New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-14

Questions win be 1hed, ss il seems TO nc. which
sOs'a never have been asked had ve taken plain
go. pp's term. especially. bad We called our.
selves oy tne broad name Of a Health Society, or
even aFoysologscA Society For tbs latter are
SO broad IN thef meaning ira, thew nav be \, ,ds
without much violence. 70 Include 4 o,ost evs-v,
thing While the term 'egctarsanism does not Of
nece salty involve quite 60 much u cave. n. a..
cpes al fall liberty, IL true, 10 extend thsir 10
oGries and so further and further 70 war tks morn
ised land Of emancipation, sad u viii doah,less
increase their disposition q do 50, bat then es
nc, compel them.
We have called ourselves Vegetarian Society,
because We believe that though man ia 50 o0ns.i-
tuted a. 10 be abe to derive Do1rishne1t non All
the kingdoms OF NA,ure-certSinly from both the
sLimal and the vegetable-hls highest, advancsment
vii he best secured when be comes 70 learn %
content himself " m & well selected Diet which
shat consist exclusively Of vegetable food. The
grounds Of this belief i. viii be my purpose to
state, in the progress OF these letters.
You viii say, perhaps that some Of our nsmoes
Go 10, abstain entirely from anina food afser all.
True, they do not. We make our creed as abort
SIS We can. We do not believe in eating the fssA
OF animals. This is tire erestlesdins srticle-l
had suoss said the ouly sr:ce of our dietetic or
even our physiological creed. T. this point-ihs
great cardinal prlnciple-Nesetsr bind them
selves and have yet to learn that any Of them
have violated their pledge.
Bot the Negetaiians present assh 10 their
friends, you will say, | suppose for gentleman
Of the irs. character f0s veracity lately informed
me, by letter, that he Rad recently seen lesh on
the table Of ore Of the oticers Of the American
Vegetarian Society. Very well they do not
thereby break their pledge. True, lshOad not be
apt to do 10 nor would all OF my Vegetarian
brethren. There are those who have pledged
themselves to use no more alsobol or tobacco, or
tea and coffee, Who yet on occasions, sometimes,
for medicinal purposes, give |. TO their friends.
There vas time IN the history Of the Tenn
persnce cause when the pledge which was signed
did not Orbid this AZ that ecriOd vas il viola
ton OF tie pledge Of aostsiniog in person to given
70 oIes " nts 10 no, ASK whether 1t wasex'
/ pediens-for this suppose none would maintain
but was a breach OF the pledge.
whenever In ths progress Of the cause Of Vege-
| tsfishsmlt becomes necessary 20 pledge ourselves
not to give flesh To otter' It will. OF coarse. be
violation OF our promise 20 have IL on our tables.
Nor is that period even now az Il ia honestly
| hoped very far distant
You Will add, once more BY way Of objection,
that We eat the products Of snmxls such ss eggs,
milk, butter and cheese. Sone Of us DO while
others DO n {. Butter and cheese are used by q
few, and by some very freely. Alnost al use eggs
and mix. Aud II must be confessed, If it were
/ necessary, that in order to DO a Vegetarian, we
must never taste animal food. The products of ami
mails during the whole OF our lives, there could be
no such thing as a Vegetarian in the world Tor
WHO could survive the periotd Of infancy without an
animal product for food
But this, my dear Sir ! say once more, 10 not our
meaning We believe that God made man TO be,
in every view moral, Intellectual sat physical, an
/ omIiyerous animal. He can derive nourishment TO
the mind from all sorts OF Intellectual fo0i-from
/ ali sorts Of books, conversation and society. He
can have at least stinted moral growth on various
kinds Of moral sustensnce Soit 10 physically he
can maintain q degree Cf health long enough TO
propagate his race, such as il may be, on almost dl
| kinds Of food which can be mentioned. But be-
cause God made man able TO eat al things, 10 he
therefore 10 eat all things Is DO choice to be ez
erci,odl
We believe that there is. We believe that the
more We choose our food from the vegetable king
dom, and the more we rise above the aquatic aud
iLfhnue state, physically, mentally and morally
the more careful we shall be to escape everything
which approximat es Us 10 the carniverous Tribes
even animal products. Nege'arianism then. prac
tically consists in the gradual abandonment OF ami
NAL food Of every kind, and the gradual suossitu
ton Of well selected vegetable ciet In its place
lts disciples believe that He who made-ies riallj
AID wonderfully -this beautiful frame and who I'm
meSistely pointed IL 10 the field aud garden, sn'
not 70 the rivers and seas and skies, Tor It's sus
teDsnce, and who has never yet altered the hu
man constitution to adept il to any Other diet
scted the principle Of Infinite and unerring Wis
dom.
Do you ask for proof You need not. Il Il
found erywhere-around above, beneath an,
within you. We do not conh0e ourselves TO Cd,
pages Of Revelation, when we attempt TO prov,
that man 10 better adapted to Vegetariansm thar
to le, eating. We ssk Of Science, her hand
maid In my next, will invoke her aid and reply
Yours, truly, w. A. ALCoPf.
WestNeptoH, Mass July 10, 1850.