Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-04-12
rEnTpERANCE.

We commence III thiS lSsue Tue Pu"Hoo1iou VI
WILLIE LloHarHEARrs Temperance story, eut
tied Nellie or, The Fatal Gf;" and we hope
tha, i, will no, he passed over by single one Of
nur readers without perusal. The cause Of
temperance has made wonderful progress with
in the last twenty or thirty years Decanters
have disappeared from sieeboards; punches
have deserted our Christmas and other merry
mak:ngs; and the social world is learning to en-
i.y lif without the aid of wine. The advance
Of public opinion in this matter is source Of in
es,imable blessings to society. The social glass
was once the common greeting between neigh
bors at every meeting and parting, Now in hun
lreds and thousands of families, the bowl is nev
er produced except for medicinal purposes.
Physiology and chemistry, the one analysing
mans nature, the other dissecting the material
world around him, combine to prove that alcohol
is fatal TO health and life; and the diffusion
this sentiment the spreading of this truth through
the country, has done much to effect the happy
change. Many still do not know that alcohol
taken into the stomach will not be digested and
sssimilated into nourishuent; but will pass with
the chyle through the thoracic duct and vena
cava into the heart and then carry it's taint into
the blood and finally even into the cells Of the
brain, producing delirium tremens and DEATH
MANY do not know that wine which maketh glad.
is dissembler that lures it's votaries, like the
songs Of the syren, to fascinating but speed,
and remediless ruin. Let these aud Kindred
sentiments re: wade every consciousness; let all
know and feel that life, health and physical hap.
piuess, are destroyed ny intemperauce; and the
ruth. which is mighty, will prevail to rescue the
rising generation from the bane.
But while science is teaching the one grea'
truth, that alcohol is n poison, deadly poison ;
the morulist, the christian and the novelist, VIII"
look at society as it il, have to gaz. upon dark
sea strown with wrecked vessels and floating
corpses. The poison fostering in the body AMI
making il fit food for worms, is not the evil; l
stops not there; ; il works its way into mini, NOR
als, law. social intercourse. carrying misery
misery, misery, in its train. 1t is well to remark
here that woman is the greatest sufferer.
ever any have felt the adder's sting. IT ls tn
mo; her, the wife, the sister of the iuebriate.-
Tears have come up from the deepest fountains
Of their hearts. aud watered midnight pillow
from which all sleep had fed NJ I'll may drins
and burn up his body, destroy his character
waste his fortune; but the blight falls upon wo
nup's heart. 1t makes her desolate and turn
tn. affections tha, shou d minister only to be-
na pp9ess. into daggers to her peace.
THIS is one reason, among many others, wh.
every young man, and old man. should be th'
warm and nflinching friend oftemperauce. Th
simplest and the highest gallantry recommend
him 10 befriend every cause that will keep III
miles of jy and happiness lingering about tn
lips Of beauty His most eloquent voice shou
ne raised against n vice which disgraces woman
aud even subver,s all genuine sentiments Of gal
iantry, itself
Woman is generally found the first to advO
cate the cause of truth and virtue; and We hop
that ere long she will see the dignity and pre-
prie,y of bestowiug more thought, feeling au
exertion, on The cause of temperance. recer
writer speaking Of her nature and mission. says
The honor We pay to women whose dsiuteres'
eduess and sympathy circumstances make public
is not derived from the exceptional, but the moi
NAL truth 4; how many Florence Nightingale
Lady Frapklins, and Grace DArlings are endea
ed to fond memories, Of vhom the 'oorla aha
nsyer hear" Ii this be so-snd who can doul