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"OHIO RUFOKHUI*
iUclittal College
WORTHINGTO N.
IJY, and with the consent, of the Reformed
J-A Medical Society, of the United States, the
liew Reformed Medical Institution has been lo
cated in Worthington, an interesting and flour
ishing town on the Whetstone River, 8 miles
north of Columbus, on the Northern Turnpike
This cite ha been chosen because it presents the
greatest advantages to facilitate the re narcliPs
of the Botanical s udent; rho country around it a
bonnding with every variety of nedical plants ;
and the situation being the most healthy
Tightful in Ihe Western country—and because
Ike occupancy of the large College tCdifice, to
gether with ground • f every variety of soil for an
extensive ootantnal garden, has been presented
toes he the board of trustees of Worthington
College
There will be attached to the institution, a
Dispensary for analyzing and preparing Vegita
ble Med'cineg; and an Infirmary, where persons
fro n the neighbourhood, or a distance* la
boring under fevers, -’onsumpsions, dispepsia,
liver complaints, gravel, ulcers, fistulas, cancers,
A:. Ac will be successfully treated, without
bleeding, mercury or tlie knife, and from which
the student will aeqaire a correct knowledge of
the nature, operation and sunerior efficacy of ve
getable agents in removing disease
The necessity for an institution of this kind in
tlie west, to b 9 under the direction of competent
Professors is strikingly evident. It is institu
tion that is designe to concentrale, A dissem
inate all the knowledge of Doctors of Medicine
and pmp’ rics, sages and savages ; and that, will
de lonstrate to the student and the sick that ve
getable* alone afford the only rational, safo aid
effectual means of removing diseases without
impairing the constitution, or endangering life
or limb. The present system of practice which
treats diseases of every form with metalic min
erals, i ho lancet or knife is dangerous inefficient
the lamentable facts which every day presents
too fully illustrate Nor is this truth more clearly
exhibited than the fact that vegitable substances
alone, arc void of danger, and powerfully effi
cient when administered; a reference to the suc
cess of our New-York 1 nfirmiiry, and the success
of ignorant botanical phiysicians, proves this
fact
The College ad Infirmary will he opened the
first week in December where students from all
parts may enter and complete their Medical Ed
ucation, & where persons laboring under every
Species or disease shall receive prompt & faith
ful attention.
The course of study to be pursued, and which
will be taught according to the OL1) and RE
FORMF.D sy terns by Lectures, Recitations,
Examinations and suitable text books, is, IstA
nstomv and Pliisiology. 2d. Old and Reformed
Surgery. 3d. Theory A Practice of Medicine.
4th The old fy improved system of Midwifery,
with the diseases of women and children. sth
Materia Modica with practical and general Bo
tany. 6th. Medical and Botanical Chemistry and
Pparmacy- 7. Stated Lectures on collateral Sci
ence—Moral and Mental Philosophy—Phrenol
ogy—Medical Jurisprudence—Comparative A
natonr,-—Medical History, Ac.
Bv attending this Institution, the student will
acquire a correct knowelcdge of present prac
tice of physicians— a knowledge of the use and
abuse of minerals, the Lancet, Obsterical For
ceps and the knife, and a knowledge ofthe new
and improved system, that supercedes their use,
with tenfold more safety and success. There
will bo no specified time to complete a course of
Bt idv; whenever the student is qulificd he may
graduate and receive a Diploma—some will pass
in one year, others will require more.
Requisitionsfo* Idmission.
1 A certificate of good moral character 2
Good English education
Terms —Tha price of qualifying a person ot
practice, including a Diploma, and access to all
Ihe advantages of the institution will be $l5O in
advance, or $75 in advance, A SIOO at the close
of hisstudb's Every advantage given, and some
allowance made to th"*e in the indigent circum
stances Board will be had at $1 per week, and
books at the Western city prices
Every student on entering Worthington Col
lege will become an honorary member ofthe re
lormed .Medical Society of the United States
from whom he will receive a diploma, and annu
al Report of all the doings and discoveries of its
different members. A he entitled to all its con
stitutional privilegs and benefits.
Th»se wishing further information will please
address a letter (post pnid) to Col G H Orisweld
or the undersigned, and it shall receive prompt
attention
Students and ot hers had better beware of the
slanders of tho present physicians, who know no
more about our institution, than they do about
Botanical medicine
J J SIEELE, President.
Worthington, O. Oct. 2830.
JVnte. —Editors publishing the above Circular
62 times, shall receive aa compensation a cer
tificate entitling the bearer to tuition gratis, or
an equivalent, to that sum ($1511) in medicine
advice or attendance from us or any members of
our society. Those publishing it 26 times, to
half that compensation.
