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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco, by
+Orin Fowler
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+Title: A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco
+       and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation
+
+Author: Orin Fowler
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+Release Date: January 20, 2008 [EBook #24366]
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+A
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+DISQUISITION
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+ON THE
+
+EVILS OF USING TOBACCO,
+
+AND THE NECESSITY OF
+
+IMMEDIATE AND ENTIRE REFORMATION.
+
+By REV. ORIN FOWLER A. M.
+
+THIRD EDITION.
+
+BOSTON:
+
+PUBLISHED BY GEO. GREGORY.
+
+For sale by D. S. KING, No. 1 Cornhill; JORDAN & CO. 121
+Washington Street. NEW YORK: JOHN S. TAYLOR,
+145 Nassau Street. PROVIDENCE: WM.
+APLIN, 65 South Main St.
+1842.
+
+
+
+
+A
+
+DISQUISITION
+
+ON THE
+
+EVILS OF USING TOBACCO,
+
+AND THE NECESSITY OF
+
+IMMEDIATE AND ENTIRE REFORMATION.
+
+Delivered before the Fall River Lyceum, and before the Congregation to whom
+the Author statedly ministers
+
+BY ORIN FOWLER, A. M.,
+
+PASTOR OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN FALL RIVER, MASS.
+
+Third Edition.
+
+BOSTON:
+PUBLISHED BY GEO. GREGORY.
+
+For sale by D. S. KING, No. 1. Cornhill; JORDAN &. CO. 121
+Washington Street. NEW YORK: JOHN S. TAYLOR,
+145 Nassau Street. PROVIDENCE: WM.
+APLIN, 65 South Main St.
+
+1842.
+
+
+
+
+Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1842, by ORIN
+FOWLER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTORY REMARKS,
+
+BY THE PUBLISHER.
+
+
+Among the evils which a vitiated appetite has fastened upon mankind,
+those that arise from the use of Tobacco hold a prominent place, and
+call loudly for reform. We pity the poor Chinese, who stupifies body and
+mind with opium, and the wretched Hindoo, who is under a similar slavery
+to his favorite plant, the Betel; but _we_ present the humiliating
+spectacle of an enlightened and christian nation, wasting annually more
+than twenty-five millions of dollars, and destroying the health and the
+lives of thousands, by a practice not at all less degrading than that of
+the Chinese or Hindoo.
+
+Whether, then, we consider the folly and indecency of the habit, or the
+waste of property, health and life which it occasions, it is time for
+the Patriot, the Philanthropist and the Christian, to put forth united,
+vigorous and systematic efforts to banish this injurious and disgusting
+habit from the community.
+
+It is a fact, that one reform not only prepares the way for another, but
+often so depends upon it, that the complete triumph of the one cannot be
+effected without that of the other. Such appears to be the relationship
+existing between the use of intoxicating drinks and that of the
+stimulating narcotic, tobacco. The use of tobacco almost always
+accompanies the use of alcoholic drinks, and it may be feared that total
+abstinence from the latter will not be _permanent_, unless there is also
+a total abstinence from the former. Our temperance brethren,
+particularly our worthy Washingtonians, will do well to bear this in
+mind.
+
+The tobacco reform, being similar to that of temperance, must be brought
+about by similar means. Information must be diffused, the evils of the
+practice exposed, and the attention of the public aroused to the
+subject. To aid in this, is the object of the following pamphlet, two
+editions of which have already been put in circulation, and it is said
+to have been re-published in England. The favorable reception of the
+former editions, as shown by the repeated editorial remarks, and the
+numerous letters of thanks addressed to the author, affords much
+encouragement for a vigorous prosecution of the enterprise. Three
+members of the church of which the author is pastor, placed at his
+disposal a sum sufficient to supply, gratuitously, each of the 1000
+Beneficiaries of the American Education Society, with a copy of the
+essay. Orders were furnished for bundles for distribution. An individual
+in Maine ordered 500 copies, and 1000 were ordered by E. C. Delevan, of
+New York, the distinguished advocate of Temperance.
+
+Let the friends of true reform remember the early days of the temperance
+cause, and take courage. All interested should exert themselves.
+Clergymen can do much by lecturing and other means. Churches should form
+Anti-Tobacco Societies, circulate information and induce as many as
+possible to take a stand against the evil, by enrolling their names on a
+_Pledge_.
+
+Teachers should speak on the subject, and endeavor to prevent the
+formation of so vile and tyranical a habit, by those under their
+influence; for it is a fact that lads in many of our public schools try
+to hasten their claims to _manliness_, by learning to chew, smoke or
+snuff. This being the case, we may expect, of course, to find these
+practices prevalent in our academies and colleges, our medical and our
+law schools and theological seminaries.
+
+In the early records of Harvard University, says Dr. Mussey, is a
+regulation ordering that "no scholar shall take tobacco unless permitted
+by the President, with the consent of his parents, on good reason first
+given by a physician, and then only in a sober and private manner." How
+different now! Probably one half, at least, of the students of our
+colleges are, not in a "sober and private manner," but publicly addicted
+to this slovenly and disgusting practice.
+
+As the use of tobacco is injurious to health, it is the duty of
+physicians to exert their influence against it. Their authority upon
+such subjects is generally respected, and is therefore very important.
+
+To the ladies, it would hardly seem necessary to say a word, in order to
+secure their aid in a reform that so intimately concerns themselves. In
+this matter, as in the vice of intemperance, woman, though comparatively
+innocent, is by far the greatest sufferer. With what a melancholy
+prospect does a young lady marry a man who uses the filthy plant in any
+form. He may _at first_ do it in a neat, or even a genteel manner, and
+neutralize the sickening odor by the most grateful perfumes; but this
+trouble will soon be dispensed with, and in all probability he will, at
+no distant day, become a sloven, with his garments saturated with smoke,
+and himself steeped in tobacco juice. Alas, to think of being annoyed a
+life-time by the nauseous odor of the vile tobacco worm, and of wasting
+patience and strength in vain endeavors to preserve neatness in his
+slimy trail! Little can be accomplished in this, or any other reform,
+without the aid of females. Let them take hold of the subject, and exert
+their legimate influence, and public opinion will soon be corrected;
+young men and old too, will soon learn that by no rule in the code of
+politeness and good breeding, can the use of tobacco be tolerated.
+
+A word to dealers. How can a man who regards the morals, the happiness
+and the prosperity of his neighborhood and his country, deal out so
+useless, so filthy, and so injurious an article as tobacco? Many will of
+course, excuse themselves by saying as the rum-sellers once did, "If I
+don't sell it, others will," This plea did not justify the rum-seller,
+neither will it, the dealer in tobacco. Others will say, "I _must_ sell
+it, or I shall offend my patrons and lose their custom." But this is not
+valid even as a selfish argument. A large and increasing portion of the
+community would be glad to patronize traders who sell only the useful
+and necessary articles of life. Let respectable traders cease to sell
+the article, and respectable customers would soon cease to buy it.
+
+The abominable filthiness of the practice of using tobacco, is a
+sufficient argument to induce all decent people to wage war against it.
+Stage coaches, rail cars, steamboats, public houses, courts of justice,
+halls of legislation, and the temples of God, are all defiled by the
+loathsome consumers of this dirty, Indian herb. For the sake of decency,
+for the honor of humanity, let the land be purified from this worse than
+beastly pollution!
+
+Let none be discouraged from engaging in this reform, because it relates
+to a wide-spread and fashionable vice. With a moderate degree of effort
+in each town and village, hundreds of thousands might in one year's
+time, be induced to pledge themselves against all use of tobacco.
+
+During the last winter I drew up the following pledge, and obtained many
+signatures here and in other parts of the state.
+
+  ANTI-TOBACCO PLEDGE.
+
+  _We, the subscribers, believing that the use of_ TOBACCO,
+  _in all its forms, is injurious to health, and knowing it to
+  be a slovenly, sluttish, and disgusting habit, do pledge
+  ourselves that we will not_ SMOKE _it_, CHEW _it, nor_ SNUFF
+  _it; and that we will use efforts to persuade those addicted
+  to the practice, to discontinue its use; and above all, that
+  we will not traffic in it, nor countenance those who do; and
+  that we will use our influence to banish the "vile stuff"
+  from New England, our country, and the world._
+
+A gentleman in North Bridgewater, to whom I lent a pamphlet on this
+subject, said he had not read it half through, before he emptied his
+pockets of tobacco, and resolved to use no more. He also took a pledge
+to circulate among his neighbors.
+
+Another man who had chewed tobacco thirty-three years, abandoned the
+habit and remarked that he would not return to it for fifty dollars.
+
+Two benevolent individuals, in Providence, had two or three hundred
+copies of the above pledge printed to circulate in the State of Rhode
+Island. One of the principal clergymen in P. said, a member of his
+church, a trader, told him that the money paid for tobacco in the city
+was sufficient to support the public preaching. A gentleman there, who
+has recently given up tobacco, said he would not go back to its use for
+a thousand dollars, although it cost him a great effort to refrain from
+it. A young man, after receiving a private lecture from an anti-tobacco
+friend, committed to the flames half a dozen cigars he had by him, and
+signed the pledge.
+
+I have conversed with very many addicted to the use of tobacco, and
+nearly all express regret at having formed the habit.
