The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 11, 1853 Page: 1 of 4
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the unerring rifles of
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HONOR TO THE BBAVE.
GRANGE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1853.
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* . finely lost both principal
The State ef New Yori
obligation,
where so effectu
parental roof. '1
sion
disguised as a friar
several times, but
dogged and robbed
In
gently
©sent
body
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of grapes* unani-
ere as fine as when
first taken from the vi^Q.
And the r
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respect
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tion, i
truth, ’
States
war.—Mobile Rc-
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I operates most efficiently in the prevention
of crime, is that which establishes sound
and correct views of moral and religious
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He has committed num-
, baa burned many ranch-
fl San Francisco.-—
obtained information
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reerfully a-
^donaiions
iy not have
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As the health and strength of
the mqre will the approachin
cured!
for tin
Gazctt
Joaquin., the
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pie of that St
gainst the chte
compaiugjjjor
providjillhat
anempted hen
of the associates living along complishment very
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import, can give a
import is directly
be obvious to all, t
tution of New York coul|
ole of that StuM^moi
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onomy of
in-
pro-
' as
practicable, for die accommodation and
instruction of suph children as are left
without parents or guardians, or whose
parents are totally regardless of their du-
ties,
cles for this
schools or hous<
uscular strength; is
re of arms and in dis-
position cruel and sanguinary. He has
a dark, sallow comblexion, and during
the Mexican war wfs known to wear a
coat of armor.
berless murders,
cs, and has resided
He has frequently
of Mexicans leaving California with mon-
ey, who have been
by detached portior s of his band,
some instances they have been robbed on
their arrival at Mexico—the news of their
departure, and the sums
had about them, having been forwarded
by means rr ‘Cl----——-
the road. Joaquin belonged to the band
of guerrillas commanded by the famous
Padre J urata, who w is captured and shot
during the Mexican
gist er. —
A. P. PosUy, Editor and Proprietor
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Administrators’ Notices, $5 00 each.
Advertisements not marked with the number wf
i mi QU nr will be published until forbid and
charged accordingly. ?irT 3
What is the value of such
constitutional provisions on I
r iL a* a. . - J ^3 ♦ Ia |
such a stratagem as was attempted by our ; subscribers,
last Legislature? ----11 c-ii--:--. u.
1 this question answered by the advocates Read it—
' of the bill whose caption we have given Whe
above. :
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wears a coat of m ail beneath his clothes.
He commands a bold and courageous
band of villians, w ho though they have
been thinned off b the unerring rifles of
the frontier marksmen, are yet sufficiently
numerous to pillage and destroy ranches
and thinly inhabited portions of the mines;
A Mexican who resided in. the city of
Mexico during the invasion by General
Scott, gives the San Francisco Whig the
mind which
can scare
other sphere,
private, may un
properly conducted; and the
they approxitna
economy, the me
are likely to accbmpli
however, if not the prit
are in a considerURte^
very early life, a^M
much experience al _________z
schools. It is therefore an object of i
terest, as an antidote to crime, that p-
vision should be made as extensively
pie way. This year
in abundance as late
We pick the grapes
out -with scissors any
berries, and then spr
the floor of a vacant
first covering the floor with paper.
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then pack them away in boxes, putting a
layer of cotton batting between each layer
of grapes. The boxeis we put in a cool,
dry" place. Last year we appropriated
a closet in the upper part of the house for
the purpose; and a party of friends who
“tasted” our last dish of grap<
mously declared they were as fine as when
L. Abbotts, Publiskki
policy, so clearly demanded by our peo-
ple. 4 A question at this time arises,
whether any portion of the ten millions
acquired by the sale of the Santa Fe ter-
ritory, shall be appropriated to the'sebool
fund, so as to give the people of die State
the blessings of those common schools,
provided for by the Constitution, at an
earlier period than would hare been prac-
ticable under the first inadequate provi-
sion ? But really we do not think there
is any question or doubt to the public
sentiment on this point. We believe if
the question was put to the. popular vote
to-morrow, more than ntne-tenths of our
citizens would be found in favor of enlarg-
ing the school fund, and establishing the
system of public education without further
delay. This requirement of the people
seems to have been well understood by
the last Legislature* and accordingly a
bill was introduced with this caption: <
“ An Act to appropriate, set apart, and
invesftwo millions of dollars as a perma-
nent school fund.”
We now ask the question, whether
any person^ could read this caption with-
out supposing the intention of the bill was
to apply two millions at once to the great
cause of common education by the State,
as contemplated by our Constitution ?
