second division, and learn from it, that to persist in his career will subject him to the following disorders of body and mind, namely

Inflammation of the brain; rheumatism; pleurisy; inflammation of the stomach; inflammation of the eye; carbuncles; rum blossoms; diseased liver; gout; schirrus of the bowels; jaundice; indigestion; dropsy; emaciation of the body; faintness; palpitation or convulsion of the heart; lock-jaw; palsy; madness and ideotism; melancholy; premature old age, and several others, which need not be alluded to on this occasion.

Is not this a frightful catalogue indeed? It ought, I think, to strike terror into the mind and heart of every votary of Intemperance: For sure I am, that admitting Swift's Lilliput to have been a reality instead of a fiction, and his Lilliputians could not have been more alarmed at the sight of the monster Gulliver among them, than every rational being ought to be when, with these facts of Dr. Trotter before him, he puts a glass of strong drink to his lips.

But I ought not to omit here, that the disorders and diseases I have enumerated, are caused by drinking those liquors which have been longest in use, such as wine, brandy, gin and rum: but since the introduction of new combinations, and adulterations, in several different shapes; such as American whiskey, et cetera, the most learned and experienced physicians assert, that new disorders have arisen among us; and espe

cially that most terrible one, called delirium tremens, which terminates in a death so awful and appalling, that no pen can describe, no pencil portray its horrors!

It was said of certain stubborn infidels of old, that if Moses and the prophets could not convince them, neither would the voice of one risen from the dead: And may we not, with equal propriety, say of the stubborn hard drinker, that if this exhibition of the terrors of drunkenness will not alarm him for his safety, neither will the penalties of the law, nor the voice of the prophets and apostles, and he must be given up as lost both for time and eternity! God, and God alone, can snatch him as a brand from the burning.

The moral view of this subject is, perhaps, not less revolting, than the medical or physical : And I cannot help believing, that much of the moral deformity that arises from Intemperance, is owing to the absurd practice, which I believe is prevalent in many of our classical institutions, of putting such of the ancient classics as Horace and Anacreon into the hands of our youth. In wine there is truth, said Horace: But much better might he have said, that in wine there is more often falsehood or foul murder, or both. He and Anacreon celebrate wine, in the most captivating style, in their odes, as inspiring lively and brilliant ideas, adding to the vigor of genius, and to the fervor of imagination; and how many thousands of young and heedless students have

been seduced by this gross perversion of poetry and song, into that Intemperance which has proved their ruin, will never be known till the secrets of the grave shall be revealed. In saying, however, that in wine there is truth, Horace meant no more than this, that drunken persons often revealed truths respecting themselves or others, which in a state of sobriety they would have concealed: So that the truth there is in wine, is still but treachery on the part of the wine-bibber to himself, or perhaps to his best friends, or dearest connexions. The only liquid that can with any propriety be made the symbol of truth, in any of her lovely forms, is pure and wholesome water; such water is brilliant and transparent, and so is truth: Such water refreshes the body as truth does the soul. But wine or ardent spiriits on the contrary, kills both the body and the soul. Hence it is clear, that Horace ought to have said-in wine there is falsehood, treachery, murder :-In wine there is deathdeath temporal-death spiritual-death eternal! But it is the strictly moral view of the subject I am now taking: And in this view it is certain, that the drunkard soon becomes destitute of the moral sense, soon becomes insensible to good breeding and the good manners that flow from it, if previously possessed of these precious advantages. The heart, however replete with purity and sensibility before, soon becomes corrupt, callous, destitute of every pure affection, and every honorable or lofty sentiment. If the delinquent be a

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father, paternal duties are lost sight of-and paternal affection is turned into hatred, or a cold, brutal indifference to the welfare of his offspring: If a mother-but stay my pen-for this picture is too disgusting, too shocking, too horrible to dwell upon for a moment! But if it be a son or a daughter, whose moral sensibilities, and whose immortal soul, are sacrificed at the shrine of the bottle, then neither pen nor pencil can paint the pangs that rend the hearts of parents, who see their brightest hopes buried in untimely graves, and feel in their hearts that desolation and anguish which time can scarcely obliterate, and medicine can never heal: For where is that soothing power, that skillful hand, that “can minister to a mind diseased, or pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow?" Religion-the religion of Jesus Christ-can alone do this: In that divine, that only true religion, there is indeed a balm for every sorrow, a remedy for every woe: But alas! for frail humanity, that heaven-born, that all-healing spirit is not always the inmate of the afflicted bosom! The fell genius of infidelity, in various evil shapes, some of them like the Sodom apple, fair without, but foul within, has poisoned the minds, and corroded the hearts, of too many of the present generations of the earth-and thousands therefore feel the rod of affliction, who can neither elude the stroke nor heal the wound it inflicts; yet happy indeed are those who are driven by that rod to fly to Jesus for succor and support: For

they who seek me, says the blessed Redeemer, shall find me; and I will give rest to their souls!

But be this as it may, nothing is more certain, than that all moral affections, and all moral obligations, are lost sight of by those who are given up to the sin of intoxication. The farther the contagion spreads, the more wide and desolate is the moral waste it occasions; the more turbid and corrupt are the fountains of social and domestic happiness. Love, friendship, consanguinity and affection, integrity, humanity and benevolence, are all blighted and destroyed by the foul and pestilential practice of Intemperance. The poison of the Bohon Upas, admitting its existence, with all the malign and deadly influence that sober truth or blind credulity has attributed to it, is not more destructive in a physical, than drunkenness is in a moral sense. All, therefore, who would preserve the moral character of their country, ought to rejoice in an opportunity to join the cause of temperance, and pledge themselves to persevere in the pursuit of its benign and hallowed purpose.

The last, though not perhaps the least important, is the political view of drunkenness. Every man is bound to his country, as a citizen, to support its just government and righteous laws. at home; and as a soldier, to defend its liberty and independence against foreign invaders, or domestic insurgents: And although we trust in heaven, that the day is approaching when the