Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1852-02-05
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The Milne LiOuor Law.

OF all the laws that ever disgraced the
statute books Of any. State ia the Union.
this caps tho climax Of folly and madness.
For Legislative body TO dictate TO their
constituents what they shall eat or drink,
or wherewithal they shall DO clothed. ID
direct attack upon the inalienable rights Of
man Those who have both reason and
revelation to contend with, will assuredly
have an uphill business of il. Those ia
favor Of stringent temperance measures.
claim 10 call into their support both reason
and The scriptures.
We are told that intemperance is the
cause ofall the poverty, wretchedness and
crime. This we shall readily admit. Az.
other fact think must be admiltei-.-ehat
is. for the hist twenty 1--we or thirty years
poverty, wretchedness and crime have In.
creased four hundred per cent: TINT is,
they have fourfolded-and that too while
the temperance party were we'll organized
and holding considerable influence ia State
and General Government legislation. Here
is mathematical question for some Of your
wise heads to solve: lin twenty. Eve years
with all your great skill and energy, you
have been able to increase the officially
four hun red per cent, this principle well
carried out, how long will it take TO entirely
eradicate the whole difficulty
Hero isanother appsndage. Tha. hor.
rible disease, the deiirium tremens, was
rarely If ever heard of previous to the pro-
hibilorial duties the result Of temperance
petitions. Il may not be generally known
| that one hundred and fifty per cent duties
we're levied upon all foreign spirits. In or-
der TO supply substitute for foreign spirits.
whiskey is passed through charcoal and
sand. This process takes of that disagree
| able whiskey taste, and at the same time
reduces the spirit, which Ii then renovated
by Introducing poisonous substances
this poison produces the delirium tremens.
This is taking from the laboring classes that
VIII ch is wholesome, aud indirectly forcing
upon them noxious, deadly poison, and as
the same time protecting those who make
and vend the same.
| We are told that the wine Of olden times
was not intoxicating. Suppose we cali up.
on Noah, and Lot, and Solomon. for evi>
deace on this point. Who hath wo. Who
hath sorrow, who hath contentious, who
hath babblings, who hath wounds without
cause, who hath redress Of eyes They
that tarry long at the wine-ihey that 40
TO seek mixed wine. Look not thou ulea
the wine when it is red.r II was the Gus.
tom among the ancients to drug some Of
their wine in order TO make &c stronger and
to dry part of their grapes and mig with
their wine 10 increase the color
It is plain from the sacred writings thae
wine was given to man rs blessing. with
a temperate use Of il. Neither Moses 60
any ofthe Prophets. with ell their cautions
and lhreat snings. ever even recommended
total abstinence. Thea again, how absurd
10 caution against druakenness, when L
was impossible 70 Get drunk IL their wines
possessed no Intoxicating QUALIFY.
In Mark, chapter ii. versa cad. ChEise
says--'And no man putssth asw wine iass
old bottles, else the new wine dash haEsS
tho bottles and the wine . spillsd.s Here
d positive proof that all winea we're iasex~
icaaing. Tor Il Is here pEoesa shas az wlnas
"a LnEs, ehap.er via. vssss -. Ch4i1s
aava--s Fer Iohn the Bapllaa ealne nslzAas
Ansine bread nor drinklng wlnss nd Fea4w
Is hash ! devil Che Son d hGnn haah esnsa
- hAlsa st4N 4l s& 4F 3 ssasasss.