The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-03-08
THE DISP A TIC d.
N. ynebriAts Asyi"m.-e
dred Femsie sppiies ns

-. established in New York
a ststs Iuebriste Asylum, aod ap'opo''''V1 ."s
.. 80 =, the Legislature for an appropris-
- q, n. h.ha,f This proposition WAS unsne~
go, nm, n viii doubtless be renewed hereafter.
IN. New York Joa,aal q Coasnsfcs, speaking OF
shs appsiliue spread Of intempsrance, saws THAT
,.rrs number Of eminent names are heisg erased
from the list Of the living, where the true cause OF
lsAth 10 never suspected by the community At
large, tbe Interpretation Of surviving friends saw
,ns their memories from n6elibie aissrsce) died
OF "dsliriuli tremeas,' beisg the fearful secret
AZ lssst two on the list of subscribers for the
coatemplatcd Asyiam-meu who stood hish III
the profession Of Law aud lterature--are sireass
victims TO tbis iasidious destroyer. 1t hss oeen
assorted that men are not to be """a "oe
would Voluntarily commit themselves TO ah 'nsti'
tuition for inebristes; but this Is rotated "y 'he
fact that almost before the foundation stone WAS
laid, there had been 500 applications Tor samis-
sion; OF whom. according to DIR. Turner, corres'
poud,os Secretary Of the New York State Inebriate
Asyium. ",aore than four hundred 1oaea IN the
asoh ,raik, Of ifs, s,isoated and acoomplisRed"-
Tners appeare to be no room for reasonable doubt
on this point. The .IournaI adds, that the chief
divergence In public opinion IL oceasoned by
doubts - 70 the permanency of the cures fscted
lent that whore disease has once 50 far advanced
a. 70 deprive the individual Of self control, re i.
lapse to former habits would almost Inevitably
snsus upon the removal Of external restraints:
that organic changes already wrought In the sys-
ten, would defy all attempts at correction.
Itia 10 this feature, the pathology Of inebriety.
that the New York State Asylum proposes TO adj.
Arsss itself--to inebriety disease of the stou,
scb and brain which is first coustituti onsl, and
then hereditary 10 Its character. According to
DR.. Turner, "the time and the only time. when
this Institution can reach the inebriats, Is when
he has lost self control and the law regards him as
dangerous citis an, or when he can he induced to
enssr the asylum Voluntarily" large proper.
ton Of cases, as shown by the experience of some
of our insane asyums, Eiay be cured in year
within which time the morbid condition Of the
stomach viii be removed, and the powers Of the
constitution renovated, so that the unnatural
craving for artificial Stimulate will no longer ex.
ist.
Another alarming evil 1. making threads 10
New York gociety--the eating aud smoking of
opium. VIII the doctors give us the pathology of
tAatf And of Gluttonyg And of all other yice ,
and excuses which it has become the fashion 10
Ascribs 10 the physical organization! No doubt
shsrs are hereditary and constitutional DRINK.
ards - we'll a. liars and thieves but these cases
are ouly exceptionsble. There is cenyict in the
psnitsntisry of Virginia tor negro stealing, who
has appealed to the Governor for cemency, on the
ground that his psychological organ compell'
ID him to steal negroes! His Exceiiencys ''psy'
Geological organ" however, conpels him TO KEEP
such people where they can do no farther mis-.
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