New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-10


the Nav and by the rai be shoald have t'teen
glasses Of gTog TO the latters one. The sailor in
mercantile service has to take m and discharge
cargo and do other bard work but have yet 90
learn that man-oi.wsr's man has ever % work
too bard If indeed 70 work hard at all. Yet he
has hrs ctog twice a dsy-rsw red run poared
oot twice a day. and Tor two hours nothing bat
steady sfream OF the red fire running dOw0 mems
ibroais Is your son 10 be there is mine-sre
our sons, to tume within the influence OF TINS
stream OF ruin There are, however, some noble
exceptions amcng the officers OF the Navy. Capt;
sstrirrhem Tor enc has been temperance man al
his life.
But We are often met with the remark, ." A
single class per day will do 40 harm Let us see
what competent judges say on this point READ
from the discussion between DR.. Han ana Edward y.
Delayan. relstve 10 Dr. SeNslis Drawings OF the
Human Stomach Dr.. Alden says " To man IN
health there 10 such thing a temperate use Of
ardent spirits. In any quantity they are an enemy
10 the human constitution; their influence upon
the physical organs Is uniavOrable to health and
life; they produce weakness and not strength !;
sickness and not health death and not lie" Prof
Hitchcock: "The use OF ardent spirits, even ia
the greatest moderation, tends 10 shorten lie"
Dr. Kirk Of Scotland: Men who were never con
sidcrCd intemperate, have, by daily drinking, often
shortened life 20 years; the respectable use Of this
poison often hills more than even drunkenness"
DR.. Harris "The moderate Of sp.rit1O1s
liquors has destroyed many who were never
drunk" Mr.. Higginbo,ham, Surgeon; " / consider
shall 90 mOre,in curing and preventing disease,
ia one wear by prescribing total abstinence than /
could do 10 the ordinary course of an extensive
practice ia 100 years" Sir Ashley Cooper: "NO
person has greater bostiy to dram drinking than
myself insomuch that i never suffer any ardent
spirits in my house, thinking aem evil spirits and
ii the poor could witnes the white livers the drop.
sizes the shattered nervous sy stems which have
seen, as the consequences Of drinking, they would
be aware thst spirits and poisons are Synonymous
terms DIR. Betty, Lecturer at the Medical
School, Royal Institution Liverpool; and GO other
distinguished phys icsns: Man in ordinary health
requires MOI any stmulants, as wine, beer or spr.
it's and cannot be benefited by the babitual guam.
tity Of them, large or small. Their use can do no
good 10 him, even in the most moderate quantities,
which sooner or later prove injurious 10 the human
constitution DIR. Cheyne: " / have no doubt, if a
man. beginning at 90, to take one large glass
Of spirits regularly every day, he would thereby
affect the dufation Of bis life, probably abridgng It
by at least ten years" Ia Glasgow according to
Dr. Clsslahds tables, "there has been very
great increase of mortality since 1922, the year in
which the duty on distilled spirits was reduced. In
1921 the number Of deaths was 1856; in the year
1923, the year when the low duties began 10 oper-
ate the mortality rose to 1927, being increase
in the number, OF deaths of GAL" Sir Anthony
Carlisle :; 1.-The acid qualities of fermeRted wines,
aredecdedly hurtful" DR. Sanders Water drink
era are ~ general longer lived, and less subject 10
decay ffscuhies than those who use other liquids
DIR. Charles A. Lee, New.York: "As physician
am led TO believe, from my pretty extensive OBJ
servation, that the premature exhaustion induced
by the moderate use OF alcoholic drinks is one of
tn Chief causes Of the frequent failure of health,
and serious attacks of disease, which literary and
professional men so often experience. l could re-
late number of cases, where there could be
question that III health was induced aud continued
- H. II
alcoholic liquors. though the individuals themselves
were perfectly unconscious of it, and probably
would not have thanked physician for making
such suggestion. II fair trial does not satisfy
the individual that total abstinence is far prefera
BILE TO moderate use, then it will be the first in
stance which have ever known where such a re-
suit has not followed" Such opinions, from such
sources, will hardly be disputed.
But it has been said that those who take up the
advocacy Of these reforms are fanatics that very
few of them take hold unless they have some in
terest TO subserve. | am proud TO say that some
of the frat men in the nation have sided with me-
begun with DO name, no influence, no education;
but was courteousy received and encouraged by
generous hearts. began in New.York, and went
next 20 Albany. The second man who sustained
me was Erastus Corning OF Albany He inquired
who was, and found that was poor sailor en-
gagged in a great cause He gave me money, ad
vised me to call a meeting, subscribed for that
handsome amount, gave me more money when
started West learned somehow for did not write
himl that was out OF money at Syracuse, and sent
me a generous sum, sent me more at Rochester,
more at Buffalo and when got back to Albany he
gave me enough TO 60 to w ashington and stay sew
eral DAYS. He knew that Reforms could not be
carried on without money. Among others 10 when
1 am under great obligations for valuable aid, /
may mention Lucus Manly Sergeant, of Boston,
who not only gave the force Of his powerful pen,
but also Literally Of bis money Jonathan Ingersol
Bowditch and John NJ. Forbes, of Boston, as well
as Moses Grant Esq. of Boston; Edward NJ Da-
Wis and Isaac Il. Davis, of Philadelphia. who stood
by me in times of peril; Rev. DR.. w. II. Furness,
of Philadelphia, who Mr.. Haynes said be believed
70 be as pure Christian any man Ia the circle of
his acquaintance, all his actions showing a love 10
God and his fellow men Rev. DR.. Plumer and g.
N. Eaton, Esq Of Baltimore Judge Buel and Dr.
Blachford, Of Troy, n Y President Mott of Union
College. Schenectady Rev. DIR. Lyman Beecher
and Rev. III. w. Beecher, as well as Rev. Dr. Ed.
Beecher Of Boston; Hon. n. Silsbe, Jr. of Salem
Indeed his impossible to recount the names OF all
the distinguished men who have aided this cause
II we look to the United States Senate we will find
the name Of Benton, Webster, Seward, Cass, Dor.
land, Corwin, aud many other of the men to whom
we look as great minded men, who are the willing
advocates OF the rights OF the Sailors. When | was
in Washington, | was courteousy received by
many distinguished members. II the present San.
ators will carry out the desires OF the State Less
latures, the success OF our effort is certain bill
passed the House last session, and nearly pas
sed the Senate; since then five sovereign State,
have instructed their Senators to vote for the bin
1t ia not at all improbable that we may meet here
before the year is over to congratulate each other
on the expulsion Of Rum and the Lash from the
Navy OF our noble country.
THE CHAIR-Wil Judge Greenwood favor the
meeting with some remarks
MIR. HArSKs Il am glad to remark that there is
here an array Of talent seldom found together in
the advocacy Of this cause.
Judge GRrEswooD.--Beiore proceed, will Mr.
Haynes favor uswith an exhibition OF the mode of
logging
Mr.. HAYNES then placed chair on the deskand
set cushion against on which he struck several
blows with tharSliabolica instrument Of torture
The Cat 0'Nine Tails
Judge GRrESwooD--l shall have little TO say.
perhaps, which has not occurred TO almost eyery
mind TIE conclusion we should arrive at is one