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Barnwell C. H w S. C.
TRE «RE4T l^iquiTT.
l*rcaclio«l I»
III. NO. 116.
BARNWELL C. H.. 8. C., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1880.
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t ChareJt, the Geor.
anil HprI..ttio Wn
and PuhllHlied at
equeilt of the Latter
thart-h.
Ajni y e , in any wise (by all moans) keep
yourselves from the acouraad t himr
i rso) \
ve make ymirselves accu
UK'> of the accursed thlnsr, and make
“SmTl "r 1 * “ a U ''’ u ' ,te
shsd ihinif, leot
urSed, when yo
the
The “accursed thioR" meant in the
text is avarice, and the reference Is to
Achan’s wedge of gold. “The accur-
, eed UHaf^-howswer, of which I shall']
Ult tbfiW W-aiy la wblikey, and
whatever elawprodncee dronlcnBBP. to
which. It wttl be doing no violence, tb
apply .U* solemn word*of thereat. I
* Rm «°log to pfeach against whiskey
• ^ iPSJfl
wr*th Istmt nrortrciegrly dhd hMMv
threatenedasraiostany sin, than it la
against drnnkenness. “Woeijnto h‘im
that glvetb his nehrtthor drink, that
putteth thw “^otlta tav htns.” “No
drunkard^bi^li inherit the Kingdom
of God * In tfkrile ^wo places, %n<]
they not nU.1t it
that botIf,ih*drookard ani the m
that helps to make him a drunkard,
hlthdr by gfvtuf orweHtog him whls^
key, are|n flaoarsr o# th» vengeenee
of GW. I mn m^ved 4b preach onf
the Ri^Ml^Ht this tifny, kofeever,
mostly bjr the Oonalderatioo of tlie
inoreMe df -Wphgdnes^ lasifaanaee
and crltbr. htARQSuiaflf fhe ainul
prime of nuifd^lta m* owu By^trell
county, aatbJhMiHffoWf State.
^KVhilst. we arenas 4w house of
;^^P&od Xhis beautiful sprltiff mornlna.
miRhtj^vicrent ait the year round I Aud
now taking the ojther raUroad towns,
the couniy site, and all the Flores and
ehops scat tered over the county that-
jSell whiukey, with all the "fl'iod gates
up. Cbd pouring ^out thW Bary flafla,
iudclng frotn yrhat is Sold
town, It wilt he within rfte limits o!
thdtruth to sny, that tfR Ieea than
8150.000 are spent nonually in Bnm-
weil county, for Whiskey.. 150.000
dollars i what a magnlflcent
iuncTi-that Would be for educational
purposes, or enough to build a factory
upaa opt of ou j splendid ntreaina that
are now sending -their waters Idly,to'
the ocean. And if 150,000 thousand
dollars for whiskey, iu one county, the
amount spentannually iu Southllafo-
ttua iu simply appalling. What that
amount U we have no means of as
certaining, but it can hardly be I^-ss
than jwo miHlma a year. A n d this
when hbr ‘ancient 8cho(%|bat were
on# her. glory 'ao4 hqy stwtgtg lire
closed, her vast resources of trade
and, agriculture undeveloped, her
magnifleput water poker unutiila d,
and she ulm 'st piteously calling for
capital to etimfc'and seek investment
within her borders',‘‘jvt spends rail-’
lions for whmkey. It lias been stated
on very hiirli authority that the peo
ple of the United States spend every
year for .whiskey (700,000,000) seven
hundred raiilim dollars, which If
divided nut, would give to every rnan,
woman and child, seventeen dollars.
Kor wdnuwtion about two dollars per
head are f pent, being eight times more
for whiskey than eduektioh. and one
dollar a’id el«ven cents nnrtrtvep per
head lor thw support of the churches,
being nearly seventeen times more
Blit we
fjr whiskey than leligton.
are concerned mostly with the tyrant’s
tax in Unmwel) county, which is nearly
there 8ge In our cpnniv jail two voung ‘ ,r fully t"h:s fts much as the Ridlcxla
m^n under sentence of death for hav-*ever unde q« And jet it
ing alaln whilst drunk two of their
fallow men. who but for #hiakev
would be living w* d%v god thslr ninr-
d««rers likely good, Uw-ahidlng 1 cHi
*ena. As it is. two souls have been
tent hurriedly into eternity, two mors
are soon to follow, all covered with
Innocent blood, and oh! sad to think
of the poor old parents, brothers -and
slateraof tbs RVdered and the mnr-
dereta. Not to preach against wbla^
key and every man and every woman
of us put forth every ef-wt and use
everv means in our power to destroy it,
ia disloyalty to God and Cain-Hko..
cruelty to man I We areenrti, -Ood.
nor Father, has made It so —our bro
ther’s keeper I ex pec*, men and
breihetn, to epesk earnestly and with
•Ttep feeling to you to-day ; tor I have
never felt in all toe year- of mv min
istry, the burden of % message m >re
than that which I bring you this day.
