The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-10-13
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Wa have seen various articles 10 Ss.'ous
800 .nov,or that tobacco Injuries the
p.ps 49, 80, tnov that any Of these articles
:. .,renrth or point 70 Hing Jamess
C'S.s-A,.., king James showed most clearly
A.. -. a. tobacco was gradually undermining
=. -.,,,u,,ous Of Brisons and the British cossa
-. lending the whole nation, bsdy, souI anu
49,. a perdision together. He was Of OPINION
-. ~. .moke which rises from the botsom'essp"
-. .oh.cco smoke. q fact which, II II ceu'd oc
nroxsd. would ensure the proprietor OF 'nose
s,oss a great many fresh recruits King 'An'o
was especially emphatic upon the evh eHec'S VI
tobacco upon English soldiers He said
wou,d 40 enervate and debilitats them that they |
vouh become an easy prey to any enterpris'ns
e,.mv subssauent history has given an excel |
Ian, commentary upon that point The battle OF
vv.,srIoo nroved that there is still fire Is well as
.r,ol. among the red coats. At Sebastopoi, the
r-.ncb Gained more than their just share OF glory,
b., ,hsv ALSO consumed more than their fair pro-
norton Of tobacco They have gotten to bel race
n Great smokers lately, which accounts for their
improved aptitude and prowess in military mat
ters Smoking Is favorable to thought, and thought
essential to success in either wsrlike peaceful
enterprises Thinking was never characteristic Of
which time he thinks as strongly as he acts. In
stead of tobacco running England intellectually
morally and physically. as King James predicted,
she is stronger and greater now than she ever
was her men have more stamina, her politicians
more honesty, her women more beauty, her labo
rers more endurance. her clergy more piety, than
before the introduction of tobacco. Thus the pre-
dctons of King James have been all falsified. and
A. Il. aIa Lad cNft ho no
crusade against tobacco. They need not hope to
get up teetotal society against tobacco. They
need not seek to put in the same black catalogue
with intoxicating drinks-the palpabe and prolific
fountains of ruin, misery and crime. Tobac.
CO. in some cases and to some persons, may be
hurtful, but, in the general is an innocent auxiiia
ry of human enjoyment, an alienation OF troubled
minds and bodies heightener of social and festive
pleasure. It never makes . man drunk; 1t don't
cost much its gentle exhileration il followed by
no borrid after-pains, like those which drinkers
experience the morning after debauch. OF
course its abuse has its penalties but its moderate
enjoyment is the thing we speak of.
Where one instance can be produced of the injuri
business of tobacco, we can find dozen to demon
strate the deleteriousness of coffee and of tea. If
rational beings ought to give up all luxuries and
stimulants, let the anttsbacco party set an exam
pie by surrendering their Java and old Hyson.
That's fair proposition But all men must have
some stimulant. Such philosophers as Greedy
never use tobacco; but they supply the place of
that innocent weed with the noxious stimulants Of
fanaticism, malice, hatred, and all uncharitabe-
ness Now . man would better chew an mani
mate weed all day long than masticate his neigh
bors character, and smash good name all to pieces
between his huge, poisonous grinders. He would
better smoke peaceful pipe or a well favored CT
gar than heat his brain to fever heat in the OF
abolitionism, of any other fanatical excitement
We don't speak on this subject from interested
motives. We have no dealings in tobacco, but
Judging from its excellent effects on the outward
man of those who have, we conclude that the in
side of a tobacco factory must be the healthiesi
spot of the world. The jewellers in those places
as general rule, are rotund in corporation, joval
in visage, and portly in person. They have reason
to be contented and thankful Comfortably off in
worldly estate, they have the proud consciousness.
of having rendered to the world guild pro quo.
Accounts differ in regard to the time and circum
stances of the first introduction of tobacco int
England. According to one account, Sir John
Hawkins carried it thither in the year 1865. but
twas then considered a mere drug, and ''all men
wondered what it meant" Others say that tobac
= CO was first taken to England by Ralph Lane
Governor of the Virginia adventures, in 1885, A
historian of the time says that "the Indians used
to take the fume, or smoke thereof by sucking i.
through pipes made of clay Wa, ourselves, du.
ring the time we were there, used to suck it after
their manner, as also since our return" The in
terest and example of Sir Walter Raleigh soon
brought it into such vogue at court that many great
ladies, as well as noblemen, made no scruple to
take pipe. The Queen herself gave great csun.
tenance and encouragement to it as a vegetable of
singular strength and power" Lane found tobac-
among the Virginia Indians. Hawkins among
the Floridians, and the Spaniards among the Mex
leans. Its name is believed to have been given it
by the Spaniards from the Isle of Tobago, one of
the Carribbees, where it produced In abun-
dance. The Indians of New England seem to have
had stronger stomachs for tobacco than any other
Indians of the continent They did not chew,
smoke nor snuff, but drank tobacco. Think of
these honest fellows, pouring down huge draughts
of this potent liquid! "They gave u.s." says an
adventurer, "of their tobacco, which they drink
green, but dried into powder, very strong and plea
SAINT" ave drank of their excellent tobacco. !"
writes another, "as much as we could with Them
but we saw not any great quantity to truck for,
and 1t seemed they mad not much LETT OF old, for
they spend great quantity yearly by their con.
tinual drinking" These New England Indians
were ane, hearty, powerful warriors, taking great
numbers of colonial scalps and giving the Yam.
kee settlers awful trouble. 1t must have been a
pleasant sight to have seen these amiable gentle.
men surrounding the stake of some unhappy cap.
tive, and drinking themselves into jevial mood
with the juice of tobacco!
Iii an interesting fact that the cultivation of
tobacco In those parts has been lately revived
Connecticut, they say, produces now some excel.
lent tobacco. We have no doubt the cultivation of
this national staple will beget national sentiments
Every man who smokes, as we before said, mus,
reflect; every American who reflects must see
that dissolution of the Union would be ruin and
destruction. Consequently, smoking will produce
Union feelings, and the development of tobacco
and patriotism 60 hand in hand. Let ell friends of
Union and Liberty put that in their pipes and
smoke It.
Death Of an Old Citizen.
Mr.. JOHN II. sTRoBIA, one of our Oldest citi
Eens, died on Saturday morning. Very few Der.