The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-04-04
DRUNKENNESS


This is a subject of more than usual
int to the rising generation. 1t has
lately been touched upon by several. oil
our respectable journals, but SO feebly
as scarcely TO be felt, and so partially as
hardly to be noticed. If an individual
puts period TO his life instan,aneously
by using violence, all the journals in our
land give the intelligence to ou' readers
Indeed, it would seem as if they made
an exertion 70 be frs, in making the fac,
known TO the world. But where is the
good and faithful sentinel who has under
his charge the all powerful engine, 1.-THE
Press) that warns the drunkardto beware!
SO alarming is this evil, and so general
has It become, that it has been publicly
proclaimed from the capital Of the union.
Vne OF the sentineis of the people, in
his place, in the congress of the nation,
OR. Condic,, of New Jersey) has warn.
ed the nation, (sAys the N. York States
man. and direaed the thoughts of the
people 70 this infamous vice, which viii
bring our country to shame, and our
citizens TO destruction and premature
graves.
Let the tippler and the confirmed drunk
ard hold converse together if they can
ind cool moment. Let them look 20
the city of London, where vice and i'm
morality have grown up with crowded
population, and an old government, and
read, that in London, with population
of a million and half there died, in 1892,
only FOUR PERSONS FROM IN
TENPERANCE-four too many But
It them read on--that in 1899, win a
population of one hundred and twenty-
FIVE thousand souls; there died, in the
city of New York, FORTY-FOUR
FROM INTEMPERANCE /! But if this
picture is not sufficiently terrific to cause
the druDkard 10 shudder and to pause,
let him read on-tha; in 1929, in the city
OF New York. THIRTY. THREE fel.
iow beings have been sent 10 the LUNA
TIC ASYLUM, whose insanity was caused
by iSTEMPERANcE. Merciful God What
Il picture for the eyes of reasoning man.
In one year FORTY -FOUR accountable
beings, hurried to tina, bourne from
whence no traveller returns, who died
drunkards and THIRTY THREE &C.
countable beings, from drunkenness, de-
prived of their reason, and confined in
a mad-house !
As public seDtinels, holding respecta-
bic stations, let me call upon you, Messrs.
Editors, to announce these facts TO the
world ; and let me beseech you, in be-
half of my degraded native city, to use
the talents you possess, to call upon the
drunkard to read and pause, before he a.
gain raises 10 his lips the poisoned chaI-
Ice, which is filled with madness, and
with death. -
SUICIDE.
READING, PA, MARcH 90. We understand
that on Thursday last, man by the name
Samuel Lee, of Exeter township, in this
county, hung himself at the tavern Of Mr.,
Frees, in Robson. tie formerly was a
member of the society Of Friends, but in
consequence of his inebristed habits was
accommodated, or 'thrown overheard 4"
Having applied at Mr.. Frees for liquor
when already intoxicated, it was very
properly refused him, when he repaired
10 an adjoining stable and ended his own
existence. lie was upwards of thirty
years OF age, he has left a wife and seve.
raj children. Let the fate of Lee be a
memeDio TO drUnksrds--Iet those who
are in the habit of even tasting, mark it
well, and remember, that
Gin the wreathe that decks the flowing bowl,
Fel adsers hiss and poison'd serpents roll"
The Portuguese cortes has ordered
the trial Of the governor Of Pernambueo