The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-11-04

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Tobacco Users, Read, Learn and
1nwardly Digest the following Facts.
A friend with whom we have been
well acquainted from his boyhood,
who was tolerably athletic and healthy
in youth, but in middle life became
feeble, and before he was fifty years
old, was attacked BY distressing and
alarming fts--was very dispeptic,
and suffered more than tongue. or pen
can tell, from that nervous state of
the system very appropriately denom-
mated the ehorrorsP constantly sink
ing lower and lower, until it might be
truly said he was torment to him.
self and all around him. From very
amiable, affectionate, kindshearted
man, he had became excessively irri-
table, cross grained and troublesome,
and very serious trouble to his family.
OF course the physiclan's aid was con-
stantly invoked, but It was all Of no
avail, he gradually became more ner-
vous, and less capable of self control.
He was very poor, a mere shadow of
his former self and the personi6cation
of despondeney and mental suffering.
At length although thorough cold
water man, he had fearful visitations
of "snakes in his boots," an attact of
delirium tremens. He was at this
time about ffty-fve years old. And
here we will leave him as he was, and
tell our readers what he is. We had
not seen him for six or eight years,
until he called upon us last week, but
so changed that literally we could
hardly believeit was the same individ-
ual-instead Of the mere sallow, Ian
tern-jawed shadow, we saw before us
a healthy, robust and very cheerful,
happy man. Instead Of the skeleton
of li0 or 115 pounds, we saw the
smooth-faced, elderly gentleman,
weighing from l40 to $50 pounds
Instead Of being barely able to drag,
himself about, he was able to perform
the hardest labor. a,s,,
And now our readers will ask, what
has produced this wonderful and entire
transformation? The answer is, he
abiured tobacco after having used it
for forty years. His physicians assur-
ed him that medicine was Of no avail
that snakes would never leave him
while they could find pipe or Tobacco.
box in which they could always find
shelter. This excited his ire at first,
but he resolved to make the attempt.
He did so-he resolved and there was
still enough Of manhood that had not
been smoked or spit out left, to enable
him to keep his resolution--to save
him from anticipating the torments Of
another world, and statch him from
premature grave.
Let the hundreds Of thousands who
are pursuing the same suicidal with
our friend, reflect, and while there is
yet hope, like him cast away the filthy,
loathsome and poisonous weed, that
if they must die prematurely' letthem
resolve it shall not be by suicide, nor
by such a nauseous, disgusting instru-
mentality as the use Of tobacco. And
we do deliberately assert, that with
thousands of facts like the above,
although perhaps notso striking, con-
stantly before them, those who do de-
liberty continue the use Of this deadly
narcotic, will be just as guilty Of sui
eide as if they shortened their days
hv, arsenic or noison hemlock. u