I wish, however, and shall endeavor
to avoid .-lying anything uuklQd or
harsh, <*lther of those th it aetl or
drink whiskey ; f-r manr of tltsfor-
msr I kaow to b« honorable men. and
tnanv or the latter, I know to be, save
drinking whiskey, all that m*-n ought
to bo la tbrir families. In the cm
inanity and in the Church. But
against Whiskey itself. I shall epesk j
with on hesitating speech, without
fwVur and withoiit fear, and shall try
to prssdnt the truth concerning It so
V>lately, and truthfully, that If any
here Tlflrday don’t see It, It Is because
thwy *#ht: *'«* It, and ao n »w nn I
henceforth. Gad making me faithful,
mvsklrawlll be dear n{ the great
Iniquity. And oofp to eome to the
subject. Pour jwatrs ago, or soon will
i»c. the people *f South Osruhna rose
up Withe ntrengtfT of a great canse
and overthrew the worst govermti' ot
•hat tbwu existed on the face of the
ear'll and by ooe united and sublime
effort, pnt away from -them, wa trust
forever the accursed thing *f Ra il
alts 1 o. There ts to-day Is South
Carotina, a •'•tsa String —a mors ac
cursed thing, la tbs full blast of Ita i
gigantln power, and that, thing ia
whiskey. The assertLdi to aoms will
seem a tewkiees rww-, but havlug made
it I r-el myself bound to prow#ir.nrelse
to stand before ray cuauvmon a
wUful andnelf-convicfed Mar. I affirm,
and If I am wrong It will be easy to
convict me, that there was not a
charge brought against the Radical
party fquf yearn ago that cannot oe
brought with sb much truth, nod roofs,
ngeinst the tyrant whiskey. And to
,tha poof. We ask your cart ful atten
tion to the following Indictraeuts :
1. It was charged against th^ Kadi
cals that they robbed us of our money
by Illegal and oppressive taxation.
The highest tux ever paid by the peu
pie of Barnwell county to the Radi-
cal party in one year, which was the
last year of its reign, I hav *beeo told
by one weH-infmrned Iu such matters,
was about 880 000. Let us now look
at the tax which whiskey Is levying
upon our people which they are pay
ing very cheerfully, but which makes
it none the less u tax and a burden.
Tbs meanest and the most degrading
tyranny Is one which the people most
willingly supp-Mt*—UmU which crush
es their manhood the most effectually.
Radicalism whs h vile th'ng, but there
was this good in it. it drove us from
Its arras and drew forth oar hatred and
resistance against Its tyranny—but
this tyrant whiskey has pun
upon us and mads us lovw them
From a carefully prepared statement
made up from receipts on file in the
Btackville depot, if appears that there
were shipped t" and sold iirBlackville
windti th- past twelve to •utbs’ 8000
gaTtons of Wnlsksi. ^ grejtt rt^al of
this was sold at $4,00 by the gallon,
that sold in the barhioms for as much
or more, as it Is sold by the single
drink and I, am told at ten cents a
drink, but put f b-‘ 8000 gallons at $
a gallon which Is a "ery low ay
and we have 8l6.0i»0—the aghj apeot
for whiskey—the tyraetyfa*—-hi ooe
of the towns of Bafnwr-U county.
fy^ot Barnwell, look
f»t away your eyes
„ In Blackvfllv alone,
much tonrieg Spent
is appiopuated ao-
nyalty for Vcbool pnrpoae* in UVe
whole county—thv streama of kn
ledgg dried np for bias JHontbv in t»4
year, aod the stream of whiskey, which
means the strerm of poverty—Y<>all
but them that veil it—ignorance, vice,
crime and irreUglao, Aowiug ia a
as
t hh Vyrf •As, (bat ws ware addg$4 of
our money, more than unv feeliogoTT
8tate pride, fhat irade ns thr »w off
the Radlc J yoke, whilst we not only
pay tbs tyrant whiskey V fj*x cheerfully,
which is doubly greater, aod a hun
dred fold more cruel, takinu in tnanv
eases the very bread out the children's
mouths, but many of us would actu
ally light for Hie glorious privilege of
doing so. Ortuiniy h makes a great
deal of difference what tyiant oppress
es us, for it is not tyanuy, but only
• omo tyrants whom we hate. And this
t remendous tax to whiskey,the people
are paying at the very time they are
cr>lug-out for economy and retrench
ment iu the public service, for short
scssl -os of the LegMantre. and not
anenrmore fotmixwtttnin|i» abaci vt-iy
necessary. But what is stMog-^: <d
all ts. that whilst the Kadioals did give
its a little of their heavy tax bn k In
»ch"-d appropriati'-n*. this otb«r
tyrant whUk>-y gives not a cent beck
in all tbt thousands K Saksstro# u*.
Every dollar spent for whiskey is that
much taken from the productive
capital of the country, fr -m the com
forts of home, the education of our
chIHren.and our ability to discharge
our Just otdlgatioDfl, and Isas effect
ually lost as If 4 rubber had k nocked
us down and Taken it out of our pock
et. Home, I know e-mlendtbat Iu the
money recrived from granting licenses
we get back a part of the mvopy It has
taken from us. hut that Is like saying
that a bog that has broken into my
Held and copied up mycoru.tby'it has
taken Bonaetbtng from me.itsi * pot a
part book In rooting op the ground
which U a gf-eatbelp toTt The harm
it has done is very great, aod the
good very questionable. R-venue Is a
good thing, but money raised for
revenue by granting lloeose to eel I
whiskey. Is the prion of blood, and the
Jews who n Jeoted the thirty pieces of
silver, rightly ao regarded- it The*
charge Is Just agitost whiskey—that it
rob* tbs people of their money, and
that in the matter of taxation, where
Radicalism put Its little finger upon
us. whiskey puts the weight of lu
whole band.
