The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-17

pfeVentlOn. AS tHis iS INe mOSt VsO"1ANa oa all diseases which infest the country, the humanely generOns proprietor of the American Medical Recorder, will pardon the intimation of theme for one of his annual prize essays. Vaccination demonstrates that the prevention as we'll as the cure of diseases belongs not inap- propriately the medical art. ...s
 A distinguished physician has mentioned the use of tobacco as one cause Of intem- perance, since it vitates the taste and ren- ders the most natural, simple and whole some drinks unpaltable. Parents should therefore seasonably and earnestly dis- suade their children from an unnecessary use of it. The prepossesslons and an- tipatIlies of children are easily formed and rendered durable. Mothers especially should be reminded of the vast importance of instilling into the minds of their tender offspring love of natural simplicity and temperance should teach them to abhor and resist firmly yet courteously the noxious superAuities which fashion prescribes, should inspire them with perpetual jealousy of the first approaches of iHtemperance, should disclose to them the afluring insiduousness of its beginnings, only to bite at last like a serpent and sting like an adder, should fill them with dread of tippling houses, those suburbs. of hell, and should stamp their re- tentjve memories with views as awful, if possible ,as reality of the tremendous conse- quences of yielding in the least to this pow erty-creating, healtIl-ruining, soul-damning sin. But after all that can ba done by the friends of temperance to excite parents to perform this duty to their ofisprings, many will neglect it. To remedy, in some de- gree, this neglect, teachers of common and other schools should be encouraged to ad- dress the children and youth, whose nor als and manners are committed to their care, on. this awfally interesting theme to hold up for their imitation the temper ance of the father of his country, and the shining examples of eminently good men of past ages,and Illustrate with affectionate
 earnestness at least every week inc advan- tages of sobricty, and the wretchedness of intemperance. And it seems not unwor- thy of legislative dignity to dictate a fa- miliar and pertinent address to the rising hope of the community relative to this mo- mentuous subject, a subject in which their welfare and that of the state are a. like deeply involved, and require instruc- ters either to place it in their hands, or to read it to them statedly. For our youth are caught by the monster of intemper- { ante in vast numbers like fishes in net, not dreaming that danger is nigh till they are unable to escape. ---..
 Agricultural societies might promote the
 object by proposing premiums for farms
 which are cultivated without the use of ar-
 dent spirits. As drunkenness does not
 exist where the vine fourishes, its cultiva-
 ton is especially worthy of their attention
 and thatof other patriotic associations and
 individuals. Our climate and soil are SC
 various that the culture of it would at least
 in some sections, be attended with highly probable success. It may be well to re-
 fleet that only a few years since, eight bags of cotton, which article now constitutes the
 chief staple of our country, were seized ig
 Liverpool as product not of American 1 growth. The currant thrives and bears we'll in most parts of the Republic, and as the wines an auxiliary oftemperance, and in general good substitute for ardent spir- its, it ought be more cultivated. Fruits of every kind ought 10 be cultivated, because they are friendly to temperance, and tend to cherish a natural taste perhaps as pow erfully as the poisonous plant before men, toned tends to prevent it. The love of fruit is not generally united with thirst for ardent spirits
 Agreater number, and far greater vari- esy Ofracts on this subject ought to be put IntO circulation. They should be ad pic ed and addressed to every class of the com mUairy, especially to its younger mem- berS- The English to resist the invasion of the Spanish armada dispersed plates and pictures of the instruments of torture which were said to have been on board of it. History informs us of a people, who occasionally took their children to see slave in a state of intoxication, that they might imbibe strong aversion to it from so odious sight. Tract societies might publish representations of the effect of ardent spirits, annexing brief notices in prose and poetry descriptive, perceptive, or satirical. These if rightly conducted might induce just and inextinguishable antipathy in the minds of thousands of children against an improper use of intox- icating liquors.
 The prevention of intemperance is a