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c -tel ration cfthe 4lh July at Hamburg. ]
At half'past 10, in the morning, a pro
c«-ion was formed in front of Mr. Hun- !
tev's Hotel, under the direction of Mr.
Vv. Edney, Marshal of the Day. The |
Temperance party formed the escort,
who turned out in great numbers, and
ami guests formed tho procession, prece-;
de l by the Hamburg Band,' marched to
the Baptist Church, when, after prayer,.
I y the Rev. Mr. Limehouse, the Decla
ration of Independence was read by W.
H. Greene, Esq., and an appropriate
Oration delivered by M. Gray, Esq., in
which she scenes and events of the times j
that “ tried men’s souls,” were faithfully |
delineated in “ thoughts that breathe and
words that barn.” It was brief, yet j
strikingly comprehensive, and well con
nected. It was, throughout, a produc-;
non alike creditable to the head and
heart of its author, and more than real
:zed the expectations of all who heard it.
At half past 2 o’clock the citizens and
guests proceeded to Mr. Shultz’s Park,
where a sumptuous dinner was served up,
under the direction of Messrs. Walker &
Evans, which was in accordance to their
unequalled taste and skill in the culinary
art. The table groaned under the weight
of luxuriant viands and delicacies, which
at proper intervals replaced each other.
Nearly two hundred, of both sexes, sat
down at the first table, and nearly one
hundred to the next; and fhu9, nearly
three hundred of our people sat down to
a Temperance feast. Nothing was in
troduced that was not in accordance with
the most fastidious principles of temper
ance. It was the beginning of a new
era in our history; and which, if perse
vered in, will contribute more than any
of the improvements of modern times,
to promote “peace and good will among
men.” It will tend to draw closer to
gether the various and opposing princi
ples, by which society has too long been
divided. The ladies were present and
gave gi u * and ornament to the occa
sion. Tity were ranged on one side of
the table, occupying its whole length,
and the gentlemen on the other. It was,
indeed, a magnificent banquet—one that
did equal honor to our public spirited
citizens, and tho memorable occasion
they were assembled to celebrate. It
was the temperate participation of the
intelfigence and beauty of our city in
“the feast of reason and the flow of souls.”
After the cloth was removed, the acting
President of the Day, Mr. W. Edney,
took the Chair, and Andrew J. Ham
mond, Esq., was requested to act as Vice-
President. The Regular Toasts in the
order in which they were read, was an
nounced by the firing of cannon from the
citadel, in answer to each, with appro
priate music by tho Band in attendance ;
after which, Col. John Milledge, of Au
gu?ta, was toasted—replied in an appro
priate speech, in which he made a happy
allusion to the progress of temperance,
its effects upon society and our common
country.. His speech throughout was
eloquent and patriotic. Several Volun
teer toasts were given which have not
been handed in, and consequently do not
appear. The pleasures of the day were
not a little enhanced by the Ball,"which
closed its festivities. It was not until
the Ladies were led out to the dance, that
wo were struck by a display of beauty
rarely surpassed in so limited a number.
The ease and grace with which they
glided through the mazes of the merry
dance, gave evidence of the great profi
ciency in that graceful and elegant
accomplishment. About twilight it clos
ed, and each one of that gay and happy
throng, retired to their several homes,
and were no doubt pleased with them
selves and all tho world beside. Thus
was tho cardinal doctrine of temperance
carried out, “ Temperance in all things.”
It was not followed by the midnight revel,
nor the reeling yell of the maddened
votary of Bacchus; but all ended as it
began, in peace and harmony, adding
another link to the chain that binds to
gether tho moral and intelligent of our
community.— [Hamburg Journal.
Alcohol detected In the Brain.
•
The following case occurred at the
Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, during the
residence of Dr. Lewis there, as House j
Surgeon, and it is communicated by him I
to the editors of the Medical Examiner.
June, 1840.—Walter Smith aged 45,
was brought into the Infirmary by the
Police, being in a state of coma, and with
a barely perceptible pulse. The coun
tenanee was pale and turgid; there was
a frothy fluid discharged from the mouth,
and the breath had a strong alcoholic o
dour. No injury could be detected on
any part of the body. An emetic was
given, and hot application were made to
the extremities, but he died in twenty
minutes after admission. On inquiry, it
was ascertained that he had* been in hab.
its of extreme intemperance.
