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stinence Society.
OFFICERS.
Dr. Joseph A. Eve, President.
Col. John Mii.ledge,
Hawkins Hui'r,
Dr. F. M. Robertson, )■ Vice Presidents.
Dr. I. P. Garvin,
J. VV. Meredith, I
Wm. Haines, Jr. Secretary if- Treasurer.
MANAGERS.
Jambs Harper, Wm. F. Pemberton,
John G Dunlap, Wm O Eve,
Jesse Walton, A. Phillips,
E. E. Scofield, Dr. Benjamin Douglass,
James Godbv, J. L. .Mimms.
PHRENOLOGY VCrSUS INTEMPERANCE.
A LECTUIIEOX TEMPERANCE,
Considered Physiologically and Phbenologically ,
or tilt Laws oj Life and the principles of the
human constitution , as developed by the
sciences of Phrenology and Phy
siology, bfc. ilpc.
BY O. S. FOULER, A. 8.,
PRACTICAL PHKENOI.OG.ST.
[ Concluded .] •
No wonder you begin to flutter, anil to parry
these terrible results. But this is not the place
for evasion. Go back with me and scrutinize as
closely as you pie >se, every proposition and infer
ence made, every principle adduced; and if you
can overthrow any of them, ti en, but not other
wise, may you escape these murderous inferences.
1. Is there not a fixed connexion between the
*ta es of mind and body 1 Unquestionably. Do
not the slates of the body reciprocally affect those
of the mind 1 2. Are not these relations overn
ed by invariable laws of cause and effect? Indis
putably so. 3. Docs not all our happiness flow
from law obeyed, and is not all our suffering
merely the penalty of violated law 7 4 Does not
virtue, and with it, happiness, consist in th>- liar- I
monious exercise of all our faculties, with the i
moral predominant; and also vice, and with it
m sery, in the inordinate exercise of the animal
passions, in oppo-ition to the dictates of morality
and intellect ] No sane mind will question it.
5. Does not alcohol powerfully stimulate the
nerves] Apply it internally to the exposed
nerves, and see. 8 Does it Dot retain its stimula
ting properties after it is taken into the blood]
As well may you say that fire does not burn. 7.
Is there not several hundred per cent, more of
blood, and thus of this powerful stimulus, carried
to tile brain, thus exciting the mind , than is car
ried to any other equally large portion of the sys
tem 7 Ask physiologists, or observe whether alco
holic drinks do not excite the mind and feelings
vastly more than they do the muscles, 8. Does
not alcohol first stiinula'e and then benumb the
animal propensities, and weaken the moral and
intellectual powers; thus reversing the natural
order of things, anil producing vice, and with it,
misery of the worst kind, by violating the highest
laws of our being] L t either the sci nee of
phrenology, or the phenomena of drunkenness,
or other analagous facts, answer, 9. Does not
alcoh-1 shorten life by exhausting the vital ener
gies without re-supplying them 7 This proposi
ion is invulnerable. Then is not every individ
ual who furthers this result, guilty of shortening
auman life, just to make money 7 Ask citlqjr
common law, or your own consciences. Ask rea
son, or facts, or a sense of right. Every proposi
tion is invulnerable, and this terrible inference
therefore unavoidable. Thi kof these thines;
and since you cannot escape the penalty of viola
ted law, penitently acknowledge that you are per
petrating suicide, gradually or rapidly, but surely,
according to the amount you drink; or commit
ting homicide, wholesale or retail, according to
the extent, of your custom.
Objections.— I. If you object by saying:
Then the maker of the guri is responsible for the
murders that mav be caused by it, I reply, that
between the making of the gun and the death
caused by it, there is no necessary or invariable
connexion; whereas, 'Ptween the making, and
vending, and drinking of alcoholic liquors, and
the consequent shortening of human life, and the
TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE.
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1813.
production of misery, there exist fixed and cer- ,
tain relations ot cause and effect; the former cau- j
sing the latter, especially as ninety-nine-hund
retlis ol all the liquors made and sold, are to
drink , and known to he so by maker and vender.
