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lower elasses all of whom drink intoxicating liquors to excess. In Montreal after 1200 had been attacked, a Montreal paper says, 'Not a drunkard who has been attacked has recovered of the disease, and almost all the victims have been at least moderate drinkers.'"
Dr. Thomas Sewall, of Washington eity, tells us, that "the epieure and the intemperate have no safety but in a speedy and thorough reformation. Wherever Cholera has prevailed, it has invariably sought out the glutton, the drunkard, and the. dissolute, and made them its earliest victims. Total abstinenee from all fermented liquors should be observed-" "Cholera," says Dr. Bronson, in a letter from Montreal, "has pleaded the cause of temperanee most eloquently, and with tremendous effect. The habitual use of ardent spirits, in the smallest quantity, seldom fails to invite the Cholera, and to render it ineurable when it takes place. Five-sixths of all who have fallen by the disease in England, it is computed were taken from the ranks of the intemperate and dissolute." Dr. Rhinelander, of the city of New York, who had an opportunity of witnessing the Cholera in Montreal, recommends "entire abstinence from spirituous liquors."-"Temperance," says he, "in every shape, is the great preventive.
2nd, Morally. It is opposed to the social moral and spiritual interests of the people, and so opposed to God's moral government, and must be subject to his punishment. Says the great judge Hales, "by due observation for nearly twenty years, I have found, that if the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries, and robberies, and riots, and tumults, the adulteries, furnieations, rapes, and other great enormities, that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the issues and product of excessive drinking."
"Had it not been for distilled spirits," says Professor Edgar, "nine-tenths of the murders, which have made Ireland a land of blood, had never been committed. It is acknowledged that, three-fourths of all pauperism, four-fifths of all aggravated, crime, one-half of all madness, one-half of all sudden deaths, one-fourth of all deaths in persons above twenty years of age, are caused by spiritous liquors,"
