Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-11-06

plus produce above the home ccnscr D,
lion is greater than thai of the oil lei.
states Hence the granaries are usi.
the distilleries more numerous, and. the
whiskey more easily purchased. Vow
look at a small fact; and say whether
people, who have migrated for the
sole purpose of money making, are
not exposed to the snares OF iniempe.
rance Whiskey may be purchased
for 80 cents gallon; for 8 cents a
quart; for d pint; for half pint.
A man then, for two cents may be-
come comfortably Intoxicated; may
get dead drunk fof A. ADRIAN in n.
England is half gill--at the west a
gilI-the price the same.
1t is an evil of wide extent in tn
land. And still it spreads No checs
is given, or scarcely attempted, Phi
lanthropists, Statesmen, and Christians
witness and deplore it. But still is
spreads; stalking abroad shamelessly
at noon, as at midnight. As des-
troying angel, it lifts its pallid front
and CHASTITY look in our cities. towns
and scattered settlements. II reels,
and wears rags in every street; and
mouths the heaven with its drunken
biasphtsnics nn,ler every hedge Nor
does it lay its polluted hands on.her ab-
bic merely, it may be seen in nilde;'
and more fashionable forms pacing
splendid carpets, waving a lily hand
over a.welI furnished sideboard, aud
here and there possibly flushing the
cheek and deadening the eye of even
OF female delicacy. Go where you
will You fnd its footsteps--hea in
tcllect, and property runcd--social or
der gone--the happiness, peace and
virtue Of families banished. Ilinhicts
wounds deep at every point of the IA
lion, beggaring parents and leaving
children 10 ignorance, infany, ami
vice, wretched themselves, and to be
The corruptors of public morals.
& Fifty million dollars lost is trlfie.
point of vanity, compared with the
moral influence of intemperance.
This immense sum has poured down
the throats of 10000 900 people, Sc.
yepty FIVE million Of gallons OF liquid
FIRE, n,ngling and flowing with their
LIES blood. Nay more: must not
deduct at least one million children
and nearly the whole female popula-
ton from the drinking community
We have then 75,oGo,o0O gallons
boiling and burning in the flesh of
100000 men. 4 quantity sufficient
to supply a constant stream OF 5000
gallons an hour--a quantity, which, if
collected into single reservoir, would
form small ocean, on whose bo-
som. might be anchored line Of
war ships half a mile in length--or, If
gathered into a canal, would fill one
4 feet deep, IA feet wide, and SO miles
long.
We complain Of The burden impos.
ed by charitable demands But all
| the charities OF the United States, ex-
elusive of hospitals, infrmares and si-
milar institutions, have not the last year
exceeded 6 ouGrter of q million of
dollars. Those of England, with the
same limitations, have fallen beloso tsro
! millions? The whole Christian world
then, we may with confidence say,
does not expend annually five million
dollars in spreading the gospel of sal
walton; while the United States Of A
merica besiow fifty millions in pro-
claiming their own infamy and has.
tening their ruin.
I have only TO add, as The result of
the examination made into the CAUSES
and pREvENTTvEs of the evil under
consideration, that, unless in the villa
ges and cities leading men COMBINE
in opposition; unless the Number Of IL
censed taverns and dram shops be re-
strictcd by civil authority, and unless
imposition of heavier taxes be made
upon domestic distllleries, aud of high
er duties upon imported spirits, we
can anticipate only perpetual increase
Of this alarming evil.
BON MOT.