The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1830-02-27

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Portable and happy. Marx that car
buscled, slavering. doubtful remnant
Of a man, retching and pitching before
sunrise, loathing his breakfast. getting
his dram at the grog shop, m hour af
ter, disguised before ten. quarreIlingby
dinner tine, and snoreing drunk before
supper See him nsxt morning at the
same place again, and as the day adj
vaDces. becomes noisy, cross, ORWELL
Ing and intoxicated. Think oils drag
| ging out months and years of torture
till the earth refuse any longer to bear
such wretch upon its surface, and
he ut last, dies as he has lived.a mean,
di. pised creature. But who is that
comes hobbling up with bandaged legs.
inAamed eyes, and distorted counter
ance. Every stepis like the piercing
sword, or the driving ofa uaa among
nerves and tendons, anil what il the
cause. Ask him the humors, he an
swers yea troubles 4; and though he has
applied 10 all the doctors far and near.
he can get no relief. All these wick
ed and inveterate humors, every b,dy
knows where they come ON; but for
the bottle. he might have beed sound
and healthy man. Look next at the
wretched hovel, opea on all sides to
the rude and drent hing intrusion Of
tie elcments-the painting skeleton ly-
iLg upon little straw in the curncr, a
prey to consumption. HE was once the
owner ofyoncer comfortable mansion,
anh'of that farm so rich in verlure
and in shcaves. lie might have own
ed them still and kept his health too,
but for the love Of strong drink. 1t
i is intenperance, which has consumed
his substance, rIoted upon his flesh ,and
his marrow, and shortened his breath.
and fixed that deep srpuichural cough
in his wasted vitals. Perhaps you pity
him, and extend 10 him the arm Of char
ity /; alleviate his wants and administer
T." his necessities. Bat your sympa-
thics come to late. Perhaps you,
who now feel SO much comp ,ssion to
ward this miserable bsing. and who
arc end, aroring 10 make his lew re-
manning days on eartl. comfortable
and happy perhaps LAY. y.yeu sold him
the very poison, Which has brossht him
to th,s-or it went out sparkling from
your distfcry TO the retailer, and
thence into the jug half coacealed by
he tattered garment Of the victim, as
he carried it home to his starving fani
ly. Retailors Of arlent spirits, read
the above-Pause aud Reflect! Go
next to the amls house or asylum, and
tell me whether you recognize that
dropsical Fl gure, lingering from week
to week under the slow torments OF
stransulatioh, how piercing are his
sh,ieks-as if he was actually drown
ing lie was mce your neighbor, Thrift
ty, reputable and happy but he yield
ed to the Establishments of the z, eat
destroyer he drank FIST, temperaieIy
then freely, then to excess, and finally
to ihaDitusl inebriation. The consequen
oes are befure you-the swelling hood
in which he catches every prexsrious
breath, no fnite power con long as
suage. Leaving him TO be cast wreck
by the angry waters upon the shores
Of eterni.y. Enter that hut toward
which, neighbor is advancing with
hurried step-there a husband and a
father is supposed to be dyiug-the
disease is delirium-tremors ever limb
and muscle quivsrs, as in the agonies
Of dissolution, Reason having been SO
often and so rudely driven from her
seat, by habitual intoxicatlon, now re.
fuses to return. Possibly he may be
ltrievcd, to stagger on a little further
into his ignoninious grave; but the
sulferings Of his body however. are
not TO be compared with the moral ago