2. If you farther object, that “ alcohol is a good
creature ot God;” that had it not been beneficial,
he never would have made it, I reply: He no
more makes alcohol than t.e makes a steam boat,
ora minced pie. True, the original elements
which separated from some particles and combin
ed with others, constitute alcohol, are contained
in the grain; hut there is not a particle of alc« hoi
in a million bushels of grain, any in»relhan there
is a steam-boat in a forest, or the expansive gas of
gun-powder in salt-petre, charcoal and sulphur,
each a thousand miles Irom tty.' other. If iron
ore in a forest is a steamboat, or men in the woods
a city, or wood potash, then is there alcohol in
grain. Had it been necessary lor man, or even
proinotive of his good, God would have created !
alcohol in its pure state. The fact is a little re-1
markable, that alcohol can he produced from
grain, only after it begins to decay.
11. “ But Christ turned water into wine.” Gen
tle reader, all the wine made out of water, you
are at perfect liberty to drink. Nor will “ new
j wine, or unfermented beer, or sweet cider injure
1 you; for it is thefermentation that engenders the
i alcohol. Keep within the letter and spirit of the
I Bible, and wine will not harm you.
I 4. “Ifldo not make and sell ardent spirits'
[ some one else will; and I may as well have the
! profit, as they.” So you may, and the curses
j with it. We have already shown, that to make,
1 or sell, ordrink it, is wrong ; and that to do wrong,
that is, to violate law, incurs its penalties; and
you may as well suffer the penalties as any one.
5. “ But alcohol is necessary as a medicine.”
Then use it as such. 1 giant that cases ot ner
vous prostration may sometimes occur, which re
quire some potent stimulant to rouse them; hut
in such cases, let the physician deal it out, a tea
sjioon full at a time, which, in the days of tiueen |
Elizabeth, was deemeed a potent dose for a ru- j
bu-t titan.
ti. “ But I never sell to a man when he is
drunk, but only »i> moderate drinkers.” That is,
you will not actually kill off a drunkard, yet you
wiitmakea sober man a drunkard. You will
not push the head of the drowning man under
water, but you will pusn the man who is sate on
shore into the si ream; you will not perpetrate the
last act in the drama of death, whilst you hesitate
not to keep bringing men into that state which
will inevitably shorten their days.
7- “ But 1 can measure my depth and stop
when I please.” Observe what we have shown,
that alcoholic stimulants deaden the organs of
self-government, leaving you a prey to your in
clinations. tStop nOW, ll’ £VKK.
PkUPOM I'IUN. X — Such are the physical
relations existing between parenls and there off
spring, that the drinking propensity of the /oi ■
mer is liable, if not almost certain, to be trans
mitted to the latter. But for the existence of
some laws of relation in accordance with which
the qualities of the parents are transmitted to
their chi dren, the latter would be as liable to
resemble any of the brutes, or a tree, or stone, as
their parents. Bit in accordance with these
laws, “like begets tike,” ‘each after its kind.”
There are family faces and family forms ot the
body, family talents and family tastes and dispo
sition, and last, not least, family forms of the
head and also appetites.
Both phrenology and physiology fully estab
lish the assertion, that not only different forms of
the body, hut also certain torms of the head or
certain phrenolegica! developeinents, and of
course the accompanying qualities of mind, are
transmitted from generation to generation. —
Thus, whole families from the great grandsire ot i
all, down through all the branches of his descend-1
ants, will be over-f. nd of money, or proud, or
eminently talented, or ambitious, or mathematl- j
cal, or mechanical, or tuneful, as the case may |
be Hence the proverb, “ like mother, like
daughter .”
Fully to establish this proposition and its sev
eral applications, which invoive the most power- 1
ful of all motives for total abstinence, would re
quire more time and space than we can here
spare. This principle is undeistood, and suc
cessfully applied to perfecting the shape, quali
ties and disp isitions of animals. It applies
equally to man, only in a still greater degree, be
cause of iis greater number ofqualities to be com
pounded, an-J the far greater value of the im
provement effected. This motive bears with
prodigious force upon this subject in four ways:
Firstly. By the direct descent of the drinking
propensity. 1. Not only do the phrenological
developements of parents descend to their child
ren, and with them the accompanying mental
qualities, but also ttieir particular forms of man
ifestation. Hence, if the appetite of the father
fastens upon or reject oysters, or ardent spirit,
OR,
butter, &c., that of the son will fasten upon or;
reject the same articles, and induce the conse
quences The fatln r Dr. Kimball, of Sackelt’s
Harbor, N. Y., could never tndure the taste or
smell of butter; and his son, though a merchant,
will never keep butter in Ills store, solely on ac
count ofthe disgust he instinctively feels towards
it, preferring to forego the loss of both profits and
customers, rather ttian to have it about him, nor
can he sit at table on which it is, unless it is of
the purest, sweetest kind.
