This is not a scarce article in civilized countries. It is an article that can be obtained at any time any where for the sum of ten cents. The principal ingredient in whisky is alcohol. Good whisky contains 56 per cent. of alcohol, which is the intoxicating principal. Alcohol is the result of fermentation of many different articles, such as wheat, rye, corn, grapes, potatoes, rice, apples, berries, sugar, molasses, and many others. It is one of the best gifts of God to man, and at the same time the one that is the most abused. It has been so abused by indiscreet men that it has caused, in many parts of our country, the fanatics to raise wars and crusades against it. Anything great and good in its character meets with bitter persecution. The best gift that God ever gave to fallen man was Jesus Christ, who was persecuted even unto death. Galileo advanced a great and true idea in reference to the world turning on its axis, and fool fanatics put him to death. The world has always been cursed with fanatics, and always will be. Every man is the architect of his own fortune; he can make a useful man of himself, and be a credit and honor to himself, his neighbor, community, and nation, if he so tries; and, on the other hand, he can kill himself with whisky, arsenic, strychnine, or the common case-knife that he puts the food in his mouth with. This is the right of his free moral agency. If he should perchance to kill himself with a case-knife, it would be just as reasonable for some sect of fanatics to institute a crusade against cutlery stores, and try to abolish the manufacture and sale of the case-knife. Whiskey, they say, sends sixty thousand souls to eternal ruin every year. They make a mistake. They send themselves to physical ruin by the abuse and excessive use of the intoxicating article. I have known men to plunge in cold water to bathe when they were wet with sweat from the hot harvest field, and the result would be a diseased condition for life. This is no stigma on water, or on its being cold and pure, but the fault was with the parties who acted so unwisely in violating the laws of nature by plunging into water that would chill their blood so suddenly.

Many a wife has sent her husband to hell by her own meanness and unkind acts, and then the crime is all charged onto the wicked monster, whisky. If whisky, the vile impostor, had hands and feet, American fools, instead of Canaanite Jews, would spike them to the cross, and glory in their cowardly feat, as did the low stigmatized Jews when they saw the blood of Jesus Christ trickling down the cross. Temperance means moderation in all things. Fools and fanatics are the cinders of the dark ages.

Alcohol, or whisky, is the great medium pharmacists and druggists use to prepare all, or nearly all of their important tinctures.

Medical properties and uses. -- Whisky is a powerful stimulant to the heart and arteries and the general nervous forces, and counteracts malaria, hardens the tissues of the lungs, counteracts tuberculosis, or consumption. Taken properly it diffuses a warmth all over the body, acting on the brain forces so as to make a person feel hopeful, buoyant and ambitious. I have saved many lives with it in low forms of fever. I know of no remedy so valuable in the treatment of low forms of fever as whisky. I remember of one case in particular, that was given up by all. I and Dr. Gibson gave whisky every hour. The patient soon became conscious and broke out in a profuse sweat. The fever was gone and the patient got well. Yet the abuse of it has wrecked thousands and broke up the happiness of sweet homes, brought thousands to want, rags, and the gutter, damned the brightest and the best intellects, sent many a good man to his grave, wrecked fortunes, blotted out memory, bewildered intellect, and filled houses, jails, prisons and graves with many a human wreck.

I feel it my duty to speak of this article in the treatment of consumption. I owe my life to the effect liquor produced on my lungs and general system. I actually had consumption, and all thought I would die. I thought it doubtful myself whether I would live. I had night sweats, hemorrhage of the lungs, expectorated tuberculous matter, so weak that I could not walk fifty yards without it producing bleeding from the lungs, and weighed about 120 pounds. I counseled with two good physicians, Dr. Gaskins and Dr. Ashburn, of Clermont County, Ohio. They said whisky was all the hope I had. I took them at their word, drank it day and night, and ate raw eggs and raw beef, and in three months weighed 145 pounds and could do a hard day's work. I am well to-day, and can honestly say from the bottom of my heart, that raw beef and eggs and whisky, good air and exercise, will cure consumption when it has not run too long before anything is done. It should be used very freely, both day and night, to cure consumption.