Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 17, Vincennes, Knox County, 25 January 1812 — Page 4

POETICAL AST L UM WHISKEY, LET Others (log ol caftlei Itorm'd, And rriglity hefoei (lain, I ling whit winkey h s perfonD'dj An: cm perforin 2. in. TUt rfTcncp of t!:is Jiqnid fire, Fj)- rjfii ed thoufandi own, C c reft in bed-; oi fit th and mire, Siit s on brds t down. Son timCl ft G . -le dr i light we fee, IV i vt y lot i ow from the hearl, Ar. i gives the f it'-ni energy, Beyond th Do&or'i art. Its eotrtei oft, by copious draughts. Put rvp-y care to light ; J j i confcicnce of it? proving (halts, .nu kill retf jdUon quite If long and ft rly ufed, it (howl What wonder! it can 1 i jvr known ir turn i milk-white noic AlmoA a Pru(fin blue

rn-'i'- makes a poof man rlwh:

A. Pctl - rf a (1 ive : It lays the ruler in 'he ditr,h, And qnakei the tow aid brave. It gii pi the groveling fancy wing, Makes pride jjolitt ly nod : It m ikes the ji a I ant L-em a king, The kinj a d;mi g'jnV It banills deformity Jies tire itfell .i grace ; Real i n t' th I iiu'd i f And i n atbaht wrinkled face It c h ies order to m t ule, M kri Uie loouaci us mute i It m k s thr witty mm a lol, 'J iif fool a n.klly bi te. Ann if a prvr r.r foUH I It all, F.'r him who diet a Dave, It -lk no r.j mi- fnl te .r n fall CVi hat iuI U0 rave.

From the Tatler. No vices are fo incurable as thole men an' apt to gloi in. One would v rmdvi how tfrtifiktttnefj Ihould have the g(jod luck to be of tins nu n b r. But, how c er h g tltis tribe? rt people m iv ; hi ik thenflblves, a drunken nvan i: v4 or- itr ti.vV;,; in. in anj th : are T, found among ait the creatures vv iich God

in it. Thf fober man by the flrength of rraIon, may kcrp under and fubdue eery vies or folly to which he is tnotr inclined; bur

(elf from all that is dear, and giveri up nil rT it :s fvc:rj to him, he would then even thu k of a debauch with horror bnt, when he

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as iiidc ed i here i

do character Which appears inorc detpicable and defortii cd, 1 tbc eyes of all reafona ble perlons, than that ot a unkard 1 j vice h vcr fatal effects on t.'e nnnd, th body and fortune ii the pr ion a ho is devoted to it In r,T ird to the mind, it

in it of all ddcovt To ev er Qav

whikey or brandy, 'or both mixed together) , fooks ftill furtber, and acknowledges tbar he makes every latent feed Jprout up in the foul, j is not o::ly expe'ied out of all the relations of and (hew itfelj ; it gives fury to the paffions ; j life, but alro liable to offend againft then and force to thofe otjcts which are apt to j ivhat words can exprefs the terror and lit-tcf-produce them. Spirituous liquor heightens tation he would have of fuch a condition I indifference into love; love info jelloufy ; A nd yet he cannot depy this of himfeif, when

jealcuiy into madneis. it often tui us the j it is known to all C- acquaintances that he

ooil natured man inio an ideot, and thecho leric into an a (Tallin. It cives bitterntfs to

i refentnietit, it makes variety infupportable,

and difplays every little fpot in the foul in the utni oft deformity. Nor does this vice only be tray the hidden fauhs of a man, and Ihew them in the. moll odi nis colours, Lot ften occafions fjiilgs to which he is not natu all) fiibjeft. U 'iyc throve s man out of himlelf, and infufes qualities into thenind, which the is a Granger to in lier fober moments. s he perfonyou converfe with after the third Oottle, is not the fame man who at fi-if fat down at the tLle with you. I i i us docs drunken )efs ad in direct contradiction to reaibn, whole bufniels it is to cl r t lie mind of e very v e whicii has crept into it, and to guild it againlt ail tiie approaches of any that endeavor to make their entrance, ljut oclHes thefe ill effects, which ue produces, in the pert n who i aftuall) under itsdomin on,ii has alfo a bad influence on the mind, even in in fober moments, as it infenfibly weakens the underAanding, impairs the me tnory, and makes thole faults habitual which are produced Ly frequent excelfes ; it wades the ellate, bantfhes reputation, confumes the

ody, and renders a man of the brighte trts ihct common jell of an innVnificant clown. A method of fpending one's time igreeabl) is a thing fo little (tudied9 that the i ommon amufement now a days is drinking

rtai iment has cuuom on its

tide hut as much as it has prevailed, 1 believe ' he. c have been very few companies that have been g I y of exeeifes this way, where there Save not happened more accidents which

