Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-07-22
From the s. Carolina Temperance Advocate
THE BOOK OF EXPERIENCE,

Yes. grief will have way; but the fast falling
Shall be weighed with deep execrations on those
Who would bask in that spirits meridian
carear,
And yet have it thus lonely and dark at its
cioSe,-
Whose vanity flew round him only while fed
By the ndoE of his lame, in the summer time
Whose vanity now, with quick scent for the
dead,
Like tn. ghoul Of the East, comes to feed at hiI
grave
o, !, sickens the heart to see bo.Oms 80 hollow
And spirits mean in the great and high sorn
TO think what long line of title. may follow
The relics of him who diet-iriendleIs aud
alone!
Lines on The death Of Sheridan, By Moore.
Who has not heard of Richard Brinsley
Sheridan, the Dramaiist, Poet and Orarur,
before whose towering genius, (Irlsh tho
IL 1cdS,) the whole people of Great Britain,
including even royalty himself, bowed in
profound Difference, and admiration! Who
has not almost coveted his fame2 Yet 1t
is fame obscured by blot, which all the
waters of time can never wash out: he
lived and died drunkard! In his Goth
year, after % years of confirmed drum
kenness, he died neglected and destitute,
in the heart of the metropolis of Great
Britain, and in the neighborhood of arIstO
cratic wealth, beauty and fashion, who had
hung delighted upon his super-human elo-
auence on the trial OF Warren Hastings.
That a man, oil whose eloquence the youn-
ger Pitt, political enemy, would say, II
surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or
modern tunes, and possessed every thing
that genius or ART could furnish 10 agitate
or control the human mind, should have
been a drunkard, and should have 80 died
is indeed a sad commentary on the weak.
ness Of human nature!
1t seems, however, that he was first in.
toxicated by praise, and afterwards by the
bottle. But if he had not by fashionable
indulgence Contracted the habit of drink
the latter would not have been necessary
to take the place of The other. The love
of virtuous praise, is a great incentive t
right action! 1t never can in a sober man
lead to vice. But in a man, whose brain
IS on fire from the influence of intoxica
ting drink, it NAV we'll I've as it was in the
case Of poor Sheridan, when Senates cea
sed to applaud, the bottle was necessary
to make him still think, he was the same
Godlke man, who with an angels tongue
told the story of the suffering Begums!
The foundation OF Sheridan's ruin, wa,
that he was the loved wit, who could Sc
, the table in roar, and who was the cher
5 ished and sought companion of every idle
sprg OF aristocracy, from the Prince o
I Wales, downwards. In such society, h'
; His first glass of wine was the beginning
; OF the MANY days and nights of social IN
diligence, which at last ended IN flood
] tide of drunkenness.
} Mooney, who has lately published I
most interesting History of Ireland, AM
: which ought 10 he IN the hands OF ever.
: one to whom the story of lreland's wrongs
t sufferings, ancient fame, and SURPRISING
I merit may be in any degree interesting
r says of Sheridan: 1.-The life of this extra
: ordinary man is perhaps the most strIkln
f evidence in history of the dreadful evils G
D intemp erance. Here was, indeed, a nobl
s mind overihrown by alcohol! Nor was
/; all effected at once. Sheridan was at mr.
: moderate drinker, by turns the hosPItc
g BILE host, or welcome guest. lie drank
n make others happy around him, TO increas
J. mutual pleasure. Fatal disposition! Al
g years of age, he was, as we have see
if the first literary man in England =" Or
e TOR, Dramatlst, Minstrel, and all,"-bles
ID ed with wife, the paragon of conJug
ID love, one who was gifted with the highe
!" musical talents, and other kindred attain
As msnts calculated to helghtsn the haPPlne