from the FashS«« CB-MttnctK.
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A FRAG MEN 1".
" TT is contentment, not
X l-icbes," (aid he " that
makes a pei sou happy. Poor and
content, said the Poet, is rich e
nough." Ah ! ftid I, the Poet might
fay 10, or at least a person who bore
the name of a Poet might—but that
he was really a Poet, 1 deny. Po
verty has always been an unwelcome
attendant on good Poets, and it
plainly appears from t he ab«ve quo
tation from your would be Poet,
that he never expei ienced poverty ;
if he lud. be must have known that
it is jmpoflible for a man to be con
tent ed," when he is cold and hungry,
or when he has a beloved wife anil
children in a llarving condition,and
nothing where wit h to fill their bel
lies.—At that inftaut a rap, rap, rap
at the door. .Come in, said I.
Good morning, said my neighboui
S ,in a tone of voice Co very low
and dirge like, that I tho't nothing
less than his wife or eldest son was
dead. Good morning, said I.—
".Would you go over and help me
flcin my cow," said he, in the fame
key that he had bid me good morn
ing. — Your cow i.said 1, is your cow
dead! Yes, fir, said he, ffie got in
the mire latt night and is dead .— I
will go and help yon, laid 1, he
turned his back and went out.
Alas, poor Yorick ! said 1. not that
the death of this poor bead boreany
similitude to that ot Y orick, but that
sentence is so imprefTed on my mind,
that when I fee any petfon in dtf
tress I immediately exclaim, alas,
poor Yorick !— I will alter < l,e '«"•
tence iu the present cafe- Alas!
paor beast !—lf I had not forfaken
my mnfe 1 would write thyepitaph
tllou art gone —and whither no mor
tal can tell ; but the poor babes,
who expe«sted support from thy
teats, are still left to mourn thy un
timely fate. —It is for these p«or
babes I lament —Their lather has
not another cow.—Where \>ill he
get tnilk to feed them? Can i his
man feel contented ! —Ah ! Poverty,
" thou art a birter draught, this 1
know by experience, lor 1 have tact
ed thy very dregs.— Ye lons of af
fluence, remember the poor—consi
der that it is very probable that
your children will feel the pangs of
poverty, if yon should efcape-—coti
fider this, and lend the poor the
comforts of life, that ihe Great
Giver of all good things, may lend
them to your children. A. Z.
NEW-Haven, Julj 31.
ON the 25tl inflant died at bis
house in this city, the honorable
Roger Sherman, E(q. Senator of
the United States —He was taken
ill about the middle of May lad, and
from that time declined 1 ill his
death. His physician fuppoled his
d Harder to be seated in his liver.—
He was born at Newtown in MaU'a
chufetts, April 19, 172t. As he was
Hot favored with an education an
fwejable to his genius, his improve
■nents and the honors to which he
aitaine*d, were wholly from hisown
abilities. His father died when he
was but nineteen, and in the ,care
of his mother and of a large family
of brothers and fillers, he exhibited
unwfual filial piety and fraternal af
fection. He came to this then co
lony of Connecticut when he was of
the age of twenty-two, and at the
age of twenty-four was appointed
fui veyor of lands for the county in
whiffh he lived. From that lime he
was conllantly employed in public
btrfinets, and ftiftained the various
offices of a Jtiftice of the Pcace, a
Keprefewative in the General As
sembly, a Juflicc of the Court of
Common Pleas, an Afiillatit, si Judge
of the Superior Court of the State,
Mayor of the City, a Representative
of the State in Congress, and a Se
nator of the United States. He was
a member of the firfl Congress in
1774, was •present and signed the
glorious act of Independence in
1776, and invariably continued a
member of Congress from its firfl
exigence till his death, whenever
the law requiring a rotation in the
repvefentation admitted it.
It is worthy of reniaik, thai tho
lie futlained b> many otfic'ts in ilie
civil government both ol the State
ami of the I'nited States, to all
which he was promoted by the free
fuffrages i>{ his fellow citizeiu>, and
iu moil oi « hich he cauld not, with
out a new election, continue longer
than a year, and in the reft not lon
ger than two, three or four years ;
and although for all those offices
there were, as there always are in
popvlar governments, many compe
titors at every ele<stion, yet Mr.
Sherman was never removed from
any one of them, but by promotion
or by a6i us legislature rcquiiing a
rotation, or rendering the offices
incompatible with each oilier. Nor
with the re(lri<stion just mentioned,
did he ever lose his election to any
office to which he had once been
elected, excepting his eletftio" as a
representative of the town in the
General Aflembly ; which office we
all know is almeft constantly fhift-
ing. This Ihows, to how great a
degree, and how invariably lie pof
lefled the confidence of hi* fellow
citizens. They found by long ex
perience, that both his abilities and
his integrity merited their confi-
dence.
To have been constantly employ
ed in ihe public feiviee for forty
eight years—to have fuftaiued so
innny and so important public offices,
and 10 have fultained them all wirh
honorand reputation ; to hava main
tained an amiable character in every
private relation ; to have been from
early youth an ornament to f.hrifli
anity,, and to have died in a good
old age, in the full pofleffion of all
his honors, and of his powers both
of body and mind, is a rare attain
ment, and as to him at least, an hap
py junction of circumstances.
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