2. A second Indictment brought
against the Radical party was. that It
rage,
Think of it. pe
at It and turo
from behi'ldtfli
th?re ts trffee f
for wbfskny,
plied ap ao enormous public d*.bt upon
Mf
the pimple. But whlskav plies private
debt upon them, and what Is a public
debt, which everybody has to pay.
compared with personal debts, which
every man muft’pny himself? It is
from private debts that the country Is
suff rluc to-day. and a large propor
tion <>f these whiskey, had a share In
making. Whiskey has sold many a
man out o? house and home for debt
contracted la groat measure for whis
key, by leading to neglect of business,
which a drinking habit always does,
and by riCKlessoess in buying while
under Its Influence. When a man has
once entered upon a career of whiskey
drinking, be is in the road to bank
ruptcy and ruin, and no one knows
this better than the mao who sells
him the whisxey. He knows full well
that the pwy in whiskey is selling, not
drinking it—putting thie bottle to an
other’s mouth but keeping it from his
own. - —
3. It was brought against tbs Radi
cal party, that R pwraiy«ed loduatry-
ao'i destroyed the business of the
country. But whiskey does this, be
cause It destroys both capital an
ebatra j labor ami is subversive of that
ilon of society—law, order, m
thrift, bonflHetico—jp whicjtf, as in a
good soil, trade flourishes, manufac
tories spring up, capital ventures out,
and business putsjon its boll-lay garb.
N 'tiling else flourishes where whiskey
flourishes. II ia like tb** mistletoe
the greenest thing on the tree upon
whlidHI-bfts fast-ned itself, its life
isdljc death of all that makes a coun
ty truly prosperousu. "
4. Another chayge agalnet the Radi-
bal paity was, ,that by Its corruption
it had broughttliirfibnor upon the fair
name oj v the State and kept capital
add labor from coming into tbe State.
South Carolltm I* suffering abroad in
her reputation from tbs too general
UH*. of’ whiskey by lier phople, and
whiskey aqd - pistols art doubtless
keeping mahy fVofn eoraiog amongst
us. We are not the bad people our
tfs have represeuted to U) he,
but whlbkey and pistols s« bad things
and thefe are morfe of both In South
Carolina tnqn there ought to be. Ball*
osilam is not keeping money and im-
migrauts from coming now.
Again. It was chargtid upon the
Radical partJ,\*hAt under tw Totr
crime had Inerjeased-abd 4*aat It en-
coitragsd-crime* and was responsible
fbg4t. But the exploits of RadlpalIsm,
Spttttoradjrith whiskey, iq encoytAg-
Inffli mUiis—are as the expolts of a
pigmy, compared with those of a giant
it) his strength and recklessness. I
will bot-say even of whiskey, what
John Wesley said of slavery, that “It
is the sum of ail villanies,” but will
say that th£fe are few “villanies,”
which It does not encourage, and to.
which it does not ^directly lead. That
It encourages murder, and does mur
der, the -people of this county, alas!
hate recently had a sad experience.
And that which leads a m^n to
take the Hfe of a fellow-tnan, what
won't it make him do? As-long ago,
perhaps, as 'seventy-five years, old
Judge Burke, holding court in Jack-
aonboro, then the county site of Colle
ton District, in charging the Jury In
the case of a man who had committed
a petty larceny, whilst drunk, said to
tbe.jury : “Gentlemen of the jury, be
very light on the' prlsprer. H« was
drunk on bad whiskey, and.bad whis
key wllljnnke a man do anything that
is bad and mean. I myself, since hold
ing court here, under the Influence of
a drink bf b id whiskey, put a lady’s
silver spoon Into my pocket-—wby It
tried to make the Judge steal.” I have
related the anecdote to call attention
to a distinction, which is frequently
made, and mostly by those who drink
whiskey, from Judges down, between
bad and good whiskey, which is a very
convenient, but certainly a very mis
chievous ons. All whiskey Is bad, and
to talk about bad and good whiskey
is the e-ime as talking abonr bad and
.good la'tlesnakes. That terribis thing
“that'hiteth Hke an adder,”so graphi
cally described by Rotomon, and
against which there are so tunny
•warnings in the Bible, was not the
pr-IsoheifstnlTbr The gfOg ShiNpe, but
what some would call good whiskey.
6 But the worst chares ever
brought against the Radical party
was, that it was conscienceless; that It
Inflicted cruel wrongs and sufferings
■upon a helpless people, and lanahM
and gloated In the mischief It was do
ing,maklo? allttle tblogof conscience,
worng, and the h*pptne*>a of a whole
people, compared with the mousy and
offices upon which It was fattening.
An i whiskey Is conscienceless. It
secs the mischief It ts doing, the crimes
it is producing, the hearts It is break
ing, tbe live*, characters and sonls It
is destroying, but indifferent alike to
argument, to entreaty, to pRy, to the
U1 aT 111 r 11 v«j , . f i t u ■">■»».» . «■<..««.-» clkowx/x
“•Pk 11»lljlIV X7J VwB |PI IMHIIV !| VVV1VI VW DlV^tUU
itsgl?. It goes right straight on willing
to break hearts and destroy souls, and
all this and mags—Just to think, for
money.
' 7. It was charged affalnst the Rvil-
cal party, that Jt was a ijng, a well-
rounded, solid andonmplets organist-
tlon to push the interests of office-
holders aod office-seekers agaiost
• he Interest* of ths country at large.*
If this constitutes a ring, then whis
key has a ring, for there are few
who will deny that tbs mee who
thrive by whiskey, tbs country
don’t thrive by them. I hav* never
seen a mao foolhardy enough to claim
th"t he wan benefiting other people by
selling wblskry. It is for tbe fsw
agaiost the many, which Is tbe very
essence of all rings whether found In
poli'ios. religion, or whiskey. The
real and to bs dfeaded whh key ring Is
not the ops formed to cheat a rich
government out of Its rsrsnne, but
that ahlcb ofteneet takes from the
poor their hard earnings, and makes
Itself rich by making ths country
poor.
