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For tlic Wasl.iiigumian.
To Martha,
la silent ecstacy 1 gaze,
On Martha’s face and air,
Whilst to my heart each took conveys
Both pleasure and despair.
For where so many charms unite,
Tile object sure must fill
A tender bre tsl with keen delight;
Yet that delight may kill.
Too true alas!—such beauty's pow r,
Well pleas’d we wear the clin n;
But if the fair’s unkind, wr’re sure
To die with grief and pain. *
Tltis, Martha is my hapless case:
Thy rhartus attract my eyes;
Yet if thy rioor do not cease,
Alas, poor Eugene dies.
But by tyrant custom ty’d,
I may hear, but d ire riot speak ;
Custom must my conduct guide
Though my loving heart should break.
Eugene.
For the Washingtonian.
To Miss M.
Ah! fled to me—forever lied
Are all my joyous hours,
And scattered on their dewy bed,
The fairest of Hope's flowers:
For whoring tongues, with envious wile,
Have robed with rare thy brow,
And turned away from me thy smile—
I am not happy now.
The clouds that darken o’er the sky,
When storms arc gathering near,
Will veil the blue arch from the eye,
With mantle dark and drear;
But still the blue sky smiles above
With light as soft and pure,
Nor all the clouds that o’er it move,
Can its mild glow obscure.
Bo like that, sky, the flame that gleams
On Friendships altar bright,
Will hum with pure and changeless beams,
Though envy veil its light.
Alt! didst thou know the heart that weaves
This thought to meet thine eye,
Thine own pure breast where feeling breathes
Would calm the rising sigh.
Sunday, April 97th.
Wine Drinking.
It is surprisingly strange that with
all the light that has been shed upon
community, respect ing the dangerous
nature of alcoholic thinks, there |
should be found any, especially in
the refined and intellectual class, ad
hering to the practice of vine drink
ini'. Strange as it may seem, it is
nevertheless too true. There are
many who still oiler wine to their
guests, in the presence of their child
ren, who thus learn to look upon it
as a necessary token of hospitality,
and early imbibe the notion that it is
nil indispensable requisite in the en
joyments of social life.
It makes one's heart ache to see
the beautiful boys and promising
young men, sons of the iilllucnt, born
with a fortune, educated in all the
fashionable accomplishments of the
age, drinking of the wine cup around j
their father’s festive board. We
knew one such, who, a few years j
since, flood erect amid his young j
companions, intelligent, full of spirit
and full of enterprise. But he loved ]
the wine. We have seen him quafFl
it with a sort of madness, and in the \
exhilaration of the hour, we have]
heard words of burning eloquence |
fall from his lips, and the blood has i
curdled in our veins as thought after ]
thought, of deeper, intenser inteiestj
came from him. And we have fol
lowed him down, step by step, to the
deep damnation of the drunkard, till
he died, in a dark and stormy night,
in the swamps of Texas. And we
have seen his amiable mother, her
self a splendid specimen of God’s
most handiwork, sit hour after hour
in mute despair, picking with her
skeleton fingers the madman’s blank
et, and clasp the air and exclaim—
“ Charles! O, Chailes! where have
you been to-night ?” She is a ma
niac. And Oh, if ever we heard
words of agoay that went to our
heart’s deep core, it was when that
woman in the frenzy of despair cali
, ed out upon the grave to give back
her son, her only son. And yet,
there are those, who, in the face and
eyes of innumerable facts of like im
port still maintain the ground, as
tenable, that wine drinking never
did and never can make drunkards,
and that if there were no distilled
I
liquors, there would be, thcie could
he no intemperance.
I We would respectfully invite such;
j men to consult the historic page of
! Greece and Home, nod inquire w hat
drink that was which inspired the]
poets and orators of antiquity ; that
maddened the brains of the populace)
as they did homage to Bacchus and:
! Venus? What beverage that was,
! of which Horace sunij, and to whose ;
j pollutions the voluptuous Anacreon,
: strung his lyre? Whose praise have j
poets of all ages and nations celebra
ted, those of the worm of the still, or:
j those oft he god of l lie vintage? Go,
to the luxuriant dime of Fiance, or]
to the voluptuous fields of Italy, and j
;as you behold their gay populace >
:dancing in drunken delirium in the;
i shade of the embowering vine, and
mark their sparkling eyes, and wan-,
ton gestures, you need not lie told
(that there is alcohol in the fermented
juice of the grape, and that drunk
j enness is generated no less by the
exhilaration of the wine cup than by ;
i t hat of the rum bottle. Or go, of an
evening, to the halls of fashion, where
learning and wealth have congrega
ted, where music melts the soul, and
beauty captivates the heart, and the
senses are regaled and intoxicated j
; with the splendor of the festal scene,
] and as you behold the rosy wine!
i pressed by the lip of beauty and see |
j the cup go round and round, till the
i tongue begins to utter silly things,
ar.d the eye to throw unholy glances, i
and the ribald jest to pass from lip to I
lip, and loud ami obstreperous mirth;
take the place of quiet and serene
enjoyment, and the hiccough succeed
the whispers of love, and wild uproar
become the master of the hour —tell
us not that wine has no intoxicating
power, and that it is a safe and
wholesome drink.
