The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-08-05

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qaonw Doany Of flyou wantoitodwoEk
for the devil and end yourselves Or
at best, get paid off in The, wages Of
sin, which is dealh? Drink liquor
If you want 70 pay d high premium
for being poisoned, drink liquor. II
you want to bid. an eternal farewell
to- your freedom, and be- al greater
slave than was ever lashed at night
to his dungeon, drink liquor, If you
want to exchange a healthy body, so
fearfully and wonderfully made, for
adisease cursed frame, that aademon
would scorn to inhabit, and the soul
quite in disgust, drink liquor, Ifypu
want to blast with disease your body,
from head to heel sweep every line
where manly beauty fingers, and early
heap the clay upon a foul mass Of
corruption, more disgusting than the
leprosy Of John and Namaan, OF, the
sores Of Lazarus, drink liquor. Ifyou
want to 60 to the grave 'unwept unI
honored, and unsung,' and let infamy
there spread her sable plume, and
fling its blackness DER Q drunkardIs
tomb,'v drink body-blighting- spirit
damning liquor.
More than ift thousand drunkards
die every year in the United States
rom the direct effects Of Alcohol.
This is no loose guess. II always
stick to my text, and fire close to the
mark when l drive in an argument, Or
clinch it with the proof ! base my
estimate upon the other register Of
old king Alcohol himself 9 have a
list of one hundred and thity-6Ee
men, who died regular drunkards in
the short period Of sixteen years, in
my native county, and the lower edge
Of the next county, in Maryland. In
my list are Ministers, class leaders,
doctors, lawyers, planters, farmers,
mechanics and laborers. In my ma.
tive county one hundred and twelve
men died regular drunksrds ii sixteen
| years, seven per annun, or one TO
every four hundred and forty-four
inhabitants; at the same rate our
present population Of twenty three
millions, give us fifty one thousand
drunkards killed every year by the
direct effects Of alcohol, to say no.
thing of the indirect effects Of liquor
in producing disease and shortening
the period Of human life. ] know all
about alcOhol-lhe disease it produces
and how it produces them-beca1se it
is my business to know, and ] fear
lessly say, and defy a successful con-
tradiction, that the side stabs-by
blows-the indirect effects Of alcohol,
kill more than die regular drunkards.
| | have drank old Madeira out Of silver
goblets with the proudest in the land,
and bolted awful bad whiskey with a
rum-swilling skunk in a dirty dOggery.
I have wandered about and lived in
various parts of Maryland, and | have
seen just as many grogshops and
drunkards as / ever saw in my native
county. I have lived in FIVE States
and travelled in twenty others, andI
have seen more men drink rum and
become the derision offools' elsewhere
than ] ever saw in my native county.
My estimate, therefore, is not only
perfectly correct as far a it goes, but
it is actually under the truth. 4ai8t
Fifty-one thousand men, (more than
died at Cannae or at Waterloo J killed
every year in the United States, by
alcohol He that hath ears to hear let,
him hear, and let this awful figured fact
fall on his startling ear like the solemn
warning Of a eath-bell, and let each
say for his SOULS sake, 'Ohl Cod
shield, OIL shield me in the hour Of
temptation from fiery sting Of alcohol.
Il Oh! let me not die the death Of a drunk
/ ard, not let my last end be like his