Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-04-15

Colonel Robert Ingersoll was lately
employed in case which involved the
manufacture of ardent spirits, and in his
speech TO the jury he used the following
language:
81 am aware there isa prejudice against
any man engaged in the manufacture of
alcohol. | believe from the time it issues
from the coied and poisonous worm in
the distillery until itegapiics into the hell
of death, ,dishonor asT 4 crime, fhst It is
dcmoralizing to everybody that touches
it, from the source 10 where it ends. /
do not believe that anybody can contem-
plate the subject without being prejudic-
ed against the crime All we have to do
is to think of the wrecks on either side
of the stream Of death, OF the suicides, of
the insanity, OF the poverty, of the de-
struction, of the little children tugging at
the breast of weeping and despairing
wives asking for bread, of men Of genius
it has wrecked, the men struggling with
imaginary serpents produced by this dev-
ilish thing; and when you think of the
jails, of the almshouses, of the asylums,
of the prisons and of the scaffolds on
either hand, do not wonder that every
thoughtful man is prejudiced against this
vile stuff called alcohol Intemperance
putc InuY, youth In ito u;nnr ,,aabnnI l.,
its strength. and age in its weakness.
1T breaks the fathers heart, bereayes
the doting mother, extinguishes natural
affection, erases conjugal love, blots out
tilial attachments, and blights parental
hope, and brings premature age in sorrow
to the grave. ltproduces weakness, not
strength; sickness, not health; death, not
life. II makes wives widows, children
orphans, fathers ficDds, and all paupers.
1t feeds rheumatism, nurses gout wei
comes epidemics, invites cholera, imports
pestilence and embraces consumption. 1t
covers the land with misery, idleness and
crime. 1t engenders controversies, fos.
ters quarrels and cherishes riots. 1t
crowds your penitentiaries and furnishes
victims to the scaffold. 1t is the blood of
the gambler, the element OF the burglar,
the prop of the highwayman and the sup.
port of the midnight incendiary. 1t
countenances the liar, respects the thief
csteems the blasphemer. 1t violates OBJ
legations, reverences fraud, honors inia.
my. 1t defames benevolence, hates love,
scorns virtue and Innocence. 1t incites
the father to butcher his helpless off
spring, and the child to grind the parri.
cidal axe 1t burns up man, consumes
women, detests life, curses God and de-
spises heaven. 1t suborns witnesses,
nurses purfldy, dcfiles the jury.box and
stains the judicial ermine 1t bribes vot.
ers, disqualifies voters, corrupts elections,
pollutes our institutions and endangers
the government. 1t degrades the citizen,
debases the legislator, dishonors the
statesman and disarms the patriot. II
brings shame, not honor; terror moi
safety; despair, not hope; misery, moi
happiness; and with the malevolence OF
flend, calmly surveys its frightful desc
lation, and unsatated with havoc, Il
poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals
wipes out national honor, then curses the
world and laughs at Its ruin. 1t does thai
and more-it murders the soul II is the
sum Of all villainies, the father of crimes
the mother of all abomination the devils
best friend, and Gods worst enemy