Were we to tell our own experi
ence in the matter, we should say
that we liist drank to excess of wine
and that during the earlier stages oft
our infcinpeinncc we drank nothing
hut wine; and moreover, that there
is a sulficient quantity of alcohol in
wine to make a drunkard of any
body. And were we to speak from
observation we should sav, that stu
dents almost invariably, and clerks
generally, and the sons of the rich
always, acquire habits of intemper
ance and become di unkards on wine
and wine only.
We could furnish some awful in
stances in which individuals have
tiiiced their first desire for intoxica
ting liquors to this vice of hospitality.
One who died an awful drunkard at
the age of twenty-two, declared that
he formed the strong desire to taste!
intoxicating liquors from witnessing
the pleasurable feelings which ap-|
poured to be produced in his parents j
and friends by the use of w ines and
mixed liquois. He was not. allowed
even to laste them, being always
told that such drinks w ere riot good
] for little hoys. Again and again did ;
he creep down in his night clothes
after his parents had retired to rest,:
that he might drain- their glasses;
•j till at length he found his way to the \
; sideboard, and drank both wines and
j spirits in their taw state. At the
! age of fourteen his father was shock
ed to find him a confirmed drunk
ard! and at the age of twenty-two
; he died a horrible death !
What parent is not shocked at
such a recital? And yet at what a
I trifling sacrifice might that fearful
I evil have been prevented. Preven
tion is far, far better and easier than
j cure . Let parents sign the pledge
, of total abstinence from all intoxica
ting drinks and bring their children
to the same point.
Parents! mothers! dash the fatal
draught from the lips of your dear
children! Put away from your
houses the seductive poisons ; lest in
a few years your hearts should he
, tilled with keenest anguish as you
hear your children lay the ruin of
their health, their intellect, their
happiness at your door.—Temper
ance Standard.
Temperance Education.
It is very manifest to every reflect
ing mind that there is to be a thor
ough temperance education institu
ted for the children and youth all,
over our country before the temper
hrice enterprize can be completed.
The education of past years has been >
all the reverse. The very utinos-j
pliere of the nursery was a rum at-!
mosphere. Intants was bathed in
its fount, and hushed and quieted in
its fume. Paregoric was the stand
ing composure amid all aches and
disquietudes. And no sooner did
the child conic to the knowledge of
good and evil, than the greatest good
presented was the sweetened drink.
And at the table, the health of papa
and mamma must be drank in the
ruby nine. The training was all
for intoxicating drink, and a licit
harvest was gathered of 500,000
drunkards from among the once in- 1
nocent and lovely children of Ameri
ca. O, what a harvest! What an'
Aceldama, a field of blood. How
could tiie children help falling a prey
to the great destroyer. It is time
the tables were turned. But it is
not to be done without labor and care.
When shall the tempeiance edu
cation commence, and how shall it
be conducted ? it must commence
at ihe very earliest period. The
great deceiver and devourer must ;
lie forestalled the moment the child
comes into being. Alcohol in no!
shape or form must be suffered to
come in contact with him, particu
larly as a source of happiness and
pleasure. liis earliest training must
be upon water as a di ink to quench
his thirst, n drink with his food, aj
drink for pleasure, a drink in the
social party, the only liquid (change ,
if changed at all, without the least
infusion of alcohol) he will offer to
his friends, or expert to receive from
those who would bestow upon him
the greatest favors* A childhood
thus formed will he safe from per
haps the most seductive and ruinous
o r all the evils which pervade human
society.
This training, on the part of pa
rents, should he from principle. It
should not he fallen into from acci
dent merely, or to make a show of
temperance, hut parents should on-!
gage i u it from a sense of duty, which
they owe to their offspring and
which they owe to the community.
Unless they <io so, tlieie will he
many slips, and alcoholic drinks will
lie coming in occasionally, or at least
finding commendation or praise.
This training should he under the
constant remembrance that the child
has strong tendencies to something
exciting. All men love excitement,
and if the child once gels a taste of;
an exciting drink, it will he sure to
desire it again. Os this the* parent
should never be forgetful. If tlieie
is no indulgence there is no desire.]
The thirst is easily prevented, but
not easily cured.
The training should he under the
remembrance that the child is to
grow up amid temptation, and to live
in a world where it will every day
and hour he enticed to drink. The
mind therefore is to be fortified a
gainst it by arguments and princi
ples. It will not be enough that its i
habits are gor.d, but it is to be made
to understand that where the poison
is offered, it is to be resist eel, and
why it is to be resisted ; and it is to
he so instructed that it can not only
be able to give a reason for resist
ing, but shall have a heart and a do- 1
termination to be an aggressor, and
at all times and in all places to make
war upon the first stages of intem
perance. 'I he children of our coun
try should be brought up to feel that
they are here to be in battle all their
days, and are to lie well supplied, j
even in their childhood, with wea- (
pons in the war. Parents do well
who encourage among their children j
debating societies and temperance j
meetings, where hoys and girls can
have a good training, and become
well skilled in all the temperance j
principles. A boy or girl who can
not by good arguments stand their]
ground, when invited to drink a glass !
of wine, or ale, or cider, are poorly
fitted to meet the temptation or do
any good in society. There are ma- j
ny little temperance hooks and pa- ,
pers which should he put into their:
hands for. this purpose, and we j
strongly recommend them as we
urge this whole subject upon the at-i
tention of parents.
With these few remarks, which
I might be much moie extended had
jvve loom, we close at present; but
I we shall resume it again ; persua
ded that it demands much more of
the attention of the temperance com
munity than has ever been bestowed
upon it.— Youth’s loop. Adi\
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I physiological fact and information, yet its space
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