Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-09-15
For the Spirit of the Age.

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ute a fearless, bold and mastery manner
dvocates the principles of Total Abstinence,
0 far as every thing oSan inebriating char
cter is concerned, i. e. IN the way of drinks,
have been, as a reader of its columns, q lit
Ie surprised to see no more said concerning
Temperance in many other respects, besides
hat which is occasioned by an indulgence in
intoxicating liquors. But / suppose you find
Yourself busily engaged in battling against
he bydra-headed monster "alcohor" in the
terminating war which you have so justly
yaged against him, and inasmuch as / have
lad a loaded battery in reserve for a cOnsid-
srable time, waiting all the while for some
one else toilet off first, but apparently in vain,
[ have concluded, eventually to discharge at
least one round at a foe which | believe to be
as hostile to decency, temperance and
as king alcohol himself, at least in
many respects. | mean tobacco; an article,
which, Notwithstanding the many anathemas
hurled upon it from scientific and medical
writers, seems to have lost none of its appa-
rent charms but continues to be o welcome,
yea, even a fond darling, in almost every fam
lily Of our land, and not unfrequently with
those, who, in other respects seem to contend
for, and advocate the doctrine of Temperance,
and Total Abstinence. How can We expect
intemperance to be suppressed, or entirely
removed from the land, when this flth-engen-
dering, disgustful, nauseating poison, contin-
ues to be such q ~favorite, with not only the
poor and destitute, but even those who should
shine as lights unto their less fortunate and
INDECENT %neighbors.
verify believe that the early habitual use
of tobacco, is often an exciting cause of other
stimulants being used because it depraves
the appetite, and corrupts the natural taste,
and thus brings about an unnatural desire or
thirst, which might be, but seldom is, satia-
ted e~xceptin the use of some stinulant; hence,
rum or whiskey becomes a very convenient
resort and palliative, which would, in many
instances, never be the case were it not for
tobacco.
The chewing or smoking Of tobacco, it is
we'll known, excites certain glands to a pro-
, fuse and undue, as we'll as an unnatural Sc
erection of saliva, which is thrown off as spit
\ tie, and thus wasted, and by means of this the
n human organism becomes drained, or robbed
e Of a great amount Of its natural, healthful and
! ted to be indispensable in the system Of every
living being, either man or brute. When the
system is thus imprudently, and may | not
say, wickedly drained nature requires and
o must have a new supply. But as the taste
t. is no more natural, but, by the use of tobac.
Y CO, changed to an artificial or unnatural one,
r it is not at all surprising to see such persons
i craving something unnatural and stimulating
so as to suit this taste caused by an undue ex.
: element Of the glands secreting this fluid
9 Hence it is that the tobacco user adverts t.
any kind of spirits, which is more congenia
id to his artificial, unnatural and d~epraved ap
le petite, than pure water. The system, how
ID ever, is sadly disappointed in the wicked ant
stimulating substitute which is at once evi
IL e. L
. and drunkenness-an evidence which speak
u in laundering tones against the use of eithe
u tobacco or spirits. Who ever knew an inc
us briate that was not a tobacco user in some
nd or perhaps all, of its different phases ? W
)e- may find a few tobacco users, who as vel
have not got to be ~drunkards, but to find
nc drunkard who is not a tobacco user in som
way, is next to an impossibility. The sam
: is equally true of the c~onsumptive. Remoy
w the cause, and the effect will cease. If pc,
pie quit using and manufacturing tobacco an
cease to countenance the spluttering and dis
dy gushing habit in all who defle themselve
he Herewith, and treat its use with that col
I a tempt which it so justly deserves, and thu
- finally remove it from the land, I believ
e that spirits can, in a short time, be made
M follow suit. And just consider the delightf
Oh and happy effect that would be produced
Dill this lower world by a reformation of this kin
no To see the earth cleansed of the flthiest al
SUIT most swinish practice that the depravity
,dv man has ever been the means of inventine
and on the ruins thereof, man, the most n
eed ple crea'ure Vi uou, lls'esaU e eS uep a !,
~. exalted to his proper dignity basking in t
the hlissfnl regions Of Purity. Virtue and Riol
of eousness. Would not this be the long a
- ticipated Millennium? A ~foretaste Of t
ma purer and better world But when we 10
7 around and see even ministers of the gosr
(for so they will be called) and temperan
lecturers, not only using the article, b
clearing large fields and planting them W
IL this most ~disgustful of all plants, and 9TH
wise encouraging its culture and traffic;
en- are truly constrained to exclaim, not OF
ced with establishment, but with the language
nv inspiration, physician heal myself"
move this poisonous weed from your O
- fields and jaws, and then preach tempera1
. and total abstinence to your neighbors W
lgh1 a clear conscience. How many Of those
but ones who nave been readers of the Age, 9
his how many are there who still may be reset
lind from early graves, if our ministers and tt
ever perance lecturers will but preach the ri,
,ink doctrine as fearlessly as the Age vindicates
80 reformatory principles of temperance? {
hing hIdpomi inc bride does not know, that b
cart use of her small box and brush, she is lay
S in the corner stone upon which, ere long,
be erected a mighty edifce consisting of .
was pepsia, Liver Complaint, Consumption an
.rup- host of other malignant diseases ? and WI
annually sweep thousands of human bel
a.. into eternity Kind reader, how many
una. your friends, acquaintance and relati
oulo who twelve months ago were enjoying al
tas- rently the best of health, can you bring
good your fond recollection, who have within
2 short space of time fallen victims to
a be American monster-Consumption ? Ref
and see; probably you have a sister who
: - Just beginning to lay aside her little innoc
: a. frolicsome and baby-like ways and begal
3ocK assume the more serious and ennobling /
tiles and endowments of womanhood, u
rablJ whom you paid your last tribute of res