Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-26
TEMPERANCE.
FERMENrED DR1NKS.-FACTS.
LITTER OF EDWARD c. DELAvAN.

sons besotted and ruined, in habits, health
body, mind, heart, character, estate, &C
who did not frequently use ardent spirit:
The whole number so besotted and ruined
whose cases have fallen under my observa
ton, it would be impossible for me to emu
merate.
: lmay mention few recent and we'll re
membered instances.
The late distinguished and lamented S
A. Tallcott, Esq. q know his friends will
, pardon the use of his name) l consider
, marked case, of the ruin induced by tn
convivial and fashionable use of fermentet
drinks, especially wine. He stated to m,
explicitly, that his appetite for intoxicatin.
drink was created in the wine-cup. TIL
cruel disappointment of the hopes of hi
. friends before his death, excited by his con
tlnued abstinence for some months from al
that could intoxicate. on his returning in tn
first instance, by the urgent solicitation of :;
kind friend, to the use Of little beer ana
aoater, at period of languor, and then 10
dulging without limit, stamps the characte,
of fermented drink in his case.
A more marked instance is that of P. F.
young man who was for some months in
the Temperance Office at Albany, on the
application of his personal friends, who are
among the most respectable individuals in
Lower Canada. We found this miserable
young man in most abject circumstances in
this city, and removed him to the Temper
ance Office, that a more immediate super
vision might be exercised over him, and as
sistance rendered in his attempt to reform.
His habits were found to be those Of seventh
day drinking, and the only liquor he was
known to use was strong beer-indeed he
acknowledged to me that this was the only
strong drink that he loved. He is a man of
superior mind and cultivated intellect. and
IN his desire and mis- efforts to reclaim him
self, there was the fullest manifestation Of
entire sincerity, and the utmost earnestness.
After few months OF effort, during which
period he fell from his resolutions several
ting Watchfulness and care on the part of
those that took an interest in him, we at
last abandoned all hope. He was however
again encouraged, and now at scarce twenty
years OF age, after having entered life with
many friends, and every thing encouraging
In his prospects, he is utterly destitute and
an outcast; having lately embarked on
board temperance whaleman for three
years voyage in the Pacific Ocean, with the
hope of recovering his lost standing, and
healing the broken heart of his widowed
mother Should God in his mercy preserve
his life and return him to his country a
sound man, may no kind friend stand ready,
to be SO unkind, as to offer him little wine
or little beer; for should he, in my humble
Judgment, he will! have to answer to God
tor lost soul. The disease OF the drunk
ard never dies-it is ready to spring up and
rage if INDUCED in the slightest degree-no
matter how many years of abstinence in
tervenes.
once knew family of whom the pa
rents commenced a habit Of wine drinking
IN adult life, continued without very con-
splcuous evil results, so far as themselves
were concerned, till late in life. But their
dear children were required, at very early
age to take single glass of wine daily, out
OF respect to their parents, in the way Of
wishing them continued hedlth,-but COM
mencing thus in the immature state of
childhood, the daily use of moderate wine
drinking, habits of intemperance were estab-
llShed; one son became a sot and died a
drunkard "a daughter married, and while a
family of children were around her, she was
attacked by the delirium tremens-another
sou was fast following the footsteps of his
brother, when he was saved by the Total
abstinence Pledge.
fashionable watering place, I met with a
distinguished gentleman who has held very
conspicuous situations he drank his wine
freely. He had a son with him, noble
boy, certainly one Of the fest specimens of
youthful beauty ever beheld. This lad,
then only seven or eight years old, drank
his wine with the same air and mapner that
distinguished his father. have thought of
this boy thousand times since have turn
ed my attention to the subject of temperance,
and short time ago, meeting with gen.
tleman from the same place, l inquired,
and was informed that this youth had be-
come "poor, miserable, drunken rdgd-
bond." believe that it was the early use
of wine that destroyed him.
During seven years. residence in Eng
land, witnessed every extreme Of intern
perance among those who drank nothing
but fermented drinks
twenty-five years since, when youth
myself, l was we'll acquainted with the
habits of many young men who were then
wine drinkers; few if any of them at that
time would have looked on ardent spirits
except with disgust. On looking back and
calling I'D their cases, one by one, find a
large proportion, full three fourths, have
died Incorporate. When their appetites
became vitiated by wine. dare say that ii
was matter Of indifference whether it was
one kind or another of intoxicating drink
that administered to their desire.
When the convivial habits of olden times,
in our large cities, made it an object Of am
bition who should drink most wine and keep
longest from place under the table, the
amount of direct injury from wine drinking
was immense. One Of the most wealthy
and respectable citizens in New-York, re-
Gently gave me a history Of wine drinking
in that city thirty years since, and the varl
. Gus shifts he had frequently been driven to
/ by pouring the wine into his boots, bosom
: and in the wine cooler, to escape beastl9
= drunkenness.
= have now in my eye many est'maoi'
e individuals, in advanced life, whose iacul