention that these do be consumed in
drink, even unto drunkenness; hold that you
are guilty of all drunkenness, thanksgiving, and
other ills which may fall out thereon, as acces-
sary thereto. In this you have no right. In the
Interpretation of the moral parts of Scripture.
principals include their accessories" The sirth
commandment is. "Thou shalt not kill" Exc
dus, 20: 13, and in Chap. 81: 20, we have good
case FOR i,iustration. Here It Is said "If the OK
were wont to push with his horns in time past,
and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath
not kept him in but that he hath killed man
or woman, the OK shall be stoned, and the owner
also shall be put to DEATH" This is the doctrine.
Here is case, wherein the owner Of an OK is
found guilty of murder under this law as accessory,
through the instrumentality Of his OK; ; and SEN
tenced to suffer death as though he had been gull
ty in his personal act. His OK was dangerous to
kill men and women and this his character to 'kil
had been testified to his owner, yet he had not
kept him in close confinement, but let him run at
large; and he "kiled man or woman" Now
Jesse, apply this law in it's morality to your own
case you are the owner of whisky, and, men
are wont to drink l., aud it is wont to produce
drunkenness, and to "kill" men and women you
do not keep it in but you do let it out on sale for
drink. 1t hath killed men and women in time past,
and you know it yet you do sell it out for drink.
1t hath produced drunkenness &c., &c., in men
and woman, and you know it; yet, you do not
keep it in, but let it out on sale, and it produces
death or drunkenness, &c. Now l ask you !:
Who is responsible to the law? You say the con.
sumner is responsible very we'll, he is the princi-
pal, but you are accessory by your whisky, as was
the owner of the OK by his OK; you are guilty
here. SO also "the princes" were accessory to
the drunkenness of ''the king" Hosea Z: 5-1l,
and he who gives, or sells whisky for drinks gull
ty of putting the "botte to his neighbors mouth"
and is guilty of his drunkenness, and his naked
nees, and shame, and his shameful spewings, &c.
Hab. 2: 1917. Nor is this all. "When any sin
is forbidden, sobrietyi enjoined when murder is
forbidden, deliverance is epjoined Again. Where
any duty is enjoined the contrary sin is forbidden,
together with all actions which tends to it, so then,
You are forbidden to do any act, which tends to
kill or promote drunkenness; and you are COM
manded to save life and to do sobriety, and all acts
which tend to promote these; otherwise, you are
guilty under the law of God.
8. But Jesse, you say that spirituous liquors
sold at retail for drink, is lawful way and means
of gaining wealth or livelihood, the same as is
other merchandise.
Am.-Not so. Certain merchandise is known
to be contraband articles Of trade by the law Of
God. s.The price of dog, the hire of a whore,
and price of blood" are not allowed to be put in
the treasury of the Lord. Deut. %: 18, Matt.
27:6 These are contraband ways and means of
procuring gain in sight of God. I have already
shown, that the retail selling whisky &C., for drink
is sin, and monies made therebyis sin-"the price
of blood" therefore, it is contrabanded by the
law of God.
Again. In Exodus, 81: %, we read, eff an
OK gore man or woman, that they die then the
OK shall surely be stoned, and his flesh shall not
be eaten" Here, we have an "ox," a brute beast
.sstoned" to death, ''and his fesh'' eontrsbanded
as an article of food by gift, or sale for man
Why? Because, be "killed man or woman
By the morality of this law, hold the retail sell
ling of spirtuous liquors for drink, contraband