Could any one possibly imagine from this
caption, that the real object of the bill was
to loan two milliona at pace of the public
treasure to private ineprporatet'
nies? And yet this was the.ri
noy to the cause of education, so as to
.following account of him:
Joaquin was
torce, in the department of Jalisco. He
is aged about 35
among the most cijafty and daring guer-
rillas of Mexico. !
rious band of robb
le is chief of a noto-.
rs now infesting thW
vicinity of the city of Mexico, and though
living in California, has regular chain of
communicati6n with his associates in his
native country. He has been known to
enter the capital cit
—has been arrestc
through the expertriess, and influence be
wielded among the soldiery, he has been
discharged. He is about six feet in height
and of immense fv
well versed in the u
I ‘ ‘
Preserving Grapct.—We find no dif-
ficulty in preserving grapes in a very sim-
ve had fine Isabellas
s the 20th of April,
on a dry day, cut
imperfect or bruised
lad the bunches on
bom, or on shelves,
We
let them lie in this waf about a week, and
self-control, which may be rendered avail-
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not to be forgotten thai.lhe most momeno
tous part of edij
fficienlly in the prevention
of crime, is that which establishes sound
can probably be no
Uy done as under tlie
'he example, and occa-
sional precept of the parent, and the anx-
ious eare to check the sallies of vicious i On Helvy
desires, make impressions on the youthful
mind which are not easily erased, and
which can scarcely be equalled in any
Seminaries, public and
questionably do much if
e to the
re permanent
T/ie Boundary Question.—We learn
through the Western Texan that the San-
te Fe mail has arrived at San Antonio,
in thirteen, days from El Paso. The news
is important. Gov. Lane had demand-
ed from the State of Chihuahua possess-
ion of the territory improperly given up
by Commissioner Bartlett, which was re-
fused; the Governor immediately order-
ed out the militia to protect the claim of
the United States. We do not doubt
that President Pierce will fully sustain the
rights of our government on the question.
— Gale. Civilian.
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bill, and yet, in a
i caseo, have abso-
1 and interest.—
York pursued this
iog to companies, until its
ted to millions: and the
indignation asose so high as to
• change in the Constitution, by
tenge tbs Legislature was forever
td from making such loons, or so
j m to guard effectually against
|r lames for the future. And yet
ubkmns and restrictions of the
Constitution of New York are not
peremptory
<
of the bilL Instead of applying Ais mo-
ney to the cause of education, so as to
hasten the establishment of the Public
School System, the bill provided that it
----------sfoutff be given to private individuals or
companies, for an uncertain and indefinite
period of tiqp, and with, to say the least
of it, a very doubtful chance of its ever
being returned to the treasury at all.—
This last assertion is not made captiously,
or without abundant evidence from the
Actual experience^ other States* vWe
-----drWot mean to my that other States have
ever made loans to inc
nies, under this false a
tence of establishing common schools;
for such a gross attempt at imposition, we
presume, was never before heard of. But
we mean that ether States have passed
similar bills, with captions honestly and
plainly indicating their object, and which
could deceive nobody, by which large
. amounis bare been loaned to private com-
panies with fa Uy as good security as was
provided for in ‘ J s“ “
ring Robber of Cali-
furnia.—'Yhe land of gold is now sorely
famous Mexican robber, I
a the semi-fabulous ex- |
Turpin. He has been
orc closely the recepta-
glected class, whether
ief refuge; assimilate to
what the bouse or the parent ought to be,
ig age be se-
ainst a succession of candidates
Penitentiary.— Youth's Penny
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they ire
arts which
culated to please but for a brief
but which cannot confer h
upon themselves or f
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time become more dense; in the expec- intention ever {djt^pach
any one. Thorn ln<M
ever, be known to any ex
Searcher of hearts.
