Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-11-13

hook, even if hang on it,
And that was all that was said
worth recording.
THE END.
Col. Bob IngersOll's Speech to
the Jury.
The colonel was lately employed in
a case which involved the manufac.
ture Of ardent spirits, and in his
speech to the jury he used the follow
ing language:
II am aware there is a prejudice
against any man engaged in the man
ufacture of alcohol. l believe from
the time it issues from the coiled and
poisonous worm in the distillery un,
til it empties into the hell of death,
dishonor, and CRIME, that it is demoral-
izing to everybody that touches it
from the source to where it ends. |
do not believe that anybody can con-
template the subject without being
prejudiced against the crime. All we
have to do is to think of the wrecks
On either side of the stream of death,
of suicides, of the i.sanity,o the pov-
erty, of the destruction, of the little
children tusging at the breasts of
weeping and despairing wives asking
for bread, of the man of genius it has
wrecked of the man struggling with
imaginary serperts produced by this
devil:sh thing; and when you think
of the jails, Of the aims houses, Of the
asylums, Of the prisons and of the
scaifolds on either bank. | do not
wonder that every thoughtful man is
prejudi,ed against this vile stuff
called alcohol. Intemperance cuts
down youth in its vigor, manhood in
its siren 9Th, and age in its weakness.
1t breaks the fathers heart, bereaves
the doting mother, extinguishes nat
ural affection, erases conjugal love,
blots out flsl attachments, and
blights parental hope. and brings
premature age in sorrow to the grave.
1t produces weakness, not strength ;
sickness, not health death, not life.
1t makes wives, widows, children, or
phans, fathers, tiends, and all paupers
1t feeds rheumatism, nurses gout.wel-
comes epdemics, invites cholera, i'm
ports pesti,ence, and embraces con-
sumption, covers the land with mis-
cry, idleness aud crime. 1t engenders
controversies, fosters quarrels, cherish
es riots. 1t crowds your penltentlarles
and furnishes victims to the scatfold.
1t is the blood Of the gambler, the ell
ement of the burglar, the prop of the
highwayman, and the support of the
midnight incendiary. 1t countenan-
cea the liar, respects the thief, es.
teens the blasphemer. 1t violates
obligations, reverences fraud, hates
love, scorns virtue and innocence. 1t
inoites the father to butcher his help
less offspring and the child to grind
the parricidal axs. 1t burns mp men,
consu mes women, detests life, curses
God, and despises heaven 1t sub
orns witnesses, nurses perhdy, oefiles
the Jury box, and stains the judicial
ermine. 1t bribes voters, disqualihes
votes, corrupts elections, pollutes our
institutions, and endangers the Gov
ernment. 1t degrades the citizen
debases the legislator, dishouors the
statesman, and disarms the patriot
1t brings shame, not honor; terror
not safety; despair, nos hope; misery,
not happiness; and with the malevo'
lence of iend, calmly surveys its
desolation, and unstained with havoc
it poisens felicity, kills peace. rum
morals, wipes our national honor
then curses the world and laug hs a,
its ruin, It does that and more-it
murders the soul. 1t is the sum o.
all villainies; the father Of all crimes
the mother of all denominations, the
devils best friend, and Gods worst
enemy.
Essay on Woman.