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tongues to enforce and adorn it, and cairy it to
the ears ofovery moderate drinker in Christen
dom, but as it is, the mere dry statement of this
law ofour nature must suffice. Let temperance
lecturers who possess eloquence, engraft it upon
this beautiful and prolific principle, which will be
found to enforce the tee-total abstinence doctrine
more effectually than all the descriptions of the
drunkard, ami all the other motives now usually
employed pot together Founded as they are
U|H>n the imnlttaole laws of our nature, these in
ferences adnjKiif no evasion, no cavdling. We
bodily defy bbl bipod crate and immoderate drink
e's, both clergymen, both physiol
ogists and practical febserv rs, of men and tilings
to overthrow or even invalidate a single position
thus far taken, or (lodge one single inference
drawn. Those only whose animal passions are
unduly excited, and w bse intellectual powers
are weakened by alcohol, *cnn withstand their
force.
The Rev. Mr. Murray, of Oakville, U. C-, has
published quite a treatise against total abstinence
and in favor of moderate drinking, plausibly ar
guing that it is really intlwensable to social and
general enjoyment. Thin the action of every
organ produces its kind of pleasure, is a phrenol
ogical principle. Mankind always prefer the
kind of enjoyment which harmonizes with their
organs. Hence, its Mr. M. prelers the enjoy
ment furnished by alcohol, which we have s own
to be merely animal, wo infer that his animal na
ture vastly prevails over his intellectual or moral
qualities, because lie so gladly sacrifices the lat
ter upon the alter of the former, and in common
with air other advocates of strong drink, is there
fore totally unlit for that sacred office. I therefore
venture the phrenological remark, that his physi
cal or vital temperament predominates over hts
mental; that he has a vigorous constitution, an
amply developed chest,a head nearly round, wide
between tne ears, and rather low and conical,
which indicates powerful animal orgins and
weaker moral faculties. The principle s ated
above is an abundant answer to lias whole work,
ns it is also to “id omnt genus." From such
preache s “gool Lord deliver u-*.”
Will that church-going people the Scotch,
pleas • observe in the light ol this subject, the in
consistency of their almost universal eu-'oin of
going from church to the grog-shop. A glass of
stron r drink will counteract a good sermon as ef
fectually as an alkn i will an acid.
Bible View of Temperance.
Some men derive their arguments in favour of j
the use of wine and other intoxicating drinks from
the BiMe. Yea! strange as it is, many sanction, '
and even enroll r ig* alcoliolic indulgence. Let j
us see if this is not a gross libel u|«>.i its purity.
The following tacts arc recordist u|ion its pig.-t,
all hearing upon this suhji et. An intemperate
son, among the j 'ws, was to lie stoned to death.
We are not told in this case, whether the subject
ofthis terrihle punishment was allowed to plead,
in extenuation of It s crime that “lie was only
moderately drunk.” We leave the opponents of
total alts inence to settle among themselves. We
know however, that there was some thing so per
nicious even in the harmless wine of some of the
moderate drinkers (such perhaps, as that used at
the New England dinner) that its use was prohib
ited. As may be seen in many instances, Proph
ets, priests, kings anil princes were not allowed to
touch the wine ofintoxication. Throughout the
bible, the llrst approach to the wine cup is regard
ed as dangerous—it is set forth ns the incipient
"tep in the pathway of sin and death. Let our
modern wine bihhers listen, while the Bible tells
them not even “to look up.rn the wine when it
is red, when it stirreth itself aright.”
Ye drinkers of champaign! if you will admire
nnd sip your sparkling poison, cense to commend
its use lor bible sanction. The book allows no
references to its pages for the support of intemper
ance. It says most expr ssly, “ wine is a mocker,
strong drink is raging! wnosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise!” In another article, the wri
ter pro|Hises to set forth the manner in which the
bible Speaks of the true Washingtonian drink,
“ cold water.”— II ask Sexes.