January 2ft . 17
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Executed with neatness at this Office
THIS DEMOCRAT.
< 06111111', GEORGIA, SATARDAY, MAY 7, 1831.
AN ADD REISS
Delivered before the
WASHINGTON CITY TEMPER
ANCE SOCIETY.
November 15, 1830.
( Concluded.)
And who is the author of ail this—and
where lies the responsibility? I appeal to
my fellow citizens!
Are not we the authors? Does not the
responsibility rest upon us? Is it not so?
The power emanates from us; we del
egate it to the constituted authorities; and
we say to them, go on; “cast fire-brands,
arrows, and death;” and let the blood of
those that perish “be on us and our chil
dren.” We put the tomahawk and scal
ping-knife into the hands of our neigh
bors, and award to them a bounty.—We
do more—we share the plunder. For the
paltry sum of twenty dollars, we consent
that a floodgate of vice, and poverty, and
death, be opened upon our citizens; and
by the multiplication of these through our
city, we receive into our treasury the an
nual sum of about six thousand dollars.
One half of this to be expended in the
support of the paupers it creates, the oth
er half in improving our streets, and in
ornamenting our public squares! Let us
arouse, my fellow-citizens, from our in
sensibility, and redeem our character for
consistency, humanity, and benevolence.
3. Let us not confine our views, or
limit our operations to the narrow boun
daries of our own City or District. In
temperance is a common enemy. It ex
ists every where, and every where is pur
suing its victims to destruction; while
therefore we are actively engaged upon
the subject in Washington, let us endea
vor to do something elsewhere; and
much may he done by spreading through
out our country correct information on
the subject of intemperance. To this
end, every newspaper and every press
should be put in requisition. Circulate
through the various avt lues, suitable
tracts, essays, and other documents, set
tingforththe cuuses of intemperance, its
evils, and its remedy; together with an
account of the cheering progress now
making to eradicate it.
Do this, and you will find thousands
starting up in different parts of the coun
try to lend their influence, and give their
money in support of your cause; individ
uals who have hitherto lieen unconscious
of the extent and magnitude of the evil
of intemperance: you will find some who
have been slumbering upon the very pre
cipice of ruin, rallying round your stand
ard. Indeed, we have all been insensi
ble, till the voice of alarm was sounded,
and the facts were set in array before us.
4. Appeal to the medical profession
of the country, and ask them to correct
the false idea which so extensively, I may
say almost universally prevails, viz: That
ardent spirit is sometimes necessary in the
treatment of disease. This opinion has
slain its thousands and its tens of thous
ands, and multitudes of dram drinkers
daily shelter themselves under its delusive
mask. One takes a little to raise his de
sponding spirits, or to drown his sorrow:
another, to sharpen his appetite or relieve
his dyspepsv; one to ease his gouty pains,
another to supple his stiffened limbs, or
calm his quivering muscles. One drinks
to overcome the heat, another to ward off
the cold; and all this as a medicine. Ap
peal, then, to the medical profession, and
they will tell you, every independent, hon
est, sober, intelligent member of it will
tell you, that there is no case in which ar
dent spirit is indispensable, and for which
there is not an adequate substitute. And
it is time the profession should have an
opportunity to exonerate itself from the
charge, under which it has long rested,
of making drunkards. But I entreat my
professional brethren not to be content
with giving a mere assent to this truth.
You hold a station in society, which gives
you a commanding influence on this sub
ject; and if you will but raise your voice
and speak out boldly, you may exert an a
gency in this matter, which will bring
down the blessing of unborn millions upon
your memory.
5. Call upon the different Christian
denominations of the country to introduce
an article into their church polity, prohib
iting the use, the commerce and manu
facture of ardent spirit among the mem
bers of their communion. Let this be
done, arid there will be less occasion than
we now have, to weep over apostate pro
fessors of religion.
It is disgraceful to any Church, that its
members should be concerned in the dis
tillation, sale, or use of this poisonous and
demoralizing substance. It is offensive
to God and ruinous to man.
What should we say of a Christian, if
such a thing could be, who should spend
his life in writing and disseminating infi
del hooks, or in propagating among his fel
low-citizens, libertine sentiments? What
should we think of him who should spread
the small pox or yellow fever among his
neighbors, or sow the seeds of mania or
consumption—and this for the acquisi
tion of wealth? Yet such an one would
be far less criminal, would he far more
consistent, than he who manufactures or
vends ardent spirit.
