The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1853-03-03

law OF our nature. IL II we are all
.amenable. Whateve1 " be the per-
fection and SOUNDS ur physical
organization, and hd] exempt i
may fortunately provo Ing the
nary period of our eus ace. from
sills that flesh is heir IL.
evitably destined, aftef ough
the successive stageso fancy, youth,
manhood, old age an ecrepitude, to
end at last in that dissolution of
itself and of all its thly relations
death. = s.l9 e
"To die. and go we know neswhese.S =
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot: ss3
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneeded clod and the delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice;
To be imprison'd d in the viewless winds,
And blown with restless violence rorsod about
The pendent world; or to be worse man worst
OF those, that lawless and uncertain thoughts
Imagine howling ,-'tis too horrible.
The weariest and most lothed worldly life,
That age, ache, penury and Imprisonment
Can lay on nature, is a paradise
Tt what we fear of death" ..,.
With what strange and magical
felicity has the poet, in this immortal
imagery Of the fancy, bodied forth the
inde6nab Die, mysterious awe, the solemn
dread with which we look on death !
Death, that cold and ghastly iiend
whose icy dart will one day pierce US
all, freezing US back into those dull, in
sensate clods from which we all have
sprung. His DARTS constantly uplifted
over US and be but delays to strike
His ministers are thatinnumefabie train
of ghastly: lothsome and consuming
diseases which are. continually rava-
ging the globe on which we dwell, lay
ing low 800, 100000 OF human beings
every thirty-three years, 26,oooooo
every revolving year, more than 2,Ooo,-
900 every month, and almost one at
every pulsa ton of these now warm, and
glowing and happy, yet mortal hearts,
W lliCiI4 GfSli " lAlC Il SptdhJ
Like raufIled drums arc beating
Funeral marches to the grave"
Fevers. consnmp:ions, dropsies, cpl
lepsies, palsies. cholera, murders, fires,
drownings, explosions, executions, fam
inc, war, and ali the thousand name
less forms of dissolution which do the
work Of the great destroyer, are enough,
methinks, 10 terrify and consume Us.
poor. pitifnl and uncertain pensioners
Of an hour, without our Voluntarily
electing prime minister in the court
of Death 10 stimulate them all, ani of
ourselves 10 accelerate that destiny
we so much dread, but 10 which Provl-
dence has irrerocahly consigned Us.
Yes, intemperance in many parts Of
the world, and more especially in this,
may not inappropriately be styled The
prime minister in the court of Death
lis injurious and destructive effects up
on the human system, in general
sense, are sufficiently apparent to all
the most inattentive and Indifferent OBJ
servers Of Its rava ges: but general
and vague impression upon such sub
ject is by no means so striking, and
constitutes a warning against il by no
means SO efectual as when we subject
il to the list of minute and careful
ANALYSIS. Alcohol, which is the basis
of all intoxicating drinks. is stimulant
of the brain and nerves, and an irritant
of the mucous membranes with which
it comes in contact. The brain is the
centre of vitality of the human system.
The nerves are but prolong alton oft,
extending its influence and control
through all the multiform parts Of the
body. The brain, through the medium
of these. organs Of its viii, governs the
whole muscular system, and directs all
the motions Of the body. The brain
also spresides directly over the whole
glandular or secerning system, consist
ing either Of those organs which derive
from The blood the various fluids which
are necessary to the economy OF nature
in the process of digestion, OF Of those
which separate, from it such as are su-
perhuous. or which the animal economy
has rejected. Indirectly, too. 5e brain
.presides over the circulating system.
The brain is, moreover the organ OF
the mind, the seat of lis existence and
the medium of its manifestations. Ina
healthy state, then, accompanied with
a healthy state of the whole system, il
is what the God of Nature designed 1t
to be--a safe, judicious and pertectregu-
lator Of all the functions and manltes-
ta.ions of The physical and intellectual
man. Consequently when elevated
above its natural tone by the force oi
artificial stimulants, it is obvious that
it must put.forth corresponding. reac-
ton on the animal and mental econo-