The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1858-09-02
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versattoa, will recollect to have seen these
] different species of drunkards inimitably
I delineated by the hand of master. In
the company OF eleven sitting round tho
bacchanalian table, who have already
emptied the four-and nd-twentv bottles which
are scattered on the chimney piece, floor,
and table, it is true we can see, q divine.
lawyer, a g justice in fair round belly
with good capon lined" T" an officer, a
gentleman, a physician, and others, yet
they are not the less beast-druakards in
look, attitude, and action. Hogarths
| graphic pen drew from nature, and the
various degrees of drunkenness are we'll
Disseminated, and its effects admirably
| described. We see the different charac-
ters weeping, mawkish, sick, stupeied.
excited. roaring and asleep. The eyes OF
justice are closed, the footing Of physic
is grotesquely unsure, the pride Of war
is laid PROSTATE, and theology, stupid and
vapid, is in the seventh heaven of ebrie-
/ ty. Such are the effects of alcoholic
drinks. his a.5 BEL srg,5a stl5 s., ,...s.,..f.
The other citation which have prom
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though pedantc work of Robert Burton,
the celebrated author Of The 1natomy Of
Melancholy, first published in 1871
The number of authors cited and referred
to in this work is almost countless, and
nearly every sentence, is garnished
with Latin, though, for wonder, that
which | shall extract is free from such
establishment Speaking of men who
indulge in alcoholic drinks, he says -
They drown their wits, seethe their
brains, consume their fortunes, lose their
time, weaken their temperatures, con-
tract filthy diseases, rheums, dropsies,
calentures, tremor get swollen jngulars.
plmpled red faces. sore eyes, DE. heat
their livers, alter their compilations,
spoil their stomachs, overthrow their
bodies for drink browns more than
the sea and all the rivers that fall into it
(mere fungs and casks, confound their
souls, suppress reason, GO from Scyla to
Charybdis, and encompass their undo
ing p. $40
burton does not express himself too
forcibly, for when we begin the enumer-
alton OF the evils of alcohol we find it like
counting leaves oil the forest, the stars in
the heavens, or the sands of the sea
shore. 1t is well known to all observers.
that drunkenness scnsibly impairs the
intellectual powers The result Of all
physiological. pathological observation
shows, that lntoxication carries the blood
to the brain more than to any other por-
ton of the body. The sanguifeIoas
vessels of the brain, then, become ple.
thoric, or in other words, too full, and
the cerebral economy is thus deranged.
AS the encephalic mass is the seat of the
intellectual powers, they cease to be in
their natural state, they become obtuse,
powerless, and are unable 10 command
the organs which obey them. Not only
the understanding itself is atrophied, but
the natural senses of sight, taste, smell.
hearing and feeling, are also blunted
and injured. The will is no longer lucid.
the speech is thick and difficult, and the
muscular movements are tremulous and
disoraered. This same engagement of
the sanguineous cerebral vessels, caused
by lntoxication, Is the reas on of the deep,
lethargic sleep of which l have spoken.
Such being the effect of the inhibition
of alcoholic drinks, we can easily COM
prehend how the brain must become dis
eased, how its healthy powers are oblite-
rated, how paralysis, mental perturbation.
insanity, imbeclity, and iodicy are pro-
duced. The reports of the different in
sane asylums in the United States show
that drunkenness, more than any other
cause whatever, contributes to furnish
those dwellings of despair with frantic
inmates. And yet there are those who
can see no good in associated opposition
to this dreadful evil Who look upon
such societies as bands of fanatics and
intolerant persecutors Such can never
be the opinion of the enlightened and
dispassionate man, who impartially sets
himself to examine the subject The
end of such an enquiry could but be \
conviction Of the necessity of cooperation
against the hydro headed monster
Alcohol, and the utility of especially an
imating the young, and as yet uncor.
rupt generation, with fixed hatred
to intoxicating drinks. and rallying all
classes, without distinction, to contest
alike called for by every influence wheth-
er human or divine In this warfare.
brothers, friends of temperance, it is
your consolation to have labored with
zeal, with gladness. and with alacrity.-
Had you no otherreward, you would have
that of your own hcarts--the sweet con
sciousness of doing good, but hope that
so niething more than This will repay
your exertions--a triumphant success.
1t is the mission of the disciples of
total abstinence, to aid in every benevolent
and worthy object. Ii belongs TO them
to labor for temperance. to raise the
down trodden, to solace tic afflicted, TO
watch the couch of disease, to minister
10 the distressed, to wipe away the tears
of anguish, and to be constantly doing
good. Let Temperance continue, as she
has been, true TO her mission, and it NAV
be said of her as formerly of Howard, -
in an exquisite picture ofbeneyolence
9 And now, Philanthropy. thy rays divine
Dart round the pole, trom Zemha to the Limo
Der each dark Prison plays ths cheering light.
Like northern lus.res DER the vault of night