“ Every hindrance prevents the growth and development of the mind. The body may soon attain to its greatest development, but the mind never reaches its perfection in this sphere.
Age and experience fortifies and strengthens the mind, they give it greatness and power; every influence possible should be brought to bear upon the intellect to improve the mind and advance it.—The ages past have been more to hinder and to cramp the intellect, to hinder reason and progress than to favor it. ”

“ Try to change a man's heart that is palpitating with poison and lusting for more! If you wish to be a successful soul doctor, you must commence at the seat of all moral diseases; a poisoned and disordered mind. Take the poison out of him first, and keep it out for at least thirty days, until the brain can begin to have its natural healthy action, and then he will arise and walk in dry places seeking rest.
We affirm, and shall prove in the course of our lecture, that tobacco obtudes and destroys the moral as well as every other sense of the human intellect. ”

“ When beginning to act that part, what can be of greater interest to you, than to throw off the poison chains of mental slavery, keeping both mind and body free from such abject servitude. Freedom of mind and body insures health, long life and happiness. When the whole of the machinery, mental and physical, is clean, its strength and elasticity is so much better, its retentiveness is much more vivid and comprehensive that one is mostly spared the pain of irretrievable errors. ”

“ Evil, like a Cancer, while the root remains the canker grows worse. Mind and body is united in every effort, if the main spring is weakened so is the stroke. "A bitter fountain can not send forth a pleasant stream." ”

“ Every other poison vegetable is content with one poison; but tobacco has two of the most deadly poisons in the vegetable kingdom. This is no scare-crow put up to frighten you Tobacco Eaters; if you don't believe me just examine a vegetable chemistry, and to convince your self more thoroughly, just drop one drop of nicotina or nicotianin on the tongue of a Cat or a Dog, that you don't wish to kill by the tedious method or shooting or drowning, and see what the effect will be. ”

“ When you see a habitual tobacco user in the company of his friends you will see him either squirting his poison fluid over his friend's hearth, house, floor, and stove, and breathing his loathsome poisonous breath into the face of his friend, or pouring his poison smoke into the eyes, nose, and lungs of all present. ”

“ Many of our best physicians concur the opinion in that many of the cases of delirium tremens imputed to alcohol are mostly due to the use of tobacco.
You ought never listen to a self styled temperance-man who lectures a drinker, with his mouth full of tobacco juice. The drinker if he uses no tobacco is the most temperate man of the two. It is a gross insult to an audience to eject on them alcoholic vituperation and nicotianic expectoration at the same time. That audience should say; first go reform thy-self thou intemperate SLAVE of poison! ”

“ But a wiser than he hath decreed that they only who seek after wisdom shall find it, that fools shall be afflicted because of their transgressions, and that whosoever refuseth instruction shall destroy his own soul.
He that is capable of reflection must perceive that whatever disorders the nerves disorders the brain and the mind, also the morals, then it corrupts society, possibly for generations to come. ”

“ Go to our jails and penitentiaries and you will find their inmates, almost to a man, tobacco-eaters and alcohol drinkers. As the chameleon takes its color from the object it is attached to, so does the mind of man, from the body it is attached to. ”

“ It is a common thing for temperance lecturers to denounce alcohol on the strength of tobacco, that is, lecture with a cud in their mouths. Now this is mean. There should be honor among thieves. Don't laugh at and taunt your brother, wallowing there in the mud, while your own mouth is full of a thousand times filthier filth. Don't grow poetical on the "drunkard's aspen hand," when your own poisoned nerves will quiver worse than his if you should abstain from your quid three hours. ”

“ There is great sympathy existing between the mind and body, whatever affects the body must of necessity affect the mind; versus. Whatever affects the mind is sure to affect the body. The body is the house that the man lives in, if the house is damaged in any way the man proper which is the mind; through sympathy is sure to suffer from such injuries.
The power of the mind over the body both in disease and in health, is utterly beyond all the modern scientific conceptions. The mind has so long been clogged and hindered by narcotics and over stimulants, that it yet remains in its infancy. ”

“ Every doctor will tell you that he is more afraid to give tobacco, even as an enema, than any other poison in the Materia Medica: he never gives it by the stomach. Sometimes, in violent spasmodic colic, or strangulation of the bowels, or spasmodic croup, tobacco is used externally as a poultice, and if you are not very careful, it will kill your patient even in this form. Many a colt and calf has been killed by rubbing them with tobacco juice to kill the lice. Tobacco is death to all kinds of parasitical vermin; it will kill the most venomous reptiles very quick. ”

“ The mind has supreme control of the body in sickness and in health. See the Rulings of Nature.
Habit is harder to serve than a king, its taxes are greater, they not only come yearly, but daily and hourly, on body mind and pocket. ”

“ Now, it is no use to tell me that a man who can't think, what he is doing in small moral and social points of good breeding, with which he is every day familiar. How much less qualified is he for deep moral and intellectual reasoning which he is entirely unacquainted with? ”

“ The system of the tobacco users is always in a morbid condition, as proof when you are sick you can't use it; for be it known that two morbid conditions can not exist in the system at the same time; one will drive out the other.
19. The poison is transmitted to the unborn infant, many times impairing its vital organs and causing a pre-mature death: and I once heard a Physician of much learning and practic, Dr. Niles. Say that there never was nor ever could be a healthy child born of parents who were habitual tobacco users. ”

