The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-10-20

dead born, brings such multitudes into the
world, who, though they may not be dead
born as to breathing, ure SO rs to intellect
and heart. joy that had viii gs and laugh
ter once inhabited every joint and vital organ
of mans frame. Pain has conquered this
festive domain, and turns human breath into
,ighs.
No other. part of the organic world with
which we are acquainted has suffered this
dire change. Under intelligent culture, the
vegetable world is constantly out growing it.
self, in size, beauty and richness. All animal
natures thrive, strengthen and surpass the
progenitors of their stock, when subjected to
the law of their beng Man alone of all the
earth, pales and dwarfs and sickens; begets
| children, the parti-colored issue ofwhose exs-
tence is the woof of one disease woven into
the warp of another; transmits insanity and
gout and consumption and scrofu!a; pro-
creates blindness and deuf-muteness and
those human fungi, the brainless idiots,
spawns polished imbeciliy thro' our cities,
which they, by their wealth, send % college,
to be converted into pillars of the Church and
State. And why! Solely because man will
break heavens laws. Because, for the sake
OF money, or for pride, disease will marry dis
ease, and blood wed kindred blood. Because,
when God commanded Adam to work, that
is, to take some form of exercise, in the gar
den, that is, in the open air; men will not ex-
ercise, and will live in dwellings which add
artificial poisons to natural ones, and then
treathe the virulent compound. Popes and
herarchs send to Jordan to obtain "holy wa
ter" for the baptism Of their children, that
they may give their spirits fguratve clean
sing, but will not keep them physically clean
with the pure water at their door; and the
royal sinner Imports few cubic yards of
"holy earth" from Jerusalem, in which that
body of his may be buried, wherein sin has ri
oted and wantoned through all his life; as
though they thought the Omniscient could oe
cajoled into forge,fulness Of the difference be-
pure in heart and the obedient in life.
But, besides defying all the laws of God in
regard to pure air, cleanliness, diet, exercise,
and the selection OF healthiul occupations and
healthful sites for residences-besdes these
sins OF omission how numberess are the sins
of commission which we commit-sins which
are expe!ing all manly power and womanly
endurance from the race. To say nothing OF
the slimulants :aken in our common morning
and evening beverages, (Which ure no more
necessary or useful to enable healthy men or
women to perform their labor than morning
dram is for the lark or the eagle, fer the buf1a.
10 or the leviathan,) ito say nothing of these,
the people of t is nation annually madden
their brains with 200, 100000 of gallons of
intoxicating liquors.; and not only supply and
defie themselves, but transmit irritable |
nerves and contaminated blood to their chill |
dren by the consumption Of more than $780,
100000 worth Of tobacco. OF this immense
sam, squandered for this foul and abominable
weed, it is estimated by DR.. Cole-an able
writer on physiology-that the members of Je-
sus Christ take Sc 100000 worth for their
share
1t is an indsputabe fact that, taking the
whole United States together, much more
money is expended for the single article of
segars than for all the common schools in
the Union. Segars against schools; cigars
against the great cause of popular education,
and app elite triumphs over education and
morals. And where these natural poisons of
alcohol are used most freely, the church and
the school house are seen most rarely. say
nothing of opium and other narcotics. And,
after quenchiDg still more the expiring en-
bers OF vitality that yet glimmer in the race,
and corrupting its corruption to a more malig-
nant type, we call ourselves civilized, and
may heaven pardon the audacity-Christian
Are those the practices of civilization which
honeycomb the bones, and leave the muscles
solden, while they irritate the nerves, and
evaporate electricity from the brain! Is thet
Christianity which obeys the ceremonial law
rather than the Eternal; which asks the bless
ings of heaven upon its food, and then gor-
ges itself like wol'.
For augmentng the aggregate amount of
intelligence and mental power in any com
munity the greatest instrumentality ever yet
devised is :he nstrumentality of Common
Schools. The Common School realizes al.
the facts of fables whichever they may be of
the Divinng Rod. 1t tries its experiments
over the whole surface of society, and wher.
ever buried fountain of genius is flowing in
the darkness below, it brings it above, and
pougs out its water, to fertilize the earth.-
Among mankind, hitherto hardly one person
in million has had any chance to envelope
his higher faculties. Hence, whatever poets.
orators, philosophers, dvines, inventors and
phian,hropists may have risen to bless the
world, they have all risen from not more than
one millionth part of the race. The minds Of
the rest. though equally endowed with talent,
genius and benevolence have laid outside
the scope of availability for gool. These
millions, with the exception of units, have
been drudges, slaves, cattle; their bodies
used, their souls unrecognized. All, no.
where else have there been such a waste and
loss of treasure as in the waste and loss of the
human faculties. All spendthrf, profusions,
all royal prodigalities are parsimony and mig
gardnes., compared with the ungathered g. a
bandoned treasures Of the human soul. AS civ
ilization has advanced, perhaps one child IN a
hundred thousand, and in more favored situa-
| t;ano ono child in to thaus nd has haan ad