e uttamn tneni in .a ror the continuance

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i is ci v o i -r even's at lit

from i debauch which are f.ital, and always difagreeable. VVith all a man's reafon am good fei it about him, his tongUeis apt tout icr till i gs out ol i mere gaiety ot heart which

may dtfplcale Iws belt friend

W ho then

if rong

would trufl himlelt i tiie power o

drink, without laying more aeainft i:, than hat it railes the imagination, and deprelles the judgment? Were there only this fmgle conlideration, that we are lefs mafter& of our felvei vi. j) we ch ink in the l at proportion above exigencies of thirfl 1 fay, were tula ill thai coul I be v bj cted, it w as fuHicienc t

matce us a oh or tnis vice, but to (ay, r'iar he who drinks bui matter of hi ifelf. fo lie who dl

v e may on o,; little is not

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to I i in. elf. As icr

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a arunuard ot ; ui-for i our nd confidered ,

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mucu is 1 e ve i

per Ions the are to bo the in

:eut of t h nt what can we think of him who

puts himlelt into a circumftance wherein he ' i an h tve no iOtenti ;i at ill. but incau citates

lit :c ,r toy the dudes and offices ol life, bv a fulpenhon ol all his faculties 2 li a man con ii lers that he cannot under tbf apprehenfion o d ink, be a fcieod, ge tleman. a mailer or

was drunk lalf week, or perhaps laft riieJit. As I have all along perfiiled in it, that all the vicious are in a Hate of death, fo I think may -add to the non exigence of drunkards, that they die bv their own hands. He certainly is as guilty of iuicide who perifhes by a flow, as he thas is difpatched by an inmediatepoifon. But as our faults are double where they rficct others befides out f Ives, io tins vice is (till mo;e odious in a married than a fingle man. He that, is ;he hufband of a woman of honor, and comes home overloaded with liquor, is Hill more contemptible, ;: proportion to the regard we have to the tin. happy con fort of his beftiality. The imagination cannot Aiape to infeit anv thing more mondrous and unnatural, than the familiarities between drunkennefs an 1 chaftity. i he refleflion of luch a match as fpotlefs innocence with abandoned lewdnefs, is w hat puts this vice in the word figure-it can bear witli 1 1 gard to others but w hen it is looked upon w uh refpeft only to the drunkard himfelf, it nis deformities enough to make it difagreea Die, which may be (ummed up in a word, by allowing, that he who religns his reafon, is actually guilty of all tliat he is liable to from the want of reafon. For the benefit of thofe ladles whofe qualifications fhall warrant the application w e repuolifh the following from the Geoi:. JournaU anted immediately, a wife tofweeten the cares of domeOic life one wh,o is fufcepttble t the tendered emotions of the human heart, and capable of receiving as well a communicating the pleafures of focialand refined in-tercourfe-Her form mufi be elegant, grace.ul and pleafing her features regular and well turned, with ever and anon a imiJe of complacency upon them, indicative of a placid ferene tempe and a 1 conlcience void of ofI e nee . ' She mud poffefs a good underlfanding, enlarged c a refined education not coo (n upulous and nice nor yet too credulous and unrelcrved, but in all tliinos obfervins a iu't oil :i immation, She mufl be uniformly neat, temper. tie, difcreet, affectionate, economical md indultrious. No one need apply who locs not po fiefs the above qualifications, a5 hey ate in lifpenfable prfc-requifites in fupport ol the fipft pi opofition.

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a fubiect-

t he ha fa Ion banilhed him

nufl not be addicted to

goffipping about from pillar to poll, in imitai oo of a number ol young flirts, expofitwlier perfiJn to the (lupiu Hare and rude vemark of vulgar minds, nor eat the bread o id1 nefsr but loo!; well to her houfehold, leafi peradveo iuie in Hie jo'urney thro1 life want mould of hcioufly lookin at the window, 6c there fh M.!vl e a falling VV by the way. fier tongue like a tui npike mull be at liberty ar both ends eait itfhould turn from her door thefeet of thofe w hofe I riendfiiio, ber t olence am! good . pinion arr ineftimable ; n r like an eilit day rloclri mufl it hc I arayi at nuk, l ..t xl e Butter (houl 1 get r-t ordr, p .J tiir t) 1 ,:irc arhiel ili Nil ' ionic r equilibrium. Her dJbi i u I not be

n. at ac ..-lit thehoaic-1 Uc il I of. r.or !:rt ear dral ta the v, ir

I, mt R not ft the chad

q ' 'u u. j 19 vifliu i . homanity. Her religion pr.re tnd ntd-f;!e of OiihioQ but the bffapriog the bent.