The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-04-20

materials for it are abundant, and you have
but 10 open your eyes Tor nostrils) IN any
city promenade, GLORIOUS Boston excep,ed)
in any village bar-room, to find your
self confronted by them. Is Broadway
sunny yet airy, with the atmosphere ge-
NAL and inviting, so that fair maidens
land exc observing bachelors) throng the
two-shilling sidewalk, glad to enjoy and
not unwilling to be admired 7-Hither las
Satan INTO Paradise, but not half SO gem
tlemanly,) HES the host Of tobacco-smok-
ing loafers, to puff their detesied fumes in
to the faces and eyes Of abhorring purity
and loveliness, to spatter the walk, and
often soil the costly and delicate dresses
Of the promenaders with their vile expec-
torations And. even should the smokers
forbear to pollute the outraged but patient
ly enduring Aag-stones with their foul sa-
Iva, the chewers will Lot be far behind
as the Revelator saw "Death on the pale
horse, and He'll following aiter,') indus
trious y polluting the fair face Of earth, as
their precursors have poisoned the sweet
breath Of heaven. How long, oh. how
long, must all this be suffered!
l have intimated that the tobacco-con-
sumner is-not indeed necessarily and in
evitabIy, but naturally and usually-a
blackguard ; that chewing or smoking vb-
viously tends to b.ackguardism. Can any
man doubt it! Let him ride with uncor-
rupted senses IN the stage or omnibus,
which the chewer insists on defilng with
! the liquid product OF his incessant labors.
seeming unconscious of its utter offensive
ness and which even the smoker, espe-
cially if partly or wholly drunk, will also
insist on Transforming into miniature
Tophet by his exhalations, defyIng alike
the express rule Of the coach and the suf-
ferer's urgent circumstances, if he can
only say, "Why, there's no lady here.''
mo ladies is his expression, bu, the plea
is execrable enough. though expressed
dramatically Go into public gath
erng. where speaker OF delicate lungs,
and all invincible repuslon to tobacco, i,
trying to discuss some important topic Sc
that a thousand men can hear and under
stand him, yet whereinto ten or twenty
smokers have introduced themselves, a
long-nin projecting horizontally from be-
meath the nose of each, fire at one end
and fool at the other, and mark how
they puff, putting gradually transforms the
atmosphere none too pure at best) into
that Of some foul and pestilential cavern
choking the utterance Of the speaker, and
distractlng (by annoyance) the attention
OF the hearers, until the argument is ar
rested or its effect utterly destroyed. II
he who will selfshly; recklsssly, lmpu-
IDENTIFY inflct so much discomfort and an
noyance on many, in order that he may
enjoy in particular place an indulgence
which could as well be enjoyed where
no one else would be effected by IT. be not
bIackguard, who can bel What could
indicate bad breeding and bad heart, il
such conduct does not "Brethren 10
said Parson Strong, Of Hartford, preaching
! a Connecticut election sermon, in high
party times, some fifty years ago, "it has
been charged that l have said every Dem
ocrat is a horse-thief | never did. What
/ Ind say was only that every horse-thiet
is Democrat, and that can prove" So
I do not say that every smoker. or chewer
Is necessarily a blackguard, however
steep the proclivity that way; but show
me genuine blackguard-one of the
bhoys, and no mistske-who Is not low
er OF tobacco IN some shape, and ! will
agree to find you two white blackbirds.
HORACE GREELEY.