The National Republican And Ohio Political Register

Tobacco.—The author of a communication, in the Richmond Enquirer, has taken up the subject of cultivating and curing this article, and pursued it con amore. The communication is amusing, from the enthusiasm of the writer, in treating of the virtues of his favorite plant. Of all known plants, says the writer, tobacco is constituted and composed of the richest, strongest and most delightful ingredients. The alcohol or spirit, the oil and opium, the sugar or saccharine matter, the mucilaginous wax and gums, the acids and ni-tre, with several other volatile salts, &c. all so harmoniously combined, constitute this the richest and most delicious compound ever generated in any one plant.

This is a fair offset to the anathema against tobacco, composed by James I. of England, who compared the fume of this weed to the vapour of the bottomless pit.