The vessels on the surface of the brain
were found on dissection to be more than
usually filled with black blood, and there
was quite an effusion of serum under the
| arachnoid. About an ounce of the same :
! fluid was found in the ventricles. The
! posterior part of the left lung was gorged
i with blood, and the bronchial tubes con-!
tained a considerable quantity of a frothy
, fluid. The other part 3 were generally
' healthy. No alcoholic odour could be
detected in the brain or in any part of the
j body.
As it was probable , but not certain,
! that alcohol had been the cause of death
i in this case, it was decided to ascertain, if
j possible, the presence of that substance
jby chemical analysis. Dr. Lewis, pur
; suing the direction of Dr. Percy, cut a
j bout eight ounces of the brain into slices,
| and then transferred them into a matrass,
| covering the whole with a small quantity
jof water. A bent glass tube was then
adapted to the matrass, and the fluid was
I distilled over an Argand lamp. After a
I drachm and a half of the liquid was thus
distilled, the operation was discontinued,
and an adequate quantity of subcarbo
nate of potash, well dried, was introduced
into the tube, which was then hermeti
cally sealed, and tho contents well sha
ken. “ The mixture was allowed to set
tle, and after a little while, a stratum of a
very mobile, oily-looking fluid was dis
tinctly observed floating on the saturated
solution of potash, separated however,
from it, by some ash-colored flocculi. In
order to prove that this supernatant strat
um was alcohol, it was tested next
morning in the presence of Drs. Reid and
Low, both by flame and camphor. It
burned readily with a blue flame, and dis
solved camphor rapidly, leaving, little on
no doubt as to its nature.”
The supernatant fluid in such cases,
may be withdrawn-by means of a pipette,
and its character can at once be arrived
at, by blowing into the pipette, and ap
plying its extremity to the flame of a
lamp or candle.”
Dr. Lewis claims this as only the sec, j
ond case in which alcohol has been de
tected in the brain by chemical analysis,
Dr. Percy having been the first who
proved it. It is remarkable that although
a sufficient quantity was thus detected in
the substance of the brain, yet in none of
his experiments was Dr. Percy able to
obtain any from the fluid of the ventricles.
— Med. Examiner, New Series, May 7,
1812.
An Honest Confession.
“It is easier to persuade two men to
give up drinking, than it is to persuade
one from selling; there is no profit in
drinking, but there is in selling.”
It is not often that we see individuals
who are engaged in a nefarious business,
coining out and themselves openly con
demning it; certainly not until they
have renounced that business. If they
have any misgivings as to its righteous
ness, those misgivings seldom receive an
audible manifestation. The motto of
such men usually is, to use a significant
or vulgar expression, “keep dark.”—
When therefore we find an exception to
this general course—when we sec a man,
openly, in broad day-light, denounce his
business as wicked and base, and yet
pursue that same business, we think it ex
hibits a hardihood of purpose rarely wit
nessed at this day of light and knowledge.
These remarks are suggested by the
paragraph at the head of this article—a
confession made not long since by one of
our rumseliing neighbors in Water street,
to a prominent friend of temperance in
this city; a rum-seller who has in our
opinion more of a man’s heart in his bos
om than most of his compeers, and who
ought therefore to be the more ashamed
of his business.
Let us look for a moment, at this Rum
seller’s confession. ‘ There is no proflt
in drinking .’ Sir, never was a truer
word spoken. Ask him who for years,
and at your counter, has drained the cup
of sin, who has quafi’ed its boasted sweets,
and tasted its black bitterness, if there is
any profit in drinking! Ask her, too,
whose kind and gentle spirit you have j
crushed, and whom a cold and proud j
world stigmatizes as a drunkard's wife, I
if there is any proflt in drinking! Ask
them—aye, ask them who have wept over
a father’s fall, and whose souls’ misery is
mirrored forth in the very countenances,
ifthereisany proflt in drinking! Sir,
you are right. 'There is no proflt in
j drinking /
But: ‘ There is profit in selling.' —
Very true, Sir ; but will such gains en
rich you? You may fill your coffers
■with dollars and cents, and of that which
the world deems riches may have an a
buudance; but can dollars and cents
alone enrich you ? Is it nothing with
you how they are accumulated ? Can
you, Sir, sell to your fellow man a glass
of your rum, in the drinking of which you
say there is no profit, and take in ex
change his three or six cents, and feel
that you have made a fair trade? Ac.
cording to your own words, you cannot.
