Washington telegraph., 1856-03-26

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note and melody, become the vehicle O
the language of devils and spirits doome,
to abodes of darkest night? Shall h.
transform himself from an angel of ligh
and glory, into demon of utter woe an,
despair? Shall he, by one fearful leap
o'erbound the battlements of Heaven anC
It's Joys that spread out in infinite day be
fore his vision, and plunge the fiery bill
lows OF Woe that roll beneath him? An,
do you tell me that there is nothing wron.
in all this +? The response comes loomin.
up from ten thousand voices, and ech,
bears back the note in thunder peals, tha
1t Is all wrong and contrary to common
sense The shrieks and wells, unearthly a.
OF maniacs and savages, wild and furious
that have baen heard in the streets of ON
otherwise beautiful and lovely town; the
bitter oaths and damning curses that fall
most harsh and grating upon the ears OF
the sensitive and delicate the wailings
the slghs, the entreaties, the wooings OF
bereaved mother and neglected children
that once dignified and manly, bat now
wretched and dilapidated system; that In
teiiect, once buoyant and sprighsly, now
paralyzed and writhing banaath its owa
stupidity and weakness; that immortal soul
once longing for and grasping after joys, ,eter-
nal and cOnsummate, now realizing fore
taste Of the writings and bitter pangs OF
the damed; all-all conspire in the pro
clamation that it is wrong, wrong in its
very inception, its course and ternlina-
ton.
Ii thon it be wrong for persons to in
dulge in drinking to the extent of drunk
enness OF intoxication, We proceed to our
second proposition, viz: that it is wrong
for them to drink at all, or indulge in the
US OF that which will most certainly intox-
Icate If carried to certain extent We
refer to that which is technically denomi-
mated moderate os fashionable drinking
but | pray to be delivered from the fashion
IN this instance. The first evidence we
adduee IN support of our proposition is
derived from the science of anatomy and
physiology. tits a physiological fac:, uni
versally admitted, and almost reduced to q
maxim, that whatever is carried into the
system, of stimulating or depressing ma
ture, uncalled for by the natural and nee
essary demands of that system, will and
does always produce evil, and but evil,
continually Now, By reference to the
anatomical structure of our bodies, their
functions to be performed, and wants sup
piled, itappears by the aid of the combined
lights Of anatomy and physiology, that
they, in their normal and healthy states,
have not been left devoid of anything ne
cessary and essential to the perfect and COM
plete performance of their various and nu-
merous functions Indeed, it would be
casting libel upon the Creator himself,
to charge that he had formed our bodies,
and not supplied them with everything ne
cessary to keep them in full, vigorous and
healthy action, and more especially, to
charge that he had 50 constituted us, that
to live at all, it is necessary to take into the
stomach that which would most certainly
consume and dry up the very life blood Of
our existence.
We find in the vast domains of creation
that all our wants are supplied and furnish
ed to hand; L mean the natural wants of
the body, and not those vitiated and unnat-
ural appetites acquired by habit. Thirst is
quenched by water-nature' own pure,
unaduitered beverage; hunger is met
with food; the sense or desire for cloth
ing, with cotton, fax, and the frs CT vari-
Gus animals, and 50 on throughout the
whole; but there is no place found for
the blighting, withering cup, whose very
breath, to the natural sense OF smell, is as
the burning sirocco, and whose direct and
proxImate effects upon the system, are de-
rangement, disease, and ultimate Death
But do you respond, God made the con-
tents Of the flowing bowl, and that all of
his creations were intended for some use
ful and noble purposes The latter part of
the proposition is admitted, but it is false
and fearful to charge, that he has made and
placed in the hands of his creatures, for
their consumption, that which he knew
would burn out the yitals of their systems.
and hasten their bodies to disgraceful and
ignominous grave, and their souls to the
lowest depths of endless night and pardi-
ton. God made the grape, the sugar, the
graIn-nutrltlous and innocent of them
selYes-but nan, desirous to improve up
on the workmanship of his Maker, by a
process of destructive distillation, has con-
verted them into certain and destructive
poison. But were it even true that God
was the maker and distiller of the accars-
Ell thing, fLthy and az"Lterate9 at best,
as We have it among us, would that argue
that he intended US to gulp it down as the
OK gulpeth the water? Did he intend us
to eat and drink everything he has made
Upon the same hypothesis of reasoning, !
might contend that he made arsenic, and
all the deadly poisons, and therefore he
intended US to use them. No sirs; the
premises are wrong, consequently the in
ferences deducible therefrom must neces-
sarily be wrong All of Gods works and
creatures are good and indispensable in
their natural and proper places, but does
that argue that all the acts and inventions
of man are right Because the grape
and grain are good and indispensable
in the economy of nature, does that ar
que that their death and conversion b,
men into poisonous drinks, which will fire
and consume the very vitals and energies