Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-05-02

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> yours with much esteem.
HORATIO GREENOUGH."
The above extract shows clearly the inhu
, ence even of the saoeet wines upon the consti
, tuition of Italians, and demonstrates the ma
lignant effects produced upon the humal
, system. Another evidence of the perniciou
tendency of the purest unfermented wine
. to be found in
III. Syria. "There is no part of the wcrl
where missionaries have gone,. where thi
change is not to be desired. In the region G
,, Syria, we have the authority IF the Rev. e.
Smith, of the deadly influence of even th
purest wines. :Of the Bnebriatipg !. effsetss, e:tts,
{ sss-nare 0ffsen powerful evidence. 3On 6rs
going to Malta at the beginning of the Ter,
perance reformation, with the impression
nad received here-that there was no DANCE
from the pure wines of those countries T ssI
IN with what found to be the prevailing cns
tom, and took little wine with INV d;1,n
AT length | found an intimate friend faII;na
into habits of intoxication from psino The
common Massala wine of Sicily. then
gave up my wine; and so far as / know ali
my brethren abstain from the habitpaI use
i OF lt, as Temperance, measure. Tn nrenor.
ing Tract on Temperance, for circnlation
IN n SYRIA, we have excluded wine with bran.
uy' as one OF the causes of inUemperanee to
De avoided. The Inquirer No. 2. mn 10
To-. In this land Of the sweet wines. we
nhu the same disastrous results from its use
DIS are 10 De met with, even among the Jews
or Italians. God save our country from such
a curse. 'A
lV. In the FIST Indies the same direfnI
results follow IS use, as in every Other conn.
try where 1t is ised as beverage. That this
Is so, we havethe testimony of an eva-,r;,.
ness-the Re-. DR.. ScUDDER. of Madras
says-!n inda drunkenness prevails in tbo
higher clrcies' but it is to be seen in its ,r;,
desG ranSe 5pIohg the middle classes of En-.
ropeans ana East Indians. Half of ,ba no-
t!ves of this city, we have hean - toId Inc ma.
drunk daily. Probably half of the Euroggsl gel
ans an, who die in the hospitals in Black Town,
die OF intemperance.l
In proof that the fermented wines-though
OF the purest klnd-are in all countries de-
structive to the health and life of man. 1
| shall Civ Int ono ..svrc exam pie. This, how
| ever, is very important one. / shall, there.
fore, close my investigation for the present
by an examination into the influence that
the purest wines have upon the condition
V. Of France.
France, wine growing France, has been
| held up as a model of temperance as a ma.
j
of this nation is chiefly the wines of its own
manufacturing. But to this view we demur,
and nroceed to show that it would be diff
cult to find q nation more Incorporate than
| France.
J.F. CaoPsR, ESQ.,, saws :--"I came to Eu-
rope under the impression that there was
more Drunkenness among US than m any
other country, England perhaps excepted
A residence Of siImonths in Paris changed
my views entirely. You will judge of my
surprise when first saw platoon of the
Royal Guard-literally a whole platoon, so
far as numbers and the order of their prom
enade was concerned-Staggering drank,
within plain view of the palace of their royal
master. From this time | became more OBJ
servant, and not day passed that | did not
see men and ao0naen in the same situation in
the open streets. Usually when the fact
was mentioned to Americans, they expressed
surprise, declaring that they had never seen
such thing! They were too much amused
with other sights to regard this, and ther
:, they had come abroad with different motives
! and it is easier to float in the current of pub
, lie opinion than to stem it. In two or thre,
instances, | have taken the unbelievers will
;. me into the streets, where | have never fail
ed to convince them of their mistakes in tn
course of an hour. These experiments, toe
= were usually made in the better quarters @
the town, or near our own residence, wher
= one is much less apt to meet with drunkeE
e ness than in the other quarters. On one oe
;, = casion party Of four of US went out wit
!" :" this object, and we passed thirteen drunke
= men during the walk of an hour. The of
. cial Reports show ten thousand cases of. f
males arrested for drunkenness in Paris dl
- ring the past year.
;, Rev. Dr. HEwETT's testimony is sti
stronger; from his own observation he VIZ
:, led to the following conclusion-"We hay
heard it affirmed that France is wine-drinl
ing but still temperate country. The latte
le is entirely false. The common people thel
are burnt up with wine, and look exact
D like the cider-brandy drinkers of Connect
lie cut, and the New England um-drinkers
is Massachusetts,. If they do not drink to a
b. solute stupefaction or intoxication, it is b
E. cause sensuality with Frenehman is 81
y ence and system. They are too sunniI
to to shorten their pleasures by beastly drunke
r. ness, and therefore they drink to just tn
of pitch at which their judgment and their mC
al sense are laid asleep and all their 9th
er senses kept wide awake"
he Mr.. E. G. DELAvAN says Tin my inte
lie view with the King of the French, he stat
ed expressly that the drunkenness of Fran
of was occasioned by wME; that in one distr
ed of his empire there was as much intempt
NO ance in gin, but he considered wine the gr'
US. evil" Mr.. Delavan says also that the Du
res of Orleans concurred with his father, that
Ia intemperance of France was produced
cir the use of wine, And the King affirmed
MS "The drunkenness of France is on Wine.
so SMoLLETT says in his Parliamentary
nd port. p. SIT must be owned that all
nd peasants Ii. e. of France, who have wine
to their ordinary drink, are of diminutiye
nd in comparison to those who use milk, be
ve or even water; and it is a constant obser
VS. ton, that when there is a scarcity of W
INV the common people are always more heal
ing than when it abounds.- The longer live
> Of more / am convinced that wine and all
cal mented liquors are pernicioas to the hun
md constitution and that for the preservatio
hat health and exhilaration of the spirits, tn
the is no beverage comparable to simple wat'
in These extracts demonstrate two facts
Sc. l, that drunkenness abounds extensivel.
red. all wine-growing countries. 2, That the
do. rest wines used by the inhabitants OF II
dea countries constitute the true agency OF
and intemperance so prevalent IN such nation
that It follows, therefore, from this view, thus
tals ported by the testimony of inteiiigent
far and the facts presented in the Bible, that
a of mented wine is a deadly enemy to the be
the and happiness of mankind; and conscqu
ag. ly that even If the general use of wine dl
onid fact Danish other intoxicating drinks
nice our country, that The country would gain
one little by the sIfange. Intemperance w
,ster st;ll make haFoe direful and destructiy
Sfx AaN prosperity, health and happiness Of
N offcietY.