Intemperance

 

Intemperance is an evil and we cannot confine it mearly confine to the use of intoxicating Liquor. There are many other formes of intemperance. The drunkerd that wallows in the street is not the onley one that is guilty of this crime. We are apt to conclude that if we do not see a man reeling and stagering in the street that he is a temperate man, but this is not the case always the case. He may be free from all this and yet be an intemperate man the word intemperance does not signify mearly an excessive indulgence in the use of arden spirits, but it assumes other forms. we may indulge intemperance by the excessive indulgence of our apetites. The chewing of tobacco is another forme of intemperance although it does not deprive men /       [top half of sheet faded]

 

… has been the means of bringing many a happy family from afluence to poverty and I would advise my young Schoolmates never to meddle with the unclean thing. you may say you have power to govern your apetite many have said the same but hav ben draged by down it dow to an untimely grave

 

Silas Chace

 

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