North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-09-24

TrxppnASoE AND THE VINE. We have long
been Of the opinion that the best remedy against
the love of strong drink besettng> sin with the
AnolozSaxon races the free use of pure wine.
It is remarkable fact that IN the wine districts OF
Europe the people comparatively free from the
hrutalizing habit of intoxication. Among the rl-
ral population of France, Italy, Spain, DC, the
wholesome light wines in common use, consider
ed as essential to the table bread and meat.
The same indeed, may be said of all classes. We
have heard it remarked in derison, that give man
of this class piece of bread few dry figs dates
little sweet oil and bottle of claret, and he will
feast like lord and be happy. This mode OF fv-
ing is coeval with the introduction of the vine and
olive in those countries, and where man IS
found indulging in the use of strong drink he IS
the subject of remark and commiseration by his
friends and acquaintance. modern temperance
reformer would probably obtain new and valuable
ideas upon the subject by visiting Havana. There
a temperance society, except through American
newspapers, was never heard Of Yet in the popu-
ation of nearly 100000 souls it is thing to
hear of Creole or Spaniard who is in the habit
of using distilled spirits In regard to wines, how
ever especially caret and sauerne, all classes make
free use of them at every meal.
We find in the Horticulturist the following sen
sible remarks:
every few Americans, except those who have
have travelled abroad, estimate properly the moral
value of pure light wines-because pure wines
very rarely find their way across the Atlantic
| Containing as hooks and clarets do, only about
eight or nine per cent. of alcohol, they far more
wholesome than coffee, and the cheap production
of such wines will do no more to decrease the
consumption of ardent spirits than any other cir
cumstance. Neither law nor morals can be brough
to bear upon the present age so as to force t.
be entirely temperate-but the introduction o
wholesome, pure light wines, at cheap rate will
as there is an abundant proof in the wine distnct
of Europe 1t is for this reason, as we'll as because
we look upon it a source of national wealth, tina
we regard the successful labors of such men as Mr.
Longworth and Mr.. Buchanan, in introducing anc
perfecting the wine culture, worthy Of the high
est public gratitude" Southern Press.
! THE ADJUSTMENT. In the accounts we cop,
from Baltimore paper received yesterday, thu
reader will the latest instance of how the Com
promise works, and how beautifully the AID just
ment has settled the right of Southern men t.
their property We have had three instances with
in few days. In one, after full proof of owner
ship and escape, the slave was released on hdbea
corpus, on the plea that he escaped before the en-
actment of the present law-which was notorious
ly made not to change, but to enore the provision
of the old law. In the second case, the Court en-
tertained the plea that the slave of Indian
blood, and though the decision was adverse, it wa
distinctly given out that if the evidence had beer
good on this point, the slave would have beer
freed This is constitutional law with vengeance
: The third case is that of which we furnish brie
account this morning-a case not of the vicious
subtleties of law, made the instrument of factor
and fanaticism, but of brute violence practced il
one of the oldest and most populous counties o
Pennsylvania, with the manifest connivance of The
population at large. The telegraph informs tina
there have been arrests of of these murderers
No doubt-there arrests also of the Boston
ruffans, who invaded the Court House, and forci
bly, rescued slave from the oficers-but no one
was ever punished. And so it will be in this case
1t is the nature of the present Administration t.
buster and talk big, substitute for vigorous anC
honest action. 1t is, of all shams, next to the Ad
Ijustment, the greatest that the present age ha
brought to light. Charleston Mercury.
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