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Drunkenness

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
May
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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The nniural disposition may be better discovered 0 drunkcnness than at any otlier time. In modern sociity. lite is all a disguise. Almost every man walks in masquerade. and his most miníate friend very often does not know his real character. Maoy wear smiles conslnntly upon their cheeke. vvnosfl licarts are unprinciplëd nnd ireacherous. Many with violent tempers have all the external cuim nnd so(tnes3 of ;hariiy itself. Sonie speak al wave vviili sympaihy, who. nt soul. are full of gn!I and biuerncss. Intoxication tears ofi' tho veil. and sets each in his true light, whatfiver that may be. The cornbnive m;in will quarro!. thé ariïiiVous ill lovc. the detraeinr will abuse his neighbor. I have known excepiions. but ihey are few in liunilier. Atone time they seemed more nuincrons. but closer observation con vineed me that most of those wliom I thought diunkeuness had hbelled, inlieri'ed, at bottom, the genuine dispositions which iibrought fortli. The excepiions. however. which now and tlicn occur, are suffieicntly striking, and pnint out uhe injustice of nlways judging of a man's real disposition from his drunken momirrs. To use the words of Addison. ;'Not only does this vice betray the hidden faults of a man, and show tl.em in the most oilious colois, but often occasions faults to which he is not naturally suhj et. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses qualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her 6ober moments." The we!l known inaxim, "in vitia virltas," therefore. though vcry generally true, is to be received with somc restrictions. although these. I am satisfied, are by no meansso numerous, as many authors would have us to believc.

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News