No one is more lu.ly peisuaded of the evils o!
intemperance than its victims. To no one is Ins
degradation more manifest than to him, who, the
slave of a vicious appetite, sacrifices every thing
that is valuable in tins world, or the world to
come, to its gratification. And there is notone
ofthe vast crowd ol unhappy drunkards, who
stagger out the miserable existence upon earth,
blunted as are there moral faculties, and Iterefi
as they may he of all the characteristic* of ration
'al humanity, but would hail with joy and pros
pect ot release from their degradation and slave
ry. Only convince them that it it is possible for
them to he reclaimed, inspire them with a confi
dence in their ability to overcome their mot bid
appetite, an l there is not one that would fail to
rilurn to the piths of sobriety and respectability!
Washingtonianism has demonstrated to the
world, that the abandoned drunkard can he re
claimed. Tell us not that many relapse into
their oriner habits. What if ten, or even fifty,
out of every hundred, return to their wallow
ing in the mire— if only one out »f every hundred
remain steadfast, it will establish the taet, tliatu
drunkard can he reclaimed; and tens of thou
sands restored to society, and now “in their
right minds,” arc living evidences of the same
gratifying fact.
We heard, not long since, of a reformation in
the case of one who, as the reader will see, was
as much beyond hope as any one could be. He
lived in a village not far lrotn ibis, and for the
first part ofbis life was a man of property and
intelligence. By the habitual, and intemperate
use of ardent spirit, he not only squandered *his
property, but became such a vagabond as to con
sent to beg from those very doggeries that had
swallowed up his property and character, for
whiskey sufficient tosatisfy his daily cravings
He became a perfect nuisance to the rumsellers,
and game for all the loafing young men about
town, that had no other amusement. Whin
go tded on by his thirst for drink, which he bad
not the means of satisfying, he would subject j
himself to any pain, or degradation, for a glass of
rum.
On one occasion, he was known, for one
drink, to dance, barefooted, for half an hour, on ’
a floor covered over with pieces ofbrokcn glass,
until his feet were so lacerated that he could not
walk. On another occasion, from the same in
ducement, lie consented to kiss a snapping turtle,
which had been brought in alive. In attempt
ing it, the turtle seized his lip, and bit a large
piece out Our inf rinanl, who was present, re
marks, that another drunken man, becoming
alarmed at the bleeding of his lip, undertook to
stitch it, and in doing so had actually taken three
stitches with a bagging needle in sewing his two
lips together,before lie could be prevented.
Mo indignity that therumsellerc. uld put upon
him,was sufficient to keep him away from his
shop, mid no conditions too hard forhiin to com
ply with,—lie was willing to sell even life itself
tor a glass of ruin. On one oc ’asion, when ho
was more than ordinary pressing in his request
for a dram, the dealer told him that lie should
not have it, unless tie would suffer him to give
him thirty lashes, on the I are hack. VV .tlmut
any hesitation he band his bark to the lash.
This was rqicnteil three times at his own request
for as many glasses. To his application for the
fifth glass on the same conditions, lie wa* told
that he could not have it, unless he would suffer
himself to be hung. lie hesitated but a mo
ment, and then consented, on conditi- n that lie
might receive the rum first. He was placed u|e
on a table, —a noose fixed around his neck, wilh
the rope tied to the j >i*t above,—the table knock
ed from under him, and he swnng off like any
other malefacor. F rtunately, some iiersons
rode upat the moment, and cut him down lielote
he was entirely dead. This man was reached
by the Washingtonian pledge, lived a number of
months without tasting a dropot spirits, ami died
a sober man,— I‘enjield Tempt,ance Banner.
Anecdote of Georg' Washington.
In a recent address, the Rev. I)r. Cox related
the following temperance anecdote of the Far
ther of his country. The officer nl.uded to was
the father of a member of Dr. Cox’s Chu-eh :
Towards the close of the revolutionary war,
an officer in the army had occasion to transact
some business with Gen. Washington, and re
paired to Philadelphia tor thnt purpose. Before
leaving lie received an invitation to dine with
the General, which was accepted, and upon en
tering the room, he found himself in the compa
ny ofa lurge number of ladies and gentlemen.—
As they were mostly strangers to him, and he
was naturally ofa modest mill unassuming dis
position, he took a seat near the toot of the table,
and refrained fiom taking an active partin the
conversation. Just before the dinner was con
cluded, General Washington called him by
name and requested him to drink a glass of wine
with him.”
