Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-14
~ RE4D1Ss HATTIE on ErEer PACE.

works for the good oftrnankiud, has sent Us q
copy Of a treatise upon tobacco, Its history
nature and effects on the bpdyaDd mind" which
by the color Of the leaves aud the pencil way
marks, we should suppose had been the burden
ofour friends, Investigations and meditations for
some time back.
Every body. ourselves among the number,
have heard, read, and seen an indefinite amount
Of moralizing, sermonizing and hygetanizing on
his subject of tobacco-and its kindred stimu-
lants, coffee, tea, "blue,ruin" whisky &C. We
are inclined to think from the excessive ding.
dong that has been kept up by the refnrmcrs, or
humanitariaus, on this subject, that they have
pretty near run the thing in the ground. We
suspect that tobacco is bad sort of vcgetable;Il
in fact, we may say, we know that it is we may
cay the same pretty near about tea, coffee and
alcoholic stimulapts-uot excepting, perhaps, 5
even the popular lager. Wei may say that, ab.
stracty considered, they are bad, that their ten
dency is downward not upward, But when we
say all this, welmay put.in,a saving clause; and
say that they are relatively SO. They are SO in /
TWO ways: 1st. MS to the proportions in which
they are used; and second, as to their effects
when compared with something else whichman-
kind always have and probably always viii use
as stipuiants. The different nations of the
eartn--and espccallytlIO more intellectually en-.
lowed nations, have alwaysGhada International
or provincial stimulants. No people arc
moro given to the use of all sorts and
grades Of stimulants than are the Anglo-Saxon e.
and the fact that their mental superiority has
remained unimpailed must be taken as a mitiga-2
ton, in some degree at least, Of the ailments
which are laid to the account of tho articles we
have enumerated. we think it is quite likely.
that stimulants were placed within our reach
for some purpose-p perhaps for our punishment
in sdegrec-iust as the sbriars and thoFns
are said to have been. according 10 the book
before MS, if it*ere not for stimuantS we should
all live until NC got tired living @uptil we sort
Of dried up and were blown away, from excess
I've approximation, and pure Sencscence. The
proTerh says every man has his peck Of dirt
to get through with, gastronomicallv, and We
suppose that man thatrtakes it in tobacco. or
bohea, or Rio and Java, or anything else, from
the classical paparer somn i1erunl- of old Virgil,
down to the .coct,lus irlictis solutions and DC.
eoctions Of this Kennel Ale and Lager Beer era,
has the satisfaction Of knowing. that it might
have bcen something else tnore.at varianccz with
his ideas of clean and unclean ~.
Thismucb, by the way. VS. came very near
forgetting the book before.us5o The hook lis got
up on the Sorpsbing out" and 'aIi.killing prin,
ciplc, peculiar TO the firm of the -Fowlcrs. &.
Wells, publishers, when they take;a notion for
or against anything The terms. of depletion
and de'ineation come pretty near effecttng our
stomach after the style of very strong, green
toby itself Indeed, the mucous membranes of
of our precious ''inardsN are disgrnntled in no
small degree by the following passage: 1ssi.s T.
"Of all the descriptions of its evil effects none
have come up to thea evils themselves.
have.seen many disgusting pictures of the 6lthi.
ness especially, of chewing butshone compare
ut aHsWlth'rt the reallty.az Street-sweeping and
snk-cleanihg are ,incotnparably less filthy than
tobacco eatingand smoking. The dog re- eating
his vOmt is disgusting, but tobacco spittle is far
more So What q conce0tration ofyileuess is
tobacco puddle! How utterly nauseatintr- and
loathsome if Tetaken into the mouth! Then was
it not quite as vile when erpelled thcrefrom?
Talk about decent Inanschewing atobaccol
What can be more bodY-dehling and soul
polIutings" a5 + =. Ia. &, II srs
There-talk about your mephibcs and mar
.cotics after that. The strongest dose of the
lowest grade of the weed that they grow over
in our heighbOriug county Of Monroe, across
,he water, would not set a body back much
worse than paragraph like that =
Next comes another passage, intended to ad-
monish pople whose occipitals exercise con-
trolling influence IN their craniums We read
that cn-=AASl x e Nh
s'The influence of tobacco upon amativeness is
powerful, aud powerfully vitiating Nom can
be virtuous as q companion who eats tobacco:
for, although he may not violate the seventh
commandment, yet the feverish state Of the Sys>
TEN Shich,it produces necessarily causes era.
Ninganh lustful exercise of aTnativeneSs Just
as alcoholic liquors cause such amatory era
Wings and for The same reason. AS alcoholic
liquors and the grosser forms of sensuaiitY are
ministers, SO tobacco eating and dcyitfy ara
both 6hsi befanse ths-fierca passions of many
tobacco cllewerzs as regards the other SEX are
ltnlnensely Increased 6y the fire kindled in their
systems, and of course in their cerebelums, by
tobacco excitement. Ye Who would be pure in
your love.inStinct, cast this sensualizing fire
from you. In fact It's pcryertiDg influence upon
the entire mentality accorts with the love illus.
stration just given. Mark the point IA tte0rvnpts
aud dePraves the bod. and through it sensual.