Then why longer continue in a business
which you are compelled to own is an un
profitable one for the drinker, and which
we can assure you, will in the end prove,
if it has not already proved, to be un
profitable to yourself?
i'jl j-«l-gJ mMV 1 ' 'JMLMKBmMKM.
You cannot, Sir, if you would, al
! ways continue in this dreadful traffic.
They who now throng our crowded
! streets, and yourself among the number,
must soon give place to others who are to
follow. Man’s life is but a vapor. Then
why seek to amass wealth out of the ruin
of those whom you must meet again at a
tribunal different from that to which you
are here amenable. ‘ Disguise it as you
may, rum-selling is nothing less than
a traffic in the bodies and souls of
men. Rum-seller, pause—reflect—aban
don rum-selling.— Norwich Spectator.
THE WAS BIN'ETONIAN;
.* ' / ' ■
AUGUST.** JULY IS, 1843.
Wax king lon Total Abstinence Pledge.
We, whose names are hereunto annexed, desirous
of forming a Society for our mutual benefit, !
and to guard against a pernicious practice,
which is injurious to our health, standing and
families, do pledge ourselocs as Gentlemen, I
not to drink any
Spiritous or Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider.
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE,
i Rev. W. T. Biantly, Dr. F. M. Robertson,
“ W J.Hard, Dr. D. llook,
" C. S. Don, S. T Chapman, Esq.
“ Geo. F. Pierce, James Harper, Esq.
Col. John Miu.eooe,
Our thanks are due to our friends
at Decatur, for a manuscript copv of an
i excellent Temperance Oration, delivered
at that place on the 4th inst., by W. H.
Dabney, Esq.—which will appear in our
next number.
(&~ The famous Dr. Appleton has
been arrested in Lancaster Pa., as a fugi
tive from justice from Bordenton, N. J.
and will be given up to the authorities of
that State.
o£r The Southern Chronicle says—
Col. Preston lias consented to deliver
the Eulogy on the late Hugh S. Legare.
In his letter of acceptance, he requests
the Committee to name the day for the
accasion. They have accordingly fixed
the first Tuesday in November.
We would again call the attention
of our friends to the support of our paper.
Where are the members of the different
Societies throughout our State ? Awake
from your slumbers, and, like a mighty
host, come to the support of this holy
cause. A small effort, and but a trivial
sacrifice from each one, will place the
Washingtonian on a firm basis. Shall
the effort be made ? lam sure vou will
J
unanimously answer—yes! And what
is the sacrifice? Only One Dollar—
Just what, in old times, would have paid
for sixteen drinks. Come, come then,
let every Washingtonian take our paper,
and, if he can, get his neighbor to do the
same, and the work is done.
How it must cheer the heart of every
patriot to contemplate the spirited man
ner in which the late anniversary of our
National Independence has been celebra
ted ; and, that too, without the aid or
influence of the polluting demon Alcohol.
From every direction we receive ac
counts of immense processions—large
| dinner parties, with the most patriotic
| aiid soul-stirring sentiments, coming
j from the cool heads and warm hearts
|of the multitude. Celebrations on the
| Washingtonian principles seem to be all
| the fashion. And now, too, the “ better
half ” of creation are not excluded from
these gatherings : and why should they
be ? Who, indeed, so appropriate
teachers of the youth of our country in
patriotism as their mothers! Who so
well calculated to inspire the patriot with
fresh love and devotion to his country
as the fair daughters of our land! Thus
may if ever be. Let roar of cannon
announce this glorio’js day—Let the
“ stripes and stars” float from every flag
staff on land, and every mast, where an
American vessel is found upon the
ocean—Let the sflrill trumpet and rolling
drum summon tlil flower of the land in
i proud military array—Let the orator tell
| the story of his Country’s struggles and
! triumphs in strains of noble eloquence.—
But banish, eh!: banish forever, from
these sacred ceremonies, the accursed
■ r ' i
and polluting vice that would reduce us
to a state of bondage more galling than
1 j colonial vassalage. W r here the insidious
' social glass once “ sparkled on the
t board,” give us the sparkling eye of
i beauty ; and for the rosy wine, give us
. j the ruby lips and glowing cheeks of the
fair daughters of America. Thus may
the day ever be celebrated. Let no
- strange fire be mingled with our sacrifi
ces, but may the pure and unalloyed
flame of patriotism burn in every bosom.
