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Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel. VOL. I.] THE WASHINGTONIAN. PUBLISHED BY JAMES McCAFFERTY, TWICE EVERY MONTH. Office on Macintosh street —opposite the Post Office . TtRMS. For asiagle copy, for one year, One Dollar; for six copies, to one address. Five Dollars ; for ten copies, to one address, Eight Dollars—and so in proportion. (jt?» Payment in all cases to lie made in advance. All communications by mail, must be post rain, to receive attention. Richmond County Washington Total Ab 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