Might be in the eye of the beholder
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 14, 1862:
Liquor destroyed by ladies.
–Some twenty ladies of Statesville, N. C., proceeded in a body to the railroad depot of the town, a few days ago, and with hatchets and hammers destroyed five or six barrels of whiskey and poured the liquid poison upon the ground; a fitting libation (says the Iredell Express) to the devil and his imps from the hands of patriotic women, whose mission, pending the war, is to “go about doing good.”
near Statesville about 77 years later