8 Lastly. It was charged against
tbe Radical party that having once got
possession of tbs State, In order th se
cure their continuance Iq power
they went to work to pass laws to tie
the bands of the people and prevent
them from striking down their oppret
sor. And ths same is irne of whiskey,
“which frametb mischief by » law”—
the striking language of Holy Writ—
and that law a part of the law of South
Oarollna. the Indulgence law, whereby
In conrideration for money paid to the
civil authorities, permission Is given
to certain men 1o perpetrate “mla-
chiof" against society, and society is
rendered powerless to help Itself, be
cause tbe “mischief” is “framed by a
law ” '
Speaking ^p-duy to fiouth Carolinl*
ana, It. seems that It would bo enough
to arouse tbeir Indignation against
whiskey, to show that it just savored
of Radicalism, but I have shown more
--that the same obarges brought
against Radicalism can fairly be
btouglU agaiost iriilskey. And I will,-
now show that charges can be brought
against whiskey that—were jrever
brought against the Radical party-
charges that in their awful truthful
ness constitute the peculiar devilish-
ness of whiskey. y'
And first! bring "the charge agaiust
it, and indict it as the cruel and relent
less fi>e| of woman. Oh the women,
mothers,'8istirs, daughters and wives,
tbat-this demon whiskey has tramplod
^thcifusrl .If there is ons object
worst
ovn mm, oeo m<
hib former self,
#*ble aohleyetoe
himself, to h's fai
her, and we tolerate and help It, not
that we respect women 1cm, but love
whiskey more.
' Second. I Indict It as the polluter
and destroyer of the paritv Aod hap
piness of our homes. Ih
day of Radicalism. ~wh
tion was like a noisome
over the land, we could retire Into our
homes, and thank God that there was
one place where Its pollution was not
felt, one altar not bnrnipg with fire to
tbe strange God. Be ,|k said to the
credit of Radicalism that It never pre
sumed to enter Into Carolina homes
and defile them. But this is wbatwbls-
key does. Radicalism, llkfe the Igyfr
tian plagues, was tbe flies, the frogs
and ths lies upon our fields, whiskey
Is the files, the froge aod tbe lice in
oor homes. And Into bow few homes
has whiskey not come, hdW few faml-'
lies has It not cursed. Aod how un
mistakable Its presence. The look of
despair, of a elleot, brooding sorrow
that, cannot be hidden, o| mortified
Jirlde, of hearts cruelly wronged, of
desolation, As when frost has fallen on
the fields and nipped their verdure.fs
tbe plctpre of what quif b0 called
whisky wretchedness, a picture recog
nized wherever seen, and seen alas!
too often In what ought to be homes
lo troth, as writ a« tn n*t<M.
Third. I Indict It as the'destroyer of
the Intellect aod manhood of our peo
ple, Rome and Athena w«re some*
times wont to send their b-wt ettizsns
into exile, and the Radical party did a
meaner thing when It droVe from ths
public service tbe best aqd moat pa
triotic men in the Stafp into private
life, bnt Athens and Rooik’* bafilahed
cltffrs, sod nur owq proscribed citi
zens carried their vlrtues^helr talents
and their hondr with thdm Into exile
sod private Hfe It fsrefsrved fnwthe
Ingenuity and dsvilfehned* of wblekiv,
to exile men’s talents, honor and use
fulness wltbopt exiling tvs men them-
sstves. Whfctcv la the true iMHah,
Into whosw lap. If » very.Sanason, fsr
Intellectual aod moral grlitnesa, ones
put his head, be is effectaatlf shorn of
the locks of bla strength, mads ths
* lave of .cruel passions that tyrants* 1
over him, bee mes the mere sport of
and is Tost, so fsr as
achievement Is concerned, to
family, to‘hls country,
and to bis Qod. And Booth Oarollna,
over (he ruin of many of her ncble
sons, sptendl i rising tsolDtee. dashed
to th* ground ere they had reached
thslr fair and grand proportions,
oonld well taka up, as her own. the
nobis wail of Lord Byron over the
gifted Kirks Whits :
“phiwhatjwbte sonhi werstbes wYMhme,
Wher^raroHA’s self Ooetreyed hsrfavor-
Yea. she to# —ah ladsltod thslr
Sho bow.M the seed and sbs is reaping ths
fruit.” TTT.
wr "VTBMB*
her sons, not by tndulgtng th*-lr
fond pursolt of solsooe, bat by Jndulg-
log thslr fond pursuit of wMajtjtf, by
what ought properly to bo called bsr
Isdulgenoe whiskey Uw. I repost U,
Houth Carolina has sowed whiskey
and la reaping whiskey In the distroo-
tlon of her youth *0'* manhood, in tbe
crimes that stalk over ths Und, and
In tbs ignorance and Impoverishment
of tier people. And this U not all. I
hold that the execution of every man
for murder, committed In a state of
is toxical ion, Is nothing mors nor less,
than Judicial murder. I am farfrem
bolding that drunkenness is any ex-
cote for murder—I hold drunkenness
Itself to be a great crime—but I bold
that a county, qs thoroughly satur
ated with whiskey as this county Is —
lo ths law which governs It, In tbe
courts which administer that law, In
ths public sentiment which upholds
tbe law—cannot bang a mao for a
murder committed whilst drunk,
without, itself bring guilty of murder.
