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judicious use of our native wines will, by correct- 

 ing the vitiated taste, exclude the consumption 'of 

 the drugged foreign kinds, and divert the national, 

 reprehensible passion for alcoholic &timulu&, into a 

 more genial channel "which cheers but not inebri- 

 ates" — which invigorates health, but blunts not the 

 reason and mora] sensibilities of man. This world 

 although bearing unmistakable and pleasing evi- 

 dence of progress, is not yet so sublimated and pure 

 as to crusade upon all customs and rites of past 

 ages ; nor will the Christian churches be likely soon 

 to inhibit the production of an article, so common 

 and essential in the solemn rites of the Christian 

 communion. But well might they pause and ask, 

 whether the thing which they honor by the name 

 of wine^ and ordinarily procure for those purposes, 

 is the pure symbol which our Great Master ordained 

 for the sacrament? In reality, is it not sometimes 

 a fact that they undcbignedly use for that sacred 

 purpose, a substance disguised with compounds, 

 among the ingredients of which are not to be found 

 upon analysis, one single particle obtained pure 

 from the vintage. 



VARIETIES FOR THE NORTH. 



There is such a diversity in tastes and opinions 

 among grape-growers, that had I any reputation to 

 loose as a very extensive cultivator, it might not be 

 prudent to give an absolute preference for a single 

 one^ among so good a variety as we can so easily 