+
+A few days since in a town not far from Providence, as I was sitting in
+the stage about starting for the city, up came a reverend gentleman, a
+very fine man by the way, with a big cigar about half burned. He had too
+much good breeding to get into the stage with it, and to all appearance,
+disliked to part with so good a friend; he accordingly stood outside
+and puffed away like a steamer, at the same time keeping an eye on the
+driver; when all was ready, he scrambled in, and we drove off. What an
+example, for a clergyman to stand in a public street and puff a cigar
+like a loafer or a blackguard!
+
+Rev. Mr. C., in a village adjoining Providence relates, that a brother
+clergyman called to preach for him. He was in the habit of chewing
+tobacco, and Mr. C. took the opportunity to speak to him on the subject.
+At first the brother remarked that there was nothing wrong or injurious
+in it; but on Mr. C's pressing the matter and asking how he could preach
+"righteousness, temperance" and good habits in all things, when he was
+himself addicted to such a practice, the brother frankly acknowledged
+that he knew he was setting a bad example, and that tobacco was
+poisonous, injurious to health and shortened life, but he excused
+himself by saying he _could not_ give it up, for he found it
+_impossible_ to write a sermon or preach it with any success, without
+taking tobacco. Sermons and preaching inspired by tobacco! What better
+is this, than the inspiration of brandy?
+
+Rev. Mr.----, now of Boston, formerly of a neighboring city, is a most
+excessive smoker and chewer, so much so that it was a matter of
+notoriety and remark among his congregation and acquaintances of his
+former residence. He was a very agreeable man in other respects, but his
+study, his library, and every thing about him were so completely
+saturated with tobacco smoke, that the ladies of his church rarely made
+him a call, and more rarely borrowed a book from his extensive and
+excellent library.--Is it not time for clergymen to reform themselves in
+this particular, and then consistently to set about reforming others.
+
+I have recently learned that many _ladies_ are in the habit of _chewing
+snuff!_ Some of them become so addicted to it as to use enormous
+quantities in this way. "One of these snuff eaters," I was told, "was
+accustomed to take herself by the under lip with one hand, and with the
+thumb and four fingers of the other to fill in an embankment between her
+lips and teeth." Shocking! Yet, what young lady who carries a concealed
+snuff-box, can be sure of not coming to this?
+
+I saw a woman who commenced with chewing snuff, and is now a regular
+tobacco chewer. She said however, that she intended to give up the habit
+and refrain from tobacco in all its forms.
+
+Unless something is done to check the evil, who can say that we shall
+not become as bad as the inhabitants of Cuba, where, according to Rev.
+Mr. Ingersoll, "not only men, but _women_ and _children_ smoke, and some
+at a large expense." And according to Rev. Dr. Abbot, "it was the common
+estimate that in Havana, there was an average consumption of _ten
+thousand dollars worth of cigars in a day_."
+
+BOSTON, July, 1842.
+
+
+
+
+RECOMMENDATIONS.
+
+
+_From the Rochester Observer._
+
+"Fowler on the Evils of using Tobacco.--'A disquisition on the evils of
+using tobacco, and the necessity of an immediate and entire reform,' by
+Rev. Orin Fowler, of Fall River, Mass. This is a very valuable and
+instructive discourse. We have for two years or more been fully
+convinced that the use of tobacco, in its three common forms, ought
+immediately to be abandoned; but never were we so fully sensible of the
+alarming extent and tremendous ravages of this evil, as when we had read
+this production. We think no _christian_, who is willing to know and do
+his duty, can read this pamphlet, without saying on the spot, if he uses
+tobacco, (except it be judiciously prescribed by a physician.) the use
+of this poisonous, deleterious weed is a _grievous sin_, and I will
+abandon it _immediately and forever_.
+
+Mr. F. lays down the position that it is the duty of every man and woman
+to abstain immediately, entirely and forever, from all use of tobacco,
+whether by chewing, smoking or snuffing, except it be as a medicine.
+
+In favor of this point he offers the following arguments, which we think
+he has fully sustained, by well attested facts, quotations from approved
+authors, and the deductions of sound reasoning.
+
+1. The history of this loathsome weed. It has ever since its discovery
+been considered exceedingly injurious, and its general use opposed by
+judicious men.
+
+2. Its ruinous effect upon the health and constitution of men.
+
+3. Its ruinous effects upon the intellect.
+
+4. Its ruinous effects upon public and private morals.
+
+5. The amazing waste of property which its use involves.
+
+6. The mortality which its use occasions.
+
+7. The apologies made by the lovers of tobacco.
+
+8. The eternal ruin which tobacco occasions.
+
+We intend in our next to give extracts from this discourse. We hope it
+will have a wide circulation, and would commend it to the careful
+perusal of all christians, especially to ministers, who use this vile
+and ruinous plant."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Edward C. Delevan, Secretary of the New York State Temperance Society,
+says, in a letter just received--"The subject of your Essay is one of
+immense importance to the world and to the temperance cause. The use of
+this vile weed has been the medium of forming the appetite for strong
+drink, and ultimately destroying thousands of the most promising youth
+of our country. You will hardly ever meet with an intemperate person
+without finding him addicted to the use of tobacco. The public only want
+light on this important subject, to act. Your able and convincing
+Disquisition will be the means of doing much good. I hope funds will be
+provided to furnish a copy to each clergyman in the United States. Send
+me one thousand copies of the second edition, as soon as it is from the
+press."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Fowler on the Evils of using Tobacco.--We are anxious to see this work
+extensively circulated, for we are confident that it will do good. The
+pamphlet contains much valuable information, and will be found well
+worth an attentive and frequent perusal."
+
+                                        _The Unionist_, Brooklyn, Conn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Fowler on the Evils of using Tobacco.--The subject of which this
+pamphlet treats is one which, we are persuaded, has received too small a
+share of attention from those who are laboring to free our land, utterly
+and forever, from the thraldom of intemperance. From our own
+observation, limited as it has been, we are persuaded that the victims
+of intemperance in the use of this poisonous weed are by no means
+inconsiderable in number. Probably Mr. Fowler is correct when he
+estimates the mortality occasioned by the use of tobacco in its various
+forms, at five thousand annually. For ourself we are convinced that the
+suppression of intemperance in spirituous liquors will never be effected
+while the agents and advocates of our Temperance Societies, lecture with
+a pinch of snuff in their fingers and a huge tobacco quid in their
+mouths. Tobacco slays its thousands, and doubtless one tenth of the
+drunkards in our land have become so by first indulging in the use of
+the dirty plant, and thus creating an unnatural thirst that called for
+liquid fire to quench it.
+
+Did our limits permit, we should be glad to give copious extracts from
+Mr. Fowler's discourse."                          _Batharia Palladium._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                               _Lisbon, Feb. 3d, 1841._
+Mr Fowler--
+
+_Dear Sir_--We have in this county a monthly ministers' meeting.
+
+At the last the use of tobacco was discussed. I was appointed to write
+on the subject, and derived important aid from your Disquisition on
+tobacco. I feel that it is a very happy effort, and calculated to do
+much good, and that it is desirable that it should have a much wider
+circulation.
+
+The thought occurred to me whether it might not be published by the
+Tract Society.
+
+This would give it the widest circulation it could have.
+
+I doubt not but you are desirous of having the greatest amount of good
+accomplished by this effort, and will be ready to extend its circulation
+if possible.
+
+Should it become a Tract, be so good as to inform me--for I should be
+glad to place it in every family in my parish.
+
+                              Fraternally yours,       JOSEPH AYER, Jr.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Notice by Dr. Alcott, Editor of the Library of Health.
+
+"A disquisition on the evils of using Tobacco. By Orin Fowler, A. M.
+Second Edition. This pamphlet finds favor, * * * *. While we have the
+kindliest feelings towards those who chew this disgusting substance, we
+hold its use, in every form, in the most unqualified contempt. We care
+not to whom the remark may apply, whether he be farmer, mechanic,
+lawyer, doctor, minister, judge or president; but if in the light which
+Mr. Fowler has shed on the subject, any man should continue to smoke or
+chew tobacco, or take snuff, public opinion ought to frown him out of
+the pale of all civilized society. He that will contribute in any way to
+a tax upon this nation of $25,000,000 a year for such stuff, may well be
+set down as a bad citizen, unless he does it in ignorance."
+
+
+
+
+DISQUISITION.
+
+
+In this age of benevolent action, when much is being done to drive away
+the darkness and delusions of many generations, and to diffuse light and
+truth through the earth; it excites the liveliest joy in every
+philanthropic bosom to witness the triumphant results already achieved.
+Recent efforts to banish the use of intoxicating drinks, have brought
+well nigh half the civilized world to a solemn pause: and the work of
+reformation in this matter of spirit-drinking has gone so far, and is
+yet making such sure progress, that many are rejoicing in the lively
+hope that the day is nigh, even at the doors, when drunkenness, with her
+burning legion of evils, will cease from the earth; and the gospel of
+the grace of God will have free course and be glorified, and the whole
+family of man become temperate, holy and happy. The God of our salvation
+hasten that day apace; that our eyes may see it, and rejoice and be glad
+in it, before we go to the grave.
+
+But ere that day shall fully come, there is much land to be possessed.
