Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-04-15
NO APPETITE.,,


friend who is confined to his house by illness,
he stated one of his troubles in these worlds
81 have no appetite" The case was by no
means rare The invalid often finds himself
without appetite. There is plenty Of food at
hand. 1t can be prepared with the greatest
skin. tits wholesome, nourishing food But
he has no relish for it. that Is the difficulty. He
often says, ''If could only get an appetite
should get better" 1t often occurs that the
loss of appetite is the first Indication OF disease
But whether this is true or not, it is at least
true that the man who has no appetite for good,
nourishing food is in an unhealthy condition.
The sick man often feels that If be could only
get roundly hungry he would improve. No
doubt of it. And could not help thinking
that as it is with man physically, so it often is
with man intellectually and morally. What
multitudes are there who have ''nO appetite
for that which is intellectually and morally
wholesome Very true the parallel is lot per-
feet. Every man has some mental and moral
appetite, even though it be for that which is
evil Many drunkard has such an appetite
for his liquid fire that he has none for bread
But in such case the taste is wholly perverted.
So are mental and moral tastes perverted.
We see it often in boyhood. His highness
Young America, has no taste for the Muldph-
cation table, or for his Grammar or Spelling
book. There are many things that he does ike,
but they are neither good nor useful. So he
plays traunt from school, or spends his time IN
listlessness If he goes TO school The conse-
quence is that he grows up ID ignorance. AT
fourteen or sixteen years of age he does not
know more than he should have known at ten.
And still he has mo appetite for learning -
This is the worst oft. He is preparing for no
useful vocation. He is developing no high ann
bition, and is In fair way TO be no man, for he
has s.no appetite" for manly things.
If we look after adults instead of boys, we
shall find many who have ''no appetite for
that which is good. There are multitudes of
young men and women who do not appreciate
solid information, and hence take no pains to
acquire it. Can they be induced to study a
work on Natural Philosophy or to readany sub
stantial History2 Not at all They have no
taste for anything more solid than yellew-cov-
cred novel or the New York Ledger. Hence,
what multitudes there are who cannot even
speak their own language! to say nothing of
acquiring knowledge Of history or science or
art. They have ''no appetite
People are often sick morally too. How many
love an impure anecdote, profane jest, ascene
of dissipation far better than any really inprov-
ing conversational How many value money
more than character, even though they do not
prepare themselves to make it Intelligent
lyf These exhibitions of perverted moral taste
show men to be morally diseased. Yet they do
not perceive it.
And, In proportion as men are ignorant and
wrongly disposed III their tastes they are cOu-
monty filed with prejudice and aversion to
those who rise above them. There is an aver
sion which the poor often have to the rich, the
ignorant to the educated, the vicious to the vir-
tuous. Yet qualification should be made III
respect to this last sentence or the trst part OF
it. A man may be poor and yet have a sincere
taste Tor everything good, as man may be rich
and yet without that appetite" 1t is those
who are Ignorant as well as poor thai hate the
rich, as it is those who ignorant and vicious
as well as rich that oppress the poor. But the
educated and Virtuous have little defence against
the preiudices OF those whose aversion Is rooted
in their own ignorance and perverted tastes.-
! Ahi if the mulhtudes only had an appetite
| for solid thought and virtue their vision would
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| far more just
| The extensive prevalence OF the ''no appe
| tite' is one of the chief hindrances to the per
manence of free institutions aud the progress o
| true intelligence. The great rebellion Is TIA,
work OF those who had no appetite for tn,
nourishing doctrines Of equal rights, and re
publican institutions. The 'sPoor white trash
of the South would never have been led int
rebellion il they mac possessed education ant
virtue. And, all over the country this hideou
monster ''NoappetIte' sits, with greater or les
! weight AN incubus upon the respiration Ot III
teIligent thought, and the progress OF pure Eir
tue Who can give US the healthy appetite 10
knowledge and manliness? Who can cause tn
luhi-tONlliS5 IiilpliS W NV uCiii iolOO ~ Una
our Congress shall never again tamper wit
such question imposing a tax upon lIquO
as upon other articles? Who can convince po
litical demagogues and party tricksters tina
truth and honesty are better in politics than ly
ing and fraud? Who can give the frivolous Al
appetite for solid attainnents! Who can CIV
the ignorant taste for knowledge, the viciou
an appetite for virtue?
All these, and many more, thoughtabout a
| returned from my visit to my sick friend
And l thought too, that his want of appetite
was small evil when compared with the lacl
of tasty for education aud virtue. b.
The Coles COUNTY MAssACRE.-One of th'
editors of the Chicago Posi-, democratic paper
has been visiting Coles county, the scene o
the recent cOpperhead massacre of Union sol
diers and in long letter written there, which
| is published in the Post of last Monday, giving
the particulars of the affairs, says that the out
| break was the result of a regular copperheaC
| conspiracy, formed months ago; it was Tegu.
lar military organization, called itself "Th(
Mighty Host" its object being to render aid anC
comfort to the rebels, with whom the leader,
were in correspondence. The attack upon tn,
soldiers at Charleston on Monday was a preme
ditated affair; the scoundrels had been drilling
and preparing for several days, with the avow
ed purpose of killing Union soldiers; and til,
| soldiers We're fired upon without the least pro