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To speak his thoughts, is every freeman’s right?
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SATURDAY, AuevsT 21.
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For the Patriot
HARD TIMES, No. VI.
The Application of the last Discourse.
In my last I presented you with a brief
exposition of a part of the 31st chapter
ot the book ‘of Proverbs. From which
may be seen the unspeakable happiness
resulting trom domestic industry j hore
particularly that part which comes under
the management of the wife and mistress
of the family. Surely ifthere beany thing
on earth that resembles the felicity enjoyed
by our first parents in Paradise, before the
fall, it is to be found in such a family.
But. perhaps, some may alledge,
description is all ideal—the effus
fervid imagination—a fine fanciul’
ture, which never was, nor will be reali-
zed, ¢ Who can find such a virtuous
preventit. There is no country op earth
| where smuggling can be carried on wilh
greater sufety than in ours, when it be-
comes an object worth attending to: con
sider the vast extent of seaboard from the
Southermost line of Louisiana, to Nova
Scotia ; and then along the frontiers of
Nova Scotia and Canada to the Lake of the
Woods ; and the vast number of inlets, and
a
}then say if smuggling can be prevented ;
or if any duties, however high, can protect
us from foreign importations were such 2
thing even desirable, Even many of
those very men who are now attemplng
to seduce the country people, with the fal
lacious pretext of laying heavy duties on
limiported goods, to. keep the motiey In th
country, wouldy no doubly, be among
the first, to send out of «t all’ they
conld raise, in smuggling adventures.
This is certainly saying nothing wors
of them than that they are men of like
1 ssions, and like propensities, with othe
men. Manis man~It is an exgellen
prayer, well adapted to the degenerate state
of human nature, ¢ lead us not into tempt
ation.” ¢We know not what manper o
spirit we are of)’ until we ave tried. It is
within all our recollection, that during
woman ’? Indeed it would be very diffi ‘our embargo, and nonintercourse, and non:
cuit to find her in any of our cities orlarge ls oo ortation laws, and even during, ou:
tewns, where the ereat fuss is raised about| othe prohibited goods ‘were as pient)
promoting ¢ wational industry.” There you's jie stores as ever ; though sold ex-
import Jarge quantitics more, and keepiBanks except a fev in his own city. Ag
them on hand, ubtil those duties are paya= jthe sate tie, tike the rest of his brethern
ble by law. - They can then add them to the ihe 15 advocating the prohibiiory scheme of
price of the goods, and thereby accumu= protecting duties with flaming zeal. M,
late a vast profit, while the consumers will] Niles iscertoinlya man of extensive he
pay the encreased duties tothem; a cent| formation and of correct politica
of which the government will never receive, | n.ents generally. It is somewhat strange
You cannot but remember how they mpn-ito find bim adveeating measures so demor.
aged those matters at the beginning of the jalizing in their consequences, and so oy.
late war. They imported vast quantities!pressive to tue husbandman and ali pein
of goods and landed them in direct opposi-i{sons employed in cultivating the soil
tion to law. They therehy forfeited them, either directly or indirectly—and so d :
and they gave their bonds to pay the for-lgerous to eur political freedom, by the
feiture ; but to save themselves, they (bearing they would have on oue elections,
took care to double the price of the goods, | It cannot be that he is induced to act the
and also their profits, at which. price they {part be is doing, because he lives in a great
sold them to tiie people of tite “country.— [trading city, which contains many daring
They managed, however, to seduce a ma- jadventurers in trade, and 1s an excell iit
jority in Congress to forgive them the scite for smugsling. His reputation for
forfeiture, and thus make them a present{honecsiy forbids sich a suppesition. Hig
of about thirty millions of dollars; which|imotives are no doubt honest, however er.
they collected off the people who were at|voneous. We would request him to read
the time oppressed with the neccessary (Grays ¢ Essential principles of the Wea ih
burdens of the war. These are some of|of Nations illustrated” and compare the
the ways by which the laboringipeople are jfacts and arguments therein sited, with
borre down by those cunning City 'swind- the deplorable situation of ihe journey rien
lers, And the better to cheat and deceive [many facturers, and all the other laboring
the gantry, they take care to sccure all classes in England, the country which he
thie Presses in the citics, and large towns, and his coadjuters hold up for our nnita-
to their interests® : and the country editors tion ; and then let. him say if he would
either have not the courage, or the sense|wish to sce those measures adopted herg
to expose their tricks. But I hope my|which have reduced the once Lappy, bug
countrymen, you will not suffer yourselvesinow wretched, yeomanry of that Couiltry to
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All=
can hear the praise of some useless court-
€zan, who can perform some antic pranks
on the stage with artful dexterity, or sing!