+Many a battle must yet be fought,--many a victory must yet be won. Much
+light must yet be poured forth,--much darkness must yet be driven away.
+The world is not yet half reformed. The majority in the best portions of
+the earth--in this country even--are on the side of free indulgence in
+every thing that pleases the appetite.
+
+Intemperance in the use of intoxicating drinks,--and intemperance in the
+use of _tobacco_, in the several forms of _smoking_, _snuffing_ and
+_chewing_; together with several other evils, which I need not here
+specify, are even now predominant.
+
+By intemperance in the use of tobacco, I mean all use of this drug
+except that which is under the direction of enlightened, judicious
+medical advice. With this exception, _entire abstinence_ from this
+narcotic substance constitutes the only safe and genuine
+temperance.--This principle has been adopted extensively, in its
+application to intoxicating drinks; but before it shall be universally
+adopted in that application, it must be applied, and applied
+universally, to the _quid_, and the _pipe_, and the _snuff-box_.
+Rum-drinking will not cease, till tobacco-chewing, and tobacco-smoking,
+and snuff-taking, shall cease. Though all who are attached to the quid,
+the pipe, or the snuff-box, are not attached to the bottle; yet a vast
+multitude become attached to the bottle, and this attachment is
+continued and increased, through the poisonous, bewitching, and debasing
+influence of tobacco.
+
+Moreover, the use of tobacco involves a train of evils, superadded to
+its influence in perpetuating drunkenness, which cries aloud for
+immediate and universal reformation. It is my present purpose to
+consider these evils. And I wish to premise that, in this consideration,
+I shall urge; that it is the duty of every friend of humanity--of every
+lover of his country--of every Christian--and of every minister of
+Christ, to _abstain_, himself, _immediately_, and _forever_, from _all_
+use of tobacco, whether by _chewing_, _smoking_, or _snuffing_, except
+it be _medicinally_; and to use the whole weight of his influence and
+example to persuade others--and especially the young men and maidens of
+this nation--to practice entire abstinence.
+
+I am fully aware that the topic which I have selected, the position
+which I lay down, and the purpose at which I aim, are not popular. But
+what then? Did Clarkson and Wilberforce abandon the cause of the
+enslaved African, when they found that abolition was unpopular in the
+British Senate? Did Columbus abandon his purpose of attempting to
+discover a new world, when he perceived that the noble project of his
+noble soul was unpopular, with princes and people, learned and ignorant?
+Did Jesus Christ abandon his purpose to redeem a world lying in
+wickedness, when it became manifest that his doctrines, and the pure
+benevolence of his holy soul, were unpopular. And has it ever been
+_seemly_ for one of his true and faithful disciples to abandon the cause
+of human happiness, and the soul's everlasting salvation, because the
+work of saving mercy is unpopular?
+
+The theme of our present consideration, is doubtless unpopular.--But we
+_should_ not, we _will_ not, therefore abandon the purpose of exposing
+the evils of smoking, and chewing, and snuffing, that dirty weed, which
+is so hostile to animal life, and so offensive to every creature on
+earth, that no living being but man--and a loathsome worm, called the
+tobacco-worm--will taste, or touch, or handle it.[A]
+
+[A] It has recently been affirmed that there is a dirty goat in South
+America which will eat this dirty plant.
+
+Though it be unpopular to expose the evils of using tobacco; these evils
+are so appalling, it will not do to slumber over them longer.--We must
+look at them; we must lay them open--we must raise our voice against
+them; (we would gladly raise it so high that it should reach every
+family in the nation.) Yes, we must cry aloud and spare not; or give up
+our claim to patriotism, and benevolence.
+
+In approaching this subject, I am not unmindful of the pertinacity with
+which men adhere to old habits. Dr. Rush speaks of a venerable clergyman
+who closed a long sermon, in which he had controverted what he supposed
+an heretical opinion, with these words: "I tell you--I tell you, my
+brethren, I tell you again, that an _old error_ is better than a _new
+truth_." There are few who will assent to this proposition in plain
+terms; but there are thousands upon thousands, who act up to the very
+letter of it, constantly.--The history of man is extensively a history
+of folly, delusion, and sin.
+
+No error has been so absurd as not to find advocates--no habit has been
+so foolish, or so deadly, as not to find martyrs. But of all the
+delusions, which have prevailed among civilized men, there have been
+few--perhaps none, but that of intoxication--so disgusting, so
+inexcusable, so destructive to health, and wealth, and life, as the
+habit which we now ask you to consider.
+
+It will be borne in mind that my position is this; it is the bounden
+duty of every man and every woman to _abstain_, _immediately_, and
+_forever_, from _all use_ of tobacco, whether by _chewing_, _smoking_,
+or _snuffing_ except it be as a medicine. This position I maintain,
+
+I. From a consideration of the _history_ of this loathsome weed.--The
+tobacco plant is a native of America. It was unknown in Europe until
+some time after the discovery of America, by Columbus. It was first
+carried to Europe by Sir Francis Drake, about the year 1560, less than
+three hundred years ago. The natives of this continent called it
+_petun_; the natives of the islands called it _yoli_. The Spaniards gave
+it the name of _tobacco_, from _Tobaco_, a province of Yucatan in
+Mexico, where they first found it, and first learned its use. Its
+botanic name is _Nicotiana_, which it received from John Nicot, then
+Ambassador from Francis II. to Portugal, who brought it from Lisbon, and
+presented some of it to the Queen Catharine de Medicis, and to the Grand
+Prior of the house of Lorraine; whence it was sometimes called the
+Queen's herb, and the Grand Prior's herb.
+
+The practice of smoking it in England, was introduced by Sir Walter
+Raleigh, about the year 1584.
+
+The cultivation of it is not uncommon in various parts of the globe; but
+the seat of its most extensive culture is Virginia and Maryland, in this
+country. In England its cultivation was forbidden--and we believe is
+still forbidden--on penalty of forfeiting forty shillings for every rod
+of ground planted with it.
+
+James I. wrote a treatise against the use of it, which he called his
+"Counterblast to Tobacco." Pope Urban VIII. issued a Bull, to
+excommunicate all who used tobacco in the churches. The civil power in
+Russia, Turkey, and Persia, was early arrayed against it. The King of
+Denmark, who wrote a treatise against tobacco, observes that "merchants
+often lay it in bog-houses, that, becoming impregnated with the volatile
+salts of the excrements, it may be rendered brisker, stronger, and more
+f[oe]tid." It is said to be a fact, that in manufacturing tobacco, it is
+frequently sprinkled with stale urine.
+
+The use of tobacco never was general in Europe; and within the last
+fifty or one hundred years, it has been banished from all the polite
+circles of that part of the world. John Adams, the former President of
+the United States, speaking of his own use of tobacco, and referring to
+his residence in Europe, says: "Twice I gave up the use of it; once when
+Minister at the Court of Hague; and afterwards when Minister at the
+Court of London; for _no such offensive practice is seen there_."
+
+But although the cultivation of tobacco has been forbidden in many
+countries of Europe; and though the manufacture of it is frequently
+attended with circumstances so disgusting and offensive, that the
+modesty of this paper will not permit me to detail them,--and though the
+use of it is abandoned by all the respectable and polished circles of
+Europe; yet in this nation, and among the lower orders abroad, tobacco
+has triumphed: and the only hope of expelling it from our land, lies in
+enlisting against it the power of enlightened public opinion--a mightier
+power than any eastern despot wields.
+
+Now from this brief sketch of the history of tobacco, it appears that it
+was unknown to all the civilized world, till within three hundred years;
+and that even now, all the polished and enlightened portion of community
+abroad--and we add, a very respectable portion at home--have no
+fellowship with the filthy weed. And can any man justify himself in the
+daily use of a disgusting plant, against the practice, opinion, and
+remonstrances of so large a portion of the civilized world? Can he be
+discharging the obligations of his duty, and enjoying the full amount of
+his privilege, while he suffers himself to be a bond-slave to his quid,
+his pipe, or his snuff-box? Either an important article of the vegetable
+kingdom, lay hid from the civilized world nearly six thousand years; or
+since its discovery, the lovers of tobacco have formed an entirely
+erroneous opinion of its properties. In the sequel, I trust it will
+appear, that so far from possessing _valuable_ properties, it is one of
+the most _noxious_ weeds that grows; that, as an article of medicine, it
+possesses scarcely a redeeming quality; and that, though it was not made
+in vain, if the world had remained ignorant of it six thousand years
+longer, no cause of regret would have been occasioned.
+
+I maintain the position I have laid down,
+
+II. From a consideration of the ruinous effects of tobacco upon the
+_health_ and _constitution_ of men.
+
+In considering this point, let us examine the _properties_ of this
+weed,--the prominent diseases which the use of it induces,--and the
+_experiences_ of unprejudiced observers. The properties of tobacco are
+decidedly _poisonous_. In proof of this assertion, I appeal to ample and
+unquestionable authority.
+
+Professor Hitchcock says, "I group _alcohol_, _opium_ and _tobacco_
+together, as alike to be rejected; because they agree in being
+_poisonous_ in their natures." "In popular language," says he, "alcohol
+is classed among the stimulants, and opium and tobacco among the
+narcotics, whose ultimate effect upon the animal system is to produce
+stupor and insensibility." He says, "Most of the powerful vegetable
+poisons, such as hen-bane, hemlock, thorn-apple, prussic acid, deadly
+night-shade, fox-glove and poison sumach, have an effect on the animal
+system scarcely to be distinguished from that of opium and _tobacco_.
