Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-19
For the Patriot.
lssAt Spes Non Fracta.,,


State is reunited to the r,m-selier. Temperance
must sever the bonds; and severed they will be-
or all that is evil, will triumph over all that s GOOD.
am authorized to cay, such will not be the iat-
ter state of things, although the above named IDS
strumentalties may fail. am aware that states
men, hitherto have done but little for Temperance,
and politicians less; am also aware, that phan'
thropists and patriots, for all tbat-hope on ana
act on-and hoping on, and acting on-a glory-a
weight of elory-an exceeding weight of glory,
will crown their efforts ''er neeessitate rsi
The science of Temperament behalf of outraged
and down-trodden humanity, calls for the abolition
OF the liquor traffic and, partly in this way she
does it.
Learned gentlemen, whose opinions l am about
to state and coliate, say, that dTunHdra Is
man who habitually impairs his mental and bodily
powers by the use of poisonous drnks-the enec-
tive constituents of which, is chemical compound
known as Alchohol. This statement is in accor-
dance with scientific fact and daily experience
shall now proceed to lay part of them before the
community Plant two bills of corn upon the same
square ward, of equal soil, and give them equal
cuiture-each evening pour pint of water upon
one and pint of alcohol upon the other-the for
mer will green and grow, the latter, yellow, and
die-because the one COMFORTS with, while the
other is in perpetual conflict with the stamina
yiten of all the vegetable animal kingdom.
Water lives-alcoholis" aqua n,rotis, and results
mainly, if not wholly, through vinous fermentation.
There is an important fluid in the mouth, called
saliva it is intended to ubricate the mouth, to Ia
ciitate speech to assist in chewing and swallowing
food; it also acts an important part IN digestion
thus you see its healthy condition is matter OF
the highest importance in the animal economy. In
health this fluid is always slightly acid, (NcCul-
loch) Take piece of blue paper, made so, by
the boiled Juice of red cabbage mosten It with the
saliva of a healthy person, it Immediately turns
red by the acid of the saliva Then give that per-
son a dram of any alcoholic drink-wine, hard-ci-
der brandy, set I'd genus oDane"-let him wash bis
mouth out, thoroughly, in four minutes let him test
the saliva again with the blue cabbage p perrin
stead of turning red it becomes green, (Laycock).
How this? Chemical science says, it is the poison
of the alcohol in the beverage, that has poisoned
the blood and its savary secretive in four minutes,
and changed it's abnormal condition to the very
opposite of what it ought to behaving become
alkaline instead of acid-no two things, in nature,
are more opposite than an acid and an alkali (Ac-
cum.) Teach the drunkard this, and he hesitates;
but the rum seller careth not.
And again, we have seen persons hold spirits in
their mouths to allay dental euragia-toot5-ache
in few minutes it will burn severely. Inspect
the mouth you find it highly iDfamed-hod it
ten minutes longer and the mouth becomes blister
ed-te bandage over that persons eyes, and give
him water, vinegar, milk senna and he can't dis
tng uish the from the other-partial paralysis
has ensued from the norcotc and unnatural nervine
effect of alcohol.
Let US now descend the throat of the wine-bib,
ber and inspect his stomach, and abdominal viscera
What then? Let science say. The stomach, tina,
complicate organ, fearfully end wonderfully
made, pours out fluid into ITSELF during digestion,
called the gastric juice" This is the potent agent
in digestion. 1t dissolves the food, prepares the
chye from the sliment, carries digestion, with
out which, life is impossible. This gastric juice is
as clear and transparent as water, (Lavosier).
Take some of this stomach juice, prepared in the
stomach by natures laws, add little alcohol, as
found in whskey or brandy it Immediately becomes
opaque muddy, when white matter is precipi-
tated falls to the bottom, which is called pepsin,
this is the chief agent in digestion. Thus the gas
trio juice is destroyed by the alcohol. Test. Take
two glass tubes, put into each a email piece of
fresh beef it with fresh healthy gastric
juice, into add little alcohol place both tubes
in water bath. at 50 deg. Fahrenheit, which IS
blood heat in all cmates-keep them there four
hours, ard you will find the beef in the pure gas
trio juice, changed into grayish white fluid, ex-
actly the same as you find it in the stomach of an
finals, killed about the time digestion is completed,
while that in the tube to which alcohol is added re-
mains unchanged, save being little shivelled. (Ja-
coos, Todd, Farraday-passm.) ''How mischievous
then the social habit of taking alcoholic drinks du
ring meals aud how utterly absurd, that popular de-
lusion that they assist promote digestion,
aud how atrocious the quacAery which prescriOes
these drinks for any such purposes"
Popuarze these, and similar experiments, it will
hasten the period of general sobriety in spite of
''license laws" 1t uiH be done, and when done,
the patriot may call to the pbilanthropist and
christian whose answer will be "spfs non fracta .
LEXIPHANES.