Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1848-12-27

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York on Insanity I'VE have on our table,
A treatise on insanity, the only work of the
kind in the United States, or perhaps in the
known world. founded on general observation
and truth, by G. GRIMES an inmate of the Lis
natc Asylum Of Tennessee" Such is the
somewhat pompous title of strange pnmpt-
let which We have recently read. The follow
ing are The subjects treated IN the work before
Us. Tie authors case, its cause and treat
.nenl; insanity, i,s lrealmeng general remarks;
i'liotism; Jurisprudence Of insanity; suicide;
apostacy from religion; yohth and future life
The work contains IA portrait Of the author,
and grim louking mortal he is The author
himself lately favored us with his company,
following the business Of pcddling his books
GOO! suggestions on the subjec, of insanity in
the book heinrr us. The author seems to have
Dipped into the works of snine celebrated wri>
ters OF the subject, and has nj his tongues end,
Combs. Pinel, Esquirol, and other great
names. We must say however. that Mr.
Grimes says many strange and sometimes ab-
a,,r4t Htnra h1 r.
craziness when he wrote tho book. The work
bears indubitable marks Of the peculiar state Of
his mind when he composed il. The writer
very much nbout the i'll treatment
which he Ior years experienced from various
persons.
1t seems that he was defrauded of his proper
ty by swindling partners, and that when he was
evidently delanged, he was badly treated BY
near relatives and others. In consequence OF
this, he makes strong appe'ls throughout his
book in behalf Of This unfortunate class of his
fellow creatures. He is certainly rieh. in urging
that their cases a: so"n as insanity shows ITSELF
should not be neglected minute, but should
enced physicians in an asylum of charac,er-
The most enlightened persons on the subject
Of Iunacy all concur with him in this matter
Among other kinds ofoppression to which the
author Was subject, he suffered from calumno
reports. The following are some. He says:
81 see another writer charges me with i,av-
ing shipped twenty millions of souls to Jamai-
ca, and thus brIrayed my country never
shipped a soul 10 jamaica or any other govern.
ment in my life; nor was ever beyond lhe
limits OF the United States, either IN person or
correspondence l. would be a strange phe
nomena in a mans life il he conId do ali these
things and be in his own country all The time.
have been told that other writer's have as
serted that it was me who brought the cholera
from another country to this. which is errone-
ous. and would be equally strange to even sup
pose that man could bring the chnera from
France to this country when the wide ocean is
between the two governments, and the mao