If the Acquisitiveness ofthe parent fasten up
on landed pioperty, that ot his descendants will
fasten upon the same. The town records of
Newbury, Mass., near two centuries ago, re
quired the selectmen “to see that Mr. L
gets no more land than what belongs to him,” |
The disposition to acquire land, which this cau
tion implies, is exhibited ill his descendants down
to the present tune. Not only is the land which
he selected in 1840, in Newbury, still owned by
his descendants of the same name, hut their Ac
quisitiveness has fastened upon land, land especi- j
ally in distinction from other kinds ot property,
and there are few, if any, families in this country,
who now own so large tracts of land as this. <j.
The general states ot the body and mind of the
parents, are imparted to their children. Now al
cohol stimulates the animal passions of the par
ent, and weakens his moral and intellectual mi-
ture, aiul begets the same characteristics in their
children, uence the children of drinkers are
never as intellectual or moral as those of others,
are usually dull scholars, quarrelsome and vici
ous, and the pests of society. Nor is it necessary
that the father should be a drunkard, only that he
should lose and long alter “the good creature.”
Volumes of this class ot facts might be adduced,
but our space allows us only to state the principle.
Again: the irritated state ot the parents’ mind
will so shape his conduct to the child, as to ex
cite and thus re-increase the same animal organs,
not to mention the strong disposition ot the child
to imitate him.
Secondly. Whilst the talents arc mostly im
parted by me mother , tne propensities and desires
usually descend in the line ot the father, lienee
this love ot stimulants is more liable to be trans
muted by the father than are his talents, thus
visiting the iniquities of the father upon the child
ren unto the third and fourth gencrali ns.
'Thirdly Sometimes these qualities pass the
first generation only to appear in tne next, so
that even though your children may possibly es
cape destruction, t .is liquor-loving stream which
springs from you is almost sure to flow on to gen
erations yet unborn, widening and deepening as
it progresses, either breaking out here and there
and yonder, or else sweeping your name and race
from thfe face of the earth. True, the superior
virtue of the mother may arrest its How at its
fountain head ; yet what rational parent will run
tne venture I Is not this a most powerful motive
to young ladies promptly to refuse the addresses
of those young men who driuk a drop ot any|lund
of stimulants ! Every woman who marries even
an occasional stimulator, is in imminent danger,
aye, almost sure, of losing the alfectioiis ot her
first, her only love, past all recovery, and to lol
low him lo an early and most bitter grave; and
also ot seeing her sons, otherwise her condor!
and support, become her broken reed, her deepest
disgrace, redoubling the indescribable miseries of
a drinking husband in the still deeper, bitterer,
miseries of drinking, besotted “ children and
chlldien’s chlldien.”
Fourthly. Children are very likely to have this |
liquor-loving taste kindled by their nurses giving !
them milk-punch, toddy. &e., and still more by
their mothers di inking these diinks, or wine, ale, j
porter, strong beer, <&e., a practice quite too com
mon, hut most pernicious. Though, by unduly
stimulating the stomach, it may temporarily aug
ment the quantity of milk, it eventually (as seen:
on pp. 25) only diminishes, weakens and poisons '
it, injuring both mother and child, besides plant
ing a love of liquor in the infantile bosom.
Those Phrenologists who stimulate thereby
evince either their utter ignorance of the hearings
of this science, or a criminality far greater than
those who do not understand it; for up individual
ofordinarv intellect could become throughly im
bued with the spirit 01 Phrenology, vvitimut be
coming a thorough going temperance man, both
by example and precept.
I adjure you, therefore, by your love of that
‘ pure, perennial lountain ol pleasure, that ocean
of mental and moral enjoyment of which our na
ture is susceptible, flowing from obedience to the
laws of our constitution, and also by that literal
i hell of misery upon earth which inevitably over
takes and overwhelms every violator of these.
I laws; I adjure you by your love of life and your
i fear of death, and of such a death, but especially,
by the love you bear to your family, your name,
i your offspring, and your posterity; by all that is
I beautiful, all that is sacred in your nature, I ad
jure you, abstain tee-totally, now and forever,
[No. &<!.
from EVERY FORM.VvERY ADMIXTURE, EVERY PE
ghke:, ot alcoholic, patoxieatmg anil stimulating
drinks.
