Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-09-29


finds is the inside of a human nose. There
indeed it exhibits and proclaims aloud it.
greatest triumphs Thence are heard those
explosions, which in fact are but the outcries
of nature in that suffering member, which
must be dragooned into submission to the
distressing infection. Well has it been
written, that if the Creator had ever intended
this prominent and public member of the
human body to be the receptacle of snuff
he would have relersed its position, or in
plain, homeIy language, turned it bottom
upwards. Nor more welcome is this sooiy
powder to the mouth, in its healthful state
but, by dnt perfumery and other artifcials,
it becometh at length, after much writing
and twisting of the muscles, endurable, and
by and by pleasurable, as it doth to the nose
after much sternutation and severe discipline.
So may be seen in portions of this tobacco
growing and tobacco loving community,
even circle Of the loving sex, who should
spurn from them the foul weed, sitting COM
placently together and luxuriously masticat-
ing the comminuted powder, as the opium
eater doth his guild, whereby the brain is at
present stimulated, but the heart soon made
sad. Startle not gentle lady, at what you
in your purity may think to be fiction.
speak what | do know. More secretly,
likewise, does the self-indulgent maiden
practice this uncomely thing
Let US now trace the victories Of this
black enemy to our race. Has he not
triumphed every where At home and
abroad, on the land and on the sea, in
camps, cabinets, cottages and courts-a-
mong high aud low, rich and poor, bond
and free-wheresoever there is mouth
that could master the bitterness of initiation
He is found with the mechanic in the
workshop; the Judge taketh the same with
him to the bench He is with the Jury in
the box with the lawyer at the bar, who
cheweth more 6ercely as the case thickens ;
with the witness at the stand, who spits out
his answers; and with the spectator in his
seat They have all tacitly agreed TO make
the Court House-which like Justice her
self, should be pure and uncorrupted-the
most filthy place in the town Shame on
their lusts When will purer generation
arise!
So if we 90 to the house of the Holy
One, where all should be sweet and clean
like the fine linen of the Tabernacle in the
wilderness, or like the priests garments in
the sanctuary, what do we find? Expecto-
ratlon-eXpectoration expectoration in
the pulpit; expectoraton in the pews; ex-
pectoration in the gallery, in the asles, in
the restibule, on the steps-every where
They dehle the temple of God us if it
were one great spitbox, built as the recepta-
Gle of that detestable fluid which is generate
ed by the lust of tobacco, and which upon
the Lords floor inflicteth stains indeible.-
Water cannot wash them out. No house
in the parish is treated so indecenily. If
the pulpit has of late years, in some parts OF
our tobacco-eatng land, ESPECIALLY in the
North) become more purified, it doth not
speak out against this crying sin, as it ought,
either because it hath such respectable pat
rons and practitioners, and therefore the sin
itself becomes respectable-or because it is
too dirty to be Incorporated into sermon,
or must be logged in awkwardness and un-
fttingly and so the tender-hearted pastor
lets the thing alone, resolved if he cannot
cure it, he will endure it. But if God has
given him duty to do, it is to drive out
this enemy of the Church, if necessary, with
a courage of strong cords We would not
90 so roughly TO work as did Pope Urban
VIII, who issued bill accommodating
all who used it in the Churches but we
would go strongly for its accommodation
from the mouth Of every protesting Chris
tan, and of every decent man. Even in
1853, Dr. Venner said, sit drieth the brain,
vitiateth the smell, hurteth the stomach, des-
troyeth the connection, corrup,eth the
breath, induceth trembling of the limbs,
exsiccateth the windpipe, lungs, and liver,
and causeth the blood to be adjusted" A
pretty companion this to bring TO church
with you, when soul and body should be
cleansed from every dehlement "Whether
we eat or drink, or whatever We do, do all to
the glory Of God" Yet the slave of this
tyrant, while he is calling himself the Lords
freeman, has actually taken him into his
mouth before he has left the Communion
Table wo to such sell-ndugence. 1t be-
speaketh the weak faith and stnted piety OF
the age. Bright will be the era when the
three noxious forms of the Nicotan weed
shall be hated, despised, and rejected, by
the followers of the Lamb. Were it only to
set TO the world an example of holy sef-de-
NAL, Of conquest over an iron habit and an
ubiqutary fashion, it were worth more than
millions of silver and gold Well was that
servant of the Lord rewarded, who, addicted
beyond hope to one OF the most disgusting
modes of chewing, did, nathless, by reso-
luton of almost superhuman might, throw of
the load, and expurgate his mouth, FoR THE
LoRD's SAKE. When called on to pray in
the social meeting, the black mundungu.
was always in his way, as at sundry Other
times, and with the spirit of man, as wei
as the temper of a Christian, he broke hi:
chain and sang the song of freedom, instead
of now and then one who proclaims wal
with this pest.