+They impair the organs of digestion, and may bring on fatuity, palsy,
+delirium, or apoplexy," He says, "In those not accustomed to it,
+_tobacco_ excites nausea, vomiting, dizziness, indigestion, mental
+dejection, and in short, the whole train of _nervous_ complaints."
+
+Dr. Rees, in his Cyclopedia, says; "A drop or two of the chemical oil of
+tobacco, being put upon the tongue of a cat, produces violent
+convulsions, and death itself in the space of a minute."
+
+Dr. Hossack classes _tobacco_ with opium, ether, mercury, and other
+articles of the materia medica. He calls tobacco a "_fashionable
+poison_," in the various forms in which that narcotic is employed.--He
+says, "The great increase of dyspepsia; the late alarming frequency of
+apoplexy, palsy, epilepsy, and other diseases of the nervous system; is
+attributable, in part, to the use of tobacco."
+
+Dr. Waterhouse says that Linnaeus, in his natural arrangement, has placed
+tobacco in the class _Luridae_--which signifies, pale, ghastly, livid,
+dismal and fatal. "To the same ominous class," he adds, "belong
+fox-glove, hen-bane, deadly night-shade, lobelia, and another poisonous
+plant, bearing the tremendous name Atropa, one of the furies." He says,
+"When tobacco is taken into the stomach for the first time, it creates
+nausea and extreme disgust. If swallowed, it excites violent convulsions
+of the stomach and of the bowels to eject the poison either upward or
+downward. If it be not very speedily and entirety ejected, it produces
+great anxiety, vertigo, faintness, and prostration of all the senses;
+and, in some instances, death has followed." The oil of this plant, he
+adds, is one of the strongest vegetable poisons, insomuch that we know
+of no animal that can resist its mortal effects. Moreover, says Dr.
+Waterhouse, after a long and honorable course of practice, "I never
+observed so many pallid faces, and so many marks of declining health;
+nor ever knew so many hectical habits, and consumptive affections, as of
+late years; and I trace this alarming inroad on young constitutions,
+_principally_ to the pernicious custom of smoking cigars."
+
+Professor Graham says "Tobacco is one of the most _powerful_ and _deadly
+poisons_ in the vegetable kingdom." "Its effects on the living tissues
+of the animal system," he adds, "are always to destroy life; as the
+experiments made on pigeons, cats, and other animals abundantly prove."
+
+The Editors of the Journal of Health say, "Tobacco is in fact an
+absolute poison. A very moderate quantity introduced into the system,
+even applying the moistened leaves to the stomach, has been known very
+suddenly to extinguish life. In whatever form it may be employed, a
+portion of the active principles of tobacco, mixed with the saliva,
+invariably finds its way to the stomach, and disturbs or impairs the
+functions of that organ. Hence most, if not all, who are accustomed to
+the use of tobacco, labor under dyspeptic symptoms. Our advice is to
+desist immediately and entirely from the use of tobacco in every form,
+and in any quantity, however small. A reform, to be efficacious, must be
+entire and complete."
+
+Dr. Warren says, "The common belief that tobacco is beneficial to the
+teeth, is entirely erroneous; on the contrary, by its poisonous and
+relaxing qualities, it is positively injurious." Says another physician,
+"Though snuff has been prescribed for the head-ache, catarrh, and some
+species of opthalmia, and sometimes with good effect; yet in all cases
+where its use is _continued_, it not only fails of its medical effect,
+but commits great ravages on the whole nervous system, superinducing
+hypochondria, tremors, a thickening of the voice, and premature decay of
+all the intellectual powers."
+
+As a diuretic, Dr. Fowler, and others, have found it in some cases to be
+valuable. Its narcotic properties have sometimes assuaged the
+tooth-ache; but it always hastens the destruction of the teeth. But of
+all substances in pharmacy, there seems to be a general agreement among
+medical writers, that tobacco, though occasionally beneficial, is the
+most unmanageable, and used with the least confidence.
+
+A multitude of cases, confirming these views, have actually occurred;
+two or three of which I will cite. A clergyman, who commenced the use of
+tobacco in youth, says, "that no very injurious consequences were
+experienced till he entered the ministry, when his system began to feel
+its dreadful effects. His voice, his appetite, and his strength failed;
+and he was sorely afflicted with sickness at the stomach, indigestion,
+emaciation, melancholy, and a prostration of the whole nervous system.
+All this," says he, "I attribute to the pernicious habit of smoking and
+chewing tobacco." At length he abandoned the quid and the pipe. His
+voice, appetite, and strength were soon restored; all aches subsided,
+and in a little time general health was enjoyed.
+
+Another clergyman writes, "I thank God, and I thank you, for your advice
+to abandon smoking; my strength has doubled since I relinquished this
+abominable practice."
+
+A respectable gentleman in middle life, who commenced chewing tobacco at
+the age of eighteen, was long afflicted with depression of spirits,
+great emaciation, and the usual dyspeptic symptoms.--All attempts to
+relieve him were fruitless, till he was persuaded to dispense with his
+quid. Immediately his spirits revived, and he soon regained his
+health.[A]
+
+[A] Extracts in point might here be given from numerous letters received
+by the Author, since the publication of the first edition; but it is
+unnecessary.
+
+Cases of reform and cure are occurring by thousands, every year, all
+over the land. Let every lover of tobacco, who is afflicted with
+_dyspepsia_, and nervous maladies, _reform_, immediately and entirely;
+and let him adopt a simple and rational system of diet, regimen, and
+employment; and in nine cases out of ten, he may hope to enjoy good
+health, and live long to bless the world.
+
+The conclusion from all this evidence is established, that tobacco _is_
+an _active poison_; that its constant use induces the most distressing
+and fatal diseases; and that, as a medicine, it is rarely needful, and
+never used, even _medicinally_, with entire confidence. This loathsome
+weed, then, should not be used, even _medicinally_, except in extreme
+cases, and then in the hands of a skillful physician. For every man--and
+especially for every boy, who has hardly entered his teens--to take this
+poison into his own hands, and determine for himself how much he will
+use, is as preposterous, as if he were to take upon himself to deal out
+arsenic, corrosive sublimate, or calomel.
+
+No man can devote himself to the pipe, the quid, or the snuff-box,
+without certain injury to his health and constitution. He may not
+perceive the injury at once, on account of immediate exhilaration; but
+complicated chronic complaints will creep upon him apace, making life a
+burden, and issuing in premature dissolution. And just so certain as it
+is our duty to do no murder,--to use all lawful means to preserve our
+lives, and the lives of others; as certain is it our duty and our
+privilege to practice _entire abstinence_ from the use of tobacco.
+
+I maintain the position I have laid down,
+
+III. From the consideration of the ruinous effects of tobacco upon the
+_intellect_.
+
+Here, again, let Professor Hitchcock speak. Says he, "Intoxicating
+drinks, opium and tobacco, exert a pernicious influence upon the
+intellect. They tend directly to debilitate the organs; and we cannot
+take a more effectual course to cloud the understanding, weaken the
+memory, unfix the attention, and confuse all the mental operations, than
+by thus entailing upon ourselves the whole hateful train of nervous
+maladies. These can bow down to the earth an intellect of giant
+strength, and make it grind in bondage, like Sampson shorn of his locks
+and deprived of his vision. The use of tobacco may seem to soothe the
+feelings, and quicken the operations of the mind; but to what purpose is
+it that the machine is furiously running and buzzing after the balance
+wheel is taken off?"
+
+The late Gov. Sullivan, speaking of the use of tobacco, says, "It has
+never failed to render me dull and heavy, to interrupt my usual
+alertness of thought, and to weaken the powers of my mind in analyzing
+subjects and defining ideas."
+
+The actual loss of _intellectual_ power, which tobacco has hitherto
+occasioned, and is still causing, in this Christian nation, is immense.
+How immense, it is impossible accurately to calculate. Many a man who
+might have been a giant, has not risen above mediocrity; and many a man
+who might have been respectable and useful, has sunk into obscurity, and
+buried his talents in the earth. This is a consideration of deepest
+interest to every philanthropist, patriot, and Christian in the land,
+and especially to all our youth. We live at a time, and under
+circumstances, which call for the exertion of all our intellectual
+strength, cultivated, improved and sanctified, to the highest measure of
+possibility. Error, ignorance, and sin, must be met and vanquished; they
+must be met and vanquished by light and love. The eye of angels is upon
+us,--the eye of God is upon us,--and shall we fetter, and palsy, and
+ruin our intellectual capabilities, for the paltry pleasure of using one
+of the most poisonous, loathsome, and destructive weeds found in the
+whole vegetable kingdom? Let us rather shake off this abominable
+practice, and rise, as individuals and as a nation, in all our
+intellectual potency,--and let us go forth from day to day, to the noble
+purposes of our destiny, untrammelled by the quid, or the pipe, or the
+snuff-box; and before another generation shall lie down in the grave,
+our efforts and our example may cause the light of human science, and
+the light of civil and religious liberty, and the light of Bible truth,
+to blaze through all our valleys, and over all our hills, from
+Greenland to Cape Horn,--and with a lustre that shall illumine the
+world.