' Female Education and Influ- \
ence.—It is to be regretted, that as a
general thing so little attention is paid to
the education of girls. When we speak
of education, we do not refer to the too
prevalent practice of filling the heads of
young girls with trifles, or what may in >
most cases be considered worse; but to
their instruction of branches which might
be really useful to them in after life. If
instead of the merely fashionable accom- .
plishments of the day, which fit them to
preside gracefully at the piano, murder
the Freneb or Italian, or move with ease
in the ball-room, they were taught do-
mestic accomplishments, they would less
ferquently be found in pursuit of objects
at once ridiculous and expensive, nor
would their amusements be so fr
criminal. The women of the
day are in general, feeble both
and mind, and this feebleness arises from
education rather than nature. Vicious
indolence and inactivity, falsely called el-
egant ease, meet encouragement, rather
than exercise in those severer principles
of reason and sense, which strengthen
and invigorate. They are taught useless
arts which at best lead to vanity and sen-
suality. When we reflect that upon the
good or bad qualities of the female sex
depend in great measure the characte
our children, as well as our domestic a
fort, how important a.matter does pre
female education become. To tone
musical instrument with skill, is an
j pleasant to a to
and to make an exhibition of assume
natural gracefulness to admiring yo
men, may he highly gratifying to a yo
lady’s vanity, but the woman who wc
make her home a happy one, must |
sess other attractions. As motham
heads of families, she has an impuv
part to perform in the education of her
children. / -t • i
the body depends io a great measure upon
the method of treat moot while joum
does the wisdom or folly of the mind
pend greatly upon the mother’s mo<
thought and expression. The child
bibes instruction nowhere so readil
from the love, tenderness and convi
tion of the mother. Is it not there
to be deplored that while in the fonm
of the character both of our minds
bodies, so much depends upon tbeu<
acter of our mothers, they are m <
life taught only those arts which are
so disgraceful, as the one to which we
have referred. The professed object of
the bill, as Expressed in its caption, was
the very olject which it was calculated to
defeat. Instead of giving two millions to .
the School Fund for tire use of schools,
that amount was to be taken from the use
of schools, with an absolute certainty that
they could not have its use for many years
to come, and, with fully ten chances to
one, that they never would' have its use^
We candidly believe that no bill coyld
have been devised so well calculated to
give a death blow to the Ctkrihnon School
System, as provided for by our State
Constitution.
We have eroded these rerharks fur-
ther than we at first intended. The
speeches of Mr. Hamilton are more to
the purpose than anything we can say.—
But we bave dwelt upon this subject,
because (if we may judge-from our ex-
changes from different parts of the State)
il is again to be brought np before the
next Legislature, wlien the passage'of
the same, or a similar bill, will again be
attempted. It is true, we differ with
some of our cotemporaries as to the poli-
cy of giving railroad charters so indis-
criminately to all who apply for them,
and then building the roa^Js for them, or,
Which is the same thing, giving them
lauds and money that will amount to their
« they are built. But still,
H>e people should decide
and we sha.
iision. lf<j
id so as to justify
could be made
de desire it; and
would bave the
W6 :
imparls to the student those elementary
principles and rudiments of education in
the most pleasing and interesting manner.
The writer,of this notice has been pre-
sent on one or two occasions and witnes-
sed the close of the weekly exercises,
when the students reviewed their lessons
exhibited their proficiency in original
composition, and their progress and ad-
vancement in declamation. These exer-
cises were highly interesting, creditable
alike to the Professor a& well as the stu-
dents. : ,
We discover there is a disposition with
a number of parents in the South to send
their sous and daughters North in order
that they may receive an education giv-
ing a little more “polish” than that which
can be obtained in a Southern Institution.
This is ttn error—a false and\mistaken
notion, and the press should labor to en-
lighten the people upon true interests, not
only upon the subject of education, but
upon all others tduebing Southern rights
aird institutions. To educate our children
at home is one of .the principal measures
to be discussed at the Southern Conven-, _______
lion; which3s to assemble at Memphis on who seems to riv
the/1st Monday in June next. To spend ; ploits of Dick '
out wealth at home should be the desire
and ^irn of every friend of the South.—
be made by the State itself, for the great
cause of common education. That is
sufficiently indiciled in the Constitution
ilselfi by which one-tenth of our revenues,
in addition to the previous large donations
of public lands, was approbriated to that
object. But the fund thus created for
the support of public schools, was known
to be wholly inadequate to supply the
wants of so large a State as ours, with a
t population so widely dispersed that it was
impossible, in half the counties, to have
schools that eould conveniently accommo-
date more than half a dozen children each.
