Speeches, poems, and miscellaneous writings on subjects connected with temperance and the liquor traffic / by Charles Jewett.
- Jewett, Charles, 1807-1879.
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Speeches, poems, and miscellaneous writings on subjects connected with temperance and the liquor traffic / by Charles Jewett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![more, and then roll away into the gutter. This is not the law of that appetite which craves water ; but, gentlemen, is it not the law of that appetite which calls for gin ? All artificial appetites are governed by the same law. Those which crave opium as a stimulus, or tobacco, or any other narcotic substance, show the controlling influence of this law of increase in a degree scarcely less than that which can be satisfied only with the fiery product of the still. 1 speak of tobacco; but let me not be misunderstood. I would not proscribe the use of tobacco on the same ground upon which I would condemn the use of alcoholic stimulants. I have never known an individual led to the commission of crime by an extra Havana, or by.laboring too industriously at what would seem the peculiar business of ruminating animals. Pig-tail or old Cavendish, though they induce a filthy habit, and impair the health of the consumer, especially of the nervous system, do not destroy the moral sense, alienate or annihilate the social affections, inflame the passions, and impel an individual, — as do intoxicating drinks, — to kick his wife and children out of doors, or imbrue his hands in their blood. These are results peculiar to the use of those articles which stimulate the system to a high degree before their narcotic or sedative effect is experienced. I have said that the use of tobacco does not, like intoxicating drinks, annihilate the social affections; but I have no doubt they have often impaired them, for, in my opinion, a wife must have Job-like patience who can have her floor or carpets daily bespattered with the liquid extract of a nauseous drug, and not sometimes have her indignation kindled by such a perpetual imposition. [Laughter and a little nervousness in certain parts of the house.'] Mr. President, I hope that no gentleman present, who in- dulges himself in the use of the weed, will accuse me of attempting to excite an insurrection in his household, for 1 assure him nothing is further from my purpose. I refer to the use of tobacco by way of illustration, and because the appetite for it, when created, obeys the same law of increase](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133499_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
