New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-11

to the defense Of which The Courier and Enquirer
bas practically come, though it condemns, in ten
der tones, the practice as deplorabe. The Courier
and Enquirer would not have students expelled
from colleges for the use of tobacco. That would
be y rannica. Cannot vice. then, be punished, as
| well as crime! Let us look at tObaccO-chewing
ard splitting. Is it fit for civilized beiugl Is it
not more disgusting than any natural habits Of the
hOgl We do not say the hog in sty, because that
is an artificial life for the animal, and he is not re-
sponsible for the vices Of pent.up slave. Tobacco
is nasty and filthy. Its preparation is namelessy
dirty. 1t is rank poison. The extract of it kills
certainly as prussic acid. The first use Of it, in
chewing and smoking, is accompanied by deadly
| slcbLess. The habit depletes the system when
the tel dency to obesity is not paramount. Ii
lowers the nerves, the tone, strength and style
of tie men Of the country, and hence of the
women. Every man who chews and spits con.
homely. 1t is dastardly, urgallant attack on the
sex in that sense. 1t is ruinOus to nice taste.
The mouth imbIuted with its filth cannot discrlm-
mate between purity and impurity. The language
Of the chewer and splitter is apt to be as coarse as
his stimuant. lie becomes the impersODatiOn of
selfish qualification. Provided be chews his filth
and spite, be cares nothing for the presence of
wtnen or men. He never says, "By your leave
No: the morals and the manuep Of the Border
Rufian are naturally bic, far as chewing and spit
ting are concerned. If in railroad car sitting on
the same seat with lady even for thousand mile
Journey. the tobacco chewer and splitter never re-
fleets that what is beastly in Linn would be beastly
in Der, aid hence disgusting to the sex. Nc. He
provides himself with cOngeries Ct ''plugs.'
Black, dismal and sinking, they as the apple Of
his eye. He cuts piece. He puts it in his mouth.
All the nastiness and stench which this engenders
are evident to the lady alongside Of him and to the
sdies and gentlemen around and about. But
what cares our plug-herol Is he not free and
enlightened citizen! Does not liberty mean the
art Of violating good maLDers and carrying all the
canoDs of low-bred egotism to their extremes
Well then Spit hawk let the juice fly Spit
down, spit up, spit around Keep up the putrd
foam in your mouth. Now, out with it Too
coarse. too selfish too vile to observe the shudder,
the di.pust of the fair traveller travellers, the
gentlemen presenter the breed is not quite
extinct, though it bids fair to be under the tobacco
reeime-our democratic savage spits away, until
be has made puddle around him which would
turn the stomach of hog. 1t stains and ruins the
ladies' skirts; but what of that This is free
country. This lie the fruit Of the first few hours
travel. The shame is repeated every time the car
10 rtantered.
Take next our hotels, with all their purple and
40 xrifh xyhi shodx liza
and sanded floors if they only accommodated
gentlemen. But they do not. The hues
ard ferns mmicked from the Versailles
Palace do not make courtiers and gal
lapts in their manners. Our tobacco chewers
might better betabe themselves TO some appropriate
ETY. than figure amid the splendOrs Of fashionable
hotels. 1t 10 frightful satire 10 zee the tesseated
marble balls of our princely hotels besrmed as
if a set of Fejee Islanders had been celebrating
therein some Obscene rite o. enlightened nation
O. chivalrous gentlemen Ard with all this, it is
hIsIn meal on the part OF the sacred function in.
trusted with the culture Of youth to thrust
out from the claims and dignties of
college life the lad who pretends to
enter upon an enlightened career, to aspire to
liberal education, when at the outset be violates
the frat principles Of geod breedi 6, the Loyalty due
the laws Of health and beauty, the purity and deco
rum essential to the neOpbyte We repeat our
opir ion that the recommendation of Horace Mann
to the Association Ct Teachers of Ohio, in regard
TO the ute Of tobacco, was not strong enough. 1t
should not be simply denounced, but the student
who uses il should be expelled on the ground that
tie practice is unfit for ga scholar aud gentle
man," We need not enlarge on the fact that the
boz who ltaIns the use Of tobacco takes, a. rule,
bis Introductory lessen in drunkenness. Tobacco
and stropg drink are twins. Let our colleges pun
lh for the use Of both alike.