The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1882-11-18
INTEMpLRATE TEMPERANCE.

There is no man OF any sense in this
broad land who will not readily admit
the great evils Of intemperance. If the
traditions that survived the food, have
any relation to truth drunkenness was
one OF the crying evils of that period
of our worlds history which perished
beneath universal sea Of waters. That
the evil was revived soon after Noah s lit
tie family alighted on Arrarat,as we learn
from sacred history is certain. Since then
it has held its place among the evils OF all
civilized countries, and not few of the
savage tribe of the earth. To day perhaps
it is as bad ii not worse than at any for
mer period in the worlds history
How to get rid OF it in our country, is
a aquestion that is every day looming up
in grander consequence. While we are
4 ready s@hen the time comes, to aid in
its eXtirpation even to the extent Of
ignoring our convictions of the final re-
suits, we are in no humor to tolerate the
doctrines ofsome of the foremost disciples
of reform in the crusade against whisky.
Professor Francis Wayland and Rev. S.
l.Prme Of the social science association
that met recently at Saratoga New York
with many others, not long since, were
in favor of declaring drunkenness Il
crime cquivolant to manslaughter, or
murder in the second degree the pun
ishment for the same, imprisonment for
life These are gentlemen of high moral
culture and intellectual cndowments,
men who see the world in books, the
distractions OF metaphysics, tire cold
deductions OF science, without a drop
of warm human blood in their veins, or
a crisp practical idea in their heads.
Locke the greatest of EnglanG's philoso-
pliers upon developments ofthe mind,
wrote . constitution for the infant colo
nies OF this country, which would have
done well enough, had every citizen been
a good and learned man like the author
but about as much adapted to the wants,
habits and circumstances OF a practical
people, made up OF all sorts of humanity,
as rules and laws made for paradise
would suit Pandemonium. We suppose
it was Professor Waylands father, who
wrote what was standard work on
moral ethics, and the result OF this breed
ing in and in on such abstruse subjects,
has ended as it does in the flesh and blood
OF Kings, as well as more subordinate
creatures in the construction ofan educat-
cd fool, paradoxical ais it may seem.
The Rev. Mr.. Prime is certainly no
lineal descendant of those early preaeh-tI
ers who forSook their nets ON the borders
of Gallilee and without the advantages
of a professorship, left on record monu-
meRts of truth and wisdom, that will |
live to the end OF time. Had this gentle
man and his sort lived in that early day,
with their cratic notions, the caristian |
religion would never have invadall, with |
its sublime teachings, the hons ,hold of |
Ceasar, and finally 0verthrown the fabu-
lous superstructure of Roman worship, |
buI NOuit lONh-
bound cradle OF Judea.
The good and wise people Of this coun-
try are in earnest in trying to arrest the
evils OF intemperance, and for the first
time, they will be aided i'll large de-
gree, by the very victims OF the baleful
habit But let such doctrines as these be
proclaimed, and they will fly from them
as they would from war, pestilence and
famine. In this part of the country,
such an advocate would be considered "A
revolutionary nadman, worse than Ledru
Rollin, the red Republican of France,
with his fierce sentiments and brief
career. .ien born in Il cloister and edu-
Gated in the dry moralitics OF theologi-
cal seminary or in schools OF speculative
have never made great lea
ders of public opinion, on questions that
concern the of practical reforms,
and if there are many OF these sort in
our country the true friends OF temper
ance, had better mark and brand them,
and turn 'em out to run with the dry
cattle, or they will create commotion,
that will set temperance reform back
century if not something worse.