South Carolina Temperance Advocate and Register of Agriculture and General Literature, 1841-08-12

tji'cat ami nnparti.tl lnl»un;u, can <|uu»tlv fi»Kl his arm-* in silence, while the enemy lliai mars our peace, wastes our ; ropcrty ; ini inijuiiis - juiiis inijuiiis our health; annoys our happiness; de dell - ll dell i rone * our reason; renders tin* noble facul facullies - lies facullies of our nature, disgusting and brutish; ex exP">cs - P">cs exP">cs u< to the most imminent dun-yen*; ex excites - cites excites to the rouimissioti of base and disgrace disgraceful - ful disgraceful arts; is | in it i (i: of the most obscure vulgarity, and horiid imprecations; and besides (.'fleetiinlly ace iinph-hing its pur pur|>ose, - |>ose, pur|>ose, in the destruction of tin* bodv, renders I ho immortal part, a lit companion for demo demoniacal - niacal demoniacal spirits, is insinuating itself into our social assemblies, and even intrudin'; on the 'I'liel of our dome-tie riieles f Wo pause lor an answer, ami fain would (latter our ourselves, - selves, ourselves, that there iv not an individual, who reads our paper, Imt would cordially re respond - - spond - respond - SUIT I. W e know the time lias been, when the > deleter iotis elf, eis of intoxicating drinks, wore not *o well known, as now. When t people in muieral, were not applied that j every drop of liipior, that possesses an in intoxicating - toxicating intoxicating property, contains, in a greater or loss degree, a substance, poisonous in its nature, and calculated in its etVects, to im impair- - pair- impair- tke functions of the animal system; ami rl taken in any considerable ipiantitv, lends to premature dissolution, although actual intoxication may 'rot Ire produced there are some, no doubt, wbo either from motives of pecuniary interest, or a con contraded - traded contraded relish lor such drinks, me unwilling to assent to the correctness of the almve assertions; hut we lie! no hesituuev in risk risking - ing risking their eonliirnation, oil the trstimonv of riery candid individual, who has ac'pined a thorough knowledge of lire properties of in intoxicating - toxicating intoxicating drinks, and rheii efji-ds on the human system. Neither do we suppose that every individual w ill be willing to arknow arknowicdgir - icdgir arknowicdgir Ins share of responsibility, (hi the mischiefs produced by intemperance. I!ut, to each and all. we say - be lint deceived; siifler riot your interest, or your appetite, to pervert your understanding, or binder the discharge of a moral duty. We find no nothing - thing nothing in scripture, to warrant a conclusion, that willid ignorance is any extenuation of crime. And if you are re.dlv ignorant of the deleterious oiled' that vvr have ascribed to intoxicating thinks, it is became Vnii have rehised to profit i y tin* information so ex extensively - tensively extensively communicated. To makers and seders, we say - console not voursc-Ivcs, nor silence the dictates ol conscience, with the vain plea, that you are trot accountable be because - cause because you do riot compel men to drink. - llecollod that the owner of an ox - Kxodus - Irll. and gt» ver., was held nccontitahle, for the mischief done bv his ImuisI, on his f.iil f.iiliug - iug f.iiliug to keep him in, idler being informed of his propensity to push. \ on know the con conscipienees - scipienees conscipienees produced hv this beast, in the form ol intoxicating drinks, and still refuse to keep him in ; lienee, on tin* same princi principle, - ple, principle, yon render yourselves accountable for the awful results. I bit you will probably sty. that thov are sometimes necessary. Now, even admitting this to Ik' a fad, though, as a beverage, we feel warranted in denying the assertion; the injuries resulting from their use, would so immensely outweigh the pretended U-m rits, that the article must at once U- adjudged a nuisance; and heme, of right, become .sub .subject - ject .subject to tint regulations provided in such cases.

