New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-28
NEW ORLEANS, June 20, 1868

fa IN Keeping Win NY PlO'nt9S Hie'fN
tn d YOU on the 18th instant, resume
vi nv warfare against that monster of
evil, Intemperance.
Look at the ravages Of Intemper-
l. ,nce. Fix your eye on its waste of
-, Droperty. At the lowest calculation
ii n has annually despoiled us of two
=. hundred millions of dollars-of sixty
~ nillions for an article that is worth
nothing, and one hundred and forty
II millions more to compensate for the
, !. mischief that alcoholic beverages have
= bone-money enough to accomplish
.,Illthat the warmest patriot could wish
a. Nor his country, and to fill in a short
~ period the very remotest village with
- schoolhouse and books of instruc-
w.. ion for the elevation of the rising gem
~. ration, and thereby prevent the evils
-. III pauperism and commission of crime
! hat are daily seen in our streets.
What planter would not be fred
kbould wild beast come once a year
III Into his plantation and destroy the
best milk COW he had But six and a
h lNhurth cents day for ardent spirits
~. TASTES twenty-five dollars eighty-one
Lents annually, and in forty years
r..; hearty one thousand dollars, which is
A.; thousand times as much as scores of
,,..,F runkards are worth at their burial.
Al See the pauperism it has produced.
Ne have sung of our goodly heritage,
ind foreign nations have disgorged
: JaI heir exuberant population that they
night freely subsist in this land of
365. bIenty. But in this granary of the
ght Torld are everywhere to be seen
and buses without windows, fields untitled,
]. .es !, barns unroofed, children unclothed,
eau phurches nearly empty, schools unat-
tile ended, and penitentiaries and aims
lie ne buses filed to OVERLOOKING; and c
" Granger might write: Beggdrs and
striminalS made here. We are grooming
alleg lmder our Peuperism, and talking of
Wild axes, hard times, no trade, recon
a III huotion laws unconstitutional, we are
'obo sing heeced by carpet-baggers, and
exos andering honest persons; but intern
,nt erance is stalking through our land
coup nd devouriBg our substance and kill
sen be our friends and relatives and
W. NY beating discomfort in our nation.
beeH Il has entered the houses Of our
pres nsuspecting citizens as friend, and
soieI ken the food from their tables, the
,ty othing from their wardrobes, the
- bidding from their beds, the fuel from
ons heir fires, and turned their lands over
N gil other hands, and drove them from
lottn heir dwellings to subsist on beggary
~ w. nd crime, or drag out miserable
fam ristence in the alms-houses ant
casui enitentiaries. Two-thirds Of the
say tretohed tenants Of these abodes o
y, :, Poverty throughout this Union were
,v ir duced BY intemperance. This they
Hing sonfess. 1t was rum, brandy, wine
nd abthampagne, and whisky that did thu
part led. The prison discipline repor
J an ~ Us Of sixty-fve cases Of imprisOn
nOt. snt for debt annually in oonsequsnc,
Dc the use of alcoholic beverages
nd, \, its sweeps of poverty can neve
= if ,ov,l
|. ~ Look at the crime it has cocasioned
ncipl is said that there is a spring in th,
in q iental empire which makes every per
il q b that drinks of tia villain. Eastern
!, les are generally founded on som
u-wA ain matter of fact. This sprini
'egret ay be some distiliery or dram shop
4 this is the natural effect Of alcohol
nAS breaks down the conscience, quick
. 81; the circulation, increases th
srage. makes man scout at law an
MON ght, and hurries him to the perpe
Rev. Atioh of every abomination an
) on ime Excite man by alcohol
~ =. averages, and be is. bad enough 70
.s IN pything. He can lie, steal, fghi
ne s. ear, and plunge the dagger into th
lstrue bsom of his wife or child, No vice i
facts % filthy, no crime is too tragical 70
sPEes drunkard. The records Of on
. .sn burts tell Of acts committed under tn
les, Auenne Of ardent spirits which cur
ZEN, the blood in our veins. Hus
1Pres nds murder their wives, ohildre
I. |. 5. ~ tcher their parents, and mother
ia ughter their oifapriug. Far th
isnce, eater part of the atrocities commit
lent ia our country IS Induced BY fl
saa ddcning power Years ago judg
I, q. n clard in public manner, and wit
Is 81 olsmn regard to truth, in oharg
nsa grand jury, tbathe did not recol
), ct an instance since his bein
ln e poerned in the standardization
81 sies Of a single person being p,
his trial for granddaughter whic
~ not originste ia drunkenness, an
. swe few Instances Of trial for mnfds
e s' ERE The crime did not spring froi
49, s...a same unhappy cause. OF all II