Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-01-24

BY o. A. JARVIS, DENTAL SURGEON OF NEW YORK.
Continued from last weeks Jefersonan Republican,

not in general the result OF single cause but the
result of combination Of causes. On the same
principle, particular disease may not be the re-
suit OF single cause, but of combination of eau
ses. Hence, we cannot affirm the results which
/ shall proceed to point out as exclusively result
ing from the use of Tobacco. The human system
is corrupted, filled with disease, the seeds death
death follows. Now DEATH we are told, and we
/ believe, was brought into the world by sin. Adam
we say, committed that sin. But every member
of the human family has sined, and we cannot say
whether less or morethan our first parents. Again,
what the sin of the first, and till then, happy
| pair Was it by 'cordS rebellious words bias
phemy against Deity! Was it by turning the hand
in death against each other, against other beings
/ likewise placed on this then lovely Earth to en-
/ JOY existence! No, none of these constituted Ad-
ANS sin. It was eating yea, simply eating. And
we might almost with proprieiy say, that this has
been the great, the inherited sin of man from that
/ day down the stream of time till the present; and
that all other sins, or forms of sin has been the
/ product Of this
! Ask that divine, what he means by original sin,
by human depraviy! If he tells you it consisted
in rebellion against God, ask him what constu-
ted that act Of rebellion! He can but say: 1t was
partaking OF forbidden fruit Here il is then, eat
ing and drinking. But who ever thought, and who
going 10 believe, that this is the first, great sin
of which we are all guilty! Yet it is neverthe-
less true; though Will not claim it in too strict
! and exclusive sense. But, say you, do we no, sin
through other passions1 Yes. But let it be un-
Il, IL G..
sire, throughout The whole animal creation, is for
food and drink; and iha, in so far as this is cor
rupted and depraved, the other passions, through
this, will inevitably be depraved likewise. But
YOU ask if eating and drinking too much, or that
which is not adapted to his nature, will cause
man to swear, 20 murder, or commit crime Of
any character, sin against himself or against his
God,-and he cannot sin against himself, or vio-
late any law of his being, without the same consii-
tuting sin agains, God,--or. in Short you ask if
this act vii. deprave, corrupt and lead astray the
mind. Most certainly it will. What does it if
this does not! Has Creative Intelligence i'm
planted in mans nature that principle, that some
thing, which was calculated ever to lead him as
tray and make him rebelliousl Utter not such
blasphemy. We must admit that these are the
great first acts of mans depravity, or consent to
consider original, inherited sin an indefnable, in
explicable something which no earthly intelligence
can ever comprehend. Death was brough: into
the world by sin, Or in other words, death is the
result of crime. AS our first parents have not COM
mitted al the sin that has been committed so they
have not brought all death, ETC., into the world
Man was created 10 enjoy happiness, and con-
tribute to the happiness of other beings. But oh!
how has The designs of the Creator been ffustra-
ted by mans disobedience. 1t is with terrible fear
we behold the rapidly descending numbers of mans
years, from the long age of Adam and Mehusala,
down to about twenty, now the average period Of
his earthly stay: and during even these few days,
from the cradle to the grave, is naught but disease
suffering and death What, all this in time, then,
oh Eternity, what errors wilt thou unfold to gull
ty man. Do we not consider sickness, suffering
and death as being sent or inflicted by Providence
and If we call 1t punishment for our sins, do we
stop TO consider in what those sins consisted
Oh what absurdily, how foolish, to think that dis
honest dealing with our neighbor will give US the
head d-ache, or induce consumption. And il is the
deepest ignorance and folly, the highest wickedness
and blasphemy TO impute to Divine Benevolence
this charge. We have done it ourselves these are
the applied penalties of Gods broken law, which
man has invited on his own head.
Reader, this is no dgression The object is to
show you that effect must have cause, and that
such effects are visible in our own bodies as
must result from the violation Of certain fixed laws
But can the guilty be induced TO believe it No
And why Because sentence against an evil
work is not executed speedily" five were told
that using tobacco would make US blind, and we
found that il always did, then, perhaps, we would
resolve to desist at least we would be forced to
believe that blindness was the consequence of US.
ing the article. But as it is, because its evils
make their appearance in various forms and WAYS,
we will not believe they are the results of this
cause: not stopping to consider the difference of
constitution; not knowing that what is one mans
food is another mans poison; that what would be
a medicine for one man would possess no medicin-
al qualities for another; that because a man with
a good pair of lungs, robust and powerful consti-
tuition, can for years use tobacco with comparative
impunty another with general debility of frame
and vital organs, of cohsumptive habits, etc.,
do likewise; when, in fact it will tumble him into
The grave in few months or years.
Whence come all your aches and pains lame