'rii.it m ||V< i widow now ; T lio <hr nl' Iiojir simll rise* No iioiii* for In-1, lo r l.n-nm loiij llir.l ,i< tin* drunkard dicsf Co ! In !|i tlii« lirtiio'i! |.*rd, llor Innd of woo to to-ar; I or notti* lint tlmti ran r.ilm her until, \\ Im raimot died .1 trnr. I'roni tli*' tirorniill.' Mootitainrrr. Aiiitr.Mi.i r. I*ist., July 1^11. Mr. Editor: - It mint Ik: truly gt utifviug to the fiicnds of good order, throughout our Itcloveil country, to witness the I|- ii] march of reform, in relation to Temperance, itt tinny of the upper Distiicfs of .''outh ('aro ('arolinn. - linn. ('arolinn. In the immediate circle of my nr - tt-lmru loo n few yentti n;o, there "'ere seventeen retail shops,' Mine ,w i,..w loti two, nn,I otio ol thetn I understand, will he discontinued in n few weeks. I he grossly demoralizing practice, of can candidates - didates candidates lor of rice, obtaining \,,tes, 1 >\ means of Mulettl tpiiiti, i<, I ant happy to say, van ishing In fore public opinion, like the Jew of heaven, before the morning sun. tin a recent occasion, it was nccessarv for one of the Militia Companies, of this l>is l>isttict, - ttict, l>isttict, to procure n new parade-ground, and after consulting the gentleman, on whose land, ami near whoso dwelling the rompanv ha.I p ita led once, to know if they might continue thoie, he replied that he had no uhjoetion, provided they would agree, nei neither - ther neither to retail, or use anient spitits on the gioutt'l. 1 lie Captain tlien put the ipiestioti to the eompauy - "Arc you willing to con continue - tinue continue here, under this restriction, or do you prefer to remove, to where you may he per permitted - mitted permitted to use ardent spirits ?'* The compa company - ny company decided, w ith hut four dissenting voices, to remain there; and it is hot justice to those four to state, that a part, if not all of them, ate solier men, and voted for the tetnoval, under a misapprehension of the ipiestioti. There nre hetween ninety and one iiuudted memhers, lielottging to this Company, nearly all of whom were piesent, on too occasion alluded to. In my opinion, there is no necessity for legislative action nil this stihjeit; the cause is onward, and must prevail. The goddess Temperance, is wave-/ her snow-white flag on almost every hill, and hundreds and thou thousands, - sands, thousands, are ndmiiing and ll .eking to it, ns gallant patriots would fly to the standard of their beloved country, when invaded hv a formidable enemy. Wheie is the philan philanthropist, - thropist, philanthropist, that would not rejoice, at the daw n of that era, when intemperance shall lie

in-'* uiiu in:11 ms rmiiiron, or fiionds, would snatch it from his grasp, lie clutches it with a stronger hold, ami says, " it is a good thing," " such a good man said an," "and said that ho would drink a drain, and so say 1" - and away goes the Jioison Jioisonous - ous Jioisonous draught; nnd is followed up, until ho rolls on his mother earth, divestod of every characteristic of man, except his form. Af Aftot - tot Aftot such a result, how can a man excuse him himself - self himself for the consequences brought, by love of self-gratification, upon his fellow-mail? The question l cannot answer, and l leave it for the casuistry of grog drinkers to sole*. Hut the famous argument of self safety is not true. Where i.s the man who thinks spiiils a good thing, and takes his dram re regularly, - gularly, regularly, who is entitled to the name of a temperate man? I think he cannot lie found! llow can a man pretend to he temperate, who cannot, for ft it life, do without his ac accustomed - customed accustomed glass of grog? lie is alxiut as leinjHMmto ns an old Irishman, who hud gone to ( harloston with his own wagon, nnd had there got his jug of rum: on his way home, he paid such assiduous suit to it, llint lie was constantly drunk, and his jug lost nil its contents, before his journey was half per performed. - formed. performed. In this condition, compelled to get solior, ho was heard at midnight, in a mourn mournful - ful mournful soliloquy, exclaiming, " I am a poor mild man, and my dram is all out." Spiritu Spirituous - ous Spirituous liquors, our pretended temperance men dvrlaro to l>o (Sod's good gift to men. In this they are also mi-taken, they are some of Satan's bad gifts to his own people: they are the means by which he reached his ends of fiaud, adultery, rape, incest, theft, per perjury, - jury, perjury, or murder in the easiest possible way. The road, which leads down to death and hell, is a broad one, nnd such a toad is neces necessary - sary necessary for the journey of the drunkard. In the straight anil narrow way, which lends unto everlasting life, lie rould not walk at all. For his devious route, nnd his suticra suticrabundancc - bundancc suticrabundancc of legs would constantly throw him off it. To prepare a man for the tra travel - vel travel in Satan's highway, a little grog is the licst of all preparation. He cannot walk the narrow way, nnd thercfoic, lie inu-t bo among the multitude who are in the broad road. Such a thing was never given by (Sod to man. Like his idols, it has been made by his own inventions, suggested and improved by the Devil. Solomon said "Ln, this only have I found, that (Jod hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions."