The man who tsmpts, or ts in any way
tbe willful cause of ooo man’i mur
dering another Is held by tbs law. to
be particeps crimlnis, and what is true
of mao, la true of that combination of
men, called ths Bute. Poor Bates! he
had sinned greatly against his country,
but bis country had sinned greatly
agalnet him. His day of reckoning
came, and a Just God will not hold
those guiltless, who are la any way,
responsible for his awful crime—How
ever bard It may be for us to trace
out that responsibility. God can and
will. I believe that every murderer
ought to be hanged, but I maintain
that the law which hangs him, ought
to be clean, at, least of the crime for
which he Is banged.
Fourth. I Indict whiskey as the po
inter and destroyer of the churches.
The Kingdom of Christ ‘1* not this
'World,” but it Is the ark which carries
the highest hopes of humanity for this
world and tho world to come. What
ever, therefore, breaks down tbe
churches, and destroys their lnflu«i»ce
for good upon tbe world, ts a crime
against religion, r nd against sodetv.
And this is what whiskey does. We
are far from asserting that whiskey is
tbe only thing from which 'the
churches suffer; alas ( there are many
others; but we do assert that from
nothing have they suffered more, if so
Intel
usefullnesB and I
iMt nno morwfl
Ithls, that It
[struotlo^o^the
pllect.hls cha
for ti
foink
his
re is
tbaa all
and then the
tbe eternal de-
ranM. - With
God’s word de
“No drunkards
.idora of God.” In these
charges which I hare brought agalnet
whiskey I have not allowed myself to
indulge in plot urss of the InmgfnatJoa-
pictures are tame compared with ths
awful reality. I hardly know whether
it le mors trim figuratively or lltersliy.
to say that whiskey has made rivers
•of tears to flow, and tbe world a Qol-
tba—no not a place of skulls, but of
j, brokCb^awtil, J
And now can this tyrant whiskey,
this enemy and destroyer himself be
7 I say can he be ovenrown,
tbafhe ought to bo overthrown, I
all. with few 'exceptions, are
agreed. If the people want to get rid
of wbUtkey but oao’t, then shame upon
tbe drilixatioo and Christianity of the
age! But If they can rid themselves
of it and wbut do it, wfca* shall we say
of suoh civilization and Christianity as
that? In this event their civilisation
needs to be ChristianiE<*d and thefr
Christianity to be civilised. Christi
anity lo her youth was a queen, re
spected and feared, Because she bad
power to attack and eradicate wrong,
crime aod wickedness, Is her aim pa
ralyzed, and is she cow only a fair
captive chained to the triumphal car
of whiskey in its conquering march
over the land ? If the people want to
get rid of the tyranny of whiskey the
theans of doing so, are within their
reach, aod some of these I will now
point out.
And first, The same means that over
throw Radicalism will overthrow Whis
key. Wc voted ons to death, sod wc
can vote tbe other to death. I believe in
tbe ballot-box as a remedy tor whiskey,
ts much u tbo remedy tor Radicaflsta,
and there ti no more rcav>n why we
should vote against one tb an there is why
we should not vow against tbe other
We must have e South Carolina liquor
Uw. “The throne of iniquity - ’ has
framed “mischief” by a Uw, and the
destruction of Ur “misehieP must be
‘framed by « Uw.” Whiskey has
draws the sword of the law, and by the
sword sf the Uw it must pariah. Reli
gion and her noble alius bare been
because lbs.
both a
come for
deriiold of
wrestling with whiskey a long thne. and
it Bust be confessed that whiskey has
bean doing most of tbs throwing, rim pi)
I Uu. lav bar givua to whi
uder holds. Tho time, lue
t Christianity to have lbs
f sf &s Uw, Mad thus ths ha
aliag, wretched spectaeW,
sqesAae •dibs w ™
YEAR.
don’t put drunkards, or any bad,
it it a
Special Requeftta.
M ■ ^ fc . “ > to I "C
1. Ta vyiting fa (hi* nfi#cm hflaldLs at k
"•r. givr frTtt* nsm« *n<l Vast OffirSMStoM. ‘
t. ifa»inw Ufawr aaAaofawiiairati—t# .
k* publUAsd thmid b* wriiua op •aysasis
anil ths a^rrf of rlenaly iiUl*
cr'el bj netwnary nofa retjnirvd.
’ \r* Ides for rmhllcstlan rhould be wiii*
tfB Id A.cl«»r, IrzJblt h»ni, »nd oa oalr oas
side of tho pag*. . <d.
4. Ill changer
rtsch us on friday.
In aiTVFrtfWditta Bait
moral man In office, because
toaf
and putting him where his example will
the most jtyggljpfu. Ifj
to ntlllimUM greet Tovar of office by
to the account of temperance
and morality, and the best interests of
tho people, to make ths offices ftrssau of
blessing, and not of coning. How can
we tell the noble sod ambitious youth of
the land that the way to have honor of
God ami honor of men, is to fear God
aod keep I!is commandments, to b« so
sober ami conscientious, when they can
UekfWHadLxod point to tbo public
offices, filled^ ! too often by men
who hayc not the fear of God before
them, and make religion, and the samd
beliefs of ChristImi people, subjects for
jeat nod ridicule? An old stump afire
in the ground sends its sparks but a little
distance around- .An old piAe Ml a&rto
howerer, because the fire h higher up,
will send iSs sparks to a great dhtawee
and bum up the country. Let us see to
it that the tress planted iu our public
offices arc goodly cedars, and not rotten
pine trees, to scatter far and wide the
I arks that burn—not men’s houses, but
sir souls. • ~ ' -i j -dj.
