The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-16
The Grand Festival Dinner or the Anae rican
Vegetarian soci.ty.

The folio wing sdver,ssms~ae appeared In the news
pspr:-
The rsAd Festival Dinner Of the American Vegetarian
nssday september I5 att NJ Tickets 81, at Fowlcrs
"eu., I3l Nassau street.
In sodit,on to this announcement, dinner ticket was
sent to The oce with the GLOWING note Of invitation;
SEPTEMBER s, 1852.
ne cheers Of the American Vegetarian Society solicit
Kew York and will Obliged for any notice you may give
the or the occasion
In of ,be advertisements and also Of the
foregoing Invitation We sent reporter to attend the
dinner and report the proceedings Instead of dinner
and guests there was - beggsrly sccount Of empty
benches- about eighty persons including men women
and chldr n and one Bloomer scattsred the
This ,.,ct company consisted OF Socialists, FouIieres
Ttetotars colo water doctors, advocates OF womens
rights ana u variety Of o'her isms !"
hand az mu,,c performed at one end OF the room,
sr the vegetarian performers operated on platform ut
the other
DIR Al corT presided.
Dr Nehos (wbo appears to have been the originator
Of the sar spooged IL the audience for the absence
Of III. dinner and hoped they the am
ner over md cloth tmov.d and he would commence
TIE part Of the festival By proposing the frst
Of The Iee ular Int Of toasts L. wnsa foilows-
Gur Linked with all aspirations for pnrer and
higher e the speedy realization Of nober destiny
Dr. A Aa.o1T !, sponded to the toast lie would pre-
fer 10 have il caed The causen 1t was enthusiastically
the caue lay at the bottom Cf all reforms for the
became y~petai,aDs Who not disguised with war!
Within few years this country was engaged In war
with sister republic What guaranty had they tnat
tn, re would be other VII hin quarter VI cen
tury BY refusing to become vegearans, the present
generation sowing the Feeds Of future war IN the
heart. Of h. young Look the way they treated the
Inferior animals; after serving them years they
killed h.m b- the eyes Of their children, with whom
they had been brought with brothers ana sisters
Goo mad. man king the inferior animals aud MT
destroyer All he in the world and all ths riots
basis. proceeded from the pernicous practice OF
eating meat Vtgsraranirm however was rapidly pro-
g'essirg and in good time would put an END 10 such
ab, limitations.
vegetarianism; the material basis Of the life Of in
Eden and the diet most consonant with the beauty anu
holiness Of a truly religious life .
pev. Mr. Metcalfe should speak to this tsast but IN
his abst zee the sentiment dcvolved upon him OR.
NJ lie SAID they could hardly imagioe slaughter
house In Eden and the abolition OF such nusances
would be a step towards return to primcval
happiness lie called professionally this evening
to attend lady who lived in one OF the most
squares up town but opposite whose bed chamber was
slaughter boue where they cut the thIosts OF calves
every Sunday and allowed them to bleed to death aud
the of the poor fin nicpaton Of being
deyou,ed truly piteous This had made the lady
quite ill., and shaken her nerves Opposite to the house
Of person Who bad taken cholera vas another sangh
Ter house ID wonder that such denominations Us
slaughter houses would make everybody ILL., The tastes
of all animals in accordance With their nature
To human taste nesh was unnatural Were not rile
peaches delicious apples luscious prars and other fruits
md farnacous Diet copgenal to human taste than
the slaughter house and its oahscme food Were not the
f,mer agreeable TO the eight than the latter! aud
they not alro agreeable to The taste. as was
evident from the choice OF the urperveIted child Thu
abter house for the tiger and the swine, aud
other lower animals which ,uld not appreciate CUR
den with tempting fruit. but animals which were des
tined to be swept off tho face Of the earth with these
ftrtc.ous animals man allied himself, in the eating Of
flesh.
