Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-02-12

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them all hale fellows, well met. The carou-
sal continues till the shrouds of midnight |
hang around them. His hour of relaxation
is turned into six hours of rcvalry and wine.
He lies down upon his couch, swims in
doubtful existence, until the morning dawns
upon his misery and shame.
Conscience, still awake, stings him with
her rebukes. In the moment Of remorse, he
half resolves, that, as this is the first, SO it
shall be his last step in the drunkard's path;
but no sooner has nature restored his lapsed
powers, and his companions warmly press
him to spend another social hour, than his
resolution is abandoned, and he goes again
and again, untilhe can quait his full bum
per with the BEST and boast, and be vulgar,
and bias spheme, with the stoutest of them
At length the returning hankerings of his
fictitious appetite lead him to the house of
drains, even without his companions. His
history tells us, that he daily stole along the
side path, by the fence, to the grocery, for
his morning bitters; proving that stolen fruit
was sweet, and drop taken i'll secret de-
licious. As yet, the man had no thought of
being a drunkard: even a ccnsorious world
had not registered his name among the incor-
rigible; but socn his increasingappetite over
comes his difiidence and sense of shame; he
is seen on hollydays, raisings and at general
reviews proclaiming his own infmny. He
boasts Of wealth which he never had. He
has paid his debts, and has money to lend,
ne can fight with Sampson, wrestle with
Hercules, with an Ajax, and jump over the
moon. Creation is too small for his prowess:
and the universe too onarrow for his imagina-
ton. Poor man! He is deranged. These
are but the fantasies raised in his Uranium,
by the liquid Devil within; when he awakes
toreality, he awakes to poverty, wrctched-
ness, and despair. To drown the reproof of
Conscience, and TO raise the ebbing tide of
life, a resort is again had to the bottle; and
over again. At this period loss of business,
loss offriends, derangcd circumstances, bro
ken fortune, blaStedreputation, heart broken
wife, and beggared children, followed in the
train Of ills to fill up the measure ofhis cup.
And now abused nature hangs ont his signs
Of distress. The bloated face, the carbuncle
nose, the bleared, blood-shot eye, the parch-
ed tongue, the trembling hand beg for relief
Nature asks brcad;-the wretch gives her
polson;she pleads for the cooling water of
life: he answers with the liquid fire ofdeath
And now disease, mcagre and grim sum-
mons her molly band, to punish the wretch
who has thus warred upon nature, and insul-
ted God. Lingering dyspepsia, yellow jaun-
dice, loaming epilapsy, bloated dropsy, swol-
len apopleXy, haggard mania, and delerium
trcmcns, stand around their victim, disputing
their claims to strike the blow, which shall
: lay him among the worms. He anticipates
the blow, drains the cup of Hercules in
drunken fit, staggers under hedge at night
4 aud is found dead, and stiff, and bloated, il
2 the morning.
!; Desperate man! thus to rush into the pres
c ence of Thy awful Judge-wi.h all thy sim
and impericctions on thy head, unwashed
4 unannointed, unannealed? His children ar
:. in the aims house; his wife sleeps in he
2 narrow home till the morning Of the resur
:. rection; his body polutes the ground it rest
: upon; the residence OF his soul, the fnu
Y judgement shall declare. Other trains {
e symptoms, varying with different constitu
n tions and tomperaments, producing in SON
r listessncss, stupor, and silly idiocy; in 9th
= ers, restlessness, moroscncss, jealousy, cru
m city, and violence, it were easy to point on
= but hasten thirdly to notice some of th
Rs effects Of lntemperance. And here innun
:. cradle topics cluster around me, and pre-
"a with almost equal claims upon my consider
of alton; but | am admonished not to trespa,
gs upon your patience. We will look at its c
tects for few moments upon corporal ma
oP intellectual man--soca man-moral ma
n some of its effects on the body have alreac
&c been anticipated, in tracing the symptoms
no. the disease: but I proceed to observe tn
is however various the symptoms in diliere
lie subjects, the inyariabc effect is, first to
is range, second to shake, and third to pr
in down the ourious'y wrought machine-tl
a human body. Nature has prepared the on
,s- proper alimcnt for man, in the simple unto
all tured properties ofvegetable and animal m;
bv ter which surrounds him. Wholesome fo
,r- contains enough of stimulus for the healt
he full operations of all the organs of physic
,w man. If by artificial stimulants, the tone
is the stomach is raised above its healthi
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