+
+I maintain my position,
+
+IV. From a consideration of the ruinous effects of tobacco upon public
+and private _morals_.
+
+The ruinous effects of tobacco upon public and private morals, are seen
+in the idle, sauntering habits, which the use of it engenders,--in the
+benumbing, grovelling, stupid sensations which it induces,--but
+especially in perpetuating and extending the practice of using
+intoxicating drinks.
+
+Governor Sullivan has truly said, "that the tobacco pipe excites a
+demand for an extraordinary quantity of some beverage to supply the
+waste of glandular secretion, in proportion to the expense of saliva;
+and ardent spirits are the common substitutes; and the smoker is often
+reduced to a state of dram drinking, and finishes his life as a sot."
+
+Dr. Agnew has truly said, that "the use of the pipe leads to the
+immoderate use of ardent spirits."
+
+Dr. Rush has truly said, "that smoking and chewing tobacco, by rendering
+water and other simple liquors insipid to the taste, dispose very much
+to the stronger stimulus of ardent spirits; hence [says he] the practice
+of smoking cigars, has been followed by the use of brandy and water as
+common drink."
+
+A writer in the Genius of Temperance, says that his practice of smoking
+and chewing the filthy weed, "produced a continual thirst for
+stimulating drinks; and this tormenting thirst [says he] led me into the
+habit of drinking ale, porter, brandy, and other kinds of spirit, even
+to the extent, at times, of partial intoxication." He adds, "I reformed;
+and after I had subdued this appetite for tobacco, I lost all desire for
+stimulating drinks."
+
+Now the fact that some chew, and smoke, and snuff without becoming sots,
+proves nothing against the general principle, that it is the natural
+tendency of using tobacco to promote intoxication. Probably _one tenth_,
+at least, of all the drunkards annually made in the nation, and
+throughout the world, are made drunkards through the use of tobacco. If
+thirty thousand drunkards are made annually in the United States, three
+thousand must be charged to the use of tobacco. If thirty thousand
+drunkards die annually, in the United States, three thousand of these
+deaths must be charged to the use of tobacco. If twenty thousand
+criminals are sentenced to our penitentiaries in twenty years, through
+the influence of strong drink, two thousand must be charged to the use
+of tobacco. If fifty-six millions of gallons of ardent spirits have been
+annually consumed in this country, five and a half millions must be
+charged to the use of tobacco. And of all the Sabbath-breaking,
+profanity, quarrelling, and crime of every description, caused by the
+use of intoxicating drink; a tithe must be charged to the use of
+tobacco. And what friend of good morals,--what friend of man,--what
+friend of his country,--what friend of Christ and true religion,--and
+especially, what friend of the temperance cause,--can look at these
+results with the eye of candor and compassion for his fellow-men, and
+then not deliberately resolve that he will never chew another quid, nor
+smoke another whiff, nor snuff another pinch of the dirty weed?
+
+I maintain my position,
+
+V. From a consideration of the amazing _waste of property_, which the
+use of tobacco involves. On this point I have been unable to obtain the
+means for making out a perfectly accurate statistical result. I can only
+approximate a definite calculation. This approximation, however, will
+serve all the purposes of this argument.
+
+We will examine _three items_: the _cost_ of the article,--the _time_
+wasted by the use of it,--and the _pauperism_ it occasions. From a
+statement lately furnished me from the Treasury department of our
+National Government, exhibiting the quantity and value of cigars and
+snuff, exported from and imported into the United States, annually, from
+1st October, 1820 to 30th September, 1832, it appears that the value of
+cigars imported into the United States in 1821, was $113,601. In 1827 it
+was $174,931. In 1832 it was $473,134; while from the same document it
+appears that the value of cigars exported, in each of those years, was
+about one quarter the value of imports.
+
+Hence it appears that, in 1832, about half a million of dollars were
+paid for imported cigars; while in 1821, only $113,601 were paid; being
+more than a four-fold increase in eleven years. Whether there has been a
+corresponding increase in the value of domestic cigars consumed, I have
+no means of determining. From the fact of so prodigious an increase of
+imported cigars, I am led to fear that the evil of cigar smoking has
+increased in this country within ten years, far more rapidly than the
+increase of population. From this treasury document, it appears also,
+that in 1824, the value of unmanufactured tobacco exported from the
+United States, was
+
+                                                          $4,855,566
+ Of manufactured tobacco, the value was                    2,477,990
+ Of snuff,                                                   203,789
+                                                          ----------
+ Making a total of                                        $7,537,345
+
+In 1832, the value of unmanufactured tobacco exported,
+ was                                                      $5,999,769
+ Of manufactured tobacco,                                  3,456,071
+ Of snuff,                                                   295,771
+                                                          ----------
+ Making a total of                                        $9,751,611
+ for 1832, and an increase from the year 1824, of         $2,214,266
+
+Whether the quantity consumed in this country equals the quantity
+exported, or exceeds that quantity, I have no data enabling me to give a
+definite answer. But from the fact that large quantities of tobacco are
+raised in various other parts of the world, for foreign consumption; and
+from the fact that the people of this country are, above all other
+people under the sun, a chewing, smoking, snuffing people; I have very
+little doubt that the amount used in this country is double that
+exported. If so, the sum total paid annually, for this vile weed, in
+this christian country, is $19,503,222. But as I wish in this
+examination, to put the estimate _below_ rather than _above_ the truth,
+I will set down the value of tobacco, cigars, and snuff, consumed
+annually in this nation, as equal to the amount exported; that is, in
+round numbers, $10,000,000.
+
+That this is a very _low_ estimate, will appear by another conclusive
+calculation.
+
+According to the census of 1830, the population of the U. States, over
+twenty years of age, is about six millions. Suppose one in four of our
+adult population, use tobacco in some form; (and this is a very moderate
+supposition,) it gives one million, five hundred thousand: and suppose
+one in twelve of those who have not reached the age of twenty, use it;
+it gives five hundred thousand more: making a total of two millions--or
+one sixth of our population--who use tobacco in some form.
+
+Now suppose the expense to the consumers of this noxious drug, varies
+according to the quantity, and mode of using it. The expense to some is
+two dollars a year, to some it is five, and to others ten, twenty, and
+even fifty dollars a year. A laboring man, of my acquaintance, who did
+not use tobacco extravagantly, and only by chewing, told me that it cost
+him five dollars a year. A young lady of my acquaintance, says her snuff
+costs eight dollars a year. If a man pay three cents a day for cigars,
+it amounts to ten dollars, ninety-five cents a year. If he pay six
+cents, it amounts to twenty-one dollars, ninety cents a year. If he pay
+twelve and a half cents, it amounts to forty-four dollars, sixty-two
+cents a year.
+
+It is the opinion of good judges, that very many, who smoke freely and
+use Spanish cigars, pay more than fifty dollars a year for this foolish
+gratification.
+
+King James, in his "Counterblast," says, "Some of the gentry of this
+land, bestow three, some four hundred pounds a year, upon this precious
+stink."
+
+It will certainly be a moderate calculation to put down one quarter of
+the consumers at two dollars a year,--one quarter at five,--one quarter
+at eight,--and one quarter at ten dollars a year. Then the several items
+will stand thus:--
+
+ Half a million at two dollars, is      $1,000,000
+ Half a million at five dollars, is      2,500,000
+ Half a million at eight dollars, is     4,000,000
+ Half a million at ten dollars, is       5,000,000
+                                         _________
+                              Total,   $12,500,000.
+
+Again: the amount of tobacco annually consumed in France, as appears
+from authentic documents, is about seven millions of pounds; which is
+about one pound to every four persons. The amount annually consumed in
+England, as appears from authentic documents, is about seventeen
+millions; which is about one pound to every man, woman and child, in
+that nation.[A] In the United States, probably there are eight times as
+much used as in France, and three times as much as in England, in
+proportion to our population. If so, the quantity used in this country
+cannot fall short of thirty-five millions of pounds;[B] which, at thirty
+cents a pound, amounts to ten and a half millions of dollars; not
+including cigars and snuff, which cost half as much more; making the
+total sum fifteen and three fourths millions of dollars. And this
+enormous sum is doubtless _below_ what the article actually cost the
+consumers.
+
+[A] The tobacco imported and used for home consumption in Great Britain
+and Ireland in 1832, amounted to 20,313,651 pounds--the duty on which
+was 15,300,000 dollars.
+
+[B] 1,765,000 pounds of tobacco passed up the Erie Canal in seven and a
+half months in 1834.
+
+From these _three_ results, we believe there cannot be a doubt that the
+actual expense of tobacco, in its various forms, to the consumers in
+this country, may safely be set down at _ten millions of dollars a
+year_.
+
+The amount of _time_ lost by the consumers of tobacco, is another item
+of no inconsiderable moment. Some spend two, three, and four hours a day
+in this vile indulgence. To all who use the article, in any way, it
+occasions the loss of more or less time. If we put down the average
+amount at half an hour a day; and reckon the time thus lost at four
+cents an hour, it will amount--not reckoning Sabbaths--to six dollars,
+twenty-six cents a year, for each individual; which, for the whole
+company of consumers, is an amount of $12,520,000.
