The Jeffersonian

Intemperance.
The following deplorable picture is by the correspondent of the Detroit Tribune.
"People often wonder whether the President is still in the habit of drinking. I can say positively that he is; that he is a steady, persistent brandy and whiskey drinker, and, worse than that, the White House contains, for the first time since it was built, a drinking, drunken family.
The President is a steady drinker. He is what the temperance men call "a moderate drinker." His son Robert, who is one of his private secretaries, is a sot. He is beastly drunk for days together.
His son-in-law, Senator Patterson, who lives in the White House, is a terrible drinker. He never gets drunk, but he is not far off from delirium tremens. He sallies from the Senate every hour or two to Whitney's restaurant to take a full tumbler of raw whiskey. Nine men out of ten would die in a year of his habits. He swills enough raw whiskey to slaughter a regiment of men, and yet continues to do duty as Senator."