Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-08-20
THE DRUNKARD.


Unhappy man! whom sorrow, thus, aud IA,
To diffsreat ills alternately engage;
, Who drinks, alasl but 10 FORGET; nor sees
That melancholy sloth, severe disease,
: Memory confused and interrupted thought,
Deatl's harbingers lie ia the draueht;
And m the flowers that wrcat III the spa rkiing ho,
Fell adders hiss, and poisonous serpents roll y
| When we contemplate The life Of III
drunkard, II is with feelings of mingle
pity and disgust. A being formed ia III
image Of bis God, and endowed with "a
culiies Tor high intellectual and social en-
joyment, sinking himself below the brut
creation! Man, the noblest work that ey
err came from the worlds great Architec
dares 10 deface the Creators image, an,
crush with n suicidal hand heavens pur,
attributes. He is a husband?--a father
Then doubly weighty is his sin, for he ha,
made miserable that wife whom he swore
10 love and protect, and as parent, il
setting an example before his children
only calculated 10 poison their minds, and
render miserable those who would look
TO the parent tree for advice and support.
When man, through the process Of in.
diligence in intoxicating beverages, has
become drunkard, BIO is both physically
and morally changed He no longer secs
with the same eyes, hears with the same
ears, or has the same faculties which he
was master Of All around assumes a
new aspect. The genial warmth Of the
sun the refreshing breeze--lhe beauties
of nature, and all things calculated 10 ia.
spire the heart with love and admiration.
are lost TO him. The pure atmosphere he
brealhes is tainted with the poison. lie
despises himself, and therefore believes
that those who are his best friends behold
him with the same feelings.
Where are now the manly virtues which
once could win the affections Of confding
frIends2 Where the mildaess Of temper.
the principles Of beneyolence, those traits
which so ennoble the human character2
Swept away by The fend intemperance!
Lei him be possessed of all that wealth
an bFing--let him recline upon a bed Of
Town, and be famed by tho breath of fat.
cry, the same worm gnaws at his vtals,
md corrodes his soul. II is true that I'll
hns situated, the worlds cold scorn may
lot be felt, for wealth gathers around /,
awning fnYorlies and rotten.hearled pre-.
enders, but let his power to cater 10 The
'nloyincnis and fashions of the day be
ost, and he at once becomes the poor des-
Used drunkard--ihose who were friends
While wealth lasted, have deserted him,
nd as their adder tongues were once flip.
ant in his praise, SO now they are indus
riously engaged in spreading his faults
nd fall TO the world
That the drunkard is happy, his whole
ppearancc denies. He may steep bis
oul in the Lelhean drauphi, until forget.
illness crecps over his Supplied senses,
nd for a time renders him dead 10 The aw. II
i consequences Of his course, but the i
'el IS soon broken, and no awakes but 10 q
el the more keenly the gnawing of the I
orm within. There is 10 the drunIsard G
peace, no happiness, no hope. lilo feels a
0 lull weight Of the curse which, like an p
cubus, presses him 10 the earth, md yet Il
cllngs to his destroyer until, with all the p
rrors OF a death produced by inebna- c
m, he sinks to fill an ignominious grave, u
wept and unmourned. His snfferings 81
earth are ended, but is II SO with that |
nlly who have just consigned him 10 the
nb2 They yet live to feel Tho blight
q mildew Of drunIard's heritage.
tits reflection we'll calculated ID in,
ess The free mind with the deepest emo s.
MS, and The thought is forced home who y
ud be a drunkard! No one surely cv. r
commenced life with the remotest idea I.
4 such would be his end; yet thousands r
those who once only partook of tho ex.
nralng beverage of fashions shrine,
y feel The iulI weight Of The drunkard's
e--ibe drunkard's curse. rit
Look not upon the wine when il is red CT
he cup, when it moyeth itself Alright
last it biteth like serpent and sting o.
like an ADDER
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