Will not all our churches of every de
nomination, consider this subject? The
experiment has been made; our Quaker
brethren have set an example worthy the
imitation of aIL They Live long pro-
hibited both the traffic and consumption
of ardent spirit in their society—and
what is the consequence? They are dis
tinguished all over the world for their so
briety, exemplary morals, and thrift in
business. They have clearly proved also,
that there is far less difficulty in maintain
ing a rigid discipline, in the entire exclu
sion of ardent spirit, than in enforcing a
loose one in regulating the conduct of
those who have already become intempe
rate.
6. Much may be done by guarding
the rising generation from the contagion
of intemperance.
It is especially with the children and
youth of our land, that we may expect
our efforts to be permanently useful. On
ly let them once contract a love for ardent
spirit, and you may almost as well expect
to turn the current of the Mississippi to
the north, as to extinguish it. If you
cannot stop them in the beginning, you
can scarcely hope to stop them at all.
You cannot convert the confirmed drunk
ard into a sober man. The trial has been
made a thousand times, ami a thousand
times has failed. It is a miracle if it be
done at all, and must be effected by a
stronger arm than that of man. It is true
you may render his - uation and that of
his family more tolerable, by forcibly with
holding ardent spirit from him; but in
this, you neither slake his thirst, nor erad
icate his propensity. Only light up the
convivial hall and spread the temptation
afresh before him, and his appetite re
vives, and he goes on with increased ce
lerity to ruin.
Let us then guard with peculiar vigil
ance the youthful mind, and with all sui
table measures impress it with such senti
ments of disgust and horror of the vice of
intemperance, as to cause it to shrink
from its very approach. Carry the sub
ject into our Infant and Sunday schools,
and call on the managers and teachers of
those institutions, to aid you by the circu
lation of suitable tracts, and by such oth
er instruction as may he deemed proper.
Let the rising generation be protected but
for a few y ears, aud the present race of
druukards will have disappeared from a
mong us, and there will be no new recruits
to take their place.
7. Let intelligent and efficient agents
be sent out in every portion of onr coun
try, to spread abroad information upon
the subject of intemperance, to rouse up
the people to a sense of their danger, and
to form temperance societies; and let
there be such a system of correspondence
and co-operation established among these
associations as will convey information to
each, and impart energy and efficiency
to the whole. “No great melioration of
the human condition was oxer achieved
without the concurrent effort of numbers;
and no extended and well directed asso
ciation of moral influence was ever made
in vain.”
8. Let all who regard the virtue, the
honor, and the patriotism of their coun
try, withhold their suffrages from such
candidates for office, as are concerned in
the commerce or manufacture of ardent
spirit; and above all, from such as offer it
as a bribe to secure their elevation to poxv
er. It is derogatory to the liberties of our
country, that office can be attained bv
such corruption—be held by such a ten
ure.
9. Let the Ministers of the Gospel,
wherever called to labor, exert their in
fluence, by precept and example, in pro
moting the cause of temperance;—many
of them have already stepped forth, and
with a noble boldness have proclaimed
the alarm, and have led on in the work of
reformation; but many timid spirits still
linger, and others seem not deeply im
pressed with the importance of the sub
ject, and xvitli the responsibility of their
station. Ye venerated men! you are not
only called to stand forth as our moral
beacons, and to be unto us burning and
shining lights; but you are placed as
watchnjen upon our walls, to announce
to us the approach of danger. It is main
ly through your example and your la
bours, that religion and virtue are so ex
tensively disseminated through our coun
try—that this land is not now a moral
waste. You have ever exerted an im
portant influence in society, and have
held a high place in the confidence and
affections ofthe people. You are widely
spread over the country, ami the scene of
your personal labours will furnish you
xvith frequent opportunities to diffuse in
formation upon the subject of temper
ance, and to advance its progress. Let
me then entreat you to arouse to a sense
of the dignity and responsibility of your
office, and ask you, one and all, to grant
ns your active and hearty co-operation.
10. Appeal to the female sex of our
country, and ask them to come to your as
sistance; and if they will eonseut to steel
their hearts against the inebriate, to shut
out from their society the man who visits
the tippling shop, their influence will be
omnipotent. And by what power, ye
mothers, and wives, and daughters, shall
liiwokeyour aid? Shall I carry you to
the house of the drunkard, and point j'ou
to his weeping and broken-hearted wife,
his suffering and degraded children, ro
bed in rags and poverty and vice? Shall
I go with j’ou to the almshouse, the or
phan asylum, and to the retreat ofthe in
sane, that j'our sensibility maybe arous
ed?—Shall I ask you to accompany mo to
the penitentiary and the prison, that you
may there behold the end of intemper
ance? Nay, shall I draw back the cur
tain and disclose to you the scene of the
drunkard’s death bed? No—l will not de
mand of you a task so painful:—rather
Jet me remind you that you are to become
the mothers of our future heroes A states
m n, philosophers and divines, lawyers
and physicians:—and shall they be enfee
bled in body, debauched in morals, disor
dered in intellect, or healthy, pure, and
full of mental energy?—lt is for you to
decide this question. You have the fu
ture destiny of our beloved country in
your hands. Let me entreat you then,
for your children’s sake, not to ally your
selves to the drunkard, nor to put the cup
to the mouth of your offspring, and there
by implant in them a craving for ardent
spirit, which, once produced, is seldom e
radicated; rather “bring them to your
family altar, and make them swear eter
nal hatred to ardent spirit.”
