Van Diemen's Land temperance herald : for domestic and foreign intelligence

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Launceston, Tas. : Henry Dowling, 1845-
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No. 19 (January 1847)
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VAN DIEMEN’S LAND  

TEMPERANCE HERALD  

FOR  

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.  

PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF COMMITTEE.  

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink mine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth  

or is offended, or is made weak. —Rom. xiv. 21.  

No. XIX.  

JANUARY, 1847.  

Price 4d.  

CONTENTS:  

Annual Meeting of National Temperance Society,  

concluded 281  

Extracts from Speech by Lord Chesterfield, in 1743 285  

Temperance Tales—“ Well enough for the vulgar” .. 285  

Domestic News—  

Hobart Town .. .. 288—289  

Launceston .. .. .. .. .. 289  

Evandale .. .. .. ... .. 292  

Longford .. .. 292  

Perth ... .. ~» ». .. .. 292  

Foreign—  

Canada.. .. ». .. .. .. 293  

Sweden .. .. .. .. .. 293  

Bermuda .. .. .. .. .. 293  

Africa .. .. .. .. .. .. 294  

North America .. .. .. .. 295  

Poetry—“ Address to Brandy Bottle" .. .. 295  

Petitions against Sunday Traffic .. .. .. 295  

Miscellaneous .. .. .. 295  

Advertisements, Notices of Meetings, &c. .. .. 296  

NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY—ANNUAL MEETING.  

Concluded from page 254.  

Lawrence Hey worth, Esq., on presenting  

himself to the meeting was received with  

three successive ursts of tremendous applause,  

and “ one cheer more.” He said, —Ladies  

and Gentlemen, am quite sure, that if each  

individual here present would take an earnest  

part in disseminating the principles of tee-  

totalism, they could not fail very soon to  

make converts of number of their neigh-  

bours; and the same spirit of zeal being  

infused into these, it is quite evident, by  

very ready calculation, that our principles  

would soon be embraced by the whole of the  

population of this great and mighty empire.  

believe that often as the cause of temper-  

ance has been discussed by us, and often as  

the evils of intemperance has been placed  

bp(ore us, we have not yet arrived at proper  

calculation and estimate of the great potency  

and magnitude of the evils of intemperance,  

iforaVV'e had, we should all have been more  

aitijte; apd earnest in our endeavours to ex-  

terminate it. believe there is still lin-  

gering prejudice in favour of intoxicating  

beverages; and do not think that all have  

arrived at the conclusion to which have  

most firmly arrived—that every kind of  

intoxicating beverage is poisonous to the  

human constitution. If all had arrived at  

this conclusion, what could prevent us from  

.taking the most energetic measures to remove  

the evil to which have directed your atten-  

tion.  

Dr. Gourley, of Madeley, said, —I never  

drank glass of wine or spirits in my life;  

never drank pint of ale at one sitting;  

have never been one hour ill, and have  

constitution capable of bearing as much  

fatigue as any man. The human body is  

the most complicated piece of machinery  

of any animal on the face of the earth.  

It requires nourishment when exhausted,  

and rest when fatigued. Give it these,  

and you give it fair play; reverse this  

order of nature, and you do not give it fair  

play. What kind of nutriment should be  

given to the human body? Chemists have  

analysed the tissues, and found that they  

contain larger amount of nitrogen than of  

any other element; therefore nitrogen must  

be contained in substances that nourish.  

Another element is carbon, and this is re-  

quired for the production of animal heat.  

Ordinary food contains sufficient quantity  

of these elementary principles; but intoxi-  

cating drinks contain very little of the first  

principle, viz., that of nitrogen. The inju-  

rious properties of intoxicating liquors are  

of several kinds. The first is that of sti-  

mulation. Alcoholic drinks stimulate the  

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