Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-05-02
For the Jeaersonian Republican.
FJom the New York Despatch.
OUT OF DATE.

Looking over the papers during the week, we
recolcct seeing in some one of them a labored
eulogium on drinking song, which the editor de-
signates with the classic name of an Anacreontic.
We beliye that word is Greek for getting drunk,
and other unseemly and inconnnent practices; and
we suppose that in the opinion of the learned, he
who aaacreOnizes himself into delirum tremens. is
great deal better citizen than the man who bathes
his soul in wAiskey Till he brings on what in the
vernacular is called the horrors. 1t is vastly more
moral, genteel nd.proper to travel to perdilion
with Falle:s ~a.la sala.-
pany with those reverend toPers, Bacchus and 81
lenus. than to get drunk under hat with hole IN
the rim and in the society of rum coveys compan-
ions. There are differences look you" and we
su,nose these must be conceded as among them
For our own part however if man becomes unht
for business and social relatioGs-a Poor husband
Va bad fathe--a worthless citizen-and all from
being nobody enemy but his own" 1t makes
little difference, that we can see, in what way he
arrives at result so melancholy
The prostitution of poetry and music have gone
far enough to the ruin of lis votaries. The senti-
ment the age is no longer tolerant towards deck
ing skeleton with false ornaments TO conceal lis
{rghtful character. The world is tired OF seeing
CHASTITY pit covered and concealed with rose leaves
to tempt the unwary to plunge into moral death
Peauti ful poetry, words well collected and htly
chosen for their harmony, images iuxuriant III
beauty, and the very spirit of loving music over ALL
cannot excuse a literary triie however elegant the
moral OF which is that it is not strictly proper, but
Il IN Nrr1v n
Sink the man in the helpless brute. AS these III
teresting pursuits formed part OF the worship o.
the much lauded ancicnts it is not TO he wondered
that large portion Of their Literature abounds IN
the laudation Of such practices but as the mod
ern code Of morals recognises no such imperative
duties 1t is to be wondered that the attanmen; o
what is called liberal educatons makes II neces-
sary to irntibe a loose morality.
Carloads Of missiles have been hurled at the
coor common inebriate, who dares TO drink Plebi
an liquors. while the fountain of dissipation
of which the learned. and polite have been
c!lristened, is sacred from the rude breath o
invective The root ofthe evil is left untouched
and uninterrupted. Tie literary institution OF this
and other Christian countries have manufactured
have created. How often do we meet under the
most disgusting garb of blackguardism and' hiih
with the wreck of fine mind, and tic shreds oi
an education, which might have given tie degra-
ded possessor high stand among his fellow CHI
"eas had he not chosen, rather iAs place among
TIC swine.
We rocoI,cct meeting in an obscure tavern IN
the couatry, last summer an approPos example o.
these remarks Chance led Us there to make some
inquiry about the road, and we found the bar-room
wholly occupied by an unshaven and ankept loalef'
who was reading an old newspaper the latest
date by way that had been received in that uaior-
cotteaa2ok, lie was perfect personihcation oi
william Bar'ow~-ragged and flfay-As there
was no other perso3 to whom &c address oursei!'
we put question 20 him. which he having