The Columbian fountain., 1846-07-13


er city paper. Advertisers would do wen to keel
this IN mind.
MEssRs. EpIroRs AS iacrs are stubborn
things, and go farther than all other influences
to strengthen cause, we will continue TO ad.
duce testimony and cite facts in our remarks
upon the tendency of Alcoholic liquors on The
physical economy of man. Its thought by
many OF the present day, and used TO be al
most universally conceded, that stimulating
drinks are necessary when any very arduous la
boris to be performed. What farmer, twenty
years ago. thought il possible TO go through
the heating, fatiguing, ordeal of hay making
without The potent aid of whiskey? Now,
what is the prevailing sentiment and practice
in this respect Let us see. wealthy far
mer in Sullivan county, ~ H., had been in
the habit of drinking spirits for number Of
years, and during tie haying season he often
used il freely. With more than ordinary acti-
v,y of mind, and a vigorous bodily consitu-
ton, he attained the age of seventy FIVE wears;
much broken down and decayed, however, un-
der occasional attacks OF gout, which he called
rheumatism. At this period he broke off sud-
denly and wholly from the use of spirits, and
within two years, that is, at the age Of seven
ty-seyen, he was SO much recruited as to ap-
pear several years younger; and he assured
me that in the last two haying seasons he had
accomplished more personal labor than in any
two haying seasons for the last ten or twelve
years. The testimony of this old farmer ami
hilates the doctrine that it is unsafe to cease
the use of spirits all at once. The opinion,
too, used TO be almost as prevalent, that spirits
fortified the system against the injurious effects
of cold and frost and among seamen it was
thought inlspensably necessary TO lay in
good quantity, when long voyage was .medi-
tated. But happily this doctrine is pretty much
exploded. A sea captain Of Boston, Mass,
remarked to prominent Temperance man,
that on memorable cold Friday, in the year
1916, he was on homeward passage off our
coast ,notfar from the latitude Of Boston, Much
ice made upon the ship, and every person on
board was more or less frozen, except two in
dividuals, and they were the only two who
drank no spirits.
In 1919, the crew Of Danish ship Of sixty
men, well supplied with poisonous and
ardent spirits, attempted TO pass the winter in
Hudson's Bay; but fifty eight of them died be-
foresspring.
An English crew of twenty-five men, how
ever, destitute Of ardent spirit, and obliged to
be almost constantly exposed to the cold, win
tered in the same bay, and only two of them
died. II is truly singular that the opinion ever
obtained, that alcoholic drinks guarded the an
imal fabric against The depressing and irritating
effects of heat, when there is no agent more
powerful in causing inflammation and infam-
ma,ory diseases.
A distinguished medical officer, Marshall, |
who was subjected to great exerton and ex-
posure in tropical climate, observed:
81 have always found that the strongest Ii
quors were the most enervatng; and this, in
whatever quantity they were consumed; for
the daily use of spirits is an evil which retains
its pernicious character through all its grada-
tions. INDUCED in at all, il can produce no
thing better than diluted or mitgated mis-
chefn F e#ftn
Such of our shipping as now sail TO sickly
climates on the Temperance principle, exhibit
most striking difference in their bills Of NOR
taIity on those sailing under the colors Of King
Alcohol. During the ravages of the Asiatlc
cholera perncious and fatal effects Of alcoho-
lie drinks were most apparent wherever IL pre-
vailed, selecting for its victims, in large ma
jorlty OF instances, those addicted 10 this evil
habit ~
In India, Ramohun Fingee, native physi-
clan, declares that people who do not take
spirits or opium, do not catch the disorder,
even when they are with those who have il.
In the army under The command Of the Mar
quis Of Hastings, in India, consisting Of eigh-
teen thousand men, more than half died in the
first t,celre days; the free use of intoxicating
liquors in hot climate will explain the cause
OF this extraordinary mortality.
In China, according 10 DR.. Richey, the dis
ease selected its victims from among such OF
the people as live in ith and intemperance.
An intelligent English gentleman, who was
travelling through Eastern Europe during the