? It was therefore, by common consent, un-
derstood to be our true policy to permit
ibis fund to accumulate for a few years,
while our population would in the mean-
f >1
taiion that, by the time schools could be
conveniently organized in all our coun-
ties, tire common fund would be suffici-
- ently large to aid effectually in the estab-
lishment of such schools on a permanent
basis, by an equal and pro rata distribution
to each, according to tire number of pu-
pils. It was certainly never contemplated
that tins important era in our history for
the establislMuent of common schools,
should be postponed longer than till the
fund should become large enough to ac-
cohiplish the object in view. I
But since the above provision was
made for a system of common schools,
our State has come into possession of
means far more adequate to the .accom-
plishment of tire great measure of State
A question at this time arises,
me.—A writer in “The
says that neglect of
a I
omfortable support
*N<iany, who were
► nito courses
which have gradually led to fb« higher
While educalionVxven
generally cohducted, has an evident x
tendency, not oply to establish habits oTTh
u
!
Land of the South ! imperial land ?
How proud thy mountains rise!
How sweet thy scenes on every hand I
How fair thy covering skies ! *
But not for this—oh, not for these,
I love thy fields to roam;
mu hast a dearer spell to me—
Thou art my native home
able in proridinj for physical wants, it Mtekwrive* roll their liquid wealth,
’ “ u 3^_J.1enuaIed^k> the sea;
tous part of education, and that which Thy hills und vMJe
And green with.
Yet not for thy proud o^ean-streanM,'
Not for thine az tire-dome,
Sweet sunny South I I cling to thee,
Thou art my native home!
I’ve stood beneath Itali’s clime,
Belov’d of tale and song;
~ * yn’s hills, proud and sublime,
Where nature’s wonders throng—
By Tempe’s classic, sun-lit streams,
Where,gods of old did roam,
But ne’er have found so fair a land
As thou—my nativedjome ! .
And thou hast prouder glories too,
Than nature ever gave;
E^ace sheds o’er thee her genial dew,
■And freedom’s pinions wave :
flKr science flings her pearls around,
■Religion lifts her dome:—
These, these endear thee to my heart,
My own lov’d, native home!
And * . «»-■ •.
God bless thy ro«y girls !
Like sylvan flowers, they sweetly shine;
Their hearts arfe pure as •pearls !
ness circle them,
Wher’er their footsteps roam ;
Not love my native home?
Land of the South ! imperial lund ’
Then here’s a health to thee! I
Long as thy mountain barriers stand,
May’stthoube blest and free!
May dark dissension’s banner ne’er
Wave o’er thy fertile loam ;
But should it come, there’s one will die
To save his native home !
gage the attention of all. Education is a
subject of the deepest concern with the
•people; and when Colleges are establish-
ed at home, presenting every inducement
and possessing tire facilities for securing
a classical education, they should receive
the countenance and support of every
Christian philanthropist and. well wisher
of society.’
The advantages of health, pleasant sit-
uation, moral and religious influences,
cheapness of board, are most favorably
presented at the Aranama College, and
we most cordially recommend it to the
favorable notice and patronage of the pub-
lic. We learn that the annual examin-
ation or commencement of this Institution
will take place at the College building;
in Goliad, on the 1st and 2nd days of
June next. The occasion will be one
of much interest.—Ledger.
/The World Owes Me a Living.
BY FANNY FERN.
No. such thing, Mr. Fold-up-your-
hands; the world owes not a single cent!
You have done nothing these twenty years
but consume the products earned by the
sweat of other men’s brows.
“You have eat, and drank, and slept:
What t^en ?
Why cat, and drank, and slept again.”
And this is the sum total of your life.
And the world “ewes you a Jiving?”—
For what? How pomes it indebted to
you to that trifling-amount? What have
you done for it? What familyin distress
have you befriended? What products
bave you created? What miseries have
you alleviated? What acts have you
perfected? The world owes you a liv-
ing! idle man! Never was there a more
absurd idea! You have been a tax—a
sponge upon the world ever since you
came into it. It is your creditor in a
vast amount. Your liabilities are im-
mense, your assets are nothing, and yet
you say the world is owing you. Go to!
The amount in which you stand indebted
to the world is greater than you will ever
have the power to liquidate! You owe
the world the labor of your two strong
arms, and all the skill in work they might
have gained ; you owe the world the la-
bor of that brain of yours, the sympathies
of that heart, the energies of your being;
you owe the world the moral and intel-
lectual capabilities of a man J Awake,
then, from the dreamy do-nothing state of
slothfulness in which you live, and let us
no longer hear the false assertion that the
world is owing you, until you have done
something. —■ —
The Supreme Court, in Philadelphia,
has granted an injunction on the County
Commissioners to prevent the subscrip-
tion of two millions of dollars to the Sun-
bury and Erie Railroad.
