The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-10-14

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where he was, with thee ermine, sat
under the table to adjudge capses,77
The profound legislator and politician,
lin d glow Of forensic zeal, notified
the Judges table foF a. speech, but
lamentably, his understanding rest
fused to hold bis .bedy upright. IA.
most respectable gentleman, after the
ceremonies closed, late at night, en-
\ ldeaEored to make his way home,
when, 10 he stumbled Op-staiFsi into
a genteman's Ibed-chamber, niistak-
/ ing it for his own, and was most pord
litely kicked down into the open
street. Such is a specimen Of the
toOeingIgldss hung up in every wine
\ cGtsj every very fashionable hoteh or
j Dbanqueting palace, where wine is alibra
\ orally used, You see, my readers,
how it reflects the Beautiful agl;ness Of
wine and beer, 0r 'btahdy;-4s6 very
H hutritio,is snotlas meat, but in ambles
ITO shame a monkeyras aboye,Tnot
estimating the damage to the system.
H. God has given us appetites and de-
sires, which -ennoble The creature
when duly restrained and keptwithin
1.-THE bounds of moral oand christian
bearing;rb but Jet them operate with all
their vicious force, and the appetite
becomes hateful, the desire Is changed
to beastly passion, a trait Of odegfa4
daton below the ordinary Brute.a The
\ glutton, On5thisb account, becomes the
,scorn and contempt Of man: the
.drunkard and wine-bibber, in like
manner, meet the execration, iiotlohly
Of starved, ruined and murdered.
family theoalmost entire loathing
of his race, From past experience,
does any one, as a moderate vine
drinker, know his power to restrain his
appetite, when he continues tasting?.
/ / have seen more than one of these
redoubtable champions Of wine, ial9
most literally die in the Street No
man knows the force Of appetite, and
l power to restrain, who, from day to
II day, hampers, by tasting, with the de-
ceitful, delicious and tempting bever-
age called wine. What character
can appear to more disadvantage lis
more despicable or more hardened
than the one so devoted to the appe-
tite Of taste or love of liquors, espe-
| cially in the form Of wine, as TO refuse
drinking, when physical suffering,
moral ruin and the cries of an insult
ed community demand such beyera-
II ges to be abandoned.
h Fellow citizens-For religious com
II munion purposes, no one objects to
\ wine; but as super d6OandSng drink,
/ in the valley offthe Mississippi, where
Il grapes can be raised for the world it
will constitute q perennial stream Of
svI to future, and through all future
generations. 1t will be The rallying
/ point of inebriates, the curse of com.
lnunity, the ruin Of the republic. -
AS guardians Of ourfamilies, Of our
country! Of our holy religion, we are
called upon by high heaven not to
stumble Of wine, royal wine, aristo-
cratic wine, but with it, to sweep away.
the, mighty nuisances, which, like a
vast incubds, rests upon the face Of
society otherwise fair, upon our fam
lilies, upon our country Ishave shown
that the grape culture, in this valley,
may be for the world; in luscious
punches sent to the extremities Of our
landA through alltssas Ito all lands;
that in jellies, dry preserves, raisins,
the Vsgy bsst, vinegar, &c, gthe, whole
crop may be- expended, and the
world supplied. This IS no fgment.
1t is no sham but altogether practical
BILE, without turning one bunch of
grapes into iRsidieus vine. Wll yeutI
not, my countrYmen, rise as one man
and say; We viii not longer, in Gin
cinnati, pay the tribute of nearly 20 \
per cent!Of 6urtakes tbdsupport dog
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