“ You will have the goodness to excuse me,
General,” was the reply, “as i have made it a
rule not to take wine. 1
All eyes were instantly turned upon the young
officer, and a murmur of surprise and horror ran
around the room. That a person should be so
unsocial and so mean as to never drink wine,
was really too bail; hut that he shoulJ abstain
from it on an occasion like that, and even when
offered to him by Washington himself, was per
fectly intolerable.
Washington saw at once the feelings of his
guests, and prompt,y ud-lrcsse.: them:
Gentlemen.” said he, “ Mr. is right. I
do not wish nny of my guests to p irtakc of any
th ; ng against their inclination, ami I certainly do
not wish them to violate any established princi
ple, in their smial intercourse with me i hon
or Mr. fur his frankness, and his consis
tency in thus adhering to an established ruie,
which can never do him harm, and for the ado|>-
tion of which 1 have no doubt he has good and
sufficient reasons.”
Dr. Cox remarked, after concluding this anec
dote, that the name assumed by the present re
formers—the name of Washingtonians—was pe
culiarly appropriate. He thought that if the
“ Father of bis country” was alive at the present
day, he would be first and foremost in the great
cause of reform, and that the poor drunkard
would find in him a friend and a protector in
deed.
Doctor Reddes and the Ancho: Smiths.
Nearly half a century ago, Dr. Beildcs, settled
the question—“ Whether ale was beneficial in
hard labor V’ The Docter went to hard workinu
men employed in forming ship anchors in tne
Royal Yards at P..iUmouth--men who were ex
posed to great alternations of heat and cold, sub
ject to the greatest muscular exertion, anil in a
constant state of persperation and excitement.
He selected a dozen of these anchor smiths, and
pro) osed that six of them should drink onlv wa
ter tor a week, and the other the usual allowance
of beer.
“ The men looked at the doctor in amazement
at this strange proposal, and replied, “ Why,you
will kill us ! Do you think we can do such tfork
as ours, and drink water onlyl You must mean
to kill us!”
“ No,” said the Dr., “ I have no such inten
tion or design. lam a physician,and will care
fully watch the proce>s, so that no injury shall
ensue to you. 1 will put down filly pounds.
Try water for one week; if you succeed, the
fifty pounds are yours: if not, I shall put them
hack into my own pocket.”
The men were thus induced to try the exper
iment. On the first day the two si ts of men were
very much alike: the second day the water
drinkers complained less of fatigue than the
others; the third day the advantage was more ob
viously in favor of the tee-totalers; and on Sat
urday evening the water drinkers declared that
they never ti It so fresh in all their livis, as
they had lelt through the week.”
“A little don’t hurt Father.”
Some parents are not aware of the influence
their example lias on their children, rwe holieve
they would no linger hesiiate to sign the pledge
o total abstinence from every thing that ran in
toxicate. We have a cane in point, which will
show ihc danger of the plea that “a little can do
no ha in,” which many parents urge in the hear
ing of their children, it also affords a striking
reproof of those parents who aecasionally “drink
a little” in the presence of their children. A
young lad in this city, the sen cl one of our rcs
liectalde citizens, was recently urged to sign the
pledge, on the ground that there was no safety
but in total abstinence. The little fellow not
only met the solicitation with a refusal to sign,
hut he reasoned mi the subject like a man. he
not only doubted the ci rrectm ss of the assertion
that total abstinence is the only safe ground, hut
lie wholly denied it, an I brought forward the Ia si
ofproofto fortify his position. “ by,” said he,
*• 1 know it is not so; for fuiher drinks a little,
and a little don’t hurt lather!" Think of that, ye
moderate drinking fathers, ll'vcu have not be
fore been aware ol the fact, learn it here, that
your daily practice is | ulting arguments into the
mouths ol your children, with which tiny may
smooth every step of their way, from tin inno
ci ncc and purify ofrhililhood down tp the grave
of the drunkard. In view of this fart, who would
he even a temperate drinker I — fountain.
