The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-05

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follows Jay Gould drinks sherry, Gen.
Sherman is fond Of Dry Mopopols
champagne, and Russell Sage takes q
tablespoonful Of; old Bourbon in q glass
of Apollinaris after breakfast. Senator
Vest, Of Missouri, likes whiskey. Ed
munds is fond of bourbon, and John ]. !,
ingalls,, though he comes from Kansas, is
not ayersesto taste Of good sherry.
Bayard is said to be fond Of good port.
Beck likes to vary his Kentucky bourbon
with ashot Scotch, and the Germans Of
the House Of Representatives invariably;
call for beer. Hit, Of Illinois, takes
wine. with his luncheon, and Joe Black.
burn would be false to his State ifshe1
did not land the old Kentucky whiskey..
Senator Platt drinks tea. John Sherman.
is not averse to good article Of aine,.
but Gen. George Sheridan says that Sem
ator Sherman takes his whiskey by the.
thimbleful and only uses it for medicinal
purposes. Dick Townsend drinks
ginger. ale for luHch, and / have heard of
ia noted lunch OIL. Q. G. Lamar which
was made of boiled eggs and ginger ale.
Upon the discussion Of the sale of
liquors at the Senate restaurant not long
agoit was shown:th that the bill Of fare Of:
Senatorial drinks was made up Of 1hree
sauternes, four sherries, two Madeiras,
FIVE hooks, ,seven clarets, four champagnes,l
two ports, two Burgundies, four domestic
wines, seven varieties of ale and cider
and nine fiery liquors. aAt this time the
subject Of Senatorial drinking was thor
Soughly discussed, and Senator Cockrellj
said that he had known Of appropriation
committees being delayedb BY intoxication
among the subordinates, .'and, J" he con-
scluded, 81 have never seen anything ap-1
proaching q majority of the Senators in
such q ian intoxicated condition; but Z
have seen, and there are other Senators
who have seen, some few Senators SO
under the inspiration and exhilara.ion of.
excitement that itwas deemed best for
the transaction Of business to adjourn"
There may have been some buncombe
in. this, and there is undoubtedly no;
drinking to excess to speak Of among
the Senators of to day. With one single
exception I do not know a Senator who
appears in public under the influence Of
liquor, and much more is made of Sena.
torial drinking than the subject deserves.
II was different in the days when Tom
Marshall was in Congress, when John:
Quincy Adams was still q member of the
House and when Marshall was in his
prime. A Congressional total abstinence
society was formed at the time and Mar
shall swore off drinking. He made a
speech before the society, in which he
said that he. had a worse reputation for
spreeing than he really deserved, but
that he feared his sprees would have soon
crowded each other and finally brought.
him to ruin. Marshall's speech then,
though forgotten now, is, perhaps, the
most eloquent temperance effort ever de-.
livered in the Congressional halls. It's
conclusion was SO brilliant that repeat
it here, though the sentence containing
it is as long as one of Senator Evart's
longest. It's:
"Sir: I would not exchange the phys.
ical sensations, the mere sense of animal
being, which belong to a man who to-,
tally refrains from all that can intoxicate.
his brain or derange his nervous struc-
ture, the elasticity with which he bounds
from his couch in the morning, the sweet
repose it yields him at night, the feeling
with which he drinks in, through his
clear eyes, the beauty and the grandeur
of surrounding nature; say, sir, I would .
not exchange my conscious being as q
strictly temperate man, the sense Of rem
ovated youth, the glad play with which
my pulses now beat healthful music, the
bounding vivacity with which the life
blood courses its exulting way through
every fibre of my frame, the communion
high which my healthful ear and eye
now hold with all the gorgeous universe
of God, the splendors of the morning,
the softness of the evening sky, the
bloom, the beauty, the verdure of the !
earth, the music of the air, and of the
waters; with all the grand associations
of external nature reopened to the fine
avenues Of sense; no, sir, though poverty
dog me, though acorn pointed its slow
finger at me as I passed, though want.
aud destitution and every element of
earthly misery, save only crime. met my
waking eye from day to day: not for the ]
brightest and the noblest wreath that 4
ever encircled statesman's brow; not if
some angel commissioned by Heaven or
some demon sent fresh from he'll to tst