+
+The _pauperism_ which tobacco occasions, is another fearful item.
+Multitudes who are scarcely able to procure the necessaries of life,
+will shift, by sacrificing health and comfort, to procure the daily
+_quantum sufficit_ of tobacco. Many very poor families use tobacco, in
+all ways. Now suppose a poor family use twenty-five cents' worth of
+tobacco a week; it will amount to twelve dollars fifty cents a
+year,--and in fifty years, reckoning principal and interest, it will
+amount to three thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars.
+
+Just look at this tax for snuff and tobacco, in a single aspect more.
+Many think it will make _no_ man the poorer, to pay six cents a day for
+this indulgence. It will make _every_ man the poorer. Let any young
+mechanic, or farmer, or merchant, consume six and a quarter cents' worth
+of this drug a day--beginning at twenty years of age, and continuing
+until he is sixty years old--and the sum total, reckoning principal and
+interest, will amount, in these forty years, to three thousand five
+hundred and twenty-nine dollars, thirty-six cents.
+
+If the _cost_ of tobacco,--the _neglect of business_ which it
+occasions,--the expense of the _pipes_ and the _boxes_, and the various
+_apparatus_ which the use of it involves,--and the _intoxication_ to
+which it leads,--all be reckoned up, the amount of _pauperism_ which
+this weed brings upon the nation, cannot be less than one quarter of the
+sum total of all our pauperism. And the sum total of the pauperism in
+this nation, has been shown, again and again, to be not less than twelve
+millions of dollars, annually. Hence the pauper tax, occasioned by the
+use of tobacco, may be set down at three millions of dollars, annually.
+
+ Here we have, then, the _expense_ of tobacco,  $10,000,000
+ The _time_ lost by the use of it,              $12,520,000
+ The _pauper tax_ which it occasions,            $3,000,000
+                                                ___________
+                                       Total,   $25,520,000
+
+To this sum should be added one-tenth of the waste of property, which
+strong drink occasions; inasmuch as one-tenth of the rum-drinking must
+be charged to tobacco. Now, it has been estimated that the whole cost of
+strong drink used annually, in this country, amounts to one hundred and
+twenty-five millions of dollars; a tenth of which is twelve and a half
+millions of dollars. If this tithe be added to the above estimate, it
+will make the sum total thirty-eight and a half millions. But as I
+intend my estimates shall be _moderate_, I will say nothing of the waste
+of property which tobacco occasions in connection with strong drink. I
+will put down the sum total as above twenty-five millions of dollars.
+
+Twenty-five millions of dollars, consumed by the use of tobacco, in this
+Christian nation, annually; and not a little of it by professors of
+religion, and ministers of the gospel, who are required by their Lord
+and Master to deny themselves,--to take up their cross,--to let their
+light shine before men, that they may see their good works, and glorify
+our Father in heaven. Nearly the whole of this twenty-five millions of
+dollars is a _dead loss_ to the nation; yes, it is infinitely _worse_
+than a dead loss; it not only does no good, but it actually goes to make
+fools and beggars, idlers and sots,--to purchase dyspepsia, early graves
+and everlasting shame. And what would this vast amount of property
+accomplish, if saved and devoted to useful purposes.
+
+Twenty-five millions of dollars annually, if applied to the improvement
+of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, and to the advancement of
+the arts, sciences, and true religion, would accomplish everything for
+this nation, that the enlightened patriot and true Christian can ask
+for.
+
+Twenty-five millions of dollars, annually, would soon furnish canals,
+and rail-roads, and all other desirable facilities for
+intercommunication throughout the nation. Twenty-five millions of
+dollars, annually, would sustain all our colleges, academies and other
+schools, and all the religious and benevolent institutions of this whole
+country. It would rear seminaries of learning in every State where they
+are needed; and it would plant a Sabbath school, with a sufficient
+library in every school district.
+
+Twenty-five millions of dollars, annually, if applied in all feasible
+and suitable ways, would give freedom, with all the blessings of
+Christianity to the colored race in our own country, and throughout the
+continent of Africa in a very few years: and would terminate slavery and
+the slave-trade in every part of the world.
+
+Twenty-five millions of dollars annually, would send forth to the
+nations now perishing in heathen darkness, ten thousand missionaries,
+and five millions of tracts, every year, provided the men could be
+found.
+
+Twenty-five millions of dollars, annually, would, in five years, furnish
+all the money necessary to carry into complete execution, that noble
+purpose of the American Bible Society, of giving a copy of the Bible,
+within a specified time, to every accessible family on the earth. And
+what friend of man is there among us,--what patriot is there,--what
+Christian is there,--who can look at these truths, and not make up his
+mind to abandon all use of tobacco, _forever_; and to exert the whole
+weight of his influence and example to persuade others to do the same?
+
+I am aware, indeed, that it may be said, if the whole company of
+tobacco-chewers, smokers, and snuffers, should at once abandon all use
+of this weed, and thus withdraw their whole patronage, this twenty-five
+millions of dollars, which now gives wealth to many a man engaged in
+growing, manufacturing, and vending the poison, would be so much capital
+unemployed; and the means of living would be cut off from many a
+family,--and bankruptcy, and wretchedness would be the consequent
+portion of many an individual. This may be true. And it may be true,
+too, that the like consequences would follow the universal abandonment
+of intoxicating liquors. But what then? Shall one sixth part of the
+nation continue to use this poison, because, forsooth, the _producers_
+and _venders_ of it will lose their profits if it be abandoned? Shall
+the _intellect_, and _health_, and _comfort_, and _wealth_, and _lives_
+of hundreds and thousands of our fellow citizens, be sacrificed yearly;
+and widows and orphans be multiplied by scores and fifties, in every
+section of this wide-spreading country; and one of the prominent
+auxiliaries of _intemperance_,--and consequently of _crime_, and
+_insanity_, and _eternal woe_--be cherished; and twenty-five millions of
+dollars be _wasted_, and worse than wasted; and all this, that the
+_producers_ and _venders_ may feed and fatten on the gains? This
+objection lies equally against the temperance reform and every other
+reform, where cupidity and avarice are involved.
+
+As to the producers, it is affirmed on good authority, that hemp and
+corn, and other useful articles may be substituted without loss, and
+even with advantage. As to the venders, their capital may all be
+profitably employed upon valuable merchandise, without damage. But if it
+were not so; where _health_, _life_, and _happiness_ are involved, no
+good man can hesitate. The path of duty is plain. We are bound to walk
+in it, even though it run counter to the gains of those engaged in
+unlawful commerce.
+
+I maintain my position,
+
+VI. From a consideration of the _mortality_ which tobacco occasions.
+
+Some of my readers may be startled at this consideration. They may not
+have dreamed, even, that tobacco _kills_ any body. So insidious are the
+effects of this poison, and so insensible have the community been to its
+abominations, that very few have regarded the use of tobacco as the
+cause of swelling our bills of mortality. But though appalling, it is
+nevertheless true, that tobacco carries vast multitudes to the grave,
+all over our country, every year. Says Dr. Salmon, "I am confident more
+people have died of apoplexies, since the use of snuff in one year, than
+have died of that disease in an hundred years before; and most, if not
+all, whom I have observed to die, of late of that disease, were extreme
+and constant snuff-takers." The late Rev. Dr. Samuel Cooper, of Boston,
+by constant use of snuff, brought on a disorder of the head, which was
+thought to have ended his days. A very large quantity of hardened Scotch
+snuff was found, by a _post mortem_ examination, between the external
+nose and the brain. The late Gov. Sullivan, speaking of Gov. Hancock,
+the early President of Congress, says, "Gov. Hancock was an immoderate
+chewer of tobacco; but being a well-bred man, and a perfect gentleman,
+he, from a sense of decorum, refrained from spitting in company, or in
+well-dressed rooms. This produced the habit of swallowing the juice of
+the tobacco, the consequence of which was, his stomach became inactive,
+and a natural appetite seldom returned; the agreeable sensations of
+hunger could not be experienced but by the use of stimulants, to satisfy
+which he swallowed more food than his digestive powers could dispose of.
+This derangement in chylification increased his gout, his stomach became
+paralytic, and he died at the age of fifty-eight."
+
+Again, says Governor Sullivan, "My own brother, the active General
+Sullivan, began early in life to take snuff. It injured essentially a
+fine voice which he possessed as a public speaker. When he was an
+officer in the American army, he carried his snuff loose in his pocket.
+He said he did this because the opening of a snuff-box in the field of
+review, or on the field of battle, was inconvenient. At times he had
+violent pains in the head; the intervals grew shorter and shorter, and
+the returns more violent, when his sufferings ended in a stroke of
+palsy, which rendered him insensible to pain, made him helpless and
+miserable, and lodged him in the grave before he was fifty years of age;
+and I have no doubt [says the Governor,] but all this sprung from the
+use of snuff." He adds, "I have known some persons live to old age, in
+the extravagant use of tobacco; but they bear a small proportion to
+those who, by the habit of using tobacco, have been swept into the grave
+in _early_ or _middle_ life."
