Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-07-28
sorghum Sugar Il acticls Lesson.


last year by Mrs. Mercy Thomas Of Mt
Ida which excels any we have yet seen.
The color, flavor and life equal the first
grade of New Orleans sugar, and superior
to any we have seen for years. The gran
uations are coarse and CLASSY; with the
help of microscope the crystals seem to
resemble rock salt, being regular and trans
parent as light amber cut in angles. We.
have seen sugar, the particles of which
were formed as snow flakes, but this is all
in regular sided figures-prisms aud 9th
er sided up to octagons. We are unable
to inform our readers as to Mrs. Thomas
method of making this sugar, or whether
the operation is difficult or easy. We re-
ceiged from the hand Of some one about
half a pound, with a small bottle of mo-
lasses and request to notice it. If we
can get to see her we may find out and
publish her method. Our opinion is that
the kind Of sorghum cultivated in that part
of the county, some of the seed OF which
we distributed last spring, is superior to
any elsewhere in use for sugar making. It
is claimed that it ripens much earlier than
any other. Results of the coming crop
will show many advances in the arts ofcu
4;,ot;.n ,oonooaroapt and n, MnnEtctura
There is some prejudice against sorghum
molasses which can only be overcome by
manufacturing better article than has
heretofore been brought 10 market. We
think the peculiar acIditv Of Sorghum sug-
ar, and some of the specimens Of sugar we
have seen, is caused by the use of unnpe
canes. If this be the case the only RENE
dy is to use the ripe canes, after asserting
and casting aside the unripe.
This is branch ofindustry that is new
and must be learned by slow expert ence,
patience, interchange of ideas and means of
the press. The duty of al is, as soon as
valuable points are learned to Communicate
the same 10 others. The day Of conceal
ment belongs not to our time, but to past
of ignorance and jealousy. Then let all be
known that is learned so that the wisdom
and the rewards of labor may follow haad
in hand.
Almighty Sod seems to have guided the
Northern people to this new industry and
life support just at the time of greatest use
fulness, and as one Of the many means Of
emancIpating ourselves from any further
support of slave made sugar and molasses.
He introduced the mamma to aid in the
emancipation of Israel and their flight
through the wilderness. We have been
the slaves of slave made sugar and cotton,
virtually the slaves of slaves, but with the
help of God we are getting free, little by
little, ly war and by progress in the arts
Of liying-sorghum beng not the least of
such arts. We are living over the expert
ence Of every slave country according 10
the records of history. for thousands of
years, with but the slightest variations,
sorghum being one Of such variations, and
iron clads another, &c. The worlds bis
tory is bat history of slavery ena The "s-
teulpts of the few in wealth and power to
ee4 sho many 10 work for nothing.
The introduction of Potatoes quite eman-
cpated Ireland for century, while the in
yention Of machinery has almost freed the
world end is at the bottom of the emanci-
patton movement in our country. Sor-
ehum must largely aid the cause of our
| independence, and if substitute could be
lad for cotton the very last shade of pre-
tense for slavery would vanish. Still, the
slave bonds must be unsealed by war and
blood, Just as the great crime has had 10
be unsealed in every age, for blood is the
penalty for bonds.
We know such parallels are ri1iculed by
the self-wise, the scoffer, the vain who fool
ishly attempt 10 explain all things by rea-
son and the lights near by. But history,
whether sacred or human, is al stumbling
block TO all such, and disproyes all their
inventions 81 sophistry and demagogueism.
| The Higher Ian rules and God holds the
reins. He sends either locusts or sorghum
or war; these and the like seem to come
as IT by chance, yet flnally comes the proof
that some intelligent agency set them in
motion. Then again, when God would de-
stroy the wicked He makes Of them agents
for their own ruin. "Our Southern Breth-
ren" are agents for their own ruin; but it
may be we will suffer severely with them,
having so long been their allies for the OPP
preston of the poor, consequently guilty
Of wilful oppression, for which God seldom
shows any mercy. But when God means
to be merciful he ever sets out bow
in the sky, as pledge that forgiveness
shall follow repentance. Well, we have
repented OF our past trucking TO the slave
power, and God has sens out his bow in
the shape of sorghum which promises us
with mercy--proyided we don't compro-
mise with the rebels, re-enslave Gods poor
and thus bid defiance to the Almighty.
Those WHO VoTE MUsT FIGnr.-Such
is the decision of the Government; as we
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