The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-12-05

f-i N'N WV ehSg AA NheN was
supposed to bo very secure part of
the cellar. A female in tho house.
hold being troubled at frequent inter.
walls with a very annoying aud pain.
full headache, determined to make
way with her life, aud so these vessels
being labelled poison she conelud-
ed to resort to them for the purpose
of obtaining an agent to destroy her.
self-little knowing the consequence
of her acts; but she took what she
believed would destroy. and il only
stimulated. She felt tho cxhileratiug
influence, and finally her head ache
passed away, and she did not die.
Well, she liked it, and thought she
would poison herself again, aud she
continued from day to day to poi.
son herself and experience the ex.
liberation produced by the intokicat.
ing agent.
The thing leaked out, and became
known to the household that portion
of the poison was gone, Upon search
and inquiry it was ascertaiued who it
was who had been guilty Of removing
It fromits place Of deposit, and she, in
the fear of punishment, madO full
confession of what she had done, aud
its effects. The result was that the
whole house hold poisoned them
selves aud when that poison run out,
aud became exhausted, they made
more, aud from that hour they have
continued to poison the world. BE
this true or false, my friends-lct
this be mere fiction or fact, IL never
thcless Is Of very remote antiquity,
aud the earliest recorded authentic
account. It dates back to the second
father Of the human race, TO tho days
of Noah aud you know what follow.
ed upon his indulgence. You know
that since we have had any authentic
record of its introduction among man
kind, from that moment started the
disgrace incident to the weakness and
fall Of its votaries. We find even in
the sacred volume-the sacred histo.
ry contained in the bible, accounts of
the use Of the intoxicating agent,
We 6nd that even kings aud priests
and patriarchs sinncd, and were in
turn disgraced. We find the sacred
Office was even disgraccd so that cur
scs had to be denounced, and the
death penalty had to be proclaimed
against any priest officiating who
used the Intoxicating agent. On one
occasion, even the Pass over could
not be celebrated by Jewish priests
in consequence of their unftness re.
sultiug from the use of wine. We
find another thing that in those na'
tions where intoxication was not in
dulged in, the highest civilization ant
the highest refinement prevailodi tina
progress and refinement advanced il
proportion as the usc of Intoxicating
drinks was disoouutcnauoed. VIZ
find this striking and marked fact il
history, that for over twenty-threC
hundred years after the food; and foi
more than two thousand years after
the cultivation of the vine by NOAH
in Egypt, no monarch tasted of any
thing that would intoxicate. ADd
VIC f1d that from the hour of its frsi
introduction into that nation, the ma
ton gradually began to deteriorato
We find that at that period Of time
mixed as it was by errors and super
stitions Of paganism Egypt, was tn
center, aud she may now be oalle,
the mother Of all refinement in ancicn
times. Thebes was the seat of learn
ing, and from Thebes it was transfer
ted lower down into Egypt, aud from
that country it passed into tho Eu
ropean countries. 1t was from ther,
that was directly or remotely derived
the civilization of the Greeks and Ro
mans, and we fnd the city Of Merp
now called in history tho city Of learn
ing. Well, with these startling fact
before our eyes, we 6nd another thing
that tho Temperance movement is no
a novelty with us, or in this country
We have started before the world
some problems which have been nov
el. political doctrines practically new
and We have demonstrated them bu
we eau date back to very obscur,
period, every principle that we ar
tonight advocating, We can disOov
erthe principle Of prohibition by leg
islature enactment; we can show tina
the doctrine of total abstenance wa
long since Promulgated--taught b!
different peoples and b. different ma
tions. raT
1t must be remembered that Will,
all this work was going on, the max
ing of liquor by processes Of distila
ton was unknown. Among the an
clients, our made of getting drunk wal
entirely unknown. They intoxicated
themselves exolusively by fermsated
liquors by wines, and 1t was not un
til the thirteenth century that distila