+
+Professor Silliman mentions two affecting cases of young men, in the
+Institution with which he is connected, who were carried to an early
+grave by tobacco. One of them, he says, entered college with an athletic
+frame; but he acquired the habit of using tobacco, and would sit and
+smoke by the hour together. His friends tried to persuade him to quit
+the practice; but he loved his lust, and would have it, live or die: the
+consequence was, he went down to the grave, a suicide.
+
+One of the German periodicals says, the chief German physiologists
+compute, that of twenty deaths of men between eighteen and twenty-five,
+ten, that is, one half, originate in the waste of the constitution by
+smoking. They declare, also, with much truth, that tobacco burns out the
+_blood_, the _teeth_, the _eyes_, and the _brain_.
+
+To this unequivocal testimony, which is confirmed by the observation of
+every intelligent person who has turned his attention to this matter,
+much more might be added; but it is unnecessary. How large a proportion
+of the twenty thousand deaths--reckoning one death to a hundred
+souls--which occur annually, among the two millions of tobacco consumers
+in this country, are to be charged to the use of this deadly narcotic, I
+am unable definitely to determine. If we suppose one quarter of these
+deaths to be caused by tobacco, it will give us the number of five
+thousand. Five thousand deaths in these United States, every year from
+the use of tobacco! and this is doubtless far below the actual number.
+Five thousand valuable lives sacrificed in this enlightened land,
+annually, in the use of a dirty plant, that no living creature, except
+man and the tobacco worm, will touch, or taste, or handle. Five thousand
+men and women carried to the grave, yearly, by a poisonous weed, which
+does _no good_, and which, for filthiness and disgust, scarcely has its
+parallel in the whole vegetable kingdom. Is there a _Christian_,--is
+there a _patriot_,--is there a _friend_ of humanity,--is there an
+_individual_, that values his own probationary existence,--who can look
+at the sweeping mortality which tobacco brings upon the nation, and
+longer indulge his attachment to his quid, his pipe or his snuff-box? Is
+there one who will pause and look at this matter, and not resolve that
+he will, _forthwith_, _entirely_, and _forever_, abandon a practice
+which does so much to people the grave?
+
+I maintain my position,
+
+VII.--From a consideration of the _apologies_ of the lovers of tobacco.
+
+I call them _apologies_. They cannot be considered _reasons_. Almost
+every lover of the dirty weed, feels that he needs an apology. One will
+tell us he has a cold, watery stomach, and he thinks that tobacco, by
+promoting expectoration, relieves the difficulty. Another will tell us
+he is very much troubled with indigestion, and he thinks tobacco
+relieves the difficulty; though, in truth, tobacco is the very worst
+drug he could use to relieve that disease, and is among the primordial
+causes of inducing it. Another will tell us that he is afflicted with
+the rising of his food after eating, and he thinks tobacco gives
+immediate relief; not suspecting, perhaps, that this rising of the food
+is occasioned by over eating. Another will tell us he has a distressing
+difficulty in the head, and brain, and he thinks a little good Scotch
+snuff affords relief; as though the filling the pores, and cavities of
+the head, and clogging up the brain, with this dirty stuff, would remove
+a disease which in most cases it originates.
+
+Others use tobacco to preserve the teeth; and this, though it is a
+solemn truth, that many a one loses his teeth by smoking and chewing
+the poisonous plant. Others, again, use tobacco to excite the mind to
+more vigorous intellectual effort. But when and where do we find great
+lovers of tobacco great students, and intellectual giants? Dr. Rush
+says, "I suspect tobacco is oftener used for the _want_ of ideas, than
+to excite them." There are some whose apology for using tobacco is, that
+it guards them against the power of contagious diseases. But Dr. Rees
+affirms that tobacco does not contain an antidote against contagion, and
+that, in general, it has no antiseptic power; and is therefore of no
+special use. There is another class still, who use tobacco because it
+soothes the irksomeness of life. They fear solitude; and to prevent
+self-examination, and to while away their probation time, they fly to
+the _pipe_, _quid_, and _snuff-box_; and soon, by an easy transition, to
+the wine-glass and brandy-bottle.
+
+These are the _usual apologies_ of the devotees to tobacco. And what do
+they amount to? In truth, the common opinion that tobacco is good for
+the head-ache,--weak eyes,--cold and watery stomachs,--the preservation
+of the teeth,--and the like, is sheer delusion. Let every man and woman,
+who would live long, and usefully, and happily, awake from this
+delusion; and let no one, as he values health, life, and salvation,
+_taste_, _touch_, or _handle_, the filthy poison.
+
+I maintain my position,
+
+VIII, AND LASTLY.--From a consideration of the _eternal ruin_ which
+tobacco occasions. On this point, a word or two only, will suffice. That
+tobacco carries many a soul down to the pit of eternal woe, is manifest
+from its connection with drunkenness, and from its inducing disease and
+death. Every man who dies a drunkard, and every man who, knowingly and
+recklessly, brings upon himself disease and death through the influence
+of tobacco, is a _suicide_. And drunkards and suicides cannot inherit
+the kingdom of God. How many will at last, ascribe their eternal ruin to
+alcohol and tobacco, cannot now be told.
+
+That it will be a great multitude, (perhaps a great multitude which no
+man can number,) we have no reason to doubt.
+
+What then, I ask, _ought_ to be _done_? What _can_ be done? What _must_
+be done? If this poisonous narcotic be of _recent_ origin; if it be
+ruinous to the _health_ and _constitution_, and _intellect_, and
+_public_ and _private morals_; if it occasions an amazing _waste of
+property_,--and a multitude of _deaths_,--and _eternal ruin_ to many
+precious souls; and if it do no good,--and there be no _apology_ for
+using it, which will bear examination; then _something ought to be
+done_, and it ought to be done _immediately_. And, _only one_ thing need
+be done. And that _can_ be done, and it ought to be done. It is
+this:--_tobacco can be abandoned_. And if moral influence enough can be
+enlisted, it _will_ be abandoned.
+
+TOTAL ABSTINENCE is the only sure remedy. TOTAL ABSTINENCE will deliver
+us from all the evils which this weed has brought down upon individuals
+and families, and the nation.--Nothing else will do it. And total
+abstinence can be adopted and practiced. True; in some cases, it may
+cost an _effort_; but, in every instance, three weeks' perseverance will
+overcome the habit. Three weeks' _total abstinence_, will disenthrall
+every victim, and give him the prospect of _freedom_, _plenty_,
+_health_, and _happiness_. And shall this effort be made? A _mighty_
+effort it must be, to liberate and save this whole nation--and
+especially our young men and maidens--from the curses of the _quid_, the
+_pipe_, and the _snuff-box_.
+
+I appeal to my fellow citizens. I appeal to the _nation_, and the _whole
+nation_. _Shall_ the effort be made?
+
+I appeal to _patriots_. Patriotism forbids the man who loves his
+country, to shrink from any personal sacrifice, if he can thereby arrest
+some great national evil. That the use of tobacco is a great national
+evil, appears from the considerations which have been laid before you.
+It has been shown that tobacco is weakening the physical and mental
+energies of this nation,--that it is depraving our morals, and
+destroying the public conscience,--and that it is causing an amazing
+waste of property, and health and life. I ask every patriot to look at
+this portentous evil. Every true patriot, who will examine the length,
+breadth, and depth of this evil, cannot but feel that it claims his
+attention. And he will enquire what efforts, what sacrifices, can
+deliver us from the curses of this narcotic? The answer to this inquiry
+is an _easy_ answer,--the effort is an _easy_ effort,--the sacrifice is
+an _easy_ sacrifice. Let every true patriot in our country abstain from
+the poison, _immediately_, _entirely_, and _forever_; and let him use
+the whole weight of his influence and example to persuade others--and
+especially the young men and maidens of this republic--to practice
+entire abstinence; and the work will soon be done. We put the question
+to every true patriot: _will you do it_?
+
+I appeal to _Christians_. Your religion requires you to abstain from the
+very appearance of evil. It requires you to deny yourselves, to take up
+your cross, and to follow Christ through evil, as well as through good
+report. Is there no appearance of evil, in the use of tobacco? Can the
+Christian deny himself and follow Christ, with the quid, or pipe in his
+mouth, or the contents of the snuff-box in his nose? If Christ himself,
+were here on earth, in this age of action, when six hundred millions of
+men, for whom he died, are perishing for lack of vision--think you he
+would waste a single cent of _property_, or a single moment of _time_,
+or a single ounce of health and mental energy, in the habitual use of
+this narcotic? Would he _handle_, _touch_, or _taste_, the poison? And
+will _you_, whose names are written in his book,--_you_, who have been
+bought with his blood, and sanctified through his grace, and made heirs
+of all the riches of his kingdom,--_you_, whom he requires to be
+_examples_ in all things,--will you _handle_, or _touch_ or _taste_ it?
+Let every Christian in our country, abstain from this poison,
+_immediately_, _entirely_, and _forever_; and let him use the whole
+weight of his influence and example, to persuade others to practice
+_entire abstinence_; and this work of reform will soon be done. We put
+the question to every true Christian: _will you do it_?
