The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-06-28


resistance, and occasion revulsion of feeling
10 be followed by universal license.
So far as my reading extends, may assert
that every King, every Statesman. every War
rior who has illustrated the pages of History,
drank wine. The apostles who were the
companions OF our Saviour, drank it. The
Prophets whose flights of inspiration still as
tonish us, We have every reason TO believe,
drank it. Cicero and Demoslhenes, and all
the orators of antiquity and of modern time
INDUCED in the juice of the grape. Who
can say how much of the inspiration which
gave them such power of language was drawn
from its inspiration. Havo these mer been
eclipsed by The Dows, and Kellogs Of the
Platform? What orators have the State of
Maine sent US forth comparable with the
PiIs and Blu rkes, and Grattans, and Foxes,
and Sheridans of the British Islands, every
one of whom drank wine
Let the learned gentleman glance at The
noble structures-the architectural wonders
that embeiish Europe. Who reared them
Men of gigantic intellect, whose common
! beverage was wine. Let his eye range thro'
the noble galleries where the scuIptors have
left their stalues-where the painters have
hung in rich profusion the nobiest works of
Art. Wine, we are told, clouds the faculties
ard deadens the imagination. Yet it was
drunk by those benefacors of their race, and
we cannot, with their master pieces before
us, believe the assertion ill their works have
been eclipsed by artists trained under this rig.
orous legislation. Has Maine turned US out
yet statute thatany body would look alta pic
ture that any body would buy? Look at the de-
liverers OF mankind-the heroic defenders OF
Nations. Was Washington a member the
Temperance Society Did not Wallace
| drink the red wine through the helmet bar
red!' Who will undertake TO say that Bruce,
on the morning on which he won the battle
Of Bannockburh-that Tell on that day when
he shot the apple of his sons head, had not
tasted glass of whiskey or stoup of wine?
If then, Sir, all that is valuable in the past,
il heroism, and architecture, and oratory,
/, sculpture and paining,-if all that has bull
~arked freedom and embellished life, has
come down 10 US with the juice of. the grape:
ii no age or nation has been long without ii,
think il behooves the advocates of this bill
10 show US some country where their system
has been iried-somc race of men who
drank nothing but cold water.
turn 10 the learned members own pro-
fession. ] ask him TO show me two such
lawyers-two judges so eminent as Lords FL
don and Stowell, the one Tie wonder of the
Admiralty as the other was of the Equity
Court. Yet il is OIL record that, at the very
lime when these men were oppressed with
Eerculean labors-when day after day they
were delivering judgments so mastery and
profound that they defy all criticism, each OF
these great iursis drank his five bottles Of
Port a day (Laughter) ] certainly would
not advise the learned member for Annapolis
70 try in this country an experiment so haz
ardous. In the moist climate of England
Nhis might be done, but not In the dry atmos-
phere of Nova Scotia. have sometimes
seen him, however, when few glasses
would have done him good. Indeed, some.
times fancy that, both in the Senate and al
the Bar, his wit is not as poignant or his logic
so acute as in the olden time when he used
to take his glass OF wine.
My honorable colleague and friend from
Cumberland, whose sincerity in this cause
enlirely respect, quoted TO us last winter the
passage from Scripture--'ll eating meat eau.
sest my brother 10 offend, then will cal no
more.' But would my honorable friend shut
up all the butchers Shops, and forbid by law
the sale Of meal for fear somebody would
eat loo much! Again-he told US, I'VE have
tried moral suasion, and have failed' If so,
who is TO blame If a speaker here fails 10
convince his audience, do we permit him to
coerce them into belief by force of law
| resist this bill because it is violation of
the voluntary principle. Because it is de-
\ Tended by the old arguments by which fanal-
les and prosecutors in all ages have sought
to propagate religious opinions. Hoping 10
save mems souls, (more precious than their
bodies) Catholics have burnt Proesants, ane
Protestant Catholics. The right of private
! judgmen, was denied. The right of one hu-
man being TO coerce others into belief, as it
is now sought 10 coerce them into temper
auce, has been Tried thousand times, aud
has failed, as This attempt will fail.
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| REMARKABLE BALLOON AscENsioN.-Wm.
D. Banmistle, of Adrian city, Michigan,
assembled, on Friday in balloon,
from that place, al l03 in the morning, and
descended, in Clarion county, Pennsylvania
at ~ in the afternoon, making The compu-
tod distance of three hundred and fifty miles
| in the extraordinary shorttime Of four hours
| This is his second trip, and an experimental