■ kreoa than those of our own
/
cpst by tlrejjg
we are wijH
this questi|p|
bide such de
and loaqR|F3
' the CoriBtoti
i it ? Such atn3
very speedily, if tn
then these conapi
highest possible guarantee fur the faithful
fulfilment of our promises: they could
then repose in confidence and security
upon the aid that might thus be pledged
to them by the State, while, without such
constitutional sanction, nothing can be
more uncertain and precarious than this
school fund legislation giving them aid
under a false and deceitful name. We
do not believe that capitalists will lend the
millions required for our railroads, on the
basis of such legislation. They may for
a time be deceived io regard to the secu-
rity or certainty of that aid, but we ven-
ture to say they will understand it well,
before their money is actually invested in
Texas railroads. We therefore appre-
hend that those companies which depend
on such aid, will eventually bp disappoint-
ed ; and their disappointment will result
in the disappointment of our citizens at
large. There may be some, and we hope
there are, who will go to work without
placing any dependence upon such legis-
lation.
But however various and conflicting,
may be the opinions of our citizens in
regard to the proper system of internal
improvements to be adopted* it certainly
will not be denied that our citizens are
quite unanimously in favor of an honest
and bona fide appropriation to the Com-
mon School Fund, j Tire bill was there-
fore flot only objectionable as an attempt
to loan the public money contrary to the
express prohibition of the Constitution,
but as a measure, calculated to render
the defeat or indefinite postponement of
public schools, inevitable.—Galv. News.
The Methodist Church in Liberia com-
prises 1,130 members, 127 probationers,
20 local preachers, 20 Sunday Schools,
with 100 teachers, and 20 superintend-
ents ; 18 day. schools, with 617 scholars.
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Br tore from all fraud and imposition.
blished should not be severed
Aranama College.—This flourish-
'^a
ted
s can rai
cept .he
t we nfu
in all candor and sincerity,
a ■“ * n ■ l • • i
dependence is a matter that should en- 'leading his pursue r^ to imagine that he
bold and courageous
“heaven’s best gift to man” is thine;
via 1 • t ■
Like sylvan flowers,
Their hearts arfe pi
And grace and goodi
How can I then, whilst loving them,
charged accordingly.
The FubHc School Fund.
If there is any one measure more fully
•ad •explicitly demanded by the people
of this State than another, it that aoese
permanent and adequate provision should
That is
CauS^kof CrLml. T
s’ Itsviewj” i
and rel^iqpg instruction, and
want of the meai^s o
riot particularly vicious,
a • ■ • nJ ti r a k
class of crimes.
as
have petitioned for redress i
our repeated petitions
neglect and consequent injury.
which may define
scamps, are unfit longer to be the recipi-
ents of our favor.
Nor have we been wanting in attention
to these men. We have warned them
from time to time, by paper and by letter,
of a “Black List.” We have reminded
them of our circumstances—of our emi-
gration and settlement in Carlisle. We
have appealed to their sense of magna-
nimity and justice, and we have conjured
' them by all the ties of good fellowship,
to send us the “Almighty Dollar,” or we
would inevitable interrupt our connection
with them. But they have been deaf to
tire voice of justice, reason and humanity.
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the ne-
cessity that denounces our separation, and
hold them, as we hold all others like
them, scamps, when they don’t pay us:
when they do, the best of clever fellows
and good citizens.
WE, therefore, the editor of the Amer-
ican Democrat, appealing to all honest
men for the rectitude of our intentions,
do, in the name and by the authority of
our “better half’ and “nine small chil-
dren, and one at the bosom,” solemnly
publish and declare that, those men are,
and of right, ought to be strfcken from
our list of subscribers and that all connec-
troubled by a
To spend | ploits
i burning houses, ar d robbing and murder-
‘ iirg, and when shot at, he receives the
To aim at comrnerdial and industrial in- 'ball on his breast with perfect indifference,
issolve the friendly
•V
|we challenge a l V -
every constitution in the Lnited with a horde of villainous patrons (!) and ing institution, under the supervision and
______ __J , *' . to assume among mankind that separate control of Professor Shive, is located at
and even worse than worthless— would and just station to which his poverty and the very pleasant and healthy town of Go-
rity, without any of its substance, and a cent respect for the opinions of bis honest south-west of this city, on the San Anto-
It has been in successful ope-
ple, if its plainest provisions could be the causes wbidh have impelled him to the j ration for more than on&year, and at pre-
evaded by adopting it as a rule of legis- separation. •- \ sent bids fair to become one of the most
lation, that captions with a constitutional We hold these truths to be self-evident popular and useful institutions of learning
t---------— sanction to bills whose that they are endowed by their Creator in the wide and extensive State of Texas.