11. Call upon all public and private
associations, religious, literary, and sci
entific, to banish ardent spirit from their
circle; —call upon the agricultural, man
ufacturing, and commercial establish
ments, to withhold it from those engaged
in their employment; call upon the legis
latures of the different states, to co-oper
ate by the enactment of such laws as will
discourage the vending of ardent spirit,
and render licenses to sell it unattainable:
—call upon the proper officers, to banish
from the army and navy that article,
which of all others, is most calculated to
enfeeble the physical energies, corrupt the
morals, destroy the patriotism, and damp
the courage of our soldiers; —call upon
our national legislature, to impose such
duties on the distillation and importation
of ardent spirit as will ultimately exclude
it from the list of articles of commerce, and
eiadicate it from the country.
Finally, call upon every sober man, wo
man and child, to raise their voices, their
hearts and their hands in this sacred cause,
and never hold their peace, never cease
their prayers, never stay their exertions,
till intempeiance shall be banished from
our land and from the world.
for the democrat.
TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.
Agreeable to appointment, “the Tem
perance Society of Columbus” met on
the 23d ult. at 7 o’clock P. M. in the
Court House. And the attendance of
many of our fellow-citizens who were
not members of the Society, was a source
of pleasure to us; nor was the presence,
ofthe ladies who honored us by their at
tendance less pleasurable. Alter the so
ciety was called to order, prayer was made
by the Rev. Tlios. F. Scott,"the “consti
tution” read, and the following address
by John Milton Esqr.
An assembly so numerous, intelligent,
and respectable as this, convened for the
purpose of arresting the progress of n
vice, so baneful to individual and social
happiness, and to our country’s welfare,
and so ofiensivt* to Almighty God, as in
temperance; is a pleasing spectacle, to
pbilantropists, patriots and cliristians.
And when fellow citizens, I recall to
mind, how long, and to what extent ar
dent spirit has been used, how many
thousands of our fellow creatures, it has
brought under the blighting shades of ig
nominy, and hurried to their graves;—
and how frequently it has been instru
mental in mingling the bitter cries of xvid
oxvs and orphans, with the lamentations
of our country, and to what extent it is
now used; I am at a loss, how I can
most advantageously aid the members
ofthe Temperance Society in hindering
it also; nor can I venture, without embar
rassment, to offer argument to our fellow
citizens, who rre not members of the so
ciety, to associate with us, to suppress a
vice, so visibly pernicious, and utterly de
testable.
And perhaps one reason why I hesi
tate, to give my opinions to this society
respecting the means best calculated to
promote its object, is because I know,
anxious as I feel for its welfare, every
member of the society is equally anxious;
and, that a majority, are older and more
experienced than I. But brethren, lam
not before you unsolicited, and the re
membrance of this, together with what I
behold, encourages me to proceed.—
What do I view? A variegated and inter
esting scenery. Fathers, who have ex
perienced the fruits of temperance, and
witnessed the ravages of intemperance:—
whose hearts are under the glow of pa
triotism, struggling with countenances se
rene, against this mighty loe of human
happiness, while they bend over the verge
of time. And around them encouraged
by their example, many who bear not so
visibly the impress of time, but some per
haps, who have felt the ravages of intem
perance, enlisted in the cause of temper
ance, and greeted by the smiles of their
wives and children, who rejoice in their
bold relief, from the wanton and cruel
attacks of this formidable foe. And who
is he, of any sensibility, who fancies the
dire influence of this mighty storm from
which they have been relieved, and rejoi
ces not? Others there are, of this society
who are neither bearded by time or intem
perance, but equally interesting. Young
gentlemen, upon whom the duties of man
hood have commenced devolving, in the
presence of their fathers, equipped for the
enjoyment of temperance. IJappv, yes
happy scene, to departing parents, when
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by the impulse of time, they feel themseU
ves moving from the society of their off
spring, to behold them in an armour of
defence against the most powerful foe, and
with prospects bright for glorv. But I be
hold some there, whose parents I see not;
but they diminish not the grandeur of the
scenery;—No, but enrich it much. Gal
lantly press forward young associates;—
Distant far from the instructors of your
youth, torn by necessity from the embra
ces of your parents, and in a land of stran
gers, a temperance society suits you best.
