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A. J. GERIITSON, Proprietor.l
the Democrat. - -
A History of the Great Struggle in
America between Liberty '
and Despotism:
Depositions taken to show what led to
the Horrid Massacre in Boston, March sth,
1;70:
"I, John Hill, aged sixty-nine, testify
that on Friday the 2d day of March cur
rent, I was at a house the corner of a pas- ,
sago-way leading to Mr. John Gray's
rope-walk, when I saw eight or ten sol
diers pass the window with clubs. I im-'
mediately got up and went to the door,
and found them returning from the rope
walk to the barracks; whence they again
very speedily reappeared, now increased
to the number of thirty or forty, armed
with clubs and - other weapons. In this
latter cornpany was a tall negro drummer,
to whom I called, You black, rascal,
what have you to do with white people's
quarrels?' Ho answered, 'I suppose I
may look on,' and went forward. I went
out directly and commanded the peace,
telling them I was in commission. But
they, not regarding me, knocked down a
ropemaker in my presence, and two or
three beating him with clubs, I endeavor
ed to relieve him, but on approacling the
fellows who were mauling him, one of
them with a great club struck at me with
such violence, that had , I not happily avoi
ded the blow, it might have been fatal to
me. The party last mentioned rushed in
towards the ropewalks and attacked the
ropemakers, but were soon beaten off.
And further I say not."
" IFNicholas Feriter, of lawful age, tes
tify Alt on Friday the 2d inst.; a soldier
of the 29th regiment came to Mr. John
Gray's ropewalks, and looking in at one
of the windows, said, with an oath, I
will have satisfaction,' and said be was
not afraid of any one in the ropewalks. I
stepped out of the window and immedi
ately knocked up his heels. On falling,'
his coat flew open, and a naked sword ap
peared, which was taken from him. He
then went to Green's barracks, and soon
returned with eight or nine more soldiers,
armed with clubs, and asked the men in
the warehouse why they bad abused the
soldier afordsaid ? The men in the ware
house payed the word down the walk for
the hands to.come up, which they did,
and soon beat them off. In a few min
utes the soldiers appeared -again at the
same place, reinforced to the number of
thirty or forty, armed with clubs and cut
lasses, and headed by a tall negro drum
mer with a cutlass chained to his body,
with which, at first rencontre, I received
a cut on the head ; but being immediate
ly supported by nine or ten of the rope
makers,armed with their wouldrinc , sticks,
we again beat them off. And further I
say not."
The first wound received by an Ameri
can patriot from the British soldiers, was
a cut on the head by a cutlass chained to
the body of a negro, and he beaded the
company which three days afterward
was engaged in the- Boston Mas
sacre. History also testifies that the
British bad been inciting the slaves
against their masters for two years pre
vious to this murderous .deed. "Yon
black rascal," said an American patriot to
this negro drummer armed with a cutlass,
" what have you to do with white peo
ples quarrels ?" Does that sound like
negro equality ? Does it not show con
clusively that the patriots of America ex
cluded negroe.s entirely from their politi
cal quarrels? That the phrase in the
Declaration of Independence, " all men
are created equal," referred only to the
people who put it forth—the white peo
ple of America ? They are the people
who declared "we are the equals, and not
the slaves or servants of the white peo
ple of Great Britain." "We are not sent
out to be slaves—we are the equals of
those who remained 'behind." These
were the declarations they put forth in
1765, eleven years before the declaration
of independence: " Americans held equal
rights with those in Britain,- not as con
ceded privileges, but as inherent,indefeas
ible rights. We have the rights of Eng
lishmen," was the common voice, " and
as such we are to be ruled by laws of our
own making, and tried by men of our own
condition. Our mother should remember
we are children and not slaves."
John Adams wrote in 1764, " Ileaven
is our witness,that we do not rejoice in the
effusion of blood, or the carnage of the
'human species ; but having been • forced
to draw the sword, we are -determined
never to shield it skives of Great Britain."