mu .Mimnu, * rrircnu ic.% iravuiier * homes,' mill other kindred appellations, oc occupied - cupied occupied !>v swarms of harpies, to harass us, and cut out our substance. He lini kept among us, ut all time*, stand standin>r - in>r standin>r jugs, bottles, casks, and hogsheads of rank poison. lie has affected to render the animal appe appetites - tites appetites and passions, independent of, and impe imperii - rii imperii >i to, the mental faculties. He has under various eomhinali.ins, sub subjected - jected subjected us to a jurisdiction, foreign to our constitutions, and wholly subversive of our health and comf ut, - For cutting otf our intercourse with re respectable - spectable respectable society; For imposing the heaviest ntid most exor exorbitant - bitant exorbitant taxes upon u<, without rendering us any equivalent ; For arraigning us, (for no offence what whatever, - ever, whatever, except uulioiiiidcd devotion to him,) In;loro the liar of a lavetn or gioggeiy, and w ithout the shadow ot j'istice, causing liquid tire to he poured down our throats, until some of us were iW For trnn«|M)ttiiig us, if not Insyoud the seas, at least, in many instances, inure than 'half seas over,' under the mask of pteteuded friendship ; Foi taking away our char;li ters, abolish abolishing - ing abolishing our most valuable privileges, and de deranging - ranging deranging ,t I! I In* font-linns of nature. lie has plundered our houses, ravaged our property, burnt out very vitals, and de destroyed - stroyed destroyed the happiness of our families. lie is, even at this lime, coining with large quantities of foreign allies, the 'rhuire of other lands, complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, «o long rallied on, with cimimstonccs of fraud and pel tidy, seal rely paralleled in the most harharous ages, and totally iiuworthv the tolerance of a eivili/ed couiinuuit v. lie has rnnstraiued u% 'taken captive at his will,' to array ourselves nguiy*t our best friends, and to become their worst enemies. 1 le has excited domestic braw Is among Us, and has visited mil defenceless families w ith almost unmitigated, and unalloyed distiess ; his known luln of warfare, is an undistin undistinguished - guished undistinguished ruin of all ages, sexes and conditions. For all these oppiessious, wc have ob obtained - tained obtained no redress; hut every attempt to free ourselves, Inis lieeu attended only by iiqieat iiqieatcd - cd iiqieatcd injury. A pi nice whose character is thus marked, by every art which could define a tyrant, is totally unlit to liuar sway over ra rational - tional rational beings.

- I T*rti'/it itf IHiiitruhim. - There is no notiling - tiling notiling 1 ik«? prntirnl illustrations, upon anv subject. Dr. .Irucll, in hi* recent visit to ('he*teffit-lil, hail n pi urinal illustration «if hi* subject I'uriiidicil in his ham!*, hi tliti mi. 1*1 * it his ail.li f s*, n drunkard slaggard ml'* tin' room, muttered over smile "I his drunken lingo, mill, wo believe, r la i in oil the j>iivitogo of speaking! The Doctor vety politely invited him into the desk, ami in inliinncil - liinncil inliinncil him that lie should have nil nppoitu nppoitunily - nily nppoitunily t'> he heard. The felhnv blundered in into - to into the desk, hut hail so much of the 11 good .creature" down, that he was obliged to sit pretty ipiiellv. The Doctor then went on with his address. Hr said when a Botanist lectures upon the subject of Botany, lie has tprtimnis to illustrate his subject. Here, saiil the Doctor, 1 have a tjtrcitniH to illus illustrate - trate illustrate mi/ subject. The effect of the exhihi exhihii - i exhihii lion of the ]«>or inebriate, was most sale. Itiry, ns may well Ik" supposed. - Xurthfutm Xurthfutmloit - loit Xurthfutmloit linzfttr. FrunUiH Trmprntnre .Sorer/y. - A pot pot: - : pot: tion of the Printers of this city have called 1 a meeting and organized a new society, to . be called the Franklin Temperance Sieielv. 'I he fundamental principle of the associa association - tion association i* to he t"htl abstinence from all that intoxicates. W e would suggest to the associations m>w *o freipiently foiinrd, an additional feature or two. A society held togctlicrliv a niero pledge not to drink is a mere skeleton. Peo People, - ple, People, even if they have freipictit meetings, iho, after a while, of talking entiielv upon one subject, Let there la' something else inrorpotali-il in the piirjwises of these insti institutions. - tutions. institutions. Make them lieiievolent societies fit instance, and assess the members a small monthly sum, to form a fund for the aid of such memhets, or such families, t tr make them literary associations - do imv thing to keep up a eontiini il inteu-st in thu a-socia a-socialion - lion a-socialion among its members. In Ballimore, whole lodges of < hid Feb lows have taken the Temperance pledge, tind thus made their association* Tcmpc Tcmpcrnnee - rnnee Tcmpcrnnee a* wrll as Beneficial Societies. \\'e do not know whether any n| the lodges in this city have billowed the example, luit pre presume - sume presume that many of them will, (loud exam example - ple example is contagious. - l\rt*Ut r

