Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1850-10-11

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But this proposition is also evident from T
facts. The cholera and fever will serve g
as fit illustrations. In England the chol- s
era made most appalling ravages among c
the ranks of the intemperate. 1t is sta tc
ted by writer from England that in
some towns, the drunkards are all dead. ]
In China, observes DR.. Richie, the dis {
ease selects its victims from among such
Of the people as live in filth and intem- {
perance. In Paris, not less than 80, 900 ,
individuals were destroyed by cholera,
large portions of whom are said to
have been lntemperate. In Montreal.
DR.. Robertson writes: the cholera here
searches out the haunt of the drunkard
with unerring aim. Out Of 1000 deaths /
in Montreal, only two, it is stated, were
members Of Temperance Societies. DR.. |
Sewell, of Washington. while on visit
to cholera hospital in New York. writes
of 204 cases in cholera hospital, there
were only 6 temperate persons, and they
recovered, and that only two individuals
out of 5000 persons who were members
Iof Temperance Societies, were its VIC
tins. Thus is it evident, the same pre-
ference for the intemperate has charac-
terized the cholera every where. In
Temperance is qualification it never
overlooks. Often has it passed harm
less over wide population of temperate
country people, and poured down as an
overwhelming scourge upon the drunk
!, ards Of some distant town.
The delcterious effects of intemper-
ance in predisposing the system to epi-
: demic disease is also evident in cases Of
fever. DR.. Rush remarks, that iniem-
a Iperance makes every species Of inHam.
3 atory and putrid fever worse. 1t is sale
! by another eminent medical man, that o
!. all the yellow fevers that have visited
1 the several cities in the United States
q hard drinkers seldom escaped and rarel,
- recovered from them. An aged physi
u clan of forty years extensive practice re
n marks +" half the men every year VIII
s die of fever might live, were they not il
Z the habit of using ardent spirits. In th
y FIRST report Of the physicians fever hos
bz pital, Cork street. Dublin, it is state
/. that fevers are peculiarly fatal wher
oh they attack habitual dram drinkers
mt These facts clearly show that intempel
~ ance predisposes the system to diseas'
- - Intemperance is physical evil, b,
: cause it is often the direct cause Of dealt
,rs Here again we prefer to appeal to fact
~ Of 10 persons found dead, 81 accordir
~ to the reports of coroners inquest, we
s~o killed by intemperance. A single cor
N ner held inquest over 20 persons, all
-. whom came to their death by the use
liquor. OF 33 persons found dead in Oh
II city, 20 were killed by intemperance.
=, - of II found dead in different places,
/; according to the reports of coroners
= quest, were brought to an untimely e
- by intemperance. It is also stated up
a. careful investigation of the matter IL
.;or ~; at least thirty thousand persons die a
-ou sa"l nually in these United States from
Z - temperance.
YER. It is physical evil, because it disea
YER the posterity of the drunkard. DIR. Da,
the thus expresses himself upon this subject
neal It is rem arkable, that all diseases aris
,ysi- from spirituous or fermented liquors, are
ston liable to become hereditary, even to the Il
That generation" Thus is it evident, from
=
use medical authority, that intemperance
the sons life at its fountain, and rolls its wa
and Of death, on from parent to child and
inati generation to generation. How conclu
its is the evidence that it is physical evil
iniu- it is asked if intemperance be such pro
1t cause of disease and death, why is it,
{ the some habitual drunkards live to be such
able. men. To this we would reply that the
pera- tary instances Of longevity which is now
soual then met with in the case Of hard drinl
al So no more disprove the deadly effects of ar
rdent spirits, than the solitary instances of reC
,easo, ry from apparent death by drowning, p
that that it is not dangerous to life for a hu
,ts. Is body to be an hour or two under water
ve re- that there is no danger in coming in CO.
their with a contagious disease, because some
states sons have been known to escape, though
rmiuo exposed.
4 ada Intemperanee is a mental evil. II
zen n evident from universal belief Of its t
,aw;;n. No individual is willing to risk the
h and and life Of his family, in the hands Of a
+ own sieian while reeling under the infi
these Of alcoholic stimulants. Nor can you
with the parent who would willingly trus
,ority, education OF ms children to an habitual
# evi- ard ana the reason Is apparent all
a this feel assured that lntemperance dethrone
re can son, diseases the mind and disqualiies
sertion for transacting the business of life. ]
lay O. state OF New York, an habitual drunka
invite the eye OF the law, is not considered ca
n sus- of managing his own business, and
tate is taken out of his hands as in th,
il, be- Of lunaties. In the Island Of Jersey,
ase.- exists by which parent, if an habitual d
nv Of ard is deprived of the guardianship
j New children. And there is a law in Spa
T alco- fusing to an individual convicted of ha
,,,stor, druukness. his oath in court. Tins 10