“ When we undertake to reform a man the first thing is to see that the brain is healthy; not poisoned and diseased. For an unhealthy organ can not perform healthy functions. You might as well try to improve the sense of smell with the nose stuffed full of snuff, as to try to improve the moral sense while it is poisoned with the essence of snuff. ”

“ Doctors: men whose profession is to play with poisons as with so many deadly vipers, stand back and behold its poisoned fangs with horrow, not daring to lay hold on it and use it as a medicine for his sick wife or child. No he shuns it with a deathly horrow! Though himself may be a SLAVE to the slower action of its devitalizing powers on mind and body.
An over dose of tobacco is incureable because of its peculiar effect upon the system. ”

“ Finally, a storm comes and the locust hopes to brave it as he has many others; but, alas, its strength is undermined; Its vitals are eaten away, and it falls,—a victim to the tiny worm. Thus does tobacco, or alcohol, or opium, or any other poison when taken habitually, undermine the system, slowly, imperceptibly,—but surely.
Go into any tobacco factory of cigars, snuff, or plug, and bring out a healthy man if you can.
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Tobacco so destroys the sensations and functions of the mouth that, mild natural drinks, are not tasted ”

“ No wonder, then, that a brain poisoned, will suggest poisoned thoughts, criminal thoughts and acts. O that preachers might know this, or, knowing it, might act on it in their efforts to regenerate man's moral nature. Let them commence at the root of evil to remove it. ”

“ It chains the intellect and bids defiance to your better judgment. Strive like one who knows he has grappled with Death and the victory must be won or self be lost!"
TOBACCO should never be mentioned except as a poison, one of the most active and fatal of poisons; it is the only herb known to possess two active deadly poisons, Nicotina and Nicotianin: It is really so fatal that doctors seldom administer it, and never internally. For an over dose of Opium, Arsenic, or Strychnine, when taken in time, there is a cure, but for an over dose of tobacco there is none ”

“ When all present are coughing strangling and almost out of breath; they say please don't smoke any more in the house. Then comes the oft' repeated "Excuse me I did not think." Can a moral man so far intrude upon the health, happiness and peace, even of a race of cannibals? ”

“ The effect is known by a deathly paleness and sickness, then the air suddenly becomes too warm and oppressive, the patient desires a cool situation, a drink of cold water and a fresh breeze, the strangest of all is at the same time the patient is so stimulated the action of the heart decreases, and to give a stimulant to increase it, it increases its virulence in proportion to the increase of the suffocating and sickening sensation: and to give the medicine to allay that, still decreases the motion of the heart's action. ”

“ If he does think, his refined and gentle humane feelings are so benumbed as to cause him not to care, it shows his spiritual nature is too much deadened to teach the spirit of a pure and undefiled religion which teach kindness love and attention to all men. ”

“ It is the only religious paper not walled in by creeds, and the only one whose columns are always open to its opponents, whether Infidel, Christian, or Idolator, It stands upon its own merit and asks for the criticisms and communications of the ablest writers.
We will defend the Right at all risks, and expose the Wrong at our own risk. ”

“ Because you are not killed outright you flatter your self that you are not poisoned, but I tell you that you are, and you are dying by inches or by sixteenths of inches if you please, how ever small the effect on you it has some effect and finally by a continual pressing of that effect it will kill you. ”

“ Tobacco like alcohol gives a temporary stimulus, and to slack off the use of it, it will produce similar effects.
Nicotina and Nicotianin are the proper fathers to the following diseases,—Dispepsia, Water-brash, Cancer, Ramollissement, Impotence, Fatuity, Caries, Consumption, Laryngitis, Cardialgia, Angina Pectoris, Neuralgia, Paralysis, Amaurosis, Deafness, Liver Complaint, Apoplexy, Insanity, Hippochondriasis, "Horrors," "Blues," and so on through the greater part of the Nosological family. ”

“ It produces a state of exhaustion in the whole system that calls for an artificial stimulus. Alcohol, ever true to its companion, steps in and supplies this artificial stimulus. It is a scientific fact that tobacco is responsible for more drunkards than alcohol. ”

“ Drink and smoke. When low unprincipled men, thieves, villians, rowdies, rakes, murderers, the filth and offscourings of humanity meet together to carouse or design devilish schemes, what do they do? Drink and smoke. ”

“ It is said by critics to entirely destroy a certain faculty of the mind.
10. It renders one's breath very repugnant to a companion.
11. It is continually drawing on the pocket for the small change that might be laid up.
12. When taken as snuff it wonderfully impairs and often paralyzing and destroys the Olfactory nerves and deprives one of the sense of smell.
13. It creates a craving for Alcoholic drinks, it prostrates the system to such an extent that nature calls for aid by stimulants, hence the craving for drinks, peppers, mustards, &c., &c. ”

“ It gradually weakens and destroys the whole nervous system and is the cause of a large majority of cases of Insanity, which can readily be found in all stages, among those who use tobacco.
8. It makes one appear to be ill-bred and extremely distasteful in society. ”

“ It teaches how to quit the use of tobacco without the desire for using it, and no medicines used. Nature Rules if allowed her own way.—Our design is only to benefit the human family, therefore we give ☞ our agents all the profits. ”