The noble vegetarians Of England and their national
fer the elevation and determination OF man
Mr. TEBB raid he waa recently come from England
where vegetarian festival held and the most graft
flying tvid edduced to show that vegetable diet
sgreod with all classes Of meathe shetic out. door
worn man and the student, and the watchmsn who
duied The iagues Of night The President Of the Eng
fsh society also n remarkable example. He mover
touch cd flesh A. food The wastes in the BODY are better
supplied from the vegetable Kingdom Hundreds ut The
bar quet bore testimony to the superiority Of vegetable
food They had also the testimony OF distinguished tnd
ydua il different parts u thu world In connsxion with
the society Professor Forbes who made number Of
experiments found that Of eight hundred persons irish
men who lived ON potatoes were the strongest scotch
men, who lived oatmeal were next in strength !,
and the beef eating English the weakest Of all
This astopibe John Bul! In Scotland those hardy
no cult her sterile hills scarcely
animal food The working classes Of England did
eat 1t than once Ia week In America Shere
twice much animal food consumed rs in England In
America the average Of human life twenty eight
years In England 1t thutyiiyc years. Those who
subsiat the brandy of iood' flesh is called live
he found tho people very healthy and very athletic living
almost wholly on fruits. They were III fact. practical
gslsans, excep, on Inc coast waere an'y yea PARTY
wing one hundred years and upwards All men abo
attained old lived ~holly or chiefly on vegeta
bic ciet Old Tarr who died at the age Of one huudrrd
and fty two years lived entirely vegetable food and
Jtpk ms, who Lived hundred sixty year,
never ate any other kind food Mr. rebb cited
statistical tables from Lebeg playair sni others
show hat tb, greater amount OF hesh forming
principle and heat forming principle, in vegetable than
animal food aud the blood formed from vegetable
TODD pure II escaped the diseases Of the animals
consumed. lie then on to show that the MUD
aaec cd BY animal food and rendered duu Py.hIg9rs'
low says that all the phil )sopbers, from Socrates to
Franklin yegetarisns Sir Isaac Newton wrote his
sublime works while living this food, and Milton
bis Parade Lost, John Wesley for tho last so years Of
his life yeg tarisp and Lemartine, the rst Prcsi
Of the French republic sad he owed hi. extreme
sensieness TO the fact Of his being brought up this
food.
Mr.. THOMAS RIDER. English gentleman about sixty
years OF age who wig and appeared to be very
enthusiastic individual said he vegetarian for the
Last forty years and he very glad to the
ably advocated but he objected TO quoting ali
there great Authorities The Bible the only
authority and that good book had declared that all the
judgments that fell upon the Jews because they ate
pork ard made broth of denominations (Laughter)
Dr. NICHOLS here interrupted the gentleman lie said
there rlsn order to be observed and after that
he might speak he gave the next toast and called upon
Professor Muzzy Of Cincinnati to speak to It
g. Homage the ustrious Of science, naturalists
and who have born witness that
Is the natural diet Of To Lnneus, Eyerard Home
Daubenton, Cuyier Professor Lawrence, Ray Gassend
Professor nuzzy responded We told several anecdotes
Of Of diseases particularly dyspepic diseases fcom
OF age and In good health for the last twenty
years He was at one time attacked with intermittent
fever and bis doctors advised him to take animal food
when recovering He did and il was making him
worse. He abandoned IT, and was cured lie had move
eaten any since He commended that from the inferno
structure OF man he designed only for eating vege
tables. fruts. and grain This was evident from hts
teeth and the motion Of his jowar jaw. Man was not
carnyoItus like the bear and other animals lie theu
went 10 show how Tuch economical it was to
live upon vegetable then animal food and that thty
three times the population Of the globe could be
supported on the vegetarian principles. He believed
IL well known that those tribes which lived
exclusively flesh stupid, aud they had all
that who bad eaten large flesh dinners could
not count FIVE Sir Isaac Newton wrote his principal
chapter In his great workthat optics-on vegetable
food and water.
About twelve years ago gentleman In Cincinnati
attacked with bilious affection French physician, after
giving him large doses OF medicine built him up beef
steaks FRI nch wines and brandy The returned
and he came to him (Dr Muzy who prescribed strictly
getbe oiet potato and rice and other TODD
He has been holding well for the last twelve wears Ia
our ucpatiDg pork eating community it not easy to
get people TO conform to strictly vegetable diet lie
hans 70 IF lad