Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-01-08

stinence pledge on the spot; to which six
out of the seven, it is said, remained true
till death. This movement reclaimed thou
sands of drunkards, and startled temperate
drinkers throughout the land and in 1S48
Dr. Warren, president of the Massachusetts,
Temperance Society, was enabled.to say, that
&" A vast number of persons on this side of
the Atlantic Comparing this country with
Europe,) have wholly abandoned the use of
win, cider and malt liquors, and many who
continue to employ them have greatly di-
minished the quantity. Under the influence
of master spirit president Everett) the
great annual festival of commencement at
Cambridge University has been accomplished
without the aid of wine;'' {" the oldest of our
literary fraternities has enjoyed the excite
ment cf social meeting without the con-
sequent depression from artificial stimulus.
Wine is no longer admitted at the great con-
vocation of the clergy, or the assemblage Of
the medical profession of the State. The
great association of mechanics of the me-
tropolis holds brilliant triennai feast from
which every kind of alcoholic, fermented,
vinous and zosher Stimulating liquid, is
wholly excluded
Here, on the eve of the attempt to enforce
prohibitoly law, let say few words on
what is considered the necessary use of al
coholic stimuants to sustain the human sys-
TEN under excessive labor; extremes of cold
and heat, and when diseased We have not
time to give theories and explanations, only
a few facts and observations from actual ex-
perience, hoping thereby to elicit investiga-
ton by those, at least, who hold different
opinions Dr. j. d. Hooker, medical officer
tor the Antarctic expedition commanded by
Sir James Ross says: - do think that the
use of spirits in cold weather is generally
preiudiciaI | speak from actual experience.
1t is very pleasant. The glass of grog warns
the mouth, the throat and the abdomen, and
this when one is wet and cold, with no fire,
and just before turning into damp blankets,
is very enticing But it never did me one
atom of good; the extremities are not warm
ed by it; and when continuance of exer-
tion or endurance is called for, the spirit does
harm, TOR then you are colder or more ia
| tigued quarter or half an hour after It,
| than y0u l00uld hare been rthoW IT," Sir J.
Richardson and DR.. hing who visited the
Arctic regions, the guides on Cham0uni,
and others give similar views. Further, the
British Government now expressly provides
that no fermented liquors shall be used by
the parties who proceed upon Arctic explora-
tions and the Hudson Bay Company also
exclude spirits from their employees. Rus
sian officers prohibit its use by their soldiers
when about to march on cold day, and lest
the men deceive them, it is said the corporals
are ordered to smell at the breatbs Of the
men bef fore starting, and if any are found to
march, as particularly liable to frost bite,
/ &c
The injurious effects of liquor in warm
climates are equally well attested Dr. Cor
don, who spent several years in studying the
botany of Brazil, says " hoover drinks
stimulating liquors, and travels day after
day in the sun, will certainly suffer from
headache. and in countries where miasmata
prevail, he will be far more likely to be at
tackled by the diseases there endemic Sir
James Brooke, the colonizer of Borneo, Mr.
Watert0n, traveller in tropical climates,
DR.. Daniel, stationed in tropical Africa,
and Dr. Mosely in his work on Tropical
| Diseases, make statements equally explicit
and to the same effect. In regard to the el-
feet of alcoholic liquors on soldiers in warm,
sickly climates, the practice in our late wal
well shows; but little speech of Sir
Charles Napier, long stationed in India. to
the Goth regiment on itS arrival, seems direct
ly to the point and of good authority; among
other things he said, - Let me give you a
ssbit'' of advice, that is, don't drink | know
young men do not think much Of advice
from old men. They put their lounges in
their checks, and think they know good
deal better than the old cove that is giving
them advice. But let me tell you, that you re
come to country where if you drink you re
dead men. If you be sober ana steady
you'll get on well: but if you drink you're
done for. You II be invalided or die / know
there are some men who will drink in spite
of the devil and their officers; but such men
VIII soon be in hospital; and very few that
90 in in this country ever come out again,
Now TO learn the injurious effect of drink
in common life during health, let US quote
the experiment of Dr. Hunter upon two OF
bis children, both of them unaccustomed tC
wine. "To one he gave glass of sherry
every day. to the other an orange. In the
course OF week. very marked difference
was perceptibe in the pulse, urine and evac
uations from the bowels of the two children
The pulse of the first child was raised, the
: urine high color ed, and the evacuations des
titute of their usual quantity OF bile II
the other child no change whatever was pro
duced. He then reversed the experiment
giving to the first the orange, and to th,
second the wine, and the results correspon
ded the child who had the orange continued
well, and the system of the other got strange
ly iuto disorder, as in the first experiment.
: Now, to illustrate the beneficial effect 0
= alcoholic stimuIants as medicine, in dis
eased and depressed states of the system
let, for instance, DR.. Wilks present the case
OF two children. First, g. little boy who
was thought to have marasmus. He lay il
bed almost a skeleton, and had taken al
e kinds of nourishment, cod liver oil &c, il
e vain. He was then ordered small doses 9
L alcohol, four times a day, and rapidly i'm
; proved, SO that in few weeks he was ia
, aud strong. The other child was in stat
Of extreme exhaustion, but no disease coul