The Delaware herald., 1854-04-12
Communications.
Correspondence Of the Herald.
Sephus f" Again.
"There can be no temperance tho practice of an evil

*faFt -DELEVAN. u
MEssRs. EDITORS AS we desire to keep
{. Sephus" before the people, until We hear ell y
of his arguments against the eXpediency, and
moral and legal ada ptablity of u ProhDtory 9
Liquor. Law, to. meet the exigencies and de- /;
mands Of the masses OF the people, we purpose !
to continue our review Of his motives, principles
and arguments indefinitely. We have several
reasons for the adoption of this plan. The first
IS. we wish to divide the " fun,'' so that we can
have it weekly, instead of quarterly, as hereto
fore; the second is, short articles suit the ma
ioritv OF readers better than lengthy ones
and another is, when he speaks again we "Want
n soc him spread hmself''-perhaps he will
fiji four columns, instead of two, next time.
In reference, Sephus to your quotation from
s. Goodrich's Religious Ceremonies" relative to
the life-sketch Of lie Saint Macarlus, we
think Won could not have made q selection, ms
toricaily, bearing less weight. Fictitious and
imaginary characters and descriptions have
little value, practically, anywhere and IN a
historical point of view, are but IDLE trash
But, | suppose that the devil according 10
your historian, occupied about the same position
in regard to the saints of the fourth century as
the rumseler does to society i'll the nineteenth !
century. The rumsellcr dccoratcs his counter
and shelves with variety Of liquors, that the
people "may drink and so fall into temptation"
And vou, Sephus wish this "modcrn devil
to have full sway, and tempt anc ruin whom ne
may We want (and we mean to have) h'm
cut under the stringent regulations Of municipal
law.
In regard to our explanation Of the words
"tcmperancc" and teetotalsln," in a former
article, you appear to find considerable fault;
all we have got to say is, give us better one.
1t is very probable that we can, as you say, find
many better grammarians among the ranks OF
teetotallers than ourself We could not, with
the hope of success, look to any other class for
them. For it is an undenlablC fact that the
three chiefs" Of the rummics" exhibit
very great deficiency in this respect. count
ed somewhere in the rCghbOrhOod OF a dozen
, grammatical blunders IL the late communca-
ton from Thos p. Reynolds to the Milford
Beacon, though his article scarcely filed half
column. Blunders of the same character occur
= IN Sam. Townsend S circulars and we all know
i how yours read, even when the Editors correct
!, and arrange them for you. You belong to one
e of the learned professions, too Take care the
It obscure "plough-bOy" from the gladcs and
gens of Cow Marsh," don't place your Wis
dom and "book larnin " in an uncnv-ablo pre-
u dicament before the readers of the Hcruld.
u want the Editors Of the Herald to allow
d your subsequent articles to appear before their
readers Just as you write them, punctuation,
spelling and all. Then | expect that we shall
have to get pocket" made, sure enough, &c
II keep our &" fun in. And shall thank yol
L the next time that you quote my words, to quote
N them as you find them. | am not willing tha
ID you should, as you did in your last, take par
n (and misquote even that par0 Of a paragraph
~ :, and thus infusc your inaccuracies with my vii
n tinr, and chargeable with it.
c, You will perceive, by the following para
l4 graph, that Scphus knows @ something O
Philosophy ! Gan Our food, the philosopher
=. tell us, hath portion Of POISON i'll 1t. So fl
u from sprtuous liquors being poison, it Is the OIL
10 intall:Llc remedy for poison, when obtaiEe! an
drank Immediately" We are no longer bchin
the times, now; ; for, verify, we have philCso
,r- pher in our midst-"Thou talEest as one 0
- whose head is the she'll to this very day"
- wonder if there is an individual in Delawar
o. so ignorant as to credit the truth. philosoph
No cally, of the above paragraph. II | believe
Ly there was, would venture to enlightcn him.
60 That all Of natures works have in them til
al elements of decay, or, which is equivalent, tn;
which induces decomposition, we do not den,
II! The growth, decomposition and roCompOsitO
of the vegetable kingdom substantiatc this
And the child knows this as well as the crudi
ed Professor.
49,. But you will perceive that Scphus woG
e make US believe that spirituOus ana tcrmcntc
- liquors contain no poison. This bctrayS &
The ignorance OF the constituents of spirituol
ct liquors that is really pitiablc, as well as ul
ng crous Or, it evinccs a disposition to dccciv
e and thus lead the ignorant and uniniormcd in
"9 gross errors, as we'll as TO the formation of j
accurate IDEAS relative to the ingredients wh
enter into the composition of fermented al
-ict ' 'drugged" liquors. The reader will plea
1st. observe the following facts, and then form
49,, opinion of the accuracy of the statement ma
- by Sephus: There are several kinds Of fl
inc mentation, the names Of which indicate {
products formed. These are the SGcchGril
the rinouS, the accic and the putrifactioe.
VIII The termination Of seeds and the mailing
Dr. barley, are instances of the first. Wines,
well as other intoxicating liquors, are produC
only by the UiRouS fermentation; a process
which alcohol is formed. After wine and otl
'hn- liquors have become fermented, they are fou
lave to have lost their sweet mucilaginous taste, q
the to have acquired the power of p
nent ducing intoxcation. The liquid contain
te- nothing that would ntoxicate before it pas
DE through the process of fermentation. The
the gradients entering into the composition
nba alcohol, are
at a q ,.o,or+;o,,- &C o,r,o,,
the . ~ t.IS
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