Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-22

PVhnu Dut rccoIloct you only sup
posed it. Now in all candor sir, if you have
set out to make yourself perfectly ridiculous,
Jast-keep on, you are in the right road,
There are in few miles Of me orS stills
running, and although have travelled over
2 largo part Of tho State, declare solennly
that moro honest, industrious people have
not been acquainted with; and although there
are few who sometimes drink to excess and
although large majority use spirits, thore
is not amoro peaceoble, ober,quictneighbor-
hood in the State. Yet you suppose all the
sIllcrs {" shooting at dollar and multii,tdes
ofd'unkards standing within range and reach
oftheir balls, and every time one shoots
| drunkard falls" Such ridiculously extrav.
agant assertions as this, and so make you
ridiculous in the eyes of all rational persons.
AS my space is limited, j cannot notice all
your ignorance Mr.. "Y index" but will no.
ticc some of your learned Doctors, in short
And first Dr. MISSY says alcohol is indiges-
hble. As q sunburnt farmer cannot swal-
low everything, as the OK drnketh down tho
water, as you do becauseit suits your precon-
ccited notions, but examine for myself You
know what Proverbs l4-l5 says 1.-THE sim
pie believcth every word but the prudent
man lookoth we'll to his going"
Nov letus examine this assertion by the
same class Of men, some of whom are possi-
bly, as wise as he is. ALI Physicians and
Anatomists teach that anylhing-food or drink
to have any effect on the system, when taken
into the stomach, must first in some measure
be digcstcd-absorbcd by the glands-rc-
ccived by tho blood and carried by it to every
part of the body, and that which is not digcs-
ted passes Off having no effect. To reason
ing man this looks plain; besides We have
proof. positive, IN the case ofpcrsons swallow
ingpins, buttons, small llsilver coin, &c. These
seem to have no effect good or bad Why
because they are not digostod. But Sir, al
| cohot has an immediate effect on the whole
system, which seems to show that it either
needs no digestion or is very easily and spe-
dily- di9cstod. "Who shall decide, when
Doctors Disagree"
The yirulcnt poison of scrpents, &c. is no
objection to this argument, as it does not on
ter the stomach, but tho blood without diges-
ton.
All your other Drs say that alcohol is a
poison, which admitted in my last, agreeing
that everything we eat or drink contains pois-
on. But | would guard against fanaticism
and absurdity. You and some of them are
not satisfied with the truth but must have it
a virulent poison.
Does not everybody, except you, know that
n Nirulent poison destroys tesh--cuuscs putri-
icQtion, modification, &C.? What does your
own DR.. ALDEN testify On every organ tbav
touch ardent spirits operate as a poison. An,
you expect me because | am nothing but !;
farmer to swallow this. O no, Mr." Nindcx"
don't be so hard onafelow mortal. God has
gwcnmo mind, and wish to use it.. Mould
not yon do we'll to.put Your reasoning ma
chlne into operation sometimes and mot de-
pend on Tom, Dick Harry and every Contra
,dictory and obsurd book and speech writer
who happens to write to suit your prccon-
ceiycd opiniohs. 1fyou don't you win never
arrive at that high degree of femincncc which
| You seem to think you have already attained
Now look at the positive absurdity of their
doctrine and practice. A virulent' poison
poisons every organ it touches. And yet the
most truly eminent Physicians and Chemists
have never been able to discover a single arti-
Gle m which to preserve an uncommon infant,
serpent spidcr &c. but this virulcnt poison
whioh poisons every organ it touches. Have
you never seen these things preserved for
years i'll alcohol Mr.. T" Vindcx"? Ifnot you.
have not travelled far.
|, And how Ignorant you must consider our
best Physicians, that they can't find anything
In which to preserve their essences and tine
tnres but that virulont poison alcoholl And
they give these things poison aud ell to their
patients. Wonder it don't poison every or
gan it touches but suppose it is perfectly
innocent when given as medicine, but yrtl-
lent poison atall other times. Mid your
eminent Doctors say " in any quantity, mix
it'ps yon may" =.
Rev. Il. Norr, D. d. is great authority with
," V index" about wine, and any one who will
read what ne says will believe just as in
dcX, does about fcgmented and unfermented
wine, But some how that sunburned, un-
learned farmer Neritas, will use his own
mind. Itso happens Mr.. ''Yindex" that in
our family we have made wine; and know for
ourselves without any NorF or "Yindex" that
vino before any fermentation takes place is
neither palatable te any one, nor wholesome.
Besides, read in the Bible, that no man put
tcth new vino into old bottle, which no doubt
reicrs toInixmg the doctrines of Christ with
tic traditions of the Jews, but also to the
practice of putting wine into bottles made of
goat skins hy taking them off as nearly whole
as possible. Why not put ncw,wine into
old bottlesI Because tho newwine by fer
,montins would break the old bottles aud both
would perish rbe destroyed. And yet you
believe that tho Jews kept new or unfcrmen-
ted wine tho year round, or never put it into
bottles but drank itpow only, because 1t suits
you so TO believe, 1.-The simple believe every
word &c. - @
Because will not lay aside my reason aud
belieye the ipse dixito of eynry fanatic--be-
cause will not as. somohay done, deny that
the Bible teaches all that is necessary about
tcmpcrance and every thing else 4bocausoI
wiil not'deny that the Church of Christ issuf-
ficient for all things, and go to man made
e,ecictyy, and tell them byrly actions, IL know