Many and great are the injuries of which some men are guilty towards
others, for the sake of gratifying some liquorish appetite. For there
are those who would not stick at bringing desolation upon their country,
and run the hazard of their own necks into the bargain, rather than
baulk a wicked inclination, either of cruelty, ambition, or avarice. But
it were to be wished all who are hurried by such blind impulses, would
consider a moment before they proceed to irrevocable execution. Injuries
and wrongs not only call for revenge and reparation with the voice of
equity itself, but oftentimes carry their punishment along with them;
and, by an unforeseen train of events, are retorted at the head of the
actor of them; and not seldom, from a deep remorse, expiated upon
himself by his own hand.