Mr. MCDOUGALL. Mr. President, it was once said that there are as man minds as men, and there is no end of wrangling. I had occasion some years since to discourse with a reverend doctor of divinity from the State which has the honor to be the birth place, I think, of the present President of this body. While I was discoursing with him, a lot of vile ra se allions invited me to join them at the bar. I eclined, out of respect to the reverend Gentleman in whose presenceI then was. As soon as the occasion had passed, I remarked to the reverend doctor, “ O not understand that I declined to o and join those young men at the bar because have any objection to that thing, for it is my habit to drink always in the front and not behind the door.” He looked at me with a certain degree of interrogation. Ithen asked him, “Doctor, what was the 1st miracle worked by our great Master 7” He hesitated, and I said to im, “ Was it not at Cana in Galilee where he converted the water into wine at amarriage feast?” He assented. I asked him then, “ After the ark had floated on the tempestuous seas for 40 days and nights, and as it dese ended upon the dry land, what was the 1st thing done by father Noah?” He did not know that exactly. “ Well, " said I, “did he notplant a vine?” Yes, he remembered it. then. I asked him, “Do you remember any out poet that ever illustrated the higher fiel s of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine, from old Homer down 7” He did not. I asked, “ Do you know any great philose her that did not use it for the exaltation of is intellience? Do you think, doctor, that a man who ived upon pork and beef and corn bread could get up into the superior regions into the ethe real?” No, he must " Take nectar on high Olympus and mighty meadin Valhalla." I said to him again, “Doctor you area schol arly man, of course a doctor of diVinity a graduate of Yale; do you remember Platos Symposium?” Yes, he remembered that I referred him to the occasion when Agatha, haying won the prize of Tragedy at the Olympic Games at Corinth, on coming back to Athens was feted by the nobility and aristocracy of that city, for it was a roud triumph to Athens to win the prize of ragedy. They got together, at the house of Phaedius, and they said, “Now, ii we have been every night for these last 6 nights drunk; let us be sober to night, and we will start a theme;” which they passed around the table as the sun goes round, or as they drank their wine, or as men tell a story. They started a theme, and the theme was love not love in the vulgar sense, but in its high senseloveof all that is beautiful. After they had gone through, and after Socrates had pronounced his judment about the true and bean tiful, in came A cibiades with a.drunken body of Athenian boys with garlands around their heads to crown Agatho and crown old Socrates, and they said to those assembled, “This will not do; we have been drinking and you have not;” and after Alcibiades had made his talk in pursuance of the argument in which he undertook to dignify Socrates, as I remember it, they required (after the part had reed to drink, it bein quite late in te evening, and they had finis e their business in the way of discussion) that Socrates should drink 2 measures for every other mans one, because he was better able to stand it and so one after another they were laid down on the lounges in the Athenian style, all except an old physician named Aristodemus, and lato makes him the hardest headed fellow except Socrates. He and Socrates stuck at it until the grey of the morning, and then Socrates took his bath and went down to the groves and talked Academic knowledge. “ After citing this incidentIsaid to this divine, Do you remember that Lord Bacon said that a man should get drunk at least once a month, and that Montaigne, the French philosopher, indorsed the proposition?” These exaltants that bring us up above the common measure of the brute, Wine and oil, elevate us, enable us to seize great facts, in spirations, which, once possessed, are ours for ever; and those who never go beyond the more beastly means of animal support never live in the high planes of life, and cannot achieve them. I believe in women wine, whisky, and war.