And thirdly. We roust not boy whis
key or anything else from men who sell
whiskey. The argument is m Strong
against putting dollars into the pockcU
oi men who sell whiskey as It b against
putting meft into office who drink* wblw
key. When ths respectability, morality,
religion and wore pot on t than all, the
money of tbo country are against whit -
ksy, whiskey selling wi’l u surely stop,
at a wheel will stop when the current of
water that tarns it is cut aff. Asdit
is sad to think that for ths most part, k
is the money of sober. Christian nun
jM jls Ms 4rtfjj whether other (faspls
do thel.s or not It wont d<i?o wtK ffif
trover
work,,
Water
IS move is s
Men are
, just like
i^ater w'
•ti det-
for any great
tot is heated.
fire does wt break
IHtbwiBy add •H.sfflE
once, hut the minute pa/ticlss nearest
the fire becoming heated succemively
diffuse themselves among all,
the particles, md being heated,
and soon the whole nuws is heated and
■■■■Eycrv groat rcrolution or re-
[iorrnition eomesln fku Way and is tk«
mull of indiyldualism—dne mind heAri
inf another, and that another, tad ao
on ustil all are heated. Wc are rejoicieg ~
jfeiday in llic blessings which haveeonxj
— ,u. oveflliroV of Radical^—
j#
iqd sad give to
tour pecuniary
but Afti grtfltcr Messing thrtf Won
come to us front 4lw*#B*rthrow of tbe
tyrant whiskey* I will not trust myself
to fpeak. Theu, indeed, would prosperi
ty be m <rur owfi frihees'Staff pHIcb
n throughout ouf floMsfe^® —
now I have preteutM t» pimtf
truthfully as I know boW, the facts
emin^^rifiskdy, its true <fli»fa«ler,
the mischief it is doing and tMe means
of It. In ootfrinsiorf, pbr-
what sre you whig to
Pssimtbcnevhsd mihiitod
one of bis powerful oratioos against
Philip, laying opsv, with tbe bawdhf a
master, tbs designs of tbe crafty Mace
donian upon the Hherties Of Hie AibShk I
ans, the latter ware so stirred aod in*
ceo'"! bythe revslaliss,tbet they want
ruiolHgaNtay, stefy man erring sot to
his fellow l “Let us fight Pbiffp 1 Iri us ^
%M Philip !’ # Jtit*
mdj I yeuturu to hopt(b«t the MnBl#. .
f * c,a iTlk '
■hsl! mots than compensate tbs lack of
Ufa orator, adi that ysV «ll! go back to.
•■I
round
otksm
think is as oiflaiij wronc- If it is Wrong
for s church member to sell whiskey it
street, Cato, Um
age must be destroyed,
the deal met too orCar*
nolle i
make : “C.rthaj
msaning that
thsrge was ths otdy thing that a Roman
mn»g for ons who Ir not a church I tAink about or talk abmit, and
mbertoseU it. Ws szereas our idea ! whiskey must be destroyed, sho'Ud bs
of tb. wrong don. to . IZZtty, by a ^ patriot and
dhweb member who sells
BraUH
withdrawing from him our Christian
all the pHv a humao soul cao give, It
is a nrdrle woman whiskey cursed.
Does sbe smUe ? it is ooly a moment
ary flash out of a black night,or only an
eff urt to be cheerful and hide her grief,
or to give pleasure to others which
her ogu aauj knows not, hope gone
from her heart, her li'e a bitter diesp-
pointment, aud to bet, worse than alt,
the feeling that it has been a failure.
There are women upon
moke than any other that deseryes much, than they hare from whiskey.
There ai
tidfe thousands have hern spent, for
tbeir piety, intelligence and character,
flt to be the wives of princes, instead
of drunkards, and nobis women in
humble life, who would rather die
than live. And this in Barnwell coun
ty. As a people we boast of our
chivalry, aod we Bouth Carolinians
claim It a specialty. We give to wo
men «be first pieces at our feant, pay
them a thousand little atteotloqs, and
would knock down tbe vlUaio that
should dare to insult ooe, but what
dose all this ehesp and cerstDontal r*>
spect amount to when whiskey strikes
bet as If she were a felon, starves her,
stings her pride, degrades her, put*
lo rags, breaks her heart and kills
It is “the accursed thing’’ which hath
made the armies of the living God to
turn their backs before their enemies,
and the “wild boae” that doth waste
the vine that God hath planted in
the earth. Ths Injury inflicted upon
the churches of ths land by whiskey,
and the injury Inflicted upon the land,
by tbe eburobe* not putting away from
themselves “the accursed thing” will
hose educa- not be known until the disclosures of
the last day. “My House,” said the
Saviour in the temple, “shall be call
ed tbs bouse of prayer, but ye—money
changers ard sellers of doves—have
made k a den of thieve*.” Alas 1 whis
key has made 'on many of His church
es’ dearer to Him than tbe Jerusalem
Temple, dens of drunkards. It is tbe
great temple profaner—the temple of
Christs body—the church—ami tbe
temples of the Holy Spirit, the bodies
of his people.