It will give you the respect of jour new ao
quaintances, will give j'ou success in your
employments, and will soften the pillows
of your distant parents, if on earth; andiQ
forsooth, their immortal spirits have wing*
ed their way to climes of celestial bliss, it
will gently move you home, to their cm*
braces.
Brethren of the society. Let us boldly
move forward in the prosecution ofthe de
sign for which we are associated—al
though, we have to encounter the Btrength
of ancient habit, reinforced with deep
rooted prejudices, our cause, is the cause
of our country, the cause of the “King of
Kings,” and must be triumphant. But if
we wish immediately to enjoy the triumph
we must continually march under the in
fluence of the constitution, “neither usq
ardent spirits ourselves, or procure it for
the use of others, and to the utmost oP
our power, dissuade our acquaintance*
from its use—a use, which ii' continued
must eventuate in their ruin.—And w hat
are the arguments which we shall ofl'er
to this respectful audience to procure
their co-operation? That intemperance is
an evil, and widely spreading, and that it
has pressed its devastations to an alarm
ing extent over our country; none w ill
deny. Is it not then strange fellow citi
zens, that we are not more active for its
suppression? To what cause is our inert#
ness ascribeable? It cannot he to a w ant
of philanthropy, and yet it is an injury
to mankind. It cannot be to a want of
patriotism, and yet it is an injury to our
country. Is it because voluntary associ
ations for the checking of vice are hate
ful? If so, why are they hateful? They
impose no restraint upon the liberties of
them, who are not members, unless it ia
by example; and if the effect of this exam
ple be sobriety, and drunkennness an e»
vil why not “let our light shine before
others.”—The prejudices existing against
voluntary associations for the suppression
of vice, should not exist.—To w hat oth
er source can we asscribc the liberties we
enjoy—When by the power of tyranny
“our seas were plundered, our coasts rav
aged, our towns burnt, and the live* of
our countrymen destroyed" the voluntary
association of our ancestors checked its
career—And can they be wrong, when
formed to suppress an evil, which destroys
the properties, and lives of many of our
fellow-citizens; subjects others to wretch
edness and deep despair, and places a
stigma upon the moral character of our
country? Much sooner would I helievo
every member of this respectable audiences
disposed to mingle his or her efforts with
ours in the cause of Temperance, than
entertain an opinion so inhospitable.
Sooner believe every one so disposed, be*
cause the practice of which we complain
generates no good, or produces any effect
worthy of admiration; and considered iu
any of its operations it is a mighty evil.
Consider its influence upon individuals a*
lone, without regard to its influence upon
[ others, who stand in various relations to
I them. It destroys both their intellectual
J and corporeal powers.
“On the faculties of the mind it hrings
a fatal result, which corrodes and wastes
them—in the animal system engenders
disease.” And to prove these facts la
boured arguments are unnecessarj'—for
their truth, I appeal to the experience,
which you have from daily observation.
•Hoxv frequently have we beheld our
friends xvhom we once admired for the
brightness of their genius, and the exten
' siveness of their intellectual acquirements,
and who have been exalted among us,
not only the objects of our admiration,
hut of the country’s pride, retiring from
the highest stations of honour, loaded
with disgrace, and reduced to a level with
the meanest understanding in conse
quence of the use of ardent spirits. And
how numerous are the instances, recorded
in ancient and modern histories of iheir
influence in rendering them, who have
been mighty, both in the fields of battle
and councils of State, not only useless,
hut the associates and dupes of the vilest
—and the “sport of children." These
are instances of its influence upon the
mind. And that it destroys the body, so
well ns mind, who can deny? Doubtless
many of us can recall to our mind instan
ces, of its havoc, more affecting to ns. than
its influence upon the niightv Alexander,
whom it hurried to an untimely
grave. And how many of our acquain
tances can we remember, whose renuts-
T\pns are now under the blasts, and wlio
from its desolating influence, tremble ou
the borders of time, tbeir friends estrnr
fired, their fortunes squandered and their
health dpstroved; no source of pleasure
here, and nothing to expect in the eterni
tv to which they hasten, hut the fierv in
dignation of an offended Cod? Now let
! us consider its consequential efforts npoo
, such as stand in various relations to them.
When fathers are intemperate, mothers
and children feel the ravages of poverty