Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-03-07

mers OF your abused and nausCatcd stomachs
How much suffering you voluntarily submit
ted to, how indciatgaby you persevered, to
acquire pernlcious and disgusting habit -
and from the sole stimulant of being likened
runto men. II did not occur 10 your juvenile
minds, that the grown up portion Of your par
tlcular species could do aught discrodtabe to
The condition Of manhood. 1t was an unror-
tunate msconception of their true character.
! 1t has likewise proved TO too many prema-
ture and fatal expenditure of those energies,
which might have been so crodilably and ben
! chcially applied TO, at least, some one valuable
pursuit in alter life. Perhaps the incongruous
mixture of the humorous and serious in this
article, may, without explanation, occasion
doubts in the minds of some whether il il
meant for earnest or is oil a Joke, we will
therefore honestly EXPLAIN be it known
! that we habitualy lean to the side of honesty
To confess the truth then, we cannot write
uniformly in Il serious strain on the present
subject, for the reason that our indignation rises
TO an uncomfortable height, and needs that we
occasionally intermit our gravity, to allow the
subsistence Of our ruflled bile. What we saw
IN pleasant way, otener falls short, than ex-
cecds, what we could honestly say in sober
earnest. For seriously, we do not hold that the
hablual use of tobacco is utterly indefensble
in any case in civilized community. only ex-
cepting where it is recommended by the Pby-
slcian as necessary TO the preservation of bu-
man life. If we have passed over somewhat
lightly the pernicious effects of the use of To-
bacco upon the human constitution, it is not
because we have any doubts on that head, for
we DO believe ii to be exceedingly injurious,
and that IN ninety-nine cases out of a hundred
where ii is habituaIIy used for disorders of the
stomach, its effect is to exasperate and confirm
Ill do f,a
signed to relieve, and in which its occasional
use might possibly have afforded temporary
relief. But one reason why we forbear 10
dwell upon this part of the objection to the use
of tobacco, is, that we do not pretend to be-
long to the medical profession. Another rea-
son IS, that people appear TO be determined to
destroy themselves by improper indulgence in
many other things besides tobacco, and what
we contend for Is, that if people arc determn-
ed to die by some slow poison, they OUGHT TO
resort 10 something that will kill them with as
little Inconvenience to their families and
friends as possible. He who spends twenty or
thirty years in poisoning himself with tobac-
CO, Keeps perhaps three or four houses unten-
anfable, and fifty people uncomfortable, uur-
ing the whole period, with his eternal smoking
and chewing and splitting, 10 say nothing of
his tobacco stained mouth, and his nsuppor.
table breath. These are objections which 1--WE
know how to appreciate without being ply
stefan. And we will here venture to predict.
without any extraordinary pretensions TO pre-.
science, that tobacco will ere long be expelled
the paror or drawing room, and those who
will still cleave TO the unclean thing, must even
follow it. To suppose that the use of tobac-
co can be tolerated in highly rcined society,
is to suppose an imposslbllity for it would be
totally destructive Of some Of its essential el-
ements; one Of which is high degree of
cleanliness-fastidlou neatness if you please
another is, the entire absence of the least an.
perdnce of selfishness; and the tobacco sour.
mand is of all creatures the most selfsh-pal-
pably seeking his own enjoyment at the ex-
pence of all who shelter under the same roof
When we declared open hostilites gaiust this
formidable foe TO clean houses, comfortable
hresldcs, and pure atmosphere, we calculated
upon finding able coadiutors in our neat tidy
and TAR country women. and may we not ven
ture TO hope that we have not been altogether
disappointed. We know that your ability 70
assist IN this matter, consists, for the most
part, in the degree Of personal attraction Won
chance to possess, and we are aware also that |
unha2pIy for the cause in which we have en- |
barked, you are AT the present time, 10 a con- |
siderable extent shorn of those attractions
which your sex has from time irmenotal pos !
IL.
like the bosom of destruction swept over your
heads and left them as bare as the pate of a
new born infant, or Of an old gentleman's of
four score and ten. But, when fashion shall
relenf, and restore 10 you your brilliant and !
bewltchlng tresses, and with them, your Won
ted attractions and their attendant power, NAV |
we not expect that you will exercise that pow !
er, IN assisting us 10 purify the persons of !
these smoky, tobacco stained snuffiing, ill.,. fla
vored gentlemen being, as it is, an affair |
which more nearly and deeply concerns your |
selves than all The world besides.
There is one serious impediment in the way |
OF combating this fraternity Of tobacco chew |
ers, and smokers, and snufftrs, and hawkers, |
and spitters, and sneezers, and nose blowers. |
The press-yes the press is in the pay of The |
tobacco vendors and snuff grinders And a
pound OF Macaboy,' Yellow Scotch Viz. |
glnia Fig or dozen Spanish Cesars' is
sufficient douCeur with most Editors to induce
hem TO refuse 10 give publicity, 10 even a com
munIcalion like the present, penned in our ac-
customcd tone Of mild rebuke, gentle remon-
STRANGE, and soft persuasion ; with so little of
acerol'y as scarcely TO cause u ripple upon the
abuse senslbilites of the tobacco eaters.-
Yes, The press is corrupted literally corrup-
ted, by cegar smoke and tobacco juicel LIS
conductors participate too generally in this
foul crime against social and domestic comfort.
TO aid us in an attack upon IT. OF what i'm
monce importance is it TO civilized man, that
those concerned in the periodical press be-
clean every whit ;-eiean, in the full length,
and breadth, and depth Of The wordi
10 bring our remarks 10 natural and
graccln conclusion, and ns an evidence thai
we harbor no unkind feelings towards our to.
ohcco eating friends, we herewith shake Them
heartily by the hund--thal is, SO far as we can
90 so with flourish Of our pen, as we utterly
protest agains! coming, in reality, within spit
ing distance Of them, excepting on unavoda-