Aod last and yrqrse, I indict K as
the destroyer of souls. “Sin no mors,’
said Christ to tbe man whoa be bad
healed, “lest a wr’-sc 'hing come onto
thee.” And can whiskey do a worse
thing to A man than to deatroy his
an*
kemin*
that tow U
.mure, at
least not as oAsn, of a church member
flat on his back and the villain whiskey
set raddle of fcla. Bat some fearful
souls say k Vent do td talk about taking
tbs vuderkoM of ths few—that from
sreading that would sarry os to fight
ing—and that ths palpi^^Ks Ptvss. and
the tetnpcraoe* Societies,, sna tks wo
men of the ooastry «a»t do tho best
they an. ’ Well, such talk is about like
os* saan’s helping another to load a gas
kill a third mas, and when tbe gun is
lifted up and punted at#r man No. 3,
by tke man No. 2, the nstn Xo. I sorry
for dint he has done, runs and throws
a feather before Ufa mass!* of tbe gas,
to intercept tbs balk Now tbe lari, and
•be law is only tbs txprsswon of tks
Bnud of the peonlc, hss loaded the goo,
with which whiskey is doing its work of
destruction, sod against the Uw, tho
support and connteaance of th* law,
proaebiocthe presn and pukli* Matiaent
are alsaost as inofeotive ss s feftber
against a ball. The only sensible coarse
is to drew the load—to wipe out the
Indulgence law and to pot another in its
stead—that it shall fee as wuch a crime
to desUoy men with whiskey, a* w.th
shot* and powder. But is tho mean! line
until we can get an anti-wbiskey Uw,
there are other means that we can bse
and use with good effect,one of which ri:
Secondly, Tc put only sober men in
office, and that sobriety the effect of
correct moral priueiples- To do this, we
hold, U not political proscription, but a
sacred right of society and a duty which
it owes to itself. Public sentiment fa
the only whip with which siciety can
punish offenders against its peace and
iu purity and exclusion from ths public
office.-', for drunkenness, and other
offences against morality and public Vir
tue, would be the cracker to the whip,
that hurts the most and does the most
good. The soul of s. devout Islamite
does not turn more constantly and long
ingly to the Holy City, Mecca, than do
the souls of most men turn to the public
offices, and it fa easy to ses what the
effect would be, if oece it were well un
derstood, that oily sober men, and
men whose lives are unspotted by those
immoralities, such to Fabbalh-breaking,
gambling, and lechery, that sap the very
whiskey, by
lUwshtyii fagt* ve tot, to be eoDsfet-
enft, Is vrpress eur idea of ths wrong
rl'ine to tbe oomtnwnity byes* who eeib
whiskey and fa set a member of tbe
trvnagi-and pecuniary support? 1
be replied to this that UttrcH business
i* orw thin<r, tod » mtn’t prints Vori-
nsss, to bay where he pleases, soot bsr
thtn^, thus, I reply, thtt selling whis
key u s man’s private business, aud that
vs have do right, accur Jin* to tbe orgs-
■tot,toQsatotlMfrivsuj h«iaf*«fl
our brethren and tie tbeir band*, and
loses the hand* of others against them.]
I eeraoi but think that hi At lugMk*’
thM sf tbs eoantvy to Kmit the mOs of
wkiekey ♦ and the treat moot of whiskey
by ear churches have bees productive
jar more lens than good, ee audt ao as
tltooattehwk IBhin wlaMk Ifeiia Mh
^■to vhiriwt aa peanMa.‘Bad. hair
Iway working of a grttoy crop, only sofa
otft Ufa grsai, given it a at ranger hold ia
tbs ground, and makes it greener and
mere vigorous. Ia fact, balf-sorking fa
working the gras*. And U seems to me
that the legWothwi of the country aod
the eoafae pursed by tb* eberchr* is
reference to whiskey have worked whia-
key, instead of having had any tendency
■■^■roy it.
rsfWwvChnflP
«40l
ttoUHO M SOtiTH < ABOLI.V A
WfeaP gfiIjCautbs KhtoSucaw w vuw el
8iatk Thus* tmf. FooWEaaac WistoX 4.
Psgpav Vto Till (Mfearp Ms*. to
to destroy
Foorthfy. The rhurclies Must purge
llfamsehes of whi key. : Religion in the
oommuBfey fa like cotton in the market,
when it goes op, it eorrias everything
ion
put into those offices. There
bowiicberv in office The Radical out of
office we despised, the Radical that was
in office, the Govemoiy we feasted, and
whiskied and vied iu our attention* to
him, when he gave u* the privilege of
doing so. The cry fa frequently beard,
pet none but tried and true Democrat*
in office. What does this cry mean ?
If it means only this, that when ths
Radicals h*d tbe State, they would not
divide the offices with as, aud now we
have got the State, and we wont divide
with them, then it nonly the old ery, to
the victors belong the
corns nobody but tb* office seekers or
spoil-hunters. If tbe ery means any good
for the people, it means that to put gen-
sine Radicals in office would be to es-
IM ]pt It where if
coaid bs ioflaentki for mfaekiaf to the
coast ry. Now ws
same Bto sf
elm up vith it, and when it goes down,
it tarries everything down with ih Let
the churches rise to a higher poaftl I
and better practice against whiskey ai
they will carry up with them, as by a
natural fag, tbe law »f Uw eosntry and
spriest ys teyy suRgCis M.jwouf
able combination against their conynon
enemy.
