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1rCOMMUNICATED.Laurel Pointt S’fauwigtilUi co. J'u.i Fcbninry, I S3-- )Mr. StRGFKlltD:It is truly astonishing to behold how conipletcly the habit of unnecessary dlinking pervades the vmi-ous clauses of our community* In onu way or another it is their morning and ovairiug devotion—their noonday and midnight sacrilioe. From the highest grade to the lowest, front the drawing room to the hitch on, from the gentleman to the laborer, down descends the universal custom—from those who sit. long at the wine that has hoen rocked upon die ocean, ripened beneath un Indian sky, down -to those who solace themselves with , the fiery liquor that has cursed no «»-ther shore limn oitr own, down, till it reaches the miserable abode where i the father and mother will have rum, though the children cry fur bread— down to the bottom, even to the prison-house, the forlorn inmate of which hails him his best friend who is cunning enough to convey to him undiscovered the all-consoling, the all-corroding poison. Young men express the warmth of their mutual regard by daily and nightly libuiiuns at some fashionable hotel! How absurd and destructive to health, morals and reputation is this custom! and liovv necessary to adopt every means that will save young men and al l others from the ruin of intemperance!
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Morgantown Monongalia Mirror
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Sat, Feb 21, 1852
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