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

"lurementa, or 70 any VI tnVso iAi2o' "A"'
when they graduate FROM College halls, become
t" tAs scandal and pest of society, which disgrace
".he professions and become the opprobrum OF the
" ratio,-such student should be forthwith de-
.sprvel Of those means Of knowledge which ne
threatens 10 abuse by being dismissed Under
the head Of the forbidden things Mr.. Mann places
liquor, tobacco, profanity and foul language. he
would have expulsion follow the use Of into1icat-
ing beverages; but profanity Of language and
the use Of tobacco are simply to be denounced.
Now, why not expel for blackguardsm and TO-
bacco. splitting, too! Arguments against tobacco,
the precedent Of drunkenness, are insufficient.
The Colleges of Ohio, to which Mr.. Mann addresses
himself, might set q noble example of e1pelling
every student who chews tobacco; and the same
for the use of bad language. The School Exam
liners should be equally strict as regards applicants
for teacherI certificates. The hideOus practice Of
chewing and splitting should be considered evidence
that q nan is united for "the humanities,' and
be should accordingly be excluded from the select
circle of education and refinement. What can
youth learn of the principles Of yirtuOus selfdenl
when be sees bis teacher pull out every few n'n-
utes filthy plug Of narcotic nastiness, roll IL ike
sweet morse under his tongue, and then bech fortn
the disgusting juice We do not believe national
refinement or temperance possible with the use Oh
tobacco. Indeed, "our country" 60 far as 1t "
impersonated in hotels, steamboats, railroad cars,
theaterr, halls, work. shops and public walks, Is
beastly owing to tobacco spittle. 1t is the shame
of the land, that notwithstanding all the education
and philosophy so cheapened and d6'used, the All
NAL appetites Of our free and enlightened citizens
should hardly be degree above those Of savages
and their ideas Of personal nicely little better.
Go whsre you will, and no place is sacred. In
deed, amsng some of the nastiest idolaters Of this
filth are members of the clergy.
Imagine, if you car, young wsman--a lady
in all the radiant glory Of loneliness, and with all
the poetry Of youth and beauty fresh about her
imagine her chewing, hawking and splitting qulds
of tobacco on the floor Of the drawing room, the
ball room or the church AL the muses., al the
ideali.ts Of beauty, shudder at such picture
And how much better is it to see
the pretty boy, or the handsome, ripenins youth,
.ol;no his mouth and all around him with the filthy
drug Lool a. the boys and lads who are addicted
to tobacco. They are old almost before they are
out of their teens. The poison appears to have
occupied every pore Of their skin. S'llow, scraegH
ebsstiy ever-these qualities are the facial phe-
nOn,ena of the poor wretches who become slaves 70
tobacco The of taste, physical and intellect
ual, is dulled The instincts Of the gentleman are
fOnstaled. The appetite for furious excitements
is stimulated We think, then, that Mr.. Mann has
not gone far enough, in failing to class the use of
tobacco with that of alcohol in his interdicts to
youth who aspire to the benefits and honors Of a
college education.