And lastly, as has been shown and
eloquently urged by the leading secular
paper of the State, tbe women of tbe
country miut come forwaid and take
their places in the front ranks in the fight
Sgtintt whiskey. Let every woman make
strict sobriety tli* passport to her society,
to her hand aad to her heart, and she
will hare struck a blow
Oov day 'ast wefar a rt-portwr Of
Grrseviltr New* twtervLweti MsJ
Jh. Marie 00 LAs polKtoal si
M*J ffi»rle ia one rf th* few afrifte
iUdteato hi tbe Miats, and hi described
as being a mui of bisln* and charac-
Iff* After th* aublect of National
politics WS* of ’hsNcws (raw
cxlrasfadiih* IwUewlws vtews, touch-
K.r
Ing tbe BUHS enuvass 1 "
^Th* News muo ihirreri
Bsppttedqhs tsssits
,by ask
Mini
Ms groeTKf,
oh ohskfasr
would be a
Ithts Uekst orl lectors! ticket run i y
MW
Stats!
the Republicans to this H'ate H s
victim rnaponded 1 hat he did not think «
sru-sa Wou. 1 prestiS ruttrst
F^aUv
■ aetlvs csrr p-i<^n, he
IBM# ftM Mhstj Imoas a rsfaMMM
moot of Hsiuhuig ssd EUcaton, but It
would dtwixof ib. pre^*’nt barmoni-
SSMTlKaCfeysf Cas ^ and toad to
>r less of vioienoe. Re added,
ancones of any ticket whieti
could poeslMy be n- mlnated by tho
Republican party under It* present
organization would be a oatesdunteo
fesrful for calm oousiJeratlun. WbHet
It Is true that tbe ouliot is bat defcrt
ifrtto In ths hands of the 0‘Wt<\ aed
Jscwr
uue that
Wirt a
aort of cblvaJrlo r'aiUcrnesa, aud ihto
Justice Is sdmloUtwed to him with
uisch raofe mercy than to the race of
larger oppnruu>it5e*. To this ths next
most imporuat thing to th* negro ia
that the school money shall not be
stolen, and he knows now that It is
not only honestly, but Justly and wlaw-
ly expended. HugooT* election ought
to, and will give general satisfaction,
aod It will t>« far better for the color
ed poo pit that this election sboaldufa
p;utb over without acrimony. The wel
fare of sfartcry, as well as the material *
Interests of the Buts, demand kbwo-»W
lutely that this campaign should he as
free aa possible from agitation. '
“ Then,” was ths next cheerful qwes-M**
tion, "you regard the paity defunct
«ffk* organization fa absolutely In
hands that must strangi# It. It Is not.
best (or any party to bo without oppo
sition, nor ts It best for a State that It
should bo without two poHtioal parties 9
to watch and cheek each other, storesifab
the success of one would be ruinous.
No doubt when the present Repnbll*
HU oro’HDfZnloa in this Butte ts wbol4*»
ly disintegrated, a new one with msrw
vlg r and i-. w-t will spring up, but to
succeed. It triost draw chiefly for Its
said,
tiau. in me nanna o» tr« n<yr*'
he has oeased absoiutaly to be a ,
in DoVtML Yet!’ Mequ villv uui
before the eoert* be to treated 1
loundatious of Stole and society, will be jured off—cutting will have tol>e clone.
fa a strange and cutting Starts both him
ssfh a* poly aa# csp »OTte>j. J
Jpfiese moans, if used, will rid us of
the bated tyrant, and by these ovly can
we put anyTron. ^
thing. They are severe remedies, but
only such will reach the disease, ’ifffer!
key is a cancer that has fastened itself
upon tbe body politics, aud not ene of
the sort than can be talked away, or eon
mg hurt* both him vho cuts,
and him who is cut. Bat the skillful and
tender hearted sargeou knows hfa duty
and does it. By these very mesne ws
overthrew the Radical party and if we
refuse u> use them to overthrow a worse
tyrant, bedause they are severe aud will
hurt, we shall expose ouroelres to the
charge of hating Radicalism more than
whiakey, of straining out s goat tad
StfaBlviag » flteBWr. ^ ,
And further if by these means, whleh
are honorable and right, wc can rid the I
land of the etme of whiskey snd don't
do fa, we make oarselvcs reapaasHifa for
the crimes, tbe mischief and tfae ruin of
which whiskey is the caaac. Meroz
was cursed, not becjiue she
rsel'a enemies, but because
IA
iH
«I
ft
n
IA
most
leaders from those of
pobluoti.
r/tr r
lu present op*
htLA. snimpKii
“
■Mfe helpe'!
wmUbHIh
Iwtsl in tufa dfat !
n-»| i>n<thiitty
| Butter, Cheese, Milk.
; The value of the land nod stock em- ll]
ployed in furnishing milk. buUer and
cheese iu ibc ^
at 11,300,000,000. Over 3,000 factories .
are engaged in the manufacture of these
articles, besides the tens of thousands
private dairfeB One • mitsulhetaiwr in
Westers New York baa over thirty fac
tories. Others in different part of (ho
country have from five to thirty each.
There are several firms In N*w York
city which handle from $2 BOO,000 to
$3,<H)O,0gO wdrth of butter sad theme
annually. The zaitaal pood nation of
cheuac in the United Palates ia rati mat'd
at 1150,000,000 pounds, aud of butter
helped Is- 1 1,500,000 000 pounds. Tho ralneoftlio
she could | two fa about $8.>0,0ff0,000,
mors than th« w heat emp,
more tbas tfa* hay crop, ooe-tbii
are followisx the I personal It fastary ‘•a'’ a duty 10 re* . than tb* cotton crop ind only nae-Afefe
1 saws ■ msKa**, savs* «•> w I JW>MNMS«as Istsi mltaM tlsss :i - 1 > 1 . it... S
we Hjlsognizc his share of Um /ospouaiUhtj j less Uul
Ijc com
crop.