a fine sous at a'concert: but the praise of]
2 virtuous house gvite is never heard, be-’
J
cause scarcely jgver known there. But in
the country thes
Tt is true indee
price is far abov
wherever found ¢ he
ru! There is noth
ing on earth that, in pofnt of real value,
can bear any comparison vith her. = She
is the delight of her husband, a blessing to
her children, an example to her neighbors
ard the ornament. of society. There, are
however thousands of such wives in Penn-
svlvania—and hundreds = such in Centre
county.” There are raany men among us
blessed with stich wives. 1 wish every
such wife were blessed with a husband
and children of a corresponding chavac-
ter. Were it so we would certainly have
no reason to complain of herd times, nor
need we regard the tariff, nor protecting
duties. I think that if the husbands do
their part, there is no doubt but the wives
wiil perform theirs,
There are no doubt some indolent, and
some wasteful wives in our land ; but for
ong extravagant, idle wife, there ‘are two
such huashands. If there were 2s many
lazy, drunken, debauched wives,
are husbands, what a dreadful situation
would our country be in ?
} There are however in our country, many
industrious, virtuous husbands, and wives,
and chiidien, who are the life, and ‘soul
nd heart blood of the land 3 who by their
abor and economy, supply themselves, and
all other classes in ‘society; with all the
necessaries, comforts and conveniences of
life ¢ aud whose industry, above all others
ought to be protected 3 but instead of be.
ing protected, it has been considere! the
carcase upon which all the rapacicusywyul-
teres shall feast all times and in all
countries, the country farmers,
labourers, however, open
wir danger, and they can
emselves Let them not suffer
the fruits of their industry to be fiched
12m, under the! specious
i to fill the bellies
vy, trolickers aud gamblers of
tl and towns. Let us manufacture
‘I that we can with convenience and ad
vantage, and. upon the principles of justice
equal rights and free trade, but
find it
un
)
at
Let
tradesmen and
thelr eyes io ti
1 otect th
wy duties,
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)
when wp
useful and necessary, like the meres-
ts shifis, to bring part of our food, and part
of our clothing from ufar, let us not be the
fools to suffer the price to be enhanced
double or triple, by enormous taxes, to fil}
the coffers of swindiers and smugglers. —
Our industiious wives and daughters,
who, In our own families, ¢ make fine linen
& sell it; and give girdles to the merchant,
ought in return, on every principle of e-
quity and good policy, to have the mer-
chindize which they receivesin exchange
on thie very best & lowest terms possible.—
No matter {from what part of the world this
merchabdize comes, they ought to have it as
low as it can possibly be brought
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le,
But observe my countrymen, and
ember 1t carefully—high duties will
prevent foreign goods from being impor
ted. Wherever there is a market the
goods will “ Where the car
case 1s there will the eagles be gathered’
T © price will be enhanced, but the goods
wil come in. higher the duties, the
reme-
not
ye found.
or
ye Cc
Phe
stronger the tempta
‘The revenue will be defrauded. and the
deficlt must be suppl at
internal taxes, but ti
led. When prospett of
vil warrant the risk, there will
fa It will
tit: five hundred thousand men to
v COas as many
0
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vn
Yt
the ore
5
$3
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at profit
pienty
impossible to
vi
yenuurers.
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uc
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IC ou y anda samen as
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Ud Hall aul
and
re abundance of such. |
r,
etext of be sure, we soon
of by them called
{0 mars]
2
ur cost byl
he goods will be smug |;
bi iis y Ey : :
S41Ps of war would 0otiduties come into operation, take care
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travagantly high, which the consumer had
to pay. During nur embargo, our farmers
were obliged togsgll their gramat such
prices as scarcely paid the expence of ta.
pre it to market. It ‘all sold; however.
wis exported, nantwithstanding the
vigilance of our revenue officers ; and the
xporters made rapid fortunes by the sales,
a by the vast profits they made. ¢n the
goods they smuggled into the country with
the proceeds. Countrymen yourhave not
forgotten the illicit trade carricd olithrough
Amelia island, Passamoquaddyyfand the
Bermudas. Nor can you soon forget the
enormous prices which those who establish
ed manufacterics, duping the war, ‘charged
for their wares, and you know a great dea!
of what they brought'to market was trash;
thereby availing themselves of the distress
ses of their country to feather their nests —
By which some of them amassed immense.