Temperance among the Indian Chieftains.
When the Chiefs of the Sac. Fix, ung lowa
nations, who have visited Washington, were in
Baltimoie, they attended the icnqicrance met t
nigsand addressed one el'the Washingtonian
s|ieakers through their interpreter. They after
wards held a solemn council which resulted in
their signing tic pledge, aI of them. Tliey car
ry Iheii c< riiflcates ol'mcmbi rsliip about them as
a sacred charm agaiuft evil*. It is hop d and
Itolieved that their influence wdl he extended a
mong their several tribes—and if so, it will lead
to the happiest effects. — FForccs.’er Waterfall.
Interesting Dia'oguc.
The following dialogue took place between an
Overseer of the Boor” and poor “Tout."
Overseer. Well Toni, lve come Input you all
into the poor house. Your wile says she cant
st in.l it no longer, for she cannot get food for her
children.
Tom. Whatever is, is right, 1 ’spose, as the
grammer hook used tossy. We’ve all sullen d
enough if that’s all. But it is all accord ng to
law. The law said there might boa shop, and
the select men said their nugi l to lie a shop, and
sartilied that old Ki d Face down there was the
host man to keep it, and he has made mcadrunk
ard, and got all my property, and now let the
town take care of us. I’ve been thinking on't,
and it seems to me right, that if a town will let
men make drunkards and paupers, it ought tc
take care id them. It seems strange to me that
the Legislature hadn't made a law to build great
rich houses to put the few rumscllcrs in, and then
there would have been no use for poor housissai
ta:n. Now twenty years ago 1 was better off
than Red Nose—l could have paid cash down for
him; but he set up hy me, and 1 took a little to
wet his sign—to hind a bargain, &e., till 1 lost all
in his shop—and it is just so with a dozen more of
us. How much the town would have saved had
they put him into the public keeping, rather than
allot'us! He's as big a drunkard as I am, only
he can he sick, aud lav down, and have a ride, or
the doctor, and dress well. But it’s all law, and
he'll soon be there too, and then I’ll settle with
him.
Overseer. Arc you ready 1
Ton;. Ay, ay, sir. I couldn’t help thinking
there was something brewing when the old f flow
shiffled, and said this was the last 1 rhonld have
of him. Weil now, ’squire, I’m desput glad
they’ve sent a decent looking man arter me; for,
if you’ll believe it, when they sent me to the
House of Correction, the constable was so drunk
that the keeper was Confoundedly bothered to tell
which he should keep; an I if the constable had
come this time, and been shut into the poor house
with my wife instead of me, then I’d lost my
chance—but now l hope to reform, as Captain
Thrifty did. 1 .ittle tin ught when I bought heie
and opened my carpenter’s shop, that I should get
on the wrong side ol that lence. But it is all law
—all right, 1 'spose; though 1 don’t understand
the policy of it. I’m glad you’ve rome, i am, in
deed, sir. The new law' do n’t stop them yet. and
I see no way to change but to be shut up out of
their reach. O, that this tarnal stuff could be
thus up out of my reach that’s all sir, and out of
the reach of eveiy body, that’s all-nothing short,
sir, will do it. Jist so 1 can help drinking when
I sees the door open and Red Nose smaclTing his
bps so! That’s ail, sir. I’ll go sir
“ The sight of a drunkard i* a better sermon
against that vice than the beat that ever was
preached upon it.”— Sarillc.
Truly so—and, therefore, we would like to
show the inward and outward man of the drunk
ard, up to himself. '1 he colored photographs and
Dr. Sewell’s anatomical plates of the drunkaid's
stomach, will g:ve him a picture, true to the life.
Ai’nt you a pretty fellow, now, inside and out.—
“ Heavens! what a piece of work is man!" Is
/hi* it! this blurred, bleared, bloated, bruised,
pimpled, putrified, palsied, diseased, disfiured,
disgraced, mutilated, mangled, mammocked up
mass of corruption ! Is this the work, originally
pronounced by its Creator “ good.”
Tommy’s Dream.
