The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-07-25

-. SouSPiCuouSlv among the
facts appearing on a review of your
unhappy case, to which ! feel bound,
on the present occasion toaliude. It
appears from the whole tenor of the
evidence, that for many years, you
nave been in the habit Of indulging in
the incorporate use of ardent spirits,
and tor several years to an increasing
ana mischievous extent. This, tho
It may have contributed to bring
about this fatal catastrophe, which
h !! you to an untimely grave, so
tar from being an excuse in the eye
.o1 the law, is an aggravation of your
'cFlnlnallty. 1t is IA voluntary indul-
gence-lt is known to be dangerous
and destructive; to cloud the facul-
ties OF reason; to poison the fountain
OF the sound affections, and awaken
and stimulate into miscellaneous activ-
lty, all the baser and viler passions of
the human soul.
Until you had permitted yourself
to indulge in this Incorporate excess,
nothing appears to show that YOU
were not amlable, respected, and hap
py. a hard working and Industrious
man, with beloved family and hap
Ply home. But after you had become
addicted to the habitual use of intox-
lcating liquors, all this was sadly re-
versed; you We're occasionally yisi-
ted by delirium and sickness; you be-
came separated from your wife; your
children were scattered; your home
was abandoned, and you became a
pauper and an outcast. But even
before this result, so strong had this
fatal propensity to intemperance be-
come, that even the decease of a child,
and the actual presence of the angel
Of death within your dwelling, could
not restrain its Indulgence.
But it is the peculiar attribute of
divine providence to bring good out
of evil, and to teach lessons of wis
dom, as we'll by evil as by good ex-
amples. And may we not indulge the
hope, that your example, trying and
painful as it is, may stand forth as a
prominent beacon light, warning all,
and more especially the young, to
avoid the first approach to the use of
ardent spirits, seeing how direct ten
dency it has to lead to habitual intern
|perance, and through intemperance
to the most atrocious crimes. 1t is
adding another, and most impressive
instance to the thousands of examples
already existing, showing mcontro-
vertibly that ntemperance is the pro-
llfc mother Of misery, vice and
crime"
How TO MAKE a coAcHMAN WHIP UP
HIS TEAn.-Ask the people of Bristol
and Chester what sewed them UP,
and they will tell you, while they
soas asleep, Liverpool ran off with
their trade. And if you hay'nt time
to go there, ask the first coachman
you get along side of, what he thinks
OF the railroads, and gist listen to the
funeral hymn he'll sing over the turn
pixies. When | was in England last,
| always did that when | was in a
hurry, and it put coachee in a such
passion, ned turn to and lick his hor-
ses out Of spite into full galiop.
EN-, he'd say !; them that sane
toned them railroads, to ruin the
pixies, (go along you lazy william,
Charley, and he'd lay on the Wheeler,
they ought to be hanged, sir, Chats
the ticket, and he'd whop the leader;)
yes, Sir, to be hanged-for what is to
become Of them as lent their money
on the pixies! whist, crack, goes
the whip.) Hanged and qulrtered
they ought to be. These men ought
to be remuneratcd as well as the
shareholders. | wonder, sir, what
we shall come to yet? Come to, says
ito be stoker, to be sure, that's
what all you coachman will end in at
last, as sure as you are born. A sto-
ker, sir, said he, Qookin' as bothered
as if it wor a French furriner, that
word,) what the devil is that? Why,
a stoker, says |, isa critter that draws,
and stlrs. and pokes the fire of a steam
engin.' I'd sooner die first, said he;
| would shake me, if wouldn't! On
ly think Of man Of my age and size
bein' stoker, sir; wouldn't be in
the fellows skin that would propose.
it to me for the best shilling that ever
came out o. the mint. Take that, and
that, and that, he'd say to the off for
ard horse, (alayin'it into him like mad)
and do your own work, you dishonest
rascal. It is fun alive, you may de-.
pend. Sam Slick.
A DISCOURSE ON LoKERFoKERIsM.--
say, old man, watts de natur OBJ dis
new disease dat's spreadin ober de
Ian, and dat dey calls lokerfokerism?'
"Wy, wy, child you doest'nt know
notin.' wat you spose he's like?'
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