fortunes in a few years. | They are now
combining to impose on the coultry peo.
ple the evils of war in time of peace;
to secure to themselves all the advants
To seduce us into their schemes, th
repeat their usual hackneyed slang, that i
will ‘bring money into the country and keep
it in it. That by paying twe prices foi
1! we want to buy; we will become pro-
28 there digious rich s tut remember competition
is the soul of trade and this they dread. =
Fellow countrymen, you have: heard
often those smooth tounged flattering ta
repeated by sly ‘8 Live
expedient which they” ct to fleece
they ‘tell you that it will make money plen-
ty, and that by yielding to it, you will be-
come vastly rich. A very few years ago
you were told that if a parcel of Banks
were established money would flow in all
directions, that the golden age of the po.
0)
ets would commence, and every one would |
have as much money as their hearts could
desire. The gilded ‘bait was greedily
swallowed. The promise’ of money has
a magical “nell Thete were one ot
more Banks opened in almos | \
in almost every county,
; Von 88 FR
and every village.
our Legislatures @
In a kind of delirium
red them ; and, to
orrents of what was
| noney : but a short time
discovered the cheat. It was soon obyi-
ous that this fictitious money drove all the
real money out of eirculation ; and that
(instead of producing wealth it produced
poverty and distress. The next expedient
| proposed, by the speeulators, was, that, to
(remove this evil, a huge Bank must be
‘established, for the whole United States:
‘which would make money that would pass
every where and then we would. all be
frich. In this they all succeeded.—All
|those xriel projects have been tried. You
know the result. How bave their fine
{plausible promises been realized ? Have
(they made. you rich and happy, or have
{they made you poor and pennyless? Haye
they filled the country with money, as they
told you they would, or have they drained
it of every thing deserving the name { J
flatter mysclf there are tew,now, but will
{admit, that all the distress that is now fel:
and all the derangement in the commerce
{of the country, have flown from this poi
isoned source. We have this consolation
{however, that this evil will in a short time,
remedy itself. But if you suffer those
{speculating projectors, who have so often
|deceived you, to carry the point they bow
| Have in view, you will never be able to re-
{cover what you will thereby lose. Be-
| i¢ geling system which they
{ wish to introduce, they have another lat-
ent object in view. The great merchants
s and large towns; have vast
rn goods now omghand
{whi have laid in cheap. ;
tind that they will succeed
{their extravagant prohibitor
iwi] betore
he
o
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| +e
in the cite
1
i
| quantities of foreig:
or
ch they
+! :
ti id
ya
V duties,
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CO the
~F ro ST
ity OI IFSC, c time ing {
to be facinated ont o! your rights any more.
rage would then bec
well bave votes.
and industry—
or) Their children shall arise and cail them
to be the dupes of their ruinous schemes!
any longer. Do not be lulled asleep by
their Syren songs. Let your voices be
heard —let them know that you are not
®hat yon will not labour to feed those]
idlers. That were they even to establish!
those manufactories, which they pretend
they will 2 yet that you donot wish to see
the youth of the eompiry, covped up inj
the workshops of the toWss ; the slaves of]
a few master manufactltrers. That |
donot wish to sce a race of puny, si
dwarfs, take the place of thie robust, ath-
letic yeomanry, which ‘new. inhabit cur
tand; and who are abie and willing to de-
fend it. That you do not wish to see ou:
election ground covered with crowds of
journeymen weavers, needlemakersy’ pip-
makers, buttonmakers, &c. &e.—led up to
the poll by their masters, to vote for who
ever they shall direct, and whose mandates
they dare not question. Universal suff’
ome instead f
a blessing, The s A
u will not be taxed a
em in idle pomp? L
jou do—Let them learn moderation
~ their wives and their
daughters ; it is yet, night
¥
as yours 3
"hen ¢ strength
and honor be. heir ing and they
shall rejoice in time to cume.” Their
husbands shall be known in the gates ;—
blessed. They will need no protect
ing duties, and swindlers and smugglers
anid speculators shall disappear from our
happy land. « Weshall go out with juy,
and be led forth with peace, Our moun
tains and our hills shall break forth before
Ws unto singing. Instead of the thorn shall
Come up the fir tree, and mmstead of the
brier shall come up the myrtle tree—there
shali be nothing to burt nor des roy in ali out
borders.” Our forests shall {all betore the
axe and grubbing hoe. There shall be no
mole growling and murmuging about hard
times. We shall no more be termed for-
saken ; neither shall our land be any more
termed desolate : but we shall be called
Hephzibah, and our land Beulah: for the
Lord shall delight in us and our land shall
be married. Our virtuous industrious
wives shall be as fruitful vines, and ou
children like olive plantsaround our tables
These are the precious promises of Jeho-
vah himself who cannot lie. They are no.
