The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-12-19
Radical Drunkenness.

Drunkenness are both die ,scs
one being political and the 9th
poreal. They equally effect th,
and often cause the victim OF the'V
dy to play such fantastic tricks
elicit the sneor of the cynical, tht
Of the good and the scorn and COZ
nation of the wise, Both are i'm
GUS to reason and bid defiance
tent suffering and tears, and every ~
er open or silent eloquence OF COD or
humanity. Nothing short of q miracle
can save the dcluded, demented patient
from temporal and eternal ruin. 10
arrest the downward course of either
by argument, or appeals to the tender
est scnsibl!ties Of our nature, would be
as rruitios3 ~ attempts to chain the
whirlwind, or by putting down your
foot to stop the diurnal motion Of the
earth. The madness of both, will run
their natural course until death draws
The curtain upon the last scene which
ends the sad, cyenttul history.
"The hair of the dog, is good for the
bite" is an cd adagc, and contains
some sound philosophy. Force liu-
man being to indulge in nothing but
luxur.as, and his appetite viii soon pail
and his enjoyment will grow smaller
and smaller until more common and
coar3cr food is administered. His ma
tura will become stuliohs Of change
and his animal novelty must be inaul-
ged. May not cure, seasoned with
like philosophy, be recommended with
success for the disease Of radical drunk
enness?
Take your drunken patient keep
from his SIGHT, taste ard smell, all liz,
uors, dash them from his trembling
hanA when about to be put to his lips,
and your treatment viii sometimes end
in uaaniu potU and horrible death.
Take the same patient--force him to
see, smell and taste his favorite brandy
-syatbo him, waking and sleeping, in
cloth soaked with brandy, and soon, in
all probability, he will exclaim with
Hamlet when he saw ''poor Yorick's
skull ,''-"aow how aJborred IN my ins-
agiaaticn its! ! my gorge r'ees at "-ana
SmeN 50 2'
Desperate diseases sometimes de-
mand desperate medicines. We, there
fore, suggest that this radical drunk
enpcss, which is now killing the com
try, be arrested by the application OF
the hair of the dog which gave the
wound Let the radicals see, taste,
smell, feel and hear nothing but niger.
Let them elect nigger Presidents,
Judges, Members ofCongress, LegisIa-
lures and Conventions. We go in fol
stirring up the whole political menas'
erie from the gorilla Fred. Douglass
to the chattering monkeys. Let the
radicals soc and smell them in steam
boats, railroad cars, parlors ano
churcnoa., and hug and kiss and sleel
with chem, after the manner OF Ihad
Stevens. Give them Niger in bed an
Niger at board, waking and sleeping
walking and sitting, morning noon an
c night, let the niggcr he there or there
g abouts. If this prescription will nc
cure Radicalism, then it is past all 1T
man, political surgery.
The LacedamoniaNs taught their CHI
; lran !-nr by exhibiting befor
them the roolcrio5 Of drunken men,
There is no evil, but if viewed properly
we may not extract from it some wis
dom and goodness. Sermons may b.
found in stones and if the present re
suits ana example of negro supremac,
! under the military bills, fails to eXtil
pate American Radicalism, then til
idea ofthe capacityn gIo-SaXons t
govern themselves is the Widest iabl
, which ever deceived the reason or pei
, verted the bloody efforts Of our rcvc
t lntionary sircs. History, then, wi
hive proved lie, and We shall hay
lived ouly to receive the curses Of po
tcrity for our want of intelligence, brt
very, virtue and patriotism.