+
+I appeal to the _youth_ of both sexes. You are the flower and the hope
+not only of this nation, but of all nations struggling for freedom. The
+destinies of this republic are about being placed, under God, in your
+hands; and inasmuch as all the friends of freedom, everywhere, are
+looking up to our institutions for light and aid, the destinies of the
+world will rest with a mightier weight of responsibility upon your
+shoulders, than upon any other generation that has come forth upon the
+stage of action, for twenty centuries. The importance of sound and
+enlightened principles--of pure and elevated examples, and independent
+and decided action in _you_, is above all estimation. You are placed in
+the moral Thermopylae of the world. The evils arising from _alcohol_ and
+_tobacco_, which you have it in your power to avert from your country,
+are more dreadful than the invasion of Xerxes with his millions. The
+cause of moral reform, in the use of the latter of these articles, which
+we urge upon you with deepest and sincerest solicitude, is far more
+urgent than that in which the Bruti and the Gracchi offered up their
+lives. Some of you have not yet handled or tasted the fatal drug. Let
+all such stand firm henceforward, and never yield to the power of
+custom, temptation and lust. Some of you, on the other hand, have
+permitted yourselves to become the victims of this drug. Let all such be
+urged by the voice of patriotism, religion, self-respect, reason,
+conscience, and duty, to _abstain_ from this poison, _immediately_,
+_entirely_, and _forever_. And then every young man, and every young
+woman, in the republic, shall be free from all the calamities attending
+the use of this narcotic; and love, and peace, and joy, will run through
+the land, and flow over the world. We put the question to every youth:
+_will you do it_?
+
+I appeal to the _friends of temperance_. You have enlisted your energies
+to expel intoxicating drinks from common use throughout the world. Go
+on, and prosper. But, as you go, remember, that complete success will
+not crown your exertions unless you are consistent,--unless you abandon
+all use of tobacco, the companion and sister of alcohol. As you go forth
+to the noble work you have undertaken, you will be met at every corner,
+with the declaration of A. B. and C., _I_ am ready to abstain from
+alcohol when _you_ do from tobacco; and how effectually will this
+declaration shut your mouth, and destroy your influence. Be
+_consistent_. Carry your principles into _all_ your evil habits, and a
+moral potency will be diffused through what you say and do, that nothing
+can resist. We put the question to every friend of temperance: _will you
+do it_?
+
+I appeal to American _females_. As mothers, wives and daughters, you
+have it in your power (without turning aside from your appropriate
+duties) to put an end to the use of this disgusting weed. The children
+and youth of this nation, to say nothing of the young men and fathers,
+are almost exclusively under your control; and may be moulded at your
+pleasure. You know how _filthy_, _disgusting_, _ruinous_, is the
+practice against which we ask you to set your faces. Only practice
+ENTIRE ABSTINENCE yourselves, and urge this practice upon all within
+your reach; and in less than twenty years, this reformation will be
+completed. We put the question to every mother, wife, daughter: _will
+you do it_?
+
+I appeal to the _medical_ profession. You are the guardians of the
+health of the republic. You are acquainted with the deadly properties of
+the drug in question. You can understand the necessity, and appreciate
+the importance of reform. You know that _entire abstinence_ is urged by
+paramount considerations. In the work of reform from spirit-drinking,
+you have acted in a manner that reflects honor upon your profession. In
+the work of reform now urged upon your notice, we calculate upon your
+active, hearty co-operation. If you put your hand to this work, by
+_precept_, and by _example_; if you abstain _entirely_, and _forever_,
+from all use of this plant, and inculcate entire abstinence, as you have
+opportunity; the work which now bespeaks your attention will soon be
+done. We put the question to every medical man: _will you do it_?
+
+Finally--I appeal to _ministers_ of the Gospel. You are stationed on the
+watch-towers of Zion, as guardians of the public morals. Against every
+abomination your great Master requires you to cry aloud and spare not;
+to lift up your voice like a trumpet; to show the people their
+transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. He requires you to be
+_examples_ to the flock, in all things, that, while
+
+  "You allure to brighter worlds,"
+
+you "may lead the way." I ask you to look at the influence of tobacco
+upon the _health_, _wealth_, _morals_, and _lives_ of this republic; and
+then to decide, as in the fear of God, whether the blood of souls may
+not be found on your garments, if you do not _abstain_ yourselves from
+all common use of this drug, and warn every man around you to do
+likewise.[A] Suffer us to point you to Him who went about doing good,
+and pleased not himself, and set a pure and perfect example in
+everything; and also to that early servant of his, who would abstain
+from things good and lawful, rather than prejudice the interests of
+Zion. What reception would the Apostles have met, when they went about
+to enlighten and reform the world, if they had carried with them their
+_snuff-boxes_, _pipes_, _cigars_, and _pig-tail_ tobacco? But a word to
+the wise is sufficient. Let all who minister in holy things, abstain
+from this poison, immediately, entirely, and forever; and let them use
+the whole weight of their influence, and example, to persuade
+others--and especially our youth--to practice entire abstinence; and
+this good work will soon be done. We put the question to every minister
+of Christ: _will you do it_?
+
+[A] Says a distinguished correspondent--the most efficient officer of
+one of our benevolent institutions, "Not long since a clergyman called
+on me as agent for one of the most popular Societies for spreading the
+knowledge of Christ crucified throughout the world: his breath was
+intolerable, and the tobacco juice had formed a current from each corner
+of his mouth downward. I need not describe to you my feelings at this
+exhibition."
+
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+
+_The following highly valuable testimonials are from President_ EDWARDS,
+_Professor_ STUART, _Rev. Dr._ WOODS, _and Professor_ EMERSON, _of the
+Andover Theological Seminary_.
+
+Having read the FACTS, &c., I am satisfied that it is well adapted to do
+good, and wish that it may have an extensive circulation among the youth
+of our country.
+
+                                                        J. EDWARDS.
+
+_Andover, Aug. 16, 1841._
+
+                                        _Andover, 29th, July, 1841._
+
+I have read a pamphlet entitled "FACTS, etc., from DISTINGUISHED
+PHYSICIANS AND OTHER SOURCES," respecting a vice which is undermining
+the health and happiness of many, and degrading them, in some respects,
+below the brute creation.
+
+I think there is nothing in the manner of this pamphlet which can be
+matter of just offence to any considerate mind. I am persuaded, that,
+delicate as the task may be, the time has come when benevolence demands
+that some effort should be made to enlighten the public mind on the
+subject of which this pamphlet treats; and both the remarks of the
+pamphlet, and the facts stated in it, seem to be well adapted for this
+purpose. Most heartily do I wish success to that benevolence which is
+willing to undertake a task so delicate and so difficult as this.
+
+It is time for those who love the purity, the well-being and the most
+interesting relations of human society, to speak out upon a vice which
+is dangerous in proportion to the secrecy and silence in which it has
+been involved.
+
+          We fully concur in the above.                  M. STUART.
+                                                          L. WOODS.
+                                                        R. EMERSON.
+
+Recommended by the Boston Recorder, Zion's Herald, and many other
+papers; also by numerous clergymen, teachers, physicians, &c.
+
+Dr. Woodward, of the Worcester Hospital, has done much to expose this
+solitary vice. He says no cause is more influential in producing
+insanity. According to the Report of the Institution, for 1838, out of
+199 patients, 42 are considered victims of masturbation.
+
+
+RECOMMENDATIONS.
+
+_From President Humphrey, of Amherst College._
+
+                                   AMHERST COLLEGE, April 17, 1842.
+
+REV. ORIN FOWLER:--Rev. and Dear Sir--I thank you heartily for your
+pamphlet, on the use of that vile narcotic, _tobacco_. It ought to be
+the abhorring of all mankind, as it is of all other flesh; and the
+extensive circulation of your timely and powerful antidote, cannot fail
+of doing great good. The public in general have no idea of the enormous
+expense of smoking and chewing in this country; much less of the waste
+of health and life occasioned by it. I rejoice that your essay begins to
+be loudly called for, and wish that as many copies might be circulated
+as there are miserable slaves to the habit, which, next to alcoholic
+drinking, is stupefying more brains, and probably shortening more lives
+than any other.
+
+             Very sincerely and affectionately yours,
+                                                       H. HUMPHREY.
+
+
+_From Rev. M. Tucker, D. D._
+
+PROVIDENCE, April 30, 1842.
+
+I have read with interest the Rev. Orin Fowler's Essay on the evils of
+the use of Tobacco. A perusal cannot fail to convince every candid mind.
+The use of tobacco in most cases is an evil. The subject is ably
+discussed in this essay. The arguments are sound, the facts abundant,
+and the conclusions fair and forcible. They who can resist such appeals
+must be slaves indeed. I shall rejoice in its wide circulation.
+
+                                                         M. TUCKER.
+
+
+_From Edward C. Delevan_.
+
+E. C. Delevan, former Secretary of the New York State Temperance
+Society, says, in a letter to the author--"The subject of your Essay is
+one of immense importance to the world and to the temperance cause. The
+use of this vile weed has been the medium of forming the appetite for
+strong drink, and ultimately destroying thousands of the most promising
+youth of our country. You will hardly ever meet with an intemperate
+person without finding him addicted to the use of tobacco. The public
+only want light on this important subject, to act. Your able and
+convincing Disquisition will be the means of doing much good. I hope
+funds will be provided to furnish a copy to each clergyman in the United
+States. Send me one thousand copies of the second edition, as soon as it
+is from the press."
+
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+
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+
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+
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