From the Organ and Washingtonian.
Supreme Court ol the C ivilized World.
TRIAL OONT.NUED.
Croton Holer vs. King Alcohol.
Present his Honor, Judge Commonsense. The
Clerk culled over the jufyi who answered to their
names, and the trial proceeded.
Mr Landlord, Counsel for the defendant, then
called to the stand Air. Porte! House.
By the Counsel Have you hot. and that fre
quently seen King Alcohol, the prisoner at the
har, in company with the Honorable Mr. W ,
Judge L , Esq. H , Lawyer !S—a—, Dr.
B , and Parson D 1
1 have, sir. 1 have seen him at the bar with
his rolx—on the bench with his ermine and wigs
1 have seen him at the side ol the sick bed, and in
the lobby of the House of Representatives; 1
know hint to have been courted by the most fa
shionable ladies of the city, who have, lam told,
frequently honored him in their private parlors.
Mr. Brewer was called by the Counsel and ap
peared on the stand.
By the Counsel. Pleaso state to the Court
and jury what you know about tho prisoner at
the bar.
Witness. I have known the prisoner well,
sir, anil have known him for years. 1 know him
to have d. ne much good in his day; he has made
the fortune of many a landlord and porter house
keeper; given support to many a grocery and
groggery; has given strength to weak wines—
life to eider, and virtue to beer, which, in their
turn, have exhiiirated the drooping spirits of llie
depressid; made happy the wretched and the
beggar, by drowning all their sorrows, and final
ly putting an end to all their miseries, by closing
their eyes in dust, when a cold world had turned
them in the street to perish with want.
D. fence continued. Mr. Antiquary being
called to the stand, testified as follows:
Witm ss. 1 know the prisoner at the liar, and
I know him to he a descendant of a very ancient
family ; one ol his earliest ancestors was the fa
mous god Bacchus, who was deified by the foun
ders of ■■ recce and Rome, and worshipped as a
god by those exalted nations; they, built temples
to his memory, and instituted festivals in honor of
nis name and virtues. His descendants from
that period to the present time, have always found
worshippers—kings, princes, and potentates have
bowed belurc their shrine. Autocrats, emperors,
and m gills have done homage before them; ht
roes and warriors have fallen prostrate at their
command ; and as the arts have advanced, so has
the worship of the present King improved, and
his worshippers increased in number—and I
know by the records in my possession that he is
the linial descendants and legitimate offspring of
the ancient and renewed god Bacchus.
Cross-examined by Mr. Croton. You say,
Mr. Antiquary, that the ancients gave festivals
in honor of this god Bacchus. Now as you are
sworn to tell the truth, and the whole truth, will
you relate to the Court and jury what was the
consequence and end of thoseexhibitions'l
W by, sir, if 1 am hound to tell the whole truth,
those festiv Js became riots and disorderly, revels,
and were carried to such a degree, that in about
seven hundred years after the foundation of
Rome, the Senate of that republic had to pass a
deerce'forbidding those festivals, and they were
prohibited throughout that vast empire.
Do you not know of some disgraceful .scenes
created by theeailiest ancestry of the prisoner at
the bar?
I mint'd 1 do, sir, but would rather not relate
them.
The Court decided that the question should be
answered, as natch latitude was allowed in a
cross-examination, when the witness proceeded,
1 well remember that one of the family was
with Noah soon after he left the ark, another
was with Lot when he left the Patriarch Abra
ham. For the acts they committed there, 1 w.,uld
refer the jury to the history of the times. They
were at t lie debauch ot Belshazzar and Alexander
and caused much trouble. And in latter times
they have been found exerting the family influ
ence in all classes of society.
Question by Mr. Landlord—Are you not of
the opinion that the noble family of my client
has been, upon the whole, of more universal
good to the woild than evil?
I he plaintiff here rose an objection, that it was
improper for the witness to give or make up an
opinion ; that he must state facts—that il was
for the jury to make up their verdict from those
tacts, and not from the opinion of any individual.
The Court decided that the question could not
be put; whereupon the Counsel for the defence
rested the cause.
Mr. Croton, the plaint iff, 5 then called to the