We recommend the following beautiful
and eloquent extract, from an address of
the Hon. Thomas F. Marshall, to the
perusal of every man who is indulging in
the daily use of ardent spirits, even tem
perately, as it is commonly, and most
unwisely, called ; nay, though it be but
j a social glass of Old Madeira or Port,
i The eloquent speaker has told us, else
where, in glowing and forcible language,
| how this insidious custom of temperate
and social drinking had well nigh sapped
I the foundations of his physical as well as
his mental powers. He was, indeed,
within the very jaws of the monster; but,
thanks to the Washingtonian Pledge,
he now stands a monument of the saving
influence of Total Abstinence.
To the drunkard, we would say, read
this, unfortunate man, and behold in it,
as in a mirror, a faithful reflection of
thine own condition—-Start not at the
frightful image. ? Tis thine own—“/ftou
art the man.” Take one more look, and
resolve, like a man, to place your foot
upon the monster—to face the world and
show the multitude that you are not yet
unhumanized —that the image of your
Creator has not been entirely effaced.
After describing the ruinous effects of
alcohol upon the physical man, he ob
serves —
“But of all the ills it woAs—Oh !of
all the ruin it brings upon man—look at
the death it inflicts upon the heart and
moral constitution of the human race.
Here are its most terrible triumphs. We
might forgive it all the rest: —if it only
spoiled our beauty; if it only hurried
man to a premature grave; if we could
measure its ruin by dilapidated fortunes,
by ruined health, and by destruction of
life—O then we might forgive it! Men
must die at last; and any agency which
only precipitates that event by a few
years, or months, or weeks, we may over
look as no great evil. The mere dissolu
tion—the decomposition of the physical
elements of which our nature is so
; strangely composed-the sundering of that
mysterious’ and wonderful link which
binds the mind and body—which must
eventually take place—is not so much to
i be deplored, and the agency which pre
i cipitates it might be forgiven. But what
! does a man mean when he says ‘ him
self?’ What do I mean when I use the
words I myself, and call inyself a man—
what do I mean ? Is it merely his clay?
. Oh, no!—When I say myself —when I
I allude to what is called me —l mean that
! divine particular, which revelation tell us
'; was breathed into man at his birth by the
»j Author of his being. I mean that which
! the Divinity has implanted within him—
the reason and the heart; not only bv
the power by which he thinks, and imag
■ ines, and demonstrates, by all that world
.| of moral emotions of which he is the
. monarch and the lord. I mean all those
; fine feelings and sympathies which make
I him human—all which make him holy—
' j all which make him, as we all hope and
jas we all believe he is, eternal. The ruin
. j of this—the prostration of this it is which
, I makes alcohol man’s greatest curse, and
renders its crimes to the eye of man alto
gether unpardonable. It is the peculiar
effect of alcohol; no other poison does it.
< Arsenic kills a man; but as long as he
; lives—while he can draw a single breath
[ —he is a man still. Other poisons pro
. duce death; but so long as man can
j breath under their power, so long he will
1 love his wife—so long will he love his
’ chi" and his friends ; and though he sink
' .nto the arms of death under the influence
i of a poison too strong for his nature, still
, j his moral nature triumphs, love survives,
( | and the man bids defiance to death and
the grave! Alcohol docs what nothing
else can do: it overflows, with a destruc
-5 tive flood, all that is noble in human na
i ture. It annihilates the immortal mind
j and the deathless soul!— That's what it
does!
