The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-11-22
AGRICULTURAL.
Grape Growing and Wine Making in
America,

America.
Ours is not II country where there need
be any dread OF making shoes for giants
TO be worn by pigmies." Public progress
goes by great strides and with shoe
chat fits it. The Total Abstinence"
wNIriSInd has M sooner swept over the
land, prpslrltinJ its fru.t'a rs well as clear
ins away It's nia,naS, when, steady aud
stiff, comes hetIthtui counter-breexe OF
"renperance not Abstinence" fitting the
hsIsued vines AMI oute more eucourag
ing the plants of Gods sowing and sun
ming to grow. As newspapers are not
considered To speak, formally, e1 cdthedr0,
on points c,uurcLed with mpr.ts, We will
not quote them upon this suUjett but
the Qutrtsrlics nave each the weight of
s.ptuayIut, (every writer having II sew
,euty man lower) anI rom the New
1or< Quarterly, contributed to, mainly,
by ciergymen. we extract significant
passage: sS
The moderate use of wine would APP
pear happily adapted, iulced, TO the
Antr,tan Character 1t would appear
cmnentiv suited alike Ia refresh Il IN its
energies, and To support II under its cares.
An excited, rs well AS Su exhausted mind
may he benefit ted by its balms. A. lsgo
says,-apd better aud more worthy au-
tllur,tiss have confirmed it,--'IVme IS n
COOL familiar crealure, If IL be .oeN aSed.'
Ev-rythiug. Of course, depends upon that
But se cannot for the life of Us, see why
it should not be rs well used in America
y. il ia IN Europe. We need its comforts
here, ~ well as they do there /; and we
en- j,v its convivaiIties with aS high zest,
zud ~ much within the b.unds of mode
rsi,oa too. The first glass for nyself,' rs
Sir NdIisn Ts'uple s,ys, the second for
'uy ,fr,-uds, the hIrl for gool humor, and
the fourth far ,ninn suemi-s, we can in-
Iu49s, not pnly 3ith ,iinpuuity but with
ais,ntaye, iu all that sort of thing aud
SAVING got lhrnngh il, know where to 4
stop ~ ws,I ~ they. There are wines
too, at Shich u may be said, IN the IA.
vitiug woris Of sober and immoral! john
Milton,
"One sip Of this
&Vill battle the droopiuy spIriLs IN delight
Beyond tae bliss OF dreams. Dc Disc anil
TASTE"
Anl surely vs. may he wise and taste
sdrely We may nave our dropping spirits
bllnei in deynt, as well ~ they, "A de-
light that ia ali the more delislstfui be-
cause it is innocuous, sprnggk, as II does
trvtu that winch Heaven gave 10 man, "
make h,n cheerful countcnauce, and 10
gladden. his heart. - .....
'fet, u Il, after ai, upon more utIitsrlan
grounds, that the subject, in connection
witp the circumstances, We have before al
su,led To, chiefly comments itself 20 the
attention OF our public men, and our mcu
of business. 1t is pre-eniuentIy prac-
s ticai question aud is one that belongs
Immediately aud emphatically to our age,
las an aye Of progress. Whatever We
may have said OF it senlimentally, we
have said by the way. Ii question oil
health, of morals and of commerce AMI
it is 80 at once practically, forcibly, and
importantly.
The editor of the QusrterIy puts in
precautionary uote, ,n which he bsgS his
rea,lers not To be alarmed by what tee
totaIers would call the audacity of this
article. lie SAYS ne has pernit;si it 10
be addressed 20 his thinking country,nen,
having long wished that the temprarce
party would expend their forcein ridiins
us Of the dseadfuliy aduteratei drinks by
which tils lower classes are poisoned, in
stead or wearying the more intelligent by
their honIies and Trades about tee total.
ism. He adds that we have soil favor
ab!e % The production of the grape, aud
already Manufacture excellent wines in
Ohio. Aud this has u reinoter value,
~ snational product in the single fact
ssilb which the writsr Of ibis article
Inonhls his opening sentence. at has
aver beeb foupd, lhe says) that VINE
.jrinking people present the most favor
able spe :lInens of humanity whether
physical ormoraI' Wine is one Of Gods
gracious gifts 10 nan---designed. ~ We
baye it on the authority OF Holy Writ.
20 make him cheerful countenance,'
that IS 10 aninate. To cxhilirate, To glad
den him. we cannot but look at this in
s,nuectioa wiGh the physcsl deterioration
Ut the American race. aud ask. whether,
a,aong other remedies for this formidable
evil, the substiGut'oR of wins Gr alcohol
may not be Of PRIMARY value. The in
habiLants Of the vine driukiDg countries
are stronger aud hesltllier than VIC Our
blood. At present., isoFrows most OF its re
cu,eraliys Infusion lrom the in1ux OF wine
: strengthened constitutions irons abroad.
booking upon the Cstawba "a force in
reserve for our threatsned nstional depre
ciation in this respect, we have great in
teryst IN presenting TO our readers some
inflammation. ably prepared fof the Home
Journal, with regard 20 il. a correspon.
dent thus writes;
THE CArAwBA GRAPE.
The Cs,awba Grapo was first discover
el near Asheville, Buncombe county, N.
: Carolina. in the southwestern corner Of