The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-09-09
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A Few Words in Defense of Prohibition
and Proh!bitionis:&.

and Proh!blti0niS:Si.
Now that tie columns Of TIE Wig
are not tally occupied with politics per
haps the editor may allow space IN the
"People's Column at least for few
lines from an old contributor.
! The subject of this article, however. is
| is political one, and at present is causing
/ no little stir in many States of this mon
! and in the very nature of things must
continue to he a fruitful source of dis.
/ cus>ion while hurnan nature and instltu-
| tions are as they are. There is and must
be an "irrepresSiblc conflict between
| rood and evil. light and darkness. until
| the promised millennium shall come.
| This war against the liquor traffic is only
4 part OF the stli for the overthrow OF
! Satan S kingdom in the earth. y con
| siSteut Christian must of necessity be 4
| Prohibitionist, or at least one SO far as
| his eyes nave been opened 10 the enor-
/ nifty of the evil of drink. Many good
| Christians have lived aud died i'll iguor-
ance of mach of the harm spread thick
about them. in fulhllmenJ of the pro-
| phetic promise. Thou wilt keep him iii
! perfect peace whose mind is stayed Oh
Thee and Others Of like import that
might he quoted. Tie shafts of skepti
csm have no terrors for such,
Who know aud only know their Bible true,
| Facts which the brilliant i'renchman never
knew.
But the temperance cause has suffered
! much by the adj. ocacy of men destitute
of every other attribute Of the Christian
and the untempared zeal of Others who
are making this and kindred reforms
their only religion. But the majority of
those who have proved THEN title to the
name of a Christian by the panoply they
wear are those who have been no
strangers to ali the way, of the world.
These men. when they 10 speak, always
command respect. 1t is because there
are SO many genuine and true men
among Prohioitionists that there arc SO
many countertcits. The counsel of all
true men in all ages has been to make
no compromise with sin. Many hum
dreds have suffered death rather than
Weld one point. that the world at large
would not have strivcu for. And the
blood Of the martyrs has been the seed
of the church, 1t is to Christian men
of this stamp that We are indebted for
al! advances in civil liberty that we now
enjoy. These men have always been
maligned and condemned by their pro-
tessed friends as well as foes. They have
always been found in the minority. to all
human appearances. But God has been
with them. Elijah was in a similar case
when once he stood on Carmel,s brow.
prohibitionistS of Ohio are now being
abused by protesting temperance men
because they will not surrender their
principles ard make Il compromise with
one Of the leaGli.g parties in their State.
The inducement held out is present,
supposed gain. Ohio grants no license
to commit a crime against her people.
and all men should honor her for that.
AS State, she Is not "a legal partner i'll
the liquor traffic, and the Prohibitionists
do not propose to help to rivet on the
chains that shall bind her to this car of
the idol. All these questions were fully
DISGUISED hpr9 F>.y recently when we
We're actively canvasSing for our present
Local Option law. Many there are vet
who are secret enemies OF our present
law, and who would like to see return
to a high license law - We who have
always opposed al compromises of this
damaging character were Nay Years ago
with thie half !gaf argHment. We
answered then rs we do now that '>ha!f
loaf is dearly bought when AN immor-
tel soal is the price demanded. For. if
an honest and we'll grounded conviction
that holds man to truth may be let 60
i'll one case, it may in every other. We
know the popular dogma is, and espe-
cially has it been the ~, ii the politi-
clan; Wtste.er IS expedient is right
whereas it should be the rule of Chris
tlans at least to read it. Whatever is
right is always expedent"
We hope we have not tiiSa out any
one patience hy s4,eaklng out plainly in
deians' Of men whom We believe are
standing for the truth as they see it--a
right guaranteed to every American citi-
zen, q.