Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-07-17
From the Bos on Evening Bulletin.

Intemperdnce. OF this vice, there
are sund'y sorts, physical and meta
phiscaI-or, theoIoglcally speaking.
temporal and spiritual Men may bel
Intemperaie in politics, in commerce,
in religion-as we'll as in ealing andl
drinking
The demagogue whose sole aim is of
ice and whose only path is intrigue
who, to aggrandlze himself, bawlsl
federalism when such IS tie popular
doctrine, or democracy when the ia
Oles turn, as the case may be-
who rides upon the thick noodles of
any mob that will iift him into notice
crying great is the mystery of party
for verify by this craft do manage to-
keep uppermost--is prpeiual!y dfuik
Nth faction
The trader who grasps at enormous
spscolaiions-whose profits hold no Tel
lowship with cOnsclence-who would
conceive it granl bargain TO obtain
for his own carcase, so per cent more
than the sum Tor which he might puc
Fsase the body Of maleiactor-w Who
would make merchandise Of his own
offspring, traffic upon human misery ),
and convert a broiher's ruin into the
means of building his own fortune, is
drunk lo;th the spirit of acarace
The zealOt who heaps deuunciatlons
on all those beings who refuse to say
with bim, "credo, qua Impossible est
---who invokcs endless perdlilon upon
all such as have DOT been endowed like
himself with CERTAIN invaluable and pa
tent method OF cogltation; and are not
able, from some slight difference oil an
lmal organization, some contrariety oil
mental temperament, or some d!ssinIi-
lar course of education, TO arrive at
the same conclusions in matters OF .
mere opinion touching times and condl
tous to come-is dtuaE aUith 6is
Ot72f
There are also other characters to
whom appertains the fault oi meotal IN
toxication Love, hatred, friendship,
jealousy any OF the dIscordant prop
critics that help to make up the sum to-
tai Of human intellect, by Indulgence
to excess, by perverslon, by folly, or by
accident, may make man drunk tcdh
passion.
But we come to the incorporate in
gormandiziug-the swallowers OF good
things" solid or liquid Whose eat
eth too much is fool. aud whose
drinke,h too much is ditto. An epi-
cure may not, per adventure, get abso
lulely drunk upon sour kr0ut-but he
may Supply himself over dish OF the
anti scorbutic csculem: and by over
stralning his tonnage, render bis head
less capable Of thinking than that OF a
cabbage. So with all other lovers OF
luscious edibles-yonr devourers oftur
tie, and turbot, and venison, and sal
mon trout, woodcocls and canvasbacks.
| Immodera,e eating IS an immoral spe
cles OF N temper ance, anG dangerous -
There's gont, and dropsy and lumbago,
and cbolick, belonging to colIops and
calIipash!
But of all varieties of intemperance
the habit of absorbing portions OF
strong drink miscalled a"bedSHy hab
IFS the most perfectly disgustlng.-
Here again there is room for gradatlon
and suhdivision-from your gentle
man tippIer who fuddles upon cham
paign, down to your deliver in dock
mad and whiskey The only sort o
apology for such practices, which hu
man nature can urge for itself, is tina
mortals are burlhened with much rea
! SOIL
"Man being REASONABLE must get drunk"-
and being TINS loaded with too grea
a portion OF that noble attribute, i
becomes necessary 10 dest,oy a par
oft by taking poison. Is this The Tea
s0n2
! TiUo american Ladies The TIVE
Miss Cations, who were as early as 1906
the reignlng bellies in Baltimore ont
Washington, were the grand daugh
tiers Charles Carroll of Clfrolllon. on
one OF The worthiest sigrers ofthe Decla
ration of American Independence On
Of them was married to Mr. Rober
Patterson, merchant of Baltimore
and they went TO France and England