The Evansville daily journal., 1856-11-17
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We think our correspondent has mistaken
our meaning. We do not drink ourselves, nor
do we recommend others TO drink even the
pure Catawba. But if they will drink, we
say, "be careful'' to drink good liquors and
avoid being made drunk and poisoned too. If
liquors, we would joyfully yield all the emol-
uments of advertising them that we ever hope
to realize. But from long and disheartening
experience, we have learned that the habits of
the world are not to be reformed either by
our preaching or example; and we have con-
cluded the best we could do, was to protect
them as far as we had the power, from being
imposed upon by the sale of adulterated spir-
its. We protest, however, being held respon-
sible, as deliberate convictions, for every
thing that may appear in our local columns
referring to the business of our subscribers.
The following reprimand, although coming
from friend with blooming nose, we submit
to without murmur. though we believe that
distinguishing feature of that prominent indi-
vldual is more an encouragement and sane
( ton to drinking than all our puffs Of pure Ca
tawba.
! For the Journal.
Mr.. EDIToR:-In your Daily of the 14th
/ inst you have a paragraph under this caption,
warning our citizens against the use of adul-
terated Brandy. and also recommending
Cooks genuine Catawba Brandy from Cincin-
natl made from the American grape"
You have recently come amongst us, and of
course you do not understand the Brandy
question in Evansville quite so thoroughly as
older citizens Permit me then to refer to
some facts in our recent history. Your pre-
decessor, Mr. Sanders, was editor Of the Jour
nal about seven years, and he was man of as
much integrity, as responsible and perhaps as
good judge of Brandy as youSelf; during all
this time he continued to recommend liquors at
the different groceries and liquor establish
ments in our city, as pure andof first quality
imported direct from France, Madeira or Gin
cinnati, at the same time urging our citizens
| to buy and use them, he himself having re-
ceved bottle of the same genuine article as
present from the seller. But the liquors had
been drugged, they were not pure, they had
been manufactured in one of the vintages in
our city. owe have at least two at which
| they make every variety of wine and Brandy
during summer and winter through the year,
and that too without American grapeD
Mr.. Sanders was deceived, his puffs deceiv-
ed our citizens, they did bay and use those
"pure liquors. wines and brandes," and the
result was, they died and that suddenly
They bought them by the glass, by the jug
full, and by the cask; pure and genuine-no
mistake-and those liquors possessed the
same quality that Cooks Catawba has, if a
man drank one glass, or bought one bottle, "it
created a desire for six more, ''and after while
he wanted twelve, and so on.
But the sad fact to which your attention
should be called is, that our citizens have con-
tinued to die from year to year, from the use
of those liquors so well recommended. We
have lost valuable men during the past year,
who died from the use of strong drink. They
have left destitute famlies-we have other
citizens who will probably die the same way,
before the trees bloom again. Now propose
that you or Cook shall give some better guar
rantee than mere newspaper puff, that this
so-caled "Catawba Brandy" is pure and genu-
inc, and that it won't eventually kill our citi-
zens, as liquors equally we'll recommended }
have killed them in past years.
To them and to you, permit me to say,
BE CAREFUL.