Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-06-01
COM NJ e MIC A TIONS,


with it, But your correspondent is, after ALL hard.
~ ultra enough for me, for he is willing TO allow
the use of liquor under some circumstances, while
have very serious doubts of It's proprety at any
time, when the purpose is 10 drink it. He says;
" The public good requires that il should not be
sold except for medicinal, mechanical and sacra-
mental purposes" 1td9 necessary :; may be in
mechanical purposes, know not, and ! presume
the public have little concern how much is sold
and used in that department; but have very seri-
Gus doubts whether the public good requires that
it shall be sold to be poured down the Threats
of humanity. When taken in health, its effect is
TO destroy the system and if perscvercd in, to bring
the subject to premature grave Can such an
agent then be instrumental in producing health
1t may be urged that other drugs have the same
character Perhaps they have, but that does not
prove the liquor good, it simply proves them bad.
| am confident that in the aggregate. drugs have
done much more harm than good to the human IA
my, and there are but few in which brandy
or any other liquor is of service but il is made ne
cessary from pros!ation from the use of other pol
sons. Liquor is seldom resor,ed to, except
medicine. Ii men could always have healthy s-
muus, they would seldom if ever resort to the in
| tox;cating bowl Nature has supplied the human
constitution, with healthy stimulating essences, suf-
fcicnt for just and proper exercise Of the system.
But in the present false and vicious state OF society
at least one half of manlnd compelled TO vo-
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natural period, the healthy stimulus with which
nature has supplied them, and consequently to eX>
| periencG premature prostraon. They then pour
| liquor down their Threats, for the reason that
the licensed physician poufs il down the throat OF
his helpless patient; TO supply an artificial stimulus
! in place of the natural stimulus which hiss been Vi
! oentIy exhausted According to my notion, tenn
perance men have a very partial and imperfect idea
of the character OF their mission. Their work can
never be complete or safe until the causes which
induce a resort TO Intoxicating liquors removed
| As long our present unnatural social relations
! exist, whereby men compelled to violate the
| laws of their physical being to procure the rcces-
saries Of life, men will resort 10 this medcins to
temporarily restore their PROSTATE powers and the
only mode OF eftctuay curing the evil, is to do
away with the cause But go for in,crdctng the
sale of the article to he taken internally entirely;
but if il is to be sold a drug, let the humbeS
| GROCERY as we'll as the most dIgnifcd blue and
green bottle establishment, have the privilege and
let men Judge Of their own sites as we'll as 20
have others Judge for them.
| But whilst am willing to admit that some rea-
| sons may be urged for the Of liquor as mcdi
cine, am unable to perceive ahy reason whatever
or ITS use for sacramental purposes II its use be
hutiu, can this particular application oft de strov
its noxous OBJECT | do not believe that the bite :,
a serpent woull be less dangerous within the sa
cred precincts of a church, than elsewhere lit
be urged that it is taken in small quantities ask.
where the necessity of taking it at ALL Is yonr
correspondent prepared to assert that there are no
instances in which a love for the sparkling wine
originated from the taste acquired by this use of it.
or that no reformed inebrate had ever his slur,be
ring passion for drink again aroused by this appeal
70 his willing nerve. If the history of the world
has one such instance, (and doubtless it has is
thousands) doubt whether all the benefits which
have ever resulted from the use of wine for this
purpose would lie an equivalent look at things
with reference 10 their intrinsic nature and cba1ac
ter, and 1t IN no-wse helps an evil in my estimation
to surround it with outward evidences of yirtne
Liquor is liquor, whether you find it in the grogge.
ry or the church, and ia touch it is dangerous
wherever you may be when you thus indulge Ii
quor is dangerous, because when our nerves have
once felt It's influence they demand more and lead
us TO excess, and know of no law of phv,ioIDov
which destroys this character the nerve from any
sacredness of the place. Again, the example from
that source has double power. Children are
truthful by nature; and whilst we may employ
subteties and sophisms to Prove this right in one
place and wrong in another, they cannot understand
why that which is right in one place is not righ,
in all others and hence they claim the benefit Of
such examples in their subsequent indugenccs
In addition to this If understand the matter wine
on these occasions is used only as an embIcm-a
type OF the blood of orr saviour. Can mischie-
agent ofthis character be the best renreseota
tive of the le>blood of the parent of all virtue and
the foe of all vice? If an emblem is necessary how
much better is the sparkling water, which leaves |
purity and health and freshness and beauty forever
in its path in preference 10 the element which de-
stroys all it touches, and leaves death and desoIa-
ton in its track.
hope your correspo 1dent will be ready to 60 in
with me, to neither iouch taste nor handle the un-
clean thing, or if he is determined to tolerate the
swallowing of it, under any circumstances to si,e
some good reason for his portability. \.
wisconsin Ahead!
W1scoSsIS-there is music in the word It's
melody, wild like the tunes of the roliao Ivre
points TO the Indian OF the forest for its origin
bu' are there not movements now being associa
TED with this word, Wisconsin, which make still
more vital music on the soul than what meets the
ear IN It's mere utterance We refer to the action
Of her legislature on questions of moral interest.