Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-07-19
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Cholera and IMtemnnrnncc.

ldesire to recall the tentCn Of our population 10
the close and intimate connection between Cholera
and infemperance. This has been often pointed out
and yet strange as it may seem, whenever cholera
is apprehended wherever it exists as an epidem-
the practice OF some individuals, and indeed Of
whole communities, is prone to slide into excuses
winch invite or aggravate the malady. think.
nave nouced among us, strong tendency in the
same direction, an good citizen, feel impell-
ed by every consideration, to raise warning voice
against so fatal deluson.
That intoxicating drinks are ever necessary in
health, in common with the wiscst and be st of man
KIND utterly deny. That they create strong ten
dency to disease, in common with the most eminent
Of the Medical Faculty in all ages and countries
fearessly assert. That they are especially promo.
tive of attacks of the Cholera admits Of no doubt
The history of the disease in st Louis and Cncinna-
II, conclusively shows that on Mondays and Tues
days there is gene rally augmentation Of morta-
y to the extent Of fifty per cents in consequence of
the dissipation of the preceding Sunday. And in
the former city, am credibly informed that Intern
perance has awfully extended itself, so as to en-
brace many, very many, who have been free from
its fascination. There is something in the ravages
~ P>SN"~"~S eASSSoihSfs Ge1aeaiHS W tHe moral
sense. Men become reckless and rush headlong on
destruction. Now what desire is, that our pom
uation should, before the danger becomes immi-
nent and alarming, stop shor., and ponder on the
evils OF drinking. If the free of Brandy and
other drinks, predispose to the disease just in the
same degree will single glass exert an injurious
tendency. All experience shows, that stimulating
drinks have no preventive quality. Those who have
taken to these in the form of cordials and other
cholera compounds, now so common in the shops,
have found too late, that they but added fuel to the
flame. Whatever may be the opinions of Doctors,
about using them in the of Cholera, there is
but little contraricty of opinion about their predis
posing to the disease. If our liquor sellers would
close their shops and no other supplies could be
had, would be almost willing to ensure our ex-
emption from the scourge, and am sure the reve-
nues Of the city could not be better employed than
in buying out the liquor shops, and entirely prohib
ing the opening of others, until the epidemic has
passed by. There would be moral grandeur in an
example like this, only eqnaed by its beneficial re-
SUITS, which would rebound to our lasting fame and
happiness. call on all Temperance Associations
to adhere to their Pledges under all temptations and
to make every effort to enlarge the sphere of their
operations. The spectacle of whole population
voluntarily abstanng from all improper sensual in
dulgencies would be or and one such as has new
er yet been seen. except in the village of Sarepta on
the Volga in Russia, inhabited by a colony of the
Moravian Brethren, around which the Cholera has
uniformly passed; though right in its path being re-
PEELED by the calm and pure lives, the industry the
cleanliness and sobriety of its people. s o.
J. +. HENRY, NJ. D.