Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-07-11

clares theit tendency eUesi ttcjt uSed 3nodcrdtsl
Is to Induce disease, premature old age and death"
DR.. KIRK says"men, who were never considered
lntemperate by daily drinking have often shor-
tened life more Mdatbehty gears; and that the
respectable use othis poison has killed more than
drunkenness itself" DR.. ALDEN testifcs thus
son every organ they touch ardent spirits operate
heal;h there isno such thing as temperate use
| ofsPfrifS In any quantity they are an enomy of
| the human Constitution. Their influence upon
the physical organs is unfavorabe to health
they produce weakness odnot strength; sickness
aud not healtl' death aud not life" DIR. SEwALL.
says, +" dyspepsia, jauudice, emacIation, corpu.
lence dropsey, ulcers, rhumatisln, gout, tremors
! pa!ptation, hysteria, epilepsy, palsy, letlargy
| apooplexy, melancholy, madness delirum tremcns
and premature oldage compose but small cata.
ogue of diseases produced by alcoholic drinks"
But why, enlarge The number of Physicians
| whose names could be a duced all testifying as
those above lave. is air ost innumerable. and we
venture the assertion that there is not one either
/ the United States, or in Europe or any where
else whose testimony is worth having who would
not were I've n.errog upon this subject testify
substantially the same thing. We care not of
| what schoolof medicine he might be whether of
the Allopathic, the Physiopathic the Homeopath.
ie, the HydrOpathIc or the Eclectic; for however
| tie adherents OF these different aud conflicting
theories of medicine may disagree in practice as
itrespects givinga sick man poison to make him
| 'eeL, yet they all agree that poison will make
a we'll man sick. Aud consequently each school
teaches substantially the same doctrine respect
| ing alcohol. to.wit that no one can use it as a
| beverage without inuring health.
| The reader will bear in mind that sVeritas" has
indirectly disputed the proposition that there il
not particle ofnut.iment in million gallons of
alcohol and directly the two propositions that
alcohol is poison and the man who uses t ms @
| beveragais nottempcrate, Now il will be per
ceived that in his contradicting these propositions
| that he has not only impeached our word but that
ofthe woe learned scientific medical world ;sthat
| in his enthusiasm for this monster of iniquity
! he virtually gives the most learned experienced
| Chemists, Psychologists and Physicians the lie.-
| Hence we perceive thatit is f" Veritasn "the sun
! burned farmer against the combined knowledge
of the medical world. Now we donot wish to be
! understood as disparnging the farmer, far be it
from us. They are the very bone and sinew OF
| conntry's prosperity-the strong and invincibIe
bulwark oi her laws and institutions-the mighty
andimpreguable fortress of her liberties. They
! are as class generally freer from the tyrhnical
sbackles of prejudice than are the learned profes-
si"ns, and consequently they are more open 10
convicton-ready to receive new truths at any
| time and therefore reform is one of their distin
gushing Characteristics. They are as class ready
aud willing to lend helping hand in carrying out
any reform which promises to be conducive TO the
| prosperity o!their country. But alas for "Ver
ias,e heis completely envelopcd in the thick fogs
of nnhquty--"old foggyn 10 othecery core. UmliEe
endeavorihg with zeal worthy ofa better cause
| to stop, yea roll backthe case of reform. He is
opposing the peace safety and prosperity of his
own State, by objecting and opposing ,he enact.
mcnt of q law which would reduce H. e.. calendar
of crime three fourths, substitute yir, uetand in.
dustry for vice, and Incidence, peace aud plenty
| for strife and want, leave our prisons and poor
houses almosttenantless eurtail the expenses
OF State annually $4,000. Quite an enviable
| position indeed.
| BIT there is another death which the manufac.
turero of ardent spirits inflcts upon his customers
which is as much worse than the first as the soul
IS wortlrmore than the body. This in the Ian.
| guage holy writis termed the second death
| the death 1.-THE soul
/ But says "yeritas"the manufacturer is not
/ ciiargeabe wifithis tits chafgesble TO their
own appetite which nlways Graves, that which is
| forbidden"
Now sir, according your doctrine the Old
| Serpent himself was nsinocent as n lamb in be
guing old Mother Eye and cansing her and adj
am to eat the Forbidden Fruit Satan couldhaye
replied to the Almighty with aboutas much pro.
priety as you do.-you should not pass any curse
upon me. i am not the least to blame for Adam
and Ewes eating the fruit, it is all cborgeable to
their appetite which always Graves that which is
forbidden. Therefore none of uie guilt is attrb
utable me. Now Satan knew what would be
| the inevitable result of Adam and Ewes partat
ing ofthe fruit that il would involve their whole
| pnSterity in death temporal and eternal YOU
know the same from experience, observation and
the teachings Of tho Bible, respecting the drinking
OF ardent spirits with the exception that all who
drink spirits do not die Temporarily and oternally
! from tie effects But respecting your propos
ton 1t is precisely the same. To nake'it plain
| you know that the drinking of ardent spirits has
always IN every age in which has been practis.
! ed danlQng all nations produced drnpkards. You
know that there are comparatively speaking but
| few druhkards who ever reform ifiheycan obtain
liquor. You also know that dru1kardse can
always get lIquortas long as IL is made, IL
fmatters Oot how low they haye fallen, ifI
they have money for to procure this you
knew, Is the express purpose for which it
| il. made. Now, you know as it respects
this class, that their lives are, as it were,
placed inthe hands ofthe disiiller They.
have either life or death to bestow, and
eternal at that; for you know that the Bi-
BILE declares no drunkard shall enter the
| Kingdom of God. And you know too OF
fought to know, that the same Bible, that
| Book from Which you quote so fluenfly and
| eehRdently, says .."N oe unto him that Civ
eth his heigbbor drink, that pultest tby BOT
tle to him. and oaketh him drunken DC.
| And yet you viii in the, face Of all this az
firm you teach no other doctrine than that
taught in tho Bible. Your meaning tho
Eis about this (. you teach no Other doctrine
than that taught in the Bible, you being the, :,
Interpreter, Now, there is moi Religious
denpmination under the broad canopy of
Heaven whether orthodox or heterodox,
who wall not affirm the same, Now, you
essaos Shif. the reenonsiIility by saving
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