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On
Temperance Jan 7th, 1844
Intemperance
is one of the meanest and most vile things in existence. But it is fast
going out of date, and I am happy to say it. A great many men when they
were young they had a good fortune to begin their lives upon, but they
chance to go to the grog shop and a friend will ask him to drink a social
glass with him, and he drinks. And this will increase his appetite for
it, and it will continue to increase until he dies. Dr. Franklin lived
to be a good old age and he was temperate in all things. Not only had
we ought to be temperate in our drink, but in other things tobacco we
ought to abstain from. There is but 3 thing’s things that will eat
tobacco. The first is a species of African goat, the tobacco worm &
thirdly the man. What shame it is that men are to be compared with a goat
or a worm, but I do not know any animal that will drink more.
I hope you or I shall never shall drink any. Good Bye
G A Weeks 1844
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