What other vice—what other crime
1 or poison, or pest on earth can turn the
3 ; heart and the hand of man against weak
l ness and innocence ? Make a man a
, ’•obber—throw him into the fierce collis
j ions of life by which he must be surround
j ed—let him surrender himself to their in
fluence—make him the enemy of men—
'; make him a robber or a murderer—and
1 yet, robber and a murderer as he is, at his
I: own hearthstone he is a man still! He
s loves his wife—his child clings to him for
i care and support. That high chivalry
.! of mankind which makes the feebleness
1 1 of woman her best defence—which
' ! makes her weakness her greatest strength
—which gives her a claim on man for
5 defence and support —nothing destroys
;j it but alcohol. Nothing else on earth
r : can raise the muscular arm of man a
} gainst the weak, shrinking, helpless form
of woman! Nothing else severs the pa
rental tie that binds him to the offspring
* to which he has given existence; noth
ing destroys it but alcohol. In disease,
in poverty, in crime, in the presence of
1 death, the fleeting wretch may be press
f ed to the earth; but be infant who owes
» to him his existence still hangs on him—
{ is still bound to him by a strong and in
dissoluble bond, which grows stronger
the more deeply he is steeped in misery
and wretchedness. Nothing destroys it
t but alcohol. This unhumanizcs man;
it blots out the image of his God, strips
him of his highest glory, and obliterates
from his heart every trace of his great
’ original.”
| Dr. Percv, in the conclusion of his
s able experimental 44 Essay on Poisoning
by Alcohol,” arrives at the following con
( elusions, which cannot fail to interest the
, temperate as well as the intemperate
- user of this form of poison. It is some
times called a “ slow poison but we
1 fear that manv have been carried to a
*
I premature grave, by its influence, with
*1 the most rapid strides. One thing is
j certain—it is the most effectual, as weW
j as the most speedy method of getting rid
of one’s money, ami reducing himself’
and family to want and wretchedness.
Wc presume there is not one out of ten
thousand whom it has ruined, that will
tell you that it is a slow way to poverty.
And, ah ! couM all the victims of its po
' tent influence speak from their grates,
they too would say, trust not to its being
a “slow poison.” It may delay its work
* for a while, but when it once gets a firm
hold it is fearfully rapid and certain in
its results.
Dr. Percy observes 44 In reference
to the principal object of the investiga
tion, we may conclude that, although no
direct evidence Ims been advanced in
support of the statement of Dr. Ogston
and others concerning the presence of
I alcohol in the ventricles of the brain, af
' ter poisoning by alcoholic liquors, yet the
circumstance of alcohol being separated
. from the brains of dogs, and the human
II brain, may be adduced as liivorabie to
> | these statements. It must not be forgot
- 11 ten, however, that I obtained two results,
1 1 which appear to be at variance with thi*
, conclusion; for in two instances in
. which I found an appreciable quantity of
t liquid effused into the ventricles, I was
■ unable to detect any trace of alcohol in
this liquid, though a sensible quantity
7 was separated from, the substance of the
[ brains. I have already remarked, that I
t do not consider these results of much
5 weight, as the quantity of effusion, in
3 both cases, was, comparatively speaking,
jso inconsiderable, that the analysis can
. scarcely be considered satisfactory. Be
. sides, it is necessary to observe that
1 effusion, after fatal intoxication, has fre
-3 quently been discovered in the ventricles
,of the human brain; although there are
' j only one or two cases recorded, in which.
1 ■ this effusion is reported to have furnished
i any indication of the presence of alcohol.
1 Hence, also, the two results cannot be
1 urged as an objection to the preceding
conclusion.
r
“A remark may here be appropriately
3 ! introduced respecting the situation in
I i which the alcohol may exist in the brain.
■ That, to a certain extent, it is diffused
j through the substance of the brain ; and
that it is not all contained in the cerebral
3
I I vessels, will, I think, appear from the fob
3 lowing circumstances, —namely : That
1 although I have subjected to analysis a
j much greater quantity of blood than can
y possibly be present within the cranium,
y yet I have, in general, been enabled to
. procure a much greater proportion of
I j alcohol from the brain, than from all this
I I quantity of blood. Indeed, it w’ould al
j most seem that a kind of affinity existed
“ j between alcohol and the cebral matter.
. j “ The rapidity with which alcohol may,
11 under favorable circumstances, be ab
-1 sorbed from the stomach and conveyed
‘! to the brain is remarkable.
“ That alcohol may be detected in the
j' blood, the bile and liver, and other secre- /
3 tions. It may be separated with great
3 facility from the bile and liver ; and this 1
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