Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-11-03

spirits sold in the distillers' market. So
then, when corn is worth in market fifty
cents per bushel, by transmutation into
whisky, it yields from one dollar and half
to rso dollars for one bushel in the gross,
and not'ass than one dollar per bushel in
the net wh7st nothing Mt all is added to
the public wealth.. -
5. Because a class q uep who are instru-
mental to do much hurt toaAe people Of the
State in many ways, and no g,,d at all, in
their occupation, ought to be ttaxee;a dol
lars and in cents, to help in paying of>ae
expense of Government, in compensation
for their damage done. That distillers who
retail their spirituous liquors, are instrument
tai in producing much Of poverty and idle
ness, private iumoralities, and public Crime,
needs no formal proof. And because OF
their evil work, much of public time and
labor in our Courts, and of money paid in
boarding, and in bedding of many poor, and
convicts in our Jail, is plain enough.
II. Shall "the liquor traffic with slaves"
done by retailers, be :sentirely abolished ?''
To this I answer, Yes. Because this
traffic is found to be ruinous to slaves. !.
By inducing, and settling on them the hab-
it Of drunkenness, in which bad habit is
hurt or destroyed their health or body. 2.
By seducing them into thefts, or deeds Of
violence, which exposes them to chastise'
ments. 3. BY disposing them to iusubor-
dination to their owners will, and disinclin.
ed to a moral life. 4. By originating, and
perpetuating in them, desire for independ
ent trading in other matters to their discon'
tent
2. Because traffic with slaves in spiritu
Gus liquors, renders them less valuable te
their owners. l. In that it disposes them
to absent themselves from home in quest oi
spirituous liquors. 2. 1t often times sedu
ces them from the service of their owners
to the service Of other persons, for the sake
of little dram consumed by themselves
where their owners were entitled to have
received a compensation for their services al
fair hire. 3. 1t affords the chances fol
much drunkenness in slaves, against the
will, and to the great injury of their value
to their owners, in reliableness for wanted
services; and their monetary value when ex'
posed to sale. A. 1t enables retail venders
of spirituous liquor to have, and to exercise
an undue influence over slaves in many evil
ways, to the prejudice and interest of theil
owners. S. 1t enables retail venders, to
avail themselves of chances to accumulate
illegal wealth, by unlawful means, with the
services or products of slaves which are moi
their own, without the chances of conviction
at the law by competent testimony. 8. Sc
long as retail venders of spirituous liquors
are of low moral tone, this liquor traffic with
slaves should not be allowed at all, for very
many other and important considerations
On the whole, Gentlemen. I do most full.
ly, and most heartily concur in the present
ment made by the Grand Jury as aforesaid,
viz :-"the repeal of the law, authorizing
distillers to vend spirituous liquors in guam.
titles of a quart and upwards without license" ."
And "the entire abolition of the liquor traf.
6c with slaves" And Gentlemen, | do trust
that in this matter you will "stand up to the
rack, fodder or no fodder" A VOTER.