The Columbian fountain., 1846-06-19


WAsHrNeroN CITY, ISLAND, .Nay9, l846.
The Drunkard's Reward in this Life and
the Life to come.
If you wish alwaysto be thirsty, be a drunk
ard ; for the oftener and the more you drink,
the oftener and the more thirsty you will be.
If you seek toprevent your friends raising you
in the world, be drunkard; for that will de-
feat all their efforts If you would effectually
counteract your own attempts to do well, be a
drunkard, and you will not be disappointed
Ii you wish to repel the endeavors Of the
whole human race to raise you to character,
credit, and prosperity, be drunkard, and you
will most assuredly triumph. If you are de-
termned to be poor be drunkard, and you
will soon be ragged and pennyless If you
would wish to starve your family, be drunk
ard, for that will consume the means Of their
support. If you would be imposed on by
Rnaves, be drunkard, for that will make your
task easy. If you would wish TO be robbed,
be drunkard. for that will enable the thief to
do it with more safety If you would wish
TO unfit yourself for rational intercourse, be a
drunkard, for that will accomplish your pur-
pose. Ir you are resolved to kill yourself, be
drunkard that being sure mode of des-
truction. 1t you would expose both your fol
ly and secrets, be drunkard, and they will
soon be made known. If you think you are
90 strong, be a drunkard, and you will soon
be subdued by so powerful an enemy. If
you would get rid OF your money without
knowing how, be drunkard, and il will
vanish insensibly. If you would have no
resourse when past labor but workhouse, be a
drunkard and you will be unable to provide
any, If you are determined to expel all COM
fsrt from your house, be drunkard, and you
will soon do it effectually. If you would smash
windows, break the peace, get your bones
broken, tumble under carts and horses, and be
locked up in the watch house, be drundard,
and it will be strange if you do not succeed
If you would destroy your body, be drunk
ard; as drunkenness is the mother of dis
ease.
If you mean TO ruin your soul, be drunk
ard, that you may be excluded from heaven.
Finally, if you are determined to be utterly
destroyed in estate, body and soul, be drunk
ard. and you will soon know that it is impossi
BILE TO adopt more effectual means 10 accom-
plish your end. All the crimes on earth, says
Lord Bacon, do not destroy so many OF the
human race, nor ALLEVIATE so much proper
~ as drunkenness. Drunkenness expes rea-
son. browns the memory, defaces beauty, dl.
minshes strength, infames the blood, causes
internal. external, and incurable wounds, is
witch TO the senses, devil to the soul, thief
10 the purse, the beggars companion, the wlfe's
woe, and chlldren's sorrow. Makes strong
man weak. and wise man fool, he IS worse
than a beast, and is a selfmurderer, who
drinks to others good health, and robs himself
of his own; he is worse than a beast, for no
animal will designedy intoxlcate itself but
drunkard swallows his liquor, well knowing
the condition TO which il will reduce him, and
these draughts will deprive him of the use of
his reason, and render him worse than beast.
By the effects Of liquor, his evil passions and
temper are freed from restraint, and while in
state OF intoxication, he commits actions
which, when sober, he would have shuddered
TO have thought Of. Many an evil deed has
been done, many murder has been commit
ted. when those who did these things, were in
toxicated. Tremble, then, if ever you taste
the intoxicating draushL Reflect, before you
put the cup to your mouth, remember that
you are forming habit which will lead on TO
tbe commission OF every crime, to which the
propensities of your nature, rendered violent
by indulgence, can urge you before your are
aware.
But christians are no longer blind They see
the evil and the extent Of intemperance the
remedy lies before them; now conscience must
act; if they will set at defiance the warnings Of
God. and the efforts the temperate throught
the land, it must condemn them. The rum
drinking christian, pleads for this practice as
useful and necessary, though il is fully shown
from facts. and testimony OF the experienced,
that even little strong drink is unnecessary
and dangerous. He pleads that he cannot Ia
Dor without il. That his strength will iall