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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Yankee Editor Condemns the Outrages committed by Lincoln troops. (search)
Drunkenness. --The records kept at the different station houses, exhibits the fact that a large proportion of the arrests are either directly for intoxication or from acts caused by that undesirable state. It is certainly painful to see men who were cut out for some better use than making hogs of themselves, go down beneath the potent blows of the fiery old King, who is generally supposed to be dominant in the realms of whiskey alone. Yet we see such sights often enough to convince us that man is by no means infallible. The man himself, and the family of the man, who is the slave of an ungovernable appetite, who is possessed by an unquenchable thirst for so dangerous an extinguisher as whiskey, is indeed to be pitied. It did very well for Byron, who had plenty of money, and could go on a "bust" for a week at a time, to say: Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication. The lines are not of universal application, however. To those