Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1843-10-07

indirectly 10 intGmpcrlnce' LUIS t'o
orncary all the murders, robbares' "e''S
and swindling that disgraces inc IolN'""-
nifty. .oo ...,,or. aud
about 70, GOO criminals IN our country ~.
or by far the greater part OF which. are lne
handy work Of that baletaldend'in'emP'''
ancc. ,l,t
ards in our country, and 1t IS eSu'l wv
that 30 900 of them die every year :
n that bourne from which no traveller re- re-
turns" gone to meet Their Cod ho wv,
ga lively hope and seadi2st laI.n d ~
theirmaker" but in the dcbashlng, loa.l'
some and desperate state oil ufu'''0' !"
Iscnsibility. .,...
In the language Of an eloquent writer
--"All these things are the effects oil ar
dent spirits; not casual accidental pu'
common natural effects, seen everywhere,
in every town, in every neghbolhoodanl,2,
in eonnexion. Look which way we WIN
Vc see some of these effects. Inc great
oct wretchedness which human nature III
This world is called to endure, IS connect
cd with the use Of ardent spirits. There
lis nothing else that degrades and de6ases
man ike it; nothing so mean that dtuh-
Earj will not stoop to; nothing too nase
ror him 70 do 10 obtain his Gayorlte drink;
Inothinr else so sinks the whole man; so
completely destroys not only all NORA
nrinciple. but all self-respect; all regard 10
character. MI shame, all human feeling
'Tho drunkarl can break out from every
andearing connexion and break every KING
.of restraint: so completely extinct IS all
human feeling, that he can be drunk a,
the funeral of his dearest relative ana eau
for the intoxicating draught III the last ny
cents of expiring nature.
"Now look alta humanbemg whom "oo
a., has made in his own image, Tor none Pu,'
noses, and endowed with noble and god
, like faculties degraded, dlsgraeed, DIS
qraccd. polluted, unfit for heaven ana
nuisance on earth. He is the centre OF
, circle. Countuphis influence IN his lam
fIily and his neighborhood; the wretched
i, ness he cndurcs and causes; count up ta'
tears of wretchcd wife, who curses th'
! day of her espousal, and Of wrctched emil
drcn who curse the day of their birth; %
through neighborhood or a town IN thl'
: way. and count up all the misery Whlci
: follows in the train of ardent spirits an'
I YOU win be ready 10 ask, can the region
: of eternal death send forth any thing NOR
deadly? wherever it goes thesame cryma1
be heard. lamentation and mourning, am
" woe: and whatever things are pure o
lovely. or venerable or Of good report fall
! before it.
: Ihaye for my own part, seen MANY 9
y the evil effects of intcmperancc, and ie
:. some of them myself The first INN
a. almost. | can remember, was the death G
! rather murder of atleasta dozen persons
~ at fair held in the small village near
II which was born. There were two pa
al q ties who had some i'll will between then
= and got to drinking pretty freely and as
. natural consequence, got to ighlng'-
a. One of the party getting worsted' SCI
~ emmissaries for the ycomanry, who can
~ upon the ground; fired on the crowd al
~ killed some ten or twelve persons, Or pc
- haps more; some of them said to be inn
ll0 cent. What heartrending agony ma
:. the relatives of these murdered men haV
VI felt when they heard the dreadful new
ny when instead of meeting them comlI
u home happy and joyous, with their lit
purchases made at the fair, they met the
Un carried home on rude litters, by some so
10 rowing noighbor, all gashed and blood,
~ cold and hleless carcasas; sent to the
10, last account without a moment for rope
IA tand! Imagination can butlaintly portr;
+, the agonizing feeling Of fathers and m
oi- Tiers, sisters and wives At the dreadl
w. .' spectacle.
al have lived some SIX or seven years
' ~, Yazoo City, and its neighborhood, al
'n .' its ncighborhpod, and in that time, sou
aH- ten or twelve murders were committe
:" and most all OF which, to my own know
9ry, edge were the results of intcmperance.-
ol One Of them was the murder Of Dr. X;
osf ney by NJ. 4. Rogers. The quarrel COZ
oi menccd between them on the TEMP
osS Alley at tho exchange, where they we
10, rolling ten-pins 81 drinking pretty ireel
-oo They were parted on the alley, and we
mn of; but with the most deadly hostility,
nan the breast Of at least one of them. Do,
our Rainey in passing out took pair oIpstl
mo out Of show case along with him, as
ons said, to defend himself; az Mr.. Roge
had threatened to attack him. MrRoge
nse went down town and armed himself wi
led pistols and Bowie knife; he then car
OF back to the exchange, and after drinkil
ols some short time, he started in compai