The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-08-22
Distinguished Men for whom the
Maine Law came too Late,

Distinguished Men for whom the
Maine Law came too Late,
"Shut up the iow groggeries," say
many prevent the sale Of bad rum.
preserve the poor and ignorant from
intcmpcranco. aud we are with you, but
the educated classes need no law regard
for their own character is sufficient pro.
lection for them" Strange delusion
lnexplicablc blindness to the facts of
history and the occurrences of every day
Without referring to books, memory, un.
assisted, supplies US with catalogue of
well known names, the bare mention of
which refutes the plea we have quoted
Alexander the Great, one of the bright
est spirits of antiquity, one of the three
greatest generals Of the world, whose iu,
tor was Aristotle, who slept with the po-
ems of Homer under his pillow, conquer.
ed the world. and died of a drunken de.
bauch in the thirty.thrd year of his age
The fall Of the Roman Empire was
prccipitatcd by the drunkenness of its
emperors as human nature was eternal
ly disnonored by the cnormities commit
ted by them in drunken fury.
Of the ten sovcricgns who have reign
co IN husSia since the accossloh OF Peter
'ne ure1f,1Il 'ut four were beast y drunk
ards. Of the Empress Elizabeth, it is
written, she was completely brutfcd
by strong liquors from day to day she
was a'nost III state of bacchic ecstacy;
she could not bear to be dressed in the
morning her woman loosely attached to
her some robes, which few cuts Of the
scissors disengaged in the evening" 3"
And the passage gives an idea of the
general condition of the Russian court
Tor more than 20 years
Inc present king of Prussia, whom
Nienuhr instructed aud praised, thanking
"od on his knees for giving Pruasia 50
wise and noble prince, is notorious
druhkard the contempt of his subjects.
the sc"h OF Europe,
Inc late king OF the Sandwich Islands,
upon which corps Of missionaries ex'
hansted their clo1uehce and skill, was a
drunken carlcatnre OF the klngly Office
TO the last.
The city of Washington. where the
c/''e OF the nation is supposed to congre-
gate Is the most drunken town in the
o"io'' champagne is one OF the great
powers oil the country thing relied up
on to corrupt the very men who are scut
TO Washington undcr The impression
Una, they are our wlsest and best.
g, iiaEneganr a Senator OF the United
states was an abandoned drunkard, and
"n"onI ""ou IV'1' i 'oroau as pien'po'en''aryu'S'
ena a'ou '"o country py Tue most con''nu'
'seou' uru"he'i ucoaucnery'
nnY,1 ."o wv, y. .ne ''i"S' Important enact
me".s ever passed py congress- enact
cmnircs Lora e. sno "e''aiG ,nI';,, a. 49,
of Tho Uonso ,naa .p,.ar,ol - ;,I, -
bic and intov;catod ,non,Snrs IVA ~
rLo Toa roo'' ,uae ~ >nV'' w. WI, ,,.,
ed for the convenience. not of the city's
vagabonds but of the city's fathers and
head men, was. for many n djspraeeful
year scene of drunkenness
1t was when raddened bv drink that
Dr.. Graham committed murder
Hartley Coleridpe n man abound;np
in amiable qualities wb, Inherited mnch
of his fathers ponius with all hi. f,,L,
er's ipfrmity of nurnosc could never
master his nIonons;,y 70 dr;rL TIA was
a scholar a gentleman. a poet, and-a
drunkarl,
Edgar A. Poe-but Why speak of
him' Tho story of his miserable eud
is more familiar to the peoplc even than
the melancholy. refrain of tho Raven"
Charles Lamb the con,ls Cb.rlss ,ho
kind, the tender the bcloysa could sao.
ridce SO much for his sister but oould
not hclp beinn carried bomo and mn, 70
bed in insensiblo drunkonness "
Douglass Jerrold is a devotee Of pin
For many years. it is said he has besn
impairing his fne poucrs by Labjtual ex.
cess in drink
Rr,or n,.ns e,..,. H.
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