ike the promises of our combined club
and speculators, made to cheat and deceive,
and with a view to be broken. They wilt
all certainly be fulfilled, except by ou
own conduct we reject the profered bless-
mgs. We see how bountiful Providence
is to us, in heaping upon ws such abund |
ant crops of cvery thing that our climate
and soil is suited to produce Let us not
sacrifice his gifis upon artful cajolers.—
To conclude—+ Favor is deceitful’ =a re-|
dundancy of riches are corrupting—— beau. |
'y Is vain’—fine promises are treacherou
lures : but the woman, or man, that feareti
the Lord shall be altimately praised, how.
ever much pampered pomposities
affect to despise them.
A COUNTRY MECH
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nay
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TANIC.
the editor of the Weekly
lished ia# Bal:isnore, has fo.
i
lgainst the Union Bank
{sionby
their presetit desperate. situatio
though those measures might ma,
of his rich weighbors, and the city ‘capita
ists pengrally, vastly richer, at the expense
of ruinmg the country, people. We thinis
if heiegiws those matters in all their bear-
ing Sis cal will cool very much,
LY a
Remedy for the Dysentary
Take two large nutmegs grossiy pound.
ed, twenty pepper coins, and the sams
*
Ve . . W o - -
YOU number of cloves, an ounce of bruised cine
kiyl
tnamon, and an ounce of oak bark from an
jold tree, grossly rasped. Boil the whole in
three quatts ol milk, till it has diminished
a fourth part : then, straining the decosiiony
divide it into four equal parts, and give the
patient one portion every six hours, dap
and night, If the appetite be lust, sothag
the patient is unable to eat, this'roitk. will
afford sufficient nourishment. Tie dirsg
quantity taken warm appeases rhe paln sd
guiping : and the same is to rep: afd
the second and third deys. This remedy
cures, in three or four days, the flux of
blood and of the bowels, however violent,
It does not cure suddenly ; but softens ard
strengthens the bowels by slow and stra
degrees. In the mean time, if the patient
should wish for food, it may be taken by
him in moderation.
In the case of Chrisiopher Armat a+
of Georgetown, tho
di that
he
Hue De
Circuit Court has
must pay the whole
‘|dolar note, of which t
sented for payment,” and th
proved to have been lost
Auction Duties —The commissioned aucs
tioncers of the city and county of Philadels
phia, have paid into the state treasuty
twenty-two thousand, two hundred and six-
ty-one dollars, and seventy-four gents, for
the quarter; ending on the 30th Jane last.
Sona re
Divie Bethune. 7sq. treasurer of the Us.
ited Foreign Missionary Society, acknow=
iedpes the receipt of $1,645 77 since the
fast publication.
nip § Fn
‘
The directors of the Insurance Company
ofthe state of Pennsylvania have declared
a dividend of five per cent. on thelr capital
stock for the last six months.
— lp Tt i
Accounts from Nashville, (Tenn) of the
3d ult. state, that the cotton crops in that
state are more promising than they bhaio
been for a number of years.
Expedition to Texas. ~The Louisiana
Herald, ofthe 224 June, staics that racers
have been given [or the troops at Nachi-
tochez to march to the Sabine, 10 preven
the passing of auxilaries or supplies to tho
{independents in province of Texas.
+ bves
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—— $M —— 2
A St. Ritts naner, of the 6th uit. received
at Norfolk, confirms the account of the re=
cent defeat of the rAyalists in Da
I'he battle took place he 10th June at
Choppare, in Barcelo and the loss =us=
j bv the rovalists under col. COfredy
killed, besides prisonersy wotlhd-
ed, and the whoie of their baggage. Ai er
he battle, gen. Marino took up a POSIIOn,
promising ulterior advantages.
tone
tg rceiona.—
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AINE
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was
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State Senate — VVilliam Gilleland, esq.
1 member#®f Senate, from the district coms
sosed of the counties of York and Adains,
has resigned his seat in the Senate of Penn-
sylvaunia.
nn EP ——
Seperation of Maine ~1It appears by the
Boston Palladium, thatthere 1s a large ma-
inritv of the citizens of the district of Maine
¢
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ack been execraling all the
ie
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in favor of a seperation from Massach