Total Abstinence.
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Here is a statement in favor of total absti-
nence from all intoxicating drinks worth re-
cording and remembering. We find it in the
Lowell &C Star and Palladium 1t is copied
by Br. Thayer, from "Cleveland's Voyages, :"
highly popular work recently published.


s'Those who honor me with a perusal of
my narrative will perceive, that have navi-
gated to all parts of the world, from the six
tieth degree of south latitude, to the sixtieth
degree north; and sometimes in vessels whose
diminutive size, and small number of men
caused exposure to wet and cold, greatly sur
passing what is usually experienced in ships
of ordinary capacity; that | have been ex-
posed to the influence of the most unhealthy
places; at Batavia, where | have seen whole
crews PROSTATE with the fever, and death max
ing havoc among them; at San Bias, where
the natives can stay only portion of the year
at the Havana, within whose walls | have
resided five years consecutively; that have
suffered captivity, robbery, Imprisonment,
ruin, and the racking anxiety consequent
thereon. And yet through the whole, and to
the present sixty eighth year of my age,
have never taken drop of spirituous liquor