Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-02-05

Some have compared the vital domain,
an respect to the matter Of which we are
now speaking. TO the federal government
under which we lives in the days OF its
greatest glory; and have referred to the
sympathy of one portion OF the same
one S.ate-with the joys and sorrows OF
eyerv other. Thus, If Massachusetts was
peculiarly happy, all the other States re-
ioiced with her-Maine. and Connecticut,
and Rhode island, perhaps most, at first;
but all Of them in the end. In like man.
ner, if she suffered in any way, not only
Maiae and her immediate sisters felt by
sympathy her sorrows, but so also did
every member Of the confederacy. The
comparison seems to me to be an apt one,
only that il needs to be extended farther
than have yet seen it. If Massachusetts,
is invaded or pressed by foreign foe,
and driven to increased activity, increased
exertion, and increased expense of the
time and money of her cilizens, in her
efFJrts at seIf-defence, all the confeJeracy,
in Just state of feeling, would not only
share ia the general arrangement, but
also in the general loss---I might say in
the general exhaustion-from extra exer-
ton Of vital power and energy. And
what is true Of the national confeielacv
and Of each member of the confederacv v,
in this case, is at least equally true in the
confederacy Of organs in the human sys-
TEN.
When, therefore, the lungs begin to
suffer from foreign invasion, there is not
function or an organ in the human
body, however unimporlant it may seem
TO be to the general welfare, that does not
as speedily and az certainly suffer, as do
fRhode-Island or Delaware when injury
is done to the larger members of the
national confederacy. Is it the nervous
system or the brain which suftrs2 The
cerebral and nervous energy is certainly
crippled; and that, loo. in a degree oil
which those who are inficling the tor
ture on themselves have no conception.
is il the bones and muscles? | have
aalready spoken of the injury done to
those Of the chest and back But the
mischief does not end here. Not bone
or . muscle in the human body but what
suffers more OF less. The power to walk
or 10 use even the arms whether by sym.
pathy or otherwise, is abridged or re.
ducel more or less by every ounce o.
unnatural compression of organs SO es.
sentill 10 human happiness as the lungs
Is IL the skin! There is no such thing
as healthy perspiration, nor any hea tin
publication Of the blood most impor
tl,t but much forgo tn and neglected
Office OF this part Of the system-wher
the lungs are doomed to suf.r from com
preston.
There can be no such thing, moreover
as healthy digestion in the fullest sense O
the term. Not q particle of health
schyme, or chyle, or blood, is formed, ex
cept under the influence of unds,urbe
AMI even uninAueneed organs of tiges
ton. We NAV as well look for health,
saliva. gastric juice or blood, nay, in faci
we may as well look for healthy fluids G
any Manifestations or excretions-in
person who has the small pox, or tn
le2rosy, or the hydrophoba, as in on
whose lungs have been for but a mont,
i. or week so compressed as 10 have tn
compression in any degree impede o
derange ether appropriate and healthy &C
tion.
the abuses Of dress, are favorable to that seducto
which so greatly prevails, and is fast increasing
Let II be distinctly understood, then, by ever
mother WHO desires to promote the purity, Il
peace, and the happiness Of her sex, and indeed
the whole human race, that like causes produ,
IKE effects IN both hemisphere>; and lot her deri,
nom these remarks new motives, if not new Ell
arrangements, to pursue the path of duty.