Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-03-22
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Sovereign Balm Pills Once More.

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Sovereign Balm Pills Once More. re
MEssRs EDlToRs:-No doubt the pub
liz will faelEunder lasting obligation TO the
Ohio Agent for the Sovereiga Pills. forthe
array Of testimony brou ght 10 bear against
the veracity oil my statements, published in j.
your paper Of Jan. 18th, over the sigma
turo of ''Anti lmposition," relative to bis
grand panacen. am glad that "justice"
has been done to the public once. Such /,
acts Of disnteres.cd benevolence and phi.
lanthrory, are exceedingly rare in these
days of selfishness, apd injustice. Let il
then be SET down as IN epoch in the hsto.
ry Of tie times. The people are once
more assured that the Sovereign Balm is
"Orien;np' ard not u native ofOhio. Tbs
proofs that establish this point are indeed
irrefragible. And what are the proofsf
Why an a gent says he knoaos there has
not been single Pill manufactured in
Ohio, and dozen men say they 90 not bs-
here there has. Very well; other men
believe differently and talk differently. %
1t is but proper that should state, thata
gentleman we'll known IN Chagrin Falls,
formerly Editor of paper published in
that place, and sustaining Us far as know
an unimpeachable character, gave me the
Information concerning the Pills which ]
though. ought TO be made public. And |
will further stale that what he. said .4as
corroborated by several others. By hnn,
whose name shall be given if required,
learned that the mandrake roots had been
ground, that the brother Of DIR. Soule ie-
sides in Russell, that there the Pills were
made, and TINT Aloes is IN ingredient in
their composition. Ii may be asked how
he knew that Aloes enters into their conn.,.
position. He informed mo that MIR. Seule
admitted it himself. But not without first
denying ii, and prevaricoting,i until SUBJ
terfuge became more troublesome than. he
supposed the truth could be, then he &C.
knowledged that Aloes forms part oftheir
precious substance. To sustain this state
ment presume the affidavit Of the gentle
man referred to can be obtained. MIR.
Sunderlin does not affirm that he has not
ground mandrake roots-but he says 81
have never ground any for MIR. Soule,. nor
for any Sovereign Balm Pills -. Ifhe has
ground any, do not thisk he could testify
to what purposes they were subsequently
employed. Still do not doubt what the
gentleman says, and regret TINT any
statements should have been madc, which
are not strictly true. The facts which |
at first stated believed to be true, because
obtained, as | supposed, from reliable
source But Mr.. Soale says they are false,
and he certainly ought to know. .r.
l will not longer protract this article, by
showing the utter impossibility for the
twelve certificates to know 10 certainty"
that there has been no mandrake roots
ground in the Stone Mills for Mr.. Soule;
nor will ! waste time by directing the read
ers attention to the various vulnerable points
which appear so pnlpnbly in their denial.
am satisfied, however, that all which
said in my first notice Of the pills, is not
true-lhat was misinformed. But would
say to A. l.. Soule, that you should be
sparing Of your epthets, and vituperations,
when speaking Of other men. A man whose
business it is to scatter, broad cast, po.
tent drug, whose action on feeble constitu-
tions is not only unsafe, but hazardous to be
used indiscriminately by all persons, under
all circumstances, and in all diseases-a
man who will thus play upon the credulIty
of a generous and confiding community,
should at least feel the sting Of selfrePro-
wing blush, when he applies the term
.sbaseless'' to another. While accusing
others of ssfalsehood," he should not forget
that an Agent of his, by affirming that the
Pills are made in Ohio, hos placed HIM in.
company with tho father Of liars. That an I
agent has thus stated can Be proceed He
should also know that il fictitious name Q.
vinces intentional deception. then the ma
jority Of the literary writer's Of the present
day are equally guilty. Under the covert
and shadow Of the Medical Science, hesi-
tate not to say, that the darkest deeds are
perpetrated by reckless ond unprincipled
pretenders, andt that the multitudinous forms
of vended nostrums act n, unimportant part
in the grand drama Of iniquity and dscep.
ton. A. MOORE.
MANruA, March l7th, ls4S.