The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-07-28
JACKSON G. E, OHIO THURSDAY, JULY 2e, 1858.

you in state OF intoxicaiion but have
at various times, detected, by the odor oil
your breath. that you had been imbibinp
alcoholic slimulants."
Very moderately--very moderately
for my pride of character"
''Please don't talk of pride OF charac.
ter, interrupted Mrs. Ackerman, "for
trust you have too much good sense to as.
sumo the position. that you are stronger.
minded than any individual who has YET
fallen sacrifice 10 alcohol. Persons
gloriously endowed with the gifts OF intel.
lect, and with the attributes Of manhood,
have yielded, at length, to the power Of
the destroyer. They have fallen in the
midst OF their years, at the height of their
tame, while their immortal laurels were
yet green upon their brows Will you
exaIt yourself in moral strength above
those who have succumbed to degra.
ded and Unsuitable appetite !! My reason
tells me that You are falIible, like other
men. II individuals, more generously
gifted than yourself, have perished in the
conflict with sordid thirst tor unnatural
stimula. how can you fatter yourself that
you will prove stronger than thev?"
Nonsense, Francisl why will you 90
on in this way? You talk TO me jus, as
though was child, having no power of
self government. An occasional glass
know will do me no hurt. Now don't
moraIize any more, that's a good girl"
But | must moralize, Alonzo! All that
is good within me impels me to speak
cannot be silent when see you engen.
dering an appetite, which, if not checked.
must eventuale in your ruin. When the
human sciH is conquered, no manhood
remains A man might as we'll be dead
and entombed forever, as 10 live on after
he has been subdued by an appetite which
destroys his nobest prerogative, as an in.
tellectual being. What is that individual
good for, after he has sunk and debased
himself till he has lost all influence for
good, and exerts no power to bless other
minds? When ones usefulness has fair.
ly ceased, he might as well be out of the
world as in it. unless there is some hope
of his reformation. Alonzo, had dear
friend once, who talked about moderate
drinking just as you do; that friend was
my brother. He began by taking what
he called a social glass with an 'old
friend Somehow or other, his 'old
friends increased very fast, and his so.
cial glasses multiplied in the same ratio.
When | attempted 10 demonstrate with
him, he brought up the same unsound ar.
guments that you have employed he talk.
ed confidently about his pride OF charac.
Ter, the strength Of his mind, and his NOR.
al power over himself. The habit grew
upon him his face became red his nose
assumed the appearance cf an unsightly
excrescence his eyes relreated into his
head, and lost their frank and manly ex.
preston. A dull and leaden apathy per.
vaded his being; amoral nightmare bound
him with an inexorabe chain; he ceased
TO be what he had been in the past his
acute sense OF property, and his suscepti
bllity TO the most exalted friendship, de.
parted. Every feature was imbruted; the
beauty OF his countenance was no more.
and his whole nature grew so debased
that mis- once symmetrical figure appear
ed no longer to present a reflection ot the
image OF God. He staggered home
nightly TO his young wife to make her mis-
erable to fill her eyes with tears, her
soul with sorrow, her heart with despair
to look with indifference upon his cherub
boy; to behold the uplifting OF his little
hands without pulse of paternal delight,
without single Quickening oi the heart,
or a remembrance This former love. He
gazed at those who had been his solace
and his hope but few months before,
with eyes that were vacant OF meaning,
and expressive only OF drunken idiotcy.
tie heard the tones that once thrilled to
his heart, like gentle music, with apathet.
ic Indifference. Swallowed up and en-.
crossed by one overwhelming passion,
his intellectual being was engulphed in
vortex of dissipation, from which there ap.
peared to be no hope oi redemption. His
manhood was wrecked upon a sea so
troubled and agitated by tempests of de.
struction, that the possibility OF making
some port in safety seemed to have fled
forever. He drank up his substance the
lew thousands which he had inherited
went down his throat in stream of alco.
hol; he became walking receptacle oi
the worm ofthe still, and his sphere was
ietid with the foul miasma found within
the atmosphere of drunkards. A horrible
blight fell upon his manhood; pestiie-
rous mildew blasted his affections a
'corching fame of alcohol burned up his
generous nature.
"We looked upon him and wept; we
sorrowed over him in agony we laid our
hands upon him in pity; we entreated
him to stop, and stay in his course, with
an outgushing eloquence which cannot be
written; we contemplated his misery and
his sunken brutality, and said, he is no
longer man he has degenerated below
the plane Of manhood. But we will not
forsake him; we will follow his footsteps
with a tenderness which cannon be utter.
ed; we will whisper admonitions in his
ear with loving.kindness which cannot
be known, except il be felt; we will strive
TO redeem our brother"
"Hs nervous system at length reacted
against continued abuses; delriuin tire.
mems grasped him with her strong hand
she held him alof; she cast him down
she stretched his miserable form upon the
rack of torture; she pulled and tugged
at his life, until every fibre Of his organ.