A Deacon full of years, interposes in the conversation, denies the l>cnefit of tom|>cr tom|>cr-ncc, - -ncc, tom|>cr-ncc, scouts the notion of tnen joining tem temperance - perance temperance societies, and declares tlial spirits used in moderation is a good tiling, and ne never - ver never did him any harm, and therefore ho Imil used and would use it. Tim listener, poor F., di inks with greedy ear, the Deacon's words : ami Satan, who is lcnniuff foiwnrd in delight with his tmnldcr of whi«lu|y in his extended hand, whispers him, "dnwftioi Deneon \V. give it to them, about right, here is the stuff take n pull, and fling cold water, parson I', and his peo people - ple people to the-. The |iersunsion was irre. sistable : he drinks and exclaims, " Ah this is good : 1 do love it: - true it slew my fa father - tine - ther - tine father - tine it made me an early vagalmnd. These were, however, the effects of excess. Now l tm.e leaitied to use it moderately : and this old CAristiaa tells tne it is good to ill ink u dram." The mischief is accomplished: "evil com communications - munications communications corrupt good manners." The Christian, fas lie ap|<cars to lie,) had laid the train, and fired it too, which is to blow up poor F'* badly fortified citadel of virtue. See, ho drinks again, ns be swallows, f ie second, third and fouitli drink he repeats, "Ah this is good "it is a good thing " Deacon W. says so, nnd it tastes good, mighty good to mo." Drunkenness follows and is continued, until Kldcr l'. is summon summoned - ed summoned as a physician to attend him. The good physician is blessed, n<it only with the heal healing - ing healing art. but also with tlmt holy spirit, from on high, which preaches "peace on cattli and good will to men." lie looks upon the wretched inebriate, examines his case, and feels that the soul is struggling to he freed from the piosouous tenement of clay before him. The nrtus of Ins earthly calling is laid aside: lie resorts to his weapons of hea heavenly - venly heavenly warfare, and prays Clod to spare the guilty wretch liefote him. The player is lieatd! tiiu lingering, flittering, expiring flame is re-kindled, and F. lives, hut lives

THE 80ITII ItROLIVlTEMPF.RIM'E IDVOflTE li Puhlinhwl C»r ll»»' Mtaic Tnnpornmc Swirly, , BY I. C. MORGAN. ITTTIk Irntw of »titi*rr:pti<»n nrr - fl 50, pnyalilo within »ia iiwmih*; or f I afte r that timr. BT Atl»rrti«rna*mii in»rrf<-<l at 75 rent* prr rquarr for tin* ami -C| rrnt* for r%rrv #iil»«r»|ii«'nt tu«rrti«ni. - A fair -tan* ma<lf in pro|**irli<nt to the ttuiiilw'r of inarrtion*. Z'nnprraiur. (F«»r tins AHvwilf.] "THE DRUNKARD'S LOOKING-GLASS." NO. N.XXIII. Mr. Editor : - Time waits Tor Tin man, its course is regularly onward : and must so continue, until it is swallowed up in the vast anil fathomless mean of Eternity. This being the case, how industriously should we ply our little harks, which ate launched in the stream of time, to run to poit after port, for the purpose of gatherin'' up, every where it may he scattered, the hrend of life, so that we may ho fully provisioned for our everlasting voyage ? Tliis is no light affair! AVe should often, in the course ol our run through time, reason together of "righteous "righteousness, - ness, "righteousness, trmf>er<i»re, and judgment to come." In doing so, how much good we may do, may l>e inferred from tiro amount of evil, which is done by pursuing a different course. Many men, in other respects, entitled to the good opinion of the community, forget al altogether - together altogether how prone men are to do evil: and instead of discouraging the disposition to drink grog, denounce every effort which is made to promote temperance. " They do not need any thing of the kind for thcii good : "they can and will drink a drnm and avoid excess," and "such a course is good," is thcii argument. They forget however, if their argument was even true, as to them themselves, - selves, themselves, that they, by using it, literally |>oo |>ooplc - plc |>ooplc the kingdoms of darkness with drtink drtinksrds. - srds. drtinksrds. After listening to such an argument, the poor dt ink loving sou of misery, hastens