The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-11-01


= DICKENS, who is severe student Of hui
man nature, in a lale work, has happily illus.
trated the absurdity OF prohibitory laws for
the regulation Of appetite. He selects a
character who had been drunkard for ma
ny years, but had been overlakeu by reform
alton, when the sands OF life had neatly run
out. The old sol turns Temperance LecIu-
rer, and gives his experience with gusto
which the timid and foolish, and disgus,s the
wise and rejecting. We have often noticed
that many of the Temperance Lecturers in
our City are nen who have, through the
whole course Of their vigorous manhood,
been addicted TO beaslly intoxication, aud
only reformed, when their d;lapidated con-
st,ulions warned them of the danger Of con-
iinued inebri:y. Such men have generally
been the most abusive of sober and respect.
able citizens who happened 10 be engaged
in the liquor traffic. We have known some
of The viest specimens OF humanity, after
years of suffering from inIemperance, rise
from bed of sickness, and assail their
neiahbors with the most bitter e2ilheis a.
public meetings, because they did not con
form 10 The leioal doctrine. 1t creates little
else than disgust in The midst OF sensible
people; when they hear a man, whose life
has been spent in the fillhies, debauchery,
attempt TO regulate the conduct of perso ms
who have always been good citizens. But
such is the course which Incorporate tenn.
persnce is likely to run. Be temperate in
all things" is the true doctrine, and they
who 90 beyond this, fall into evil. But hear
DICKENS. In late article in Household
Words he thus draws The picture
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Baby, dissolves into
sca'dlng tears at sight of the next witness,
hanging his head and beating his breasl.--
He was ore of the greatest drunkards in the
world, he tells You. When he was drunk,
he was very demon-and he never was
sober lie never takes any strong drink
now, and is an angel of light. Aud because
this man never could use without abuse, and
because he initiated the Hyena or other OBJ
scene animals, in not knowing, in the feroci-
ty Of his appetite, what Mode ration was
therefore, o Bieheaded Baby, you perceive
that he must become standard for you
aud for his backslidings you shall be put in
the corner evermore.
"Ghost Of John Bunyan, i, IS surely thou
who usherest into the Committee Room the
volunteer ieslfisr, Mr.. Monomaniacal Palr.
arch Baby, finger in each eye, and ash
es from The nearest duslbin on your wretch
ed head, for ii is all over with YOU now. Mr..
Mouomaniacal Patriarch, have you paid
great attention to drunkenness? Immense
attention, unspeakabIe attention. For how
many years Seventy years Do you think
The people ever really wan, any beer or liq-
uor to drink Certainly not know all
about II, and | know they don't. Do you
think they ever ought TO have any beer or
liquor 10 drink 2 Certainly not. know all
abou, it, and know they oughtn't. Do you
think they could suffer any Inconvenience
from having their beer and liquor entirely
denied them? Certainly not. know all
abou, it, and know they could not.
"1hus, the Grea, Baby is dealt with from
the beginning TO the end Of The chapter. 1t is
supposed TO be incapable of putting This
and Tha, together, and of detecting the arbi.
iraty nonsense Of these monstrous deductions.
That a whole people, domestic. reasona-
BILE, considera,e psople-that whole people
should be judged by, and made 10 answer,
and suffer for, the most degraded, most mis-
cradle among them, is principle so shock
ing in its injustice, and so lunatic in lis alb
surdiy. that to entertain il for moment is
TO EXHIBIT profound ignorance of,he English
mind and character" ."-Psansylvanian.