The daily gazette., 1877-04-17

Jnen like spirits of i'll omen, they fit
around us, on invisible webs, to check
our progress. But magic word dis
pels them as the growing ofthe cock does
the spectres of the night. An old gem
tlemau once told me that he bad made a
discovery which had been for many years
OF iufinite value to IN that was, that
"blue devils never ride on orseback;
SO, Sir, you find they never go on brisk
walk-they never visit a gymnasium
they play no wicket or foot ball, they
never read Charles Lamb, or Theodore
Hook, or Tom Hood. They may saunter
along with you underneath ths solemn
elms. or through the quiet walks of the
Gem etery, they will bend with you over
inspire your solitary musings anywhere.
But action, resolve, society, eager pur-
suits, healthy vigorous tbought-all these
are their enemies, and from these, they
will tiy! No tea, alcohol or tobacco, they
are the sequence of nervous stimulants,
nothing else. One of our opponents, in
speaking of alcohol, Is much mistaken, &,
scientifically he is not up with tbe times.
Hitherto scientific writers have bad it
pretty much their own way and have
succeeded what has been received as good
physiological reasons why no alcoholic
stimulants should be rsed as drink.
DR.. Green said on reviewing Carpenter
and Beaumont and the scientists, he gave
flat denial of the truth OF of their con-
clusions and arguments, as I(said he) can
give with an equal show of skill and
force of reasoning, that "alcohol is not a
poison, but force," that it repairs the
waste of tissue, furnishes fuel for respir-
| alton, the main source of animal heat
| and is generator of force. "Force" is
| the lend and aim of force. The exertion
of force wastes the material fabric; with
every thought we think, with every mus
| Gle we move particle of our fabric is
consumed or particle of our fuel is
burned. Oxygen is the great agent in
| this dIsintegration lof tissue. The diges-
tibility of alcohol, the learned doctor said
surpassed that of any other aliment. II
requires less elaboration to fit it for its
ultimate purpose, that is, the translation
into nervous force. AS respiratory
material it enables us to dispense with
starch and sugar. Those who do not
drink alcohol must use more bread and
pudding.
He quoted Leibeig the learned chem.
ist.t to show how temperance families des
priving their servants of beer, give them
compensation in money; but they soon
found that the monthly consumption of
bread increased so strikingly, that the
beer was twice paid for, once in money,
The learned Professor considered al
length the objections to alcohol as a
stimulant. That life is only possible un-
der incessant stimulants, food, fresh air,
exercise aud drinks Either we must
condemn all stmulants, then, or prove
| there is something peculiar in the alco-
holic stimulus, which demarcates it from
all others. Is there such popularity?
he said that there is and this it is he con-
ceives, which alone renders it dangerous;
alt is its facination of its virtue, the
potency of its effects" in other words,
| the allurements to excess which it pre-
sents. II is not a poison in itself, it is not
directly injurious when moderately used
but it is great temptation, and sorrow
fully he said it too often misleads men
into disease, vice, crime and utter misery
1t is to this latter fact alone that the NOR
alist .justifies his interference and pro,
hibition. 1t is an invariable law of our
preseLt condition that every pleasure
pursued to excess, converts itself into
poison. Could we expose to view the
monuments of death, they would read a
lecture on moderation much more pows
erful than any that the most eloquent
writer's could give. You would behold
the graves peopled with the victims ofin-
temperance. By the use of the narcotic
stimulantS, we behold the chamcer of
darkness hung aroundkon every side with
the trophies of luxury, drunkness aud
sensuality. Draw aside the vail she
throws over our eyes, then we see other
objects thre we now behold. The man
coffee, or food, at ''wILL," will see Uirtue
and temperance, marking out the road
which conducts all mankind to true fe-
licitvi