The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-04-03

them, without making personal war
upon individuals, associations or
churches, but use whatever argument
may arise in our favor, from any and
all those combined. The rights and
uses of prohibition have been discus
sed in other states by good and able
men on both sides, and we do notpro-
pose to relinquish our rights, u in
terests and our customs, without a
struggle
1t is one of the peculiar features of
many people in all ages and countries
to want some exciting stimulant be-
yound the supply of their physical
organizations, and there is no part of
the globe that this demand is not pro-
vided in the resources OF nature. The
betel nut and coca, supply the Asia
atics and South Americans from the
native forests with stimuiant that
eXcites their animal spirits, and re-
1reshes their exhausted tissues. The
Chinese, the oldest and most popu-
lous nation on the globe, resort to
opluln ana 50 great ANA universal Is
It's use there, it takes a hundred mil
lions of dollars to supply them with
the drug. Look where we may,
tribes and nations everywhere have
some substitute to fill upthat vacuum
left by nature III her dispositions OF
our animal and moral natures,
The grape from earliest history
amongst civilized nations, has been
The tavorite of all fruits from which
that delightful notwithstanding liquid
which we call wine, has been made.
\ 1t was in use as far back as We have
authentic records. 1t was a tavOrite
beverage in Priam's court, and Aga
memnon's camp, and stimulated the
heroes Of Troy and Greece, whose
deeds ana tastes the blind old man oi
ociO has left in immortal song writ.
ten thousands of years ago. it was
The choice drink Of the Gods and
Uoddesses of Pagan Mythology and
The ''Thunderer" and his court OH
nigh Olympus held high carnival in
draining their golden gobleLs. All
The cultivated nations of antiquity OF
which we have any account, used
wine, and used freely, Wineis the
Oldest production OF human ingenui-
" outside Of the uses of metals and
music, and is coeval with agricui-
lure. There is mention Of wine soon
after the ios1, as then We learn that
Noah being a husbandman, planted
MIN a vineyard, and from the fruit OF
The vintage he was drunken" We
read of no harvest beyond the Vine
yard in reference to Noah, though
we suppose he had corn and vegeta-
Dies, ETC., but they are not mentioned
in the sacred narrative. 1t seems
from the same high and venerable
authority that Lot, who took refuge
in the little hamlet Of Zoar after the
destruction of Sodom, found wine in
the caves of the neighboring noun
tains, for he. got DUNK on wine, and
debauched his daughters. So, il viii
not do TO say that the ancient wine of
the scriptures had no intoxicating
properties. Wine, therefore, is
consecratfd by mention in the most
ancient and authentic records that
we have Of the human family, and
they like us in this year of our Lord
1886, use it occasionally too freely.
While drunkenness is singled out as
the crying sin of this age, and whis-
ky and alchoholic spirits the chief
agents of all the crimes that afflict
society, IL is u little strange that muir
der, the highest known in the the
calendar of wrong, proceeded wine or
any intoxicating drink, SO far as we
have any records on the subject.
There were only five persons men,
toned in the family Of Adam when
Cain became q fratricide, about a
very small matter, considered with
reference to physical value. Proba-
bly, there were not a hundred souls
living, when Lamach acknowledged
himself before his wives a murderer,
having ''slain a young man." These
crimes were In the very infancy of
the human family before even wine
is mentioned. So, when we seek for
the causes of oppression and crime,
there is no in tracing them all
to the influences Of Intoxicating IL
quors. That they have had their
agency in all the ages since their in
PRODUCTION, we readily admit, but
whether their total extinction wonlh
lessen the volumes Of blood guilt
ness" among men, Is not proven by
the facts that took place before the
world knew anything Of their uses or
effects.