the rtelfeto. Ijfcjlitist with certain natural propensities, that a- , Professor Shive is a gentleman possessing
mt (Jtnsli- mong these is a disposition to eat, drink, all the requisite qualifications of a success-
Bthe pea- and keep themselves comfortably clad—r ful teacher. A ripe schqlar, a thorough
Action a- that to secure these blessings, laws were I disciplinarian, devotedly qrious, he gov-
of private instituted among men securing to the erns in a spirit of kindness, establishing “
Id one did, creditor his honest and just dues; but most perfect system of order, while he
en, as was when a villainous $300 exemption act
re name of becomes destructive of these ends, it is
jtaol fund, our right to institute a new system laying
■KftMRuf its foundation on such principles as to us
' shall seem most likely to secure vs in fu-
Pru-
fes of dei^B^ indeed, will dictate that friendships
fly, J||^G|ttablished should not be severed
^reat nBBBrt and transient causes; and accor-
BuPwe nTust say, | experience has shown that edi-
___________________________y , amfrifq|f the tors are more disposed to suffer while
most mature reflection, that we have! never these evils are sufferable, than to abolish
seen a bill brought before any legislative , the forms to which they are accustomed,
assembly, so glaringly refpreheRsible, and But when Jong standing abuses, and total
disrespect of every generous feeling, and
having in view the same object, evinces a
desire to reduce to absolute starvation he
who has for years labored to supply them
with mental aliment, it is his right, it is
his duty to repudiate old friendships arid
ptovide new guards for his future securi-
ty. The^ history of these outlaws, is a
history of repeated injuries and insults, all
having in view tire destruction of their
best friend and benefactor. /Fo prove
this let facts be submitted to the cant id
reader:’.^,;;
They have refused, time and again, to
pay up the first continental “dingbat,” al-
though repeatedly called on< to do so.
They have refused to supply us with,
pork, coal, corn, dats, potatoes* beans,
peas and poultry—although our appeals
were loud, long, and pathetic—fixins iry- .
estimable to us, and formidable to rascals
only.
They have refused to extend to us any
aid whatever, whereby to facilitate our
business operation; thus rendering us in
a measure incapable of pursuing with a
light heart and buoyant spirit our legiti-
mate business; our office in the mean-
time exposed to all the dangers of inva-
sion from without and convulsions within.
They have endeavored to prevent the
population of these States by depriving
us of the means necessary to feed and
clothe the young Naragansetts according
to our desires. J
They have combined with others to sub-
ject us to the worst of grievances, foreign
to our good nature, and unacknowledged
by our laws.
For cutting off our trade with paper
makers;
For imposing debts upon us without
our consent;
For depriving us in many cases of the
benefits of market money.
They have plundered our pockets,
cheated our creditors, “burned our fin-
gers,” and done sundry other barbarous
and cruel acts, totally unworthy the char-
acter of gentlemen.
In every stage of these oppressions, we
bave petitioned for redress in the most
humble terms;
have been answered only by repeated
neglect and consequent injury. Men,
whose characters are thus marked by acts
which may define a set of plundering
k Declaration of Independance.\j tion between them and us is, and ought
General Boyer the talented and able to be, totally dissolved. And for the sup- ■ Friends
. i i. vtx .. i .i.:, ----_ £— —! moral ;
be evaded by stricken off his list a number of delinquent ance on (he protection of our honest pa- 1
, In doing so he makes the <rons, we solemnly pledge renewed exer
We would like to see following bold and novel “Declaration.” Fions to our pen, our paste pot and
When, in the course of rascally events, i
We do not hesitate to make the asser- half starved edit
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we challenge
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Constitution. An important question here
State Legis- editor of the Carlisle (Pa.) Democrat, has port of this Declaration, with a firm reli-
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In doing so he makes the trons, we solemnly pledge renewed exer-1 have undoubtedly drive
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noble scissors.
Now Jonah, get the long pole and stir
’ it becomes, necessary for a hungry and UP die animals.
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denial of its ■ bands which have hitherto connected him
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to assume among mankind that separate control of Professor Shi>e, is loca
become a mere deceitful shadow of secu- independence of spirit entities him, a de- liad, Goliad county, some ninety miles
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gross and insulting mockery to the peo- supporters requires that he should declare nio river.
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