The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-06-04


siiganotller; and the attempt to do violence
Ito its authority will only recoil with the
greater force and destructiveness upon our
! selves 1t is therefore foolish and hurtful,
under any aspect Of the case, to make the
trial, as the intelligent observer may see in
the frightfnl social and physical disorders
which mar the symmetry and beauty of cx-
istence, and produce those moral cancers
!, upon the face of society, which, while they
shock men, eat away their lives.
One: great. law of nature, too muc!i disre-
sgarded, mainly through ignorance and neg
] ligence, is that which requires the regular
exercise Of all the powers and organisms
i that make up the individual. The disre-
gard of this requisition produces the most
terrible excesses, on one hand, by driving
one set ofpowers to madness, through over
straining, and equally delcterious results,
on the other, through p total absence of ac-
ton. The wretch confined on the floor of
3his sprison or in the hold of the slave ship
sosthat he cannot exercise, soon goes raving
mad, and death comes TO his relief The
sewing women of New York and London,
whose sinews are upon the rack in some
instances twenty hours or more out of
twenty-(our, soon pay the sad penalty of
outraged nature. So the long continued,
uninterrupted stretch of the intellectual fac
ulties, wrought up to an intense pitch Of ex-
citement, following the same general law,
produces, as many remarkable and melan
choly examples prove-the latest case being
that Hugh Millcr-imbcciIity or insanity.
These are the cxemplifcations of the law
in extremes; but between these what a
mass of miseries, meptal and physical, pco.
pie bring Upon themselves, through ncecssi-
ty it may be, or totally inadequate reai-
zation Of the perpetual operation of the
same cause, by the infraction of this great
rule of Nature.
This brings US to the subject of popular
recreation and amusement, something that
is of great practical importance to all dwell
lers in large towns and cities, and which
receives in this country next to no attention
al. all. Hence, nervous diseases, and dys-
-pepsia, aud headaches, and rheumatism, and
: The premature decline of American women,
which are becoming with us, as far as our
cities are concerned at least, national char
acteristics. The mind is kept upon stretch
aud the body neglected. The highest intel
lectual accomplishment is sought, not, it is
true, through ''seas Of BLOOD" but through
innumerable aches and pains, which are SO
many protests on the part of the physical
organism of its neglect and ignominious
treatment, as though it were unworthy Of
any attention. Tie mind becomes disc-
phEed, and the body during tue process,
distorted, or the seeds of lasting infrmity
sowh;s unknowingly it may be, in it. The
same violation of fundamental law contin-
ues in full operation in subsequent life
How many of ,our: merchants, clerks, profess
sional men and others are there who do not
habitually transgress the laws of their being
by :oyertasking The nervous system, by the
too great. flow of nervous energy, and !uho
fail ,to lake that physical and mental relaxa=
|, tion,whieH their natures plead for so strenu-
ously, % persistentlys Very. few, we i'm
agiue. The public arrangements for any
such purpose in our large cities are wholly
! inadequate TO meet. the exigencies Of the
case:.! Notbing ofethe kind seems to have
been taken into account, as a great necessi-
ty,tin the present, constitution of society,"
It;has been Ignored ~ Of ne importance, or
as having no ekiislsncs in the nature of our
vital fsqaii aiirem ents .IleatricaI entertain
mems shows aud thdsical soirees,s subserye,
: csftain snds,i more lessyaluaIle. .bpttbey
= fsllsRert Far shortSof meeting the denands
S9s tbaease. They leave aimest: :entifely .pn;;
tSekhed and uneSasslssds ssttlesn snaosedlsr sys. i
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