New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-30


cries for little more drink, and few more clohes
| the fourth i steep-GrBEk, wiss in HE own c,pcst
| when be cannot bring forth word the ffth is mud
I'm drnnk when fellow will weep for kindness 10 the
uids, Of biz drink, and kiss you, and then out. bis
finger in bis eye and vesps sgsin; the sixth j.
tfn-drBnk, when man il drunk and drinks himself
sober he stir; the seventh is goadr4ak vhsn in
his drunkenness be bath no mind but on lechery the
eighth s for drunk when he crafty drunk az msny
OF the Dutchmen be, who will never bargain bat
when they are drunk"
During Crom wells supremacy, under the re-
formasory Puritanic discipline, the nstion,l vice
Of drunkenness was sensibly absted, and fashion.
able caroussls and drinking Publications were
denounced by the prevailing public sentiment;
still, we are told that the Granting cavslierism
Of that period displayed itself by placing q erumb
Of bread in the glasses, and before they drank it
of, to exclaim, with cautious ambiguity, "God
"send this crnm yell down" After the Restors
ton of Charles H. the gay aud debsuched C,va
liers, who had been the fast friends and support.
ers Of royalty, again enjoyed, for WHILE the Ii.
cense Of drunken reyery without Introduction;
but at length the times became 80 depraved and
wretched by the moral disorders which the ine-
brAte practices Of these royal cronies occasoned,
that the King was induced by the "gravity and
moral severity of Clarendon to issue the fol-
lowing proclamation which clearly dlsclose' the
diseases Of the body polite:
"A sort Of men OF whom we have heard much, and
are sufficiently ashamed; who spend their inc IN
taverns tppling houses and debaaches; giving no
other evidence Of their affection to but in drinking
our health and in inveghing against all Others VINO
are not Of theiI di-solute temper and who, IN
truth have more discreded cause by the license
OF their manners and lives thsD they could ever ad.
vance it by their affection or courage. we nope all
persons Of honor or In place and authority WIN 30
far assist in MISUNDERSTANDING such men, IN 81 ther
discretion and shame will persuade them to reform
what their conscience would not; and that the ds-
pleasure of good men toward them may supply what
the laws have not and IT may be, cannot well provide
against there being by the license and corruption Of
the times, and the depraved nature OF man, many
enormities, scandals and impietes in practice and
manners, which the laws cannot well describe and
consequently not enough provide against, which may
by the example and severity Of virtuous men be
easily discOuntenanced and by degrees suppressed"
These drinking customs and drinking phrases,
of olden time AMI against which prOhibitory laws
and royal prOclamstions were directed, have 8 far
more peryading and universal existence and OBJ
servaDce at the present day; and psuperism and
crime, peDury and want, vagabOndism and imno-
rality in all their hideous forms, which are the
fruits thereof, Cypress, curse, and disgrace our
time and nation moie-infDitely more-tasn has
been any other time or nation by the like cor
ruptipg Influences. Although we have no "rouse
land carouse, we have its equivalent, in the AMI
mating cry at public festivals Gentlemen, charge
"your glss,es-bumpers all round !" and drinking
supernaeulrms isnow fifty represented by the i'm
perative command: "DOwn with the heel-taps,
gentlemen If we have not hooped drinking
pots, and pegs in our cups to insure fair guz-
cling at our drinking bouts, II is because
we don't, now all drink from the same
pot or cup, but each topper is provided
with uniform glass or goblet; aud "shoeing-
"borns," to increase thirst and dsaden the ef
fects of strong drinks, as temptingly displayed
row, as in olden time, and in much greater vari'
ETY. and qusnaty. Oar drinking revelries aud
carousals are not occasional or principally con-
fined to "club. rooms" and private apartments
but continuous and in the public barrOoms, refec-
tories, lager beer saloons, tipping shops, porter
houses beer cellars and rum holes which dis
grace aud curse every village and city, by tens,
hundreds and thousands. Our POtatons do not
consist alone of beerguzzling and unadulter-
ated whisky drinkipg-but of brandy, gin, rum
and other attractive liquors, which are mostly
dragged and poisoned whisky, making ruin aud
death more sudden, if not more certain. We
have phlegm cutters, brandy smashes, julePs,
punches &C., in the elegant and gorgeous hotels
and saloons and beer-guzzliDg and "rOt-gut"-
drinking in the dram shops and "holes-in-the
aground" Our streets and poor houses are filled
with paupers; our asylums with drunkards' wives
and children; our jas and prisons with criminals,
and penury and misery are everywhere seen
and three fourths of all is directly chargeabe to
ntemperance and drunkenness, and three-iourshs
Of the imperative calls upo9private charity and Of
the enormous public taxation, are chargeable to
strong drink, while these public and private exac
tions are made upon the temperate, industrious
and frugal as the penalty they must pay in order
that rum sellers may make profits.
Let US, then, have stringent prohbitory Law,
to sbAte the nuisance and arrest the demoralizing
and ruirous drinking customs no v prevailing; let
the example and severity of virtuous men, dis
countenance these practices, and let the resstless
efficiency of the higher law of public opinion
sustain and execute the prohibitory enactment.
DUR/N WEEIVVTS