The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-02-26

DRlNHlN9 AND SMoHlN0.s=tO the
republisbers, Messrs. Leonard Scott
Il Co. Of New YYk, are we indebted
for The dpst number ot that stestlipp
foreign monthly "Blsck wood in which,
We find q sensibls article with The above
head, which i. earnestly commended,
TO temperance, reformers in this ma
ton. 30 much mauJlin stuff has is
sued frou that portion Of the opublic
press il the service Of miscalled item.
perance societies." that it is refreshing
to End an article now and then, penped
by some hand. not etsmped by fashion
able fapatieism. eomething, TO deal
with the subject in reasonable aud
temperate manner.
luealenlable evil has been done the
tsnpefahce cause, by Temperatures So
cieties because they have transcribed
the limit prescribed for them in The
first instance, and have given rise 10
prchititoty laws not founded in reason
or harmonisipg with the infsl|iLle laws
Of mans nature. Man is not a brute
If he were he might be gentleman
by instinct. Were he as devoid Of
reason ms isJog, he could not bs fore
Ell into the observance of law. contra.
ry 70 his natural appetite and feeling.
AAhe writer in Blaekwood SAYS.
There Is no creature 30 noble
among the animal race as the dog.
opens his eyes, shakes himself. and
walks forth into the world n complete
gentleman after his kind. Nothing
that ia natural TO him dcgrades him
be follows the bent Of his own apteti
tea unchecked By any m'sgivings, save,
perhaps. when some pa't'eal hints have
taught him that it may not be safe to
kill his own mutton. How ,,nuch Of
what is brutalising and disgusting man
has to clear l,imseltoof, ere he can be
as ipolFspsive anciphhbi.spt Of The
earth as his own mastif WATCHED dog.
Speaking Of .eelotallers, the writer
says truely 4
Some Of them we havo known men
Of dire morosity Of temper sullpe |
i,nprac,icable, and rentless. Others
Of them. again, we have known the
victims Of continual excitement. a. If |
they were afflicted With sort Of chrop
ic INVESTIGATION. Pride vanity. and
eueh like moral stimulapts, provide
them with a self contained gin palace
furnishing them with tho temptations
to many a fantastic folly. Supreme
among this class was Charles XII of
Sweden, one Of the few men The world
has seen who, with nocruelty Of CHI r.
acter or other glazing vice, yet in nero
selfiudalgehce, and the pursuit Of n
whm or hobby, kept the world in dis
peace, desolated whole nations, and sac
ti'ed thousands Of ealuable lives. It
is remarkable, on the other hand
though not. Of course, n matter to be
made n preeedent--that his illustrious
rival. Peter The Great. he who, per.
haps. did moro for civilization tLan
any other single man, was u hard 1rin.
ker. Rousseau was another Of the type
of tho natural teeto0ller. The men
ton Of lis name is quite sufIi ,ient to
conjnre up n sufficient array Of com.
Pensatory detects Of character to make
up for the absence Of the common 40.
petite. Such anomalies are often seen
on smaller scale. Your excited
friend. who is like the very eFerve-
'cence Of champagne, even fixing,
squirting, and threatening to discharge
bis cork, getting into uDaccountabls
,crapes every day, and = nuisance to
Ill his friends from bis eccrepticitye
and ~rongheadedness- is a tee j:
'otal'er; whereas your solemn freud
here, very practical man, cautions
o excess in bis walk, and sound and
olemn in his sdvice. takes bis stesdy.
It'd tumbler-perhaps little too stiff
n fact, is getting into equivocal habits. !