A certain deacon, 1 have somewhere read,
VVas by the Striped Pig so captive led,
(Or the infei nal spirit of the cup)
He had his conscience almost eaten up,
And just escaped destruction, it would serm,
By having Tommy tell his funny dream.
Papa, said Tommy, looking up so bright,
I had a funny dieam the other night.
Well, Tommy, said the deacon, Ictus hear
What was the dryam, which seemed to you so
queer.
I dreamed the devil came into your store—
I never saw the devii. pa, before—
The devil! Yes,and you was drawing gin
For Audio James, just as he entered in—
Poor A mho, pa, who went home drunk, they say,
And broke Ins baby’s arm th«-other day.
He then walked up, and with jieculiar care,
Laiil his long tail, I thougit, upon the chair,
And o’er the counter leaned towards the cask
From which you drew the gin, I heard him ask,
Aint you a deacon, sir, that holds that cupl
And you said yes, but did not then look up.
Hegrinmd, and shook his tail just like a cat,
When she perchance has caught a mouse or rat,
And turning round upon his lice , says lie,
1 tell ye, “ that ere'* the deacon for nie! ”
And laughing so loud as lie runout the door,
1 woke right up, and didn't dream no more.
This moved the deacon, we an- glad t« say,
To quit the Ira Sic from that very day..
From the Washingtonian and Genius.
Discovir> o the Island us Bacchus.-
This island, though remarkable in its charac-
Irr, and vast domains had never been discovered
until within tile last lew ycats.
It is In undrd tin the bust by the Territory of
Fully an.l Deceit: on the North hy the regions
ot Poverty and D str. ss: on the South hy tho
burning zoneot lte.norse, Disease and Death r
and on the Wtst by tt c Dead Lake of Oblivion.
Hence its atmt sgihere is gloomy, enervating and
pestiferous, expi sed to ll.e pi rpetlial scenes of
storm, hurricane anil tempest, and its climate,
like the min.’s of its inhabitants, is never settled
lor an hour. Its seasons also are uncertain, and
subject to most destructive changes. The Spring,
for instance, is a season of most pernicious heat,
in which the generality of its inhabitants are pos
sessed with a kind of madness, the most destruc
tive to themselves—the mest injurious to their
neighbors—and the most subversive oi unguard
ed innocence. The summer is a season oflnees
sant toil in the ingatheiing at the fruits of dissi
pation and debauch. Its autumnal scenes are
generally heart-rending: like the blighted forest,
tlisiobod of all its beauty and grandeur bv the
I'osts of night, so here all that is virtuous or excel
lent may he seen stripjird of its inherent loveli
ness. Its winters are truly despicable: noth rig
hut one unbroken scene of devastation and dis
may now pres, n's it self to the eye of the behold
er, and not a countenance but is shrouded in sad
ness and dfs|wir.
Its principle tommoditics are rum, brandy, gin,
whiskey, wine, and malt liquors. Its products
are poverty, misery, wretchedness and distress.
T he only wild beasts that inhabit this misera
ble island are imaginary, usually lound on tho
mountains of Delirium Ttemins, from whose
terrific heights may In srinthe principal river,
which is the stream of Death, upon whose roll
ing billows the natives are carried along in quick
succession toward the Dead Lake of Oblivion.
H.
Taciturnity es Genius- •
In conversation, Dante was taciturn or satiri
cal; Butler was silent or caustic; Gray andAl
tieri seldom talked or smihd. Descartes, whose
avocations formed him for meditation and soli
tude, was siler t. Rousseau was remarkably trito
in ronversatian—not a word of fancy or eio
qttenc. warmed him. Milton was unsocial, and
even irritable when much pressed by the talk of
others. Addison and Moliere were only obser
vers in society; and Drvdrn has very honestly
told us— *• My conversation is dull and slow, my
humor saturnine and reserved; in short, lam not
one of those who endeavor to break jests in com
pany, or make repartees.”
Aof bad- -Thefollowing toast was drank on
theßthofJanu ry, in a town in Connecticut—
“ The memory of the man who raised the corn,
that fed the goose, that bore the quill, that wrote
the Declaration of Independence l”