Excerpt from Samson Shorn, and His Locks Renewed: Or the History of Spirituous Liquors in Pennsylvania
What and how early were particular steps taken To remedy the evil?
How Far Does The Experience Of The Past Throw Light Upon The Present And The Future?
"History, is the work of God. Its seemingly isolated and fragmentary events are parts of one connected and orderly series, of which the divine Providence is the method, human welfare the chief subject, and the divine glory the last chief end." This definition accepted, and how can we do otherwise than study it? Especially the moral history of our own Commonwealth, who will say that on such an occasion as this, it needs an apology for presenting it? The real ground of complaint would rather seem to be, that such a history has been so long withheld.
We must commence that history, however, with confession and humiliation. Pennsylvania, it is everywhere asserted, is entitled to a bad pre-eminence among her sister States, both for the use of intoxicating liquors and their manufacture. With such a county as Schuylkill, once containing a grog shop to every nine voters; as Berks, with a majority against prohibition, heavy enough to determine the vote of the State; with the immense amount of whiskey and lager bier annually manufactured by us; above all, with such a stigma resting on our history, as the "Whiskey Insurrection," how can we deny the oft-repeated impeachment? With the blood of Pennsylvania ancestors, as far back as A. D. 1700, flowing in our veins, we would deny the charge if it were possible; but it cannot be done, except at the expense of honest, candid, Pennsylvania truth. Heavily as the curse of intemperance has fallen elsewhere in our land, on us perhaps, in some respects, it has fallen the heaviest of all.
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