Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-04
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For the True Democrat. .,0e Clarendon, CT the effects Y Trunkennesa---A A Temperance :ketcL.

lF IIuuASAAA S4 oAASS betch.
 +as bank of one of those beautiful
 which wind their devious courses
 .hout the southeastern portion of Vir-
 ,bere stands in all it's majesty the au-
 .,3 tme-honored borough of N*****k. is DO traveller who has approached the
 t, water, but must have observed imme.
 ,- the .sft of the harbor, and contiguous
 handsome but isolated mansion occu-
 one of those gentle. eminences which
 in the vicinity of the town. This
 s,r which at present betrays all of the
 If negligence and decay, was once the ., of the Clarendon family-a family,
 though but in moderate circumstances.
 t,esnious, courtesy and true hospitality
 io none in the Old Dominion.
 Inst of that honored family who occu-
 rbe fine old domicil was Stephen Claren-
 fit and worthy representative of his ex- rt ancestors. At the period to which we
 the family had nearly become extinct;
 Though married many years, Stephen s-don had but one child, son.
 sorga Clarendon, the subject of this sketch,
 Huon to handsome person, and prepos gg countenance, inherited all of the genius nj ard nsbleness of mind which charac-
 
 ed his family. Well do we recollect him, he was the pride and the envy of our school. sessea of gigantic intellect and indomita- perseverance, he far out-stripped his com ,ors for literary honors in all of the schools which he was a member.
 Icing sent to college, George soon bore away ram from all those who had the hardi-
 10 contend with him for collegiate dis ions. Crowned as he had been on several ic occasions with the honors of the ilIstitu-
 he soon became the nucleus around i the literati of the college wound, as if ihenng to him, they but ensured and com ded the respect of the faculty.
 fitting college with all the honors it could sr on him, he was the pride and delight of lged parents, who had nearly beggared | 1selveS in order to give their son liberal ' ation.
 loosing the profession of law as the one calculated to give scope to his mighty CTS Of miud he soon entered a lawyers e for the purpose of prosecuting that study. l e by strict attention and the utmost assdu- he speedily mastered that most perplcxing Al studies. He was pronounced by con- nt judges one of the most profound law il inc place. Being admitted 10 the bar t once entered on large and lucrative ice.
 ell do we recollect his paden speech at tar. It Was in behalf of the State, and ast man who had murdered his wife in oi drunkenness. How successfully did he 'e, that " drunkenness is all egg from which vice is hatched." We never shall forget impressions made on the court and jury by when descanting on the evils of drunken in Iangnage which none but himself could You might have heard pin drop, so pro- d was the silence. So entirely were the and spectators wrought upon by his al- superhuman eloQuence that they remain for sometime after he had concluded AS nIess as statues. The Judge at length 'errg from his ecstatic trance charged the who retired, but returned in few mo- lis with verdict of guilty.
 is friends were perfectly delighted with lis first effort at the bar, for no one could .t, but that it was owing to his impassioned, 5h close and unanswerable speech, that the rt was obtained, as the criminal was de. .el by the ablest counsel that could be arod His friends bore him off in triumph n the court house. He was now literally Fded with business, and succession of mphs at the lar followed. It was admit. on all hands that he had no superior in sic eloquonce
 was at this unfortunate iuncture, that be- oac!tod from various sources, he at length arted to become a candidate for the leyis ',; aud without an effort on his part he was ed by an overwhelming majority.
 was customary in that section of country 3Litical friends returned with him from the a85 to his residence to partake of re fresh. 
 and there, for the first time, did he pre- the fatal cup to his lips. From that mo- he was undoue. Oh, how cautious should be in sippng the intoxicating bowl. n the flowers that wrcatho the sparkling bowl 4lers s~ and Pois'nous serpenta roli.n &t and sentiment followed each other in | lnpid succession, that ere the usual hour of to rest, George was borne off to bed in a ot beaStly intoxication. Arousing from nnker lethargy, he flies to the bottle as to the waters of Lethe, in order to ate if possible those awful feelings which l out drunkards ever feel. "What a pity | says Seneca, that man should let in a at the month to steal away the brain;' at hqour certainly does deprive it's un- votarles of all of their reasoning powers act that has been demonstrated in num- | instances, else why did not George '.don possessed as he was of such extra 4Fy reasoning faculties, stunning the fatal sat which had betrayed him into such a of feeling resort to that limpd and salu- drink so beautifully supplied by the or of our existence for the quenching of -rst of his creatures? Why did not some fly spirit dash the cup from his eager lips? | was he left alone to combat the arch Was it because it was thought morally l @bie, that one possessed of so much in- ! such transcendant talent, should be so I~}1stered by the evil one? Alas! I lare exists in the wide throng of men l :F 1t ID rule themselves. but few that use --r iltellects inteliigently," t unfortunately proved with George ' was one thing no doubt accelerated ~om; for whatever may be said by skep- Ad iufdels with regard to religion, it is
 Y safe and efficient preservative against AIs and temptations incident to the life E-4l, and trviu.r fo bnffi+ +ba Ia ,,,o,o, f