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

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but touch his nostrs, aud by loud sternu-
alton he will repel the poison, or raising
them alolt he will nstinctvey give to the
winds the foul contagion. Present it to the
useful COW she knoweth no Qualification
can come of it, and retreats as from a taran-
tula. Try the groyeling swine, that eateth
even decayed matter, and he will grunte at
it. Try even the stupid ass hear how he
brays. 1t finds no customers among quad
ruped or winged animals. The obscene
owl would boot at it; the unclean harpy
would fly away from its stencil. King
James, from whom Anti-quid borrows part
of the title Of this humble tractate, did deal
unsparingly with this indecent habit. lie
declares its origin to have been among 'the
wild, goddess, and savsh Indians" lie de-
clares that if he were to provide dinner
for the Prince of darkness, he would be sure
to have three things on the table First a
pig secondly, a poll of ling aud mustard =;
thirdly, a pipe Of tobacco to keep digestion.
Tobacco is the lively image and pattern of
hell, for it hath by allusion all the parts and
vices of the world, whereby hell may be
/ gained, TO wit LIST, it is a smoke, and so are
all the vanities of the world ID, il delight
eth men that like it, and so do all the pleas
ures Of the world Sd, it maketh men drunk
and light in the head 4th, he that taketh
tobacco cannot leave it it doth bewi;ch
/ him."
This may be thought severe, but really,
when we consider that intimacy which ex-
lists between the narcotic and the alcoholic
family, it will be found TO be not so very far
/ from the truth. Didyo ever see tippler who
was not chewer or smoker Perhaps one
IN one hundred. When alcohol enters the
brain, and begins to lay about him there,
mundungus is certain to follow and help on
the confusion. Never does the cigar or
quid relish so well, as when the mouth and
stomach are heated with liquor This triple
alliance of smoking, chewing, and drinking,
exhibits itself in the haunts of sin-as for
instance, in gaming houses, where FOOLS
money is first gambled out of his pocket,
and then his soul gambled into hell. Ave,
they call them bells, a suggestion of Satan
to perfect the nomenclature ofrhe science.
and to assure them Of what Stygian horrors
really are, by giving them foretaste in the
company of gamblers, who play their pranks
in the ante-chamber, Of the damned. The
same alliance may be found in the stews,
where, as in the dreadful shambles that
smell Of butchery and death, souls are
slaughtered, aud hetacombs of human sacri-
fees are piled on the affairs of lust So in
the subterranean grog den, where many a
noble as well as abject spirit has been
crushed and cursed in The folds OF the SER
pent, the same league may be found
Smoking, drinking, and swearing, are their
employments, till the very night grows wea-
ry of them, and Satan himself has gone to
sleep as unable to surpass them in iniquity.
Look into the theatre. where Beauty and
Fashion disport themselves, like the uncon-
scious victim moving to the sacrifice, and
tossing the flowers that garland its head
Enter the Golgotha of the living dead the
alliance is there. See the land-sharks
watching and seizing the homeless sailor as
he comes into port the triple alliance en-
snares him. And so of every haunt of mi
guilty invented by wicked men, not forget
ting the race-course, which for giant abom-
nations yieldeth the palm to none whatever.
These things being true and undisputed,
the greater is the lamentation that decent
and respectable men should have anything
to do with the vile weed, that so naturally
allies itself to things which they abhor. =
If mundungus can look natural any where,
/ it is in the mouth of drunkard or bias
phemer, bawd's companion or play ac-
tor, landshark or thief, or some kind of a
recreant, whose intellectual and spiritual man
is swallowing up in the animal and carnaI.
But better man should be ashamed of the
companionship. What does he gain by
draining his mouth of the fine and useful
fluid which God has placed there for impor-
tant purposes in the animal economy, but
which he splits out as if he differed in opin-
ion from his Maker, or derded the wise
provision! What advantageth it TO nname
the eyes or redden the cheek with an I'M
natural color? To provoke the throat, and
embiuer the stomach-to poison the breath,
and do violence to the delicate texture OF
the lungs, which, like that wonderful instru-
ment, the windpipe, quickly resent rude
treatment Why make smoke-house oil
the mouth Some there are, who have
smoked their perfumed cigars, till their teeth
once white and perfect, look like an old di-
| lapidated chimney-stack, discolored by time
and smoke, and ready TO fall down. These
besoted practitioners of the fumigating art,
like the snuff takers, will often tell you they
use these things "as medicine" A mar
vellous medicine that, which is taken morn
ing, noon, and night, and all other times =
Did you ever see the effect of this medicine
on poor old woman, who had crammed her
nose with the Scotch powder until the breath
of life could no longer pass through it, and
she was compelled to hold her mouth open
like an over-heated fowl in dog days, to catch
some of the stray breezes of heaven, in or.
der to keep up respiration Still more an.
noying and serious is it, when the Orator Of
sweet voice, or deep toned utterance, SC