In 1165 be sup: ",We have been ;Old
that the word rights is an> oirehsiVe "ex
pression_ ; that Britain is the &other and
we the children; that a filial anti due
from 118 to her. But admitting , ire are
children, have not- children a right to
complain when their parents are, attempt
ing to break their' lifiabs, or to sell them
to enemies as duvet? There seems to be
a design on foot to enslave all Amer/car
It was their own liberty and their own
equality those-patriots of ; America were
contending for, and not the . equality. of
neg,roes. British }pants v 'prepar
ing the chains --:of slavery for their
white brethren of Americu,
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black brothers helped to put them on.—
This negro drummer who was armed with
a cutlass to kill the Ameriean people, was
but the first of thousands of "black nt.s
cals". who Were armed against the white
people of America. Ile was but the first
of a large army of negro recruits who re
fused not to fight against the Americans
in the war of - 1776, and but the first of
the tens of thousands who have been
armed in the present revolution with
"bullets and ballots" to help crush the
Liberties of America, and establish a Mil
itary Despotism.
Many of the British scldiers ' after their
arrival in Boston, deserted the Britigh
flag, and preferred to fight for : American
Liberty, or not fight at all. They came
to the people of Boston for protection,
and they refused to betray them. One of
theso deerters was hunted, captured and
shot on Boston Comtnon. Eight or nine
' more were captured, and their sentence
was punishment by whipping, which pun
ishment was inflicted by negro drummers.
Just, think of negroes whipping and lacer
ating the bodies of white men for sympa
thizing with Americans, who were
wrenged and oppressed by the tyranni
cal power of Great Britain ! Negroes
whippinn•Braisb soldiers for refusin , : , to
aid in reducing white men to slavery !
History says "these cruel spectacles were
revolting tb the Americans, who had
hitherto been strangers to such horrors."
The negroes were' used by British ty
rants as "tools,"—as instruments—as
agents, in placing the chains of slavery on
the American people. Our ancestors had
to fight for their liberties against their
Idaeh, and red brothers, notwithstan
ding that "God made of one blood -all mt•
lions to dwell upon the face of the earth."
Notwithstanding the glorious doctrine of
the " brotherhood of Man," our forefath.
ells, not cpiite a hundred years ago, were
tight t ing against Negroes, Indians and
W hites,who were united together for their
subjugation and enslavement. The first
step which Great Britain took to inspire
terror-in America, was 10 declare Massa.
chesetts in 4 a state of rebellion, and to
pledge the whole • force of the govern
ment to its reduction, by starving, calling
oat the savages, and inciting an •ineu-rrec
don among the slaves. Said Samuel John
son-:—"The slaves should be, set 'free—
they may be more grateful and honest
'than their masters."
To intimidate the Virginians, Lord
Dunmore, the Royal Governor, in April,
1775, issued various ,proclamations, and
circulated a rumor that he would excite
an insurrection of the slaves. He sent a
band in the night to carry off the gun
powder stored at Williamsburg. The par
ty succeeded in taking it away, but as
soon as it was known, drums were sent
through the city toalarm the inhabitants.
The people assembled and asked the Gov
ernor upon what motives the powder had
been carried off privatelyy, by an armed
force, at a time when they were appre
hensive of an insurrection among their
slaves. Lord Dnnmore abandoned him
self to rage and passion. "The whole coun
try," said he, "can easily to made a soli
tude, and by the living God ! if an insult
is offered to me or those who have obeyed
my orders, I will declare freedom to the
slaves, and lay the town in ashes !"
John W. Forney, who declared in 1862
that " another principle must be embod
ied in our reorganized or reconstructed
government; that the men who shaped
its legislation , must combine the forms of
a Republican with the powers of a Mon
archical government," emulated the zeal
of the loyal
. and patriotic governor under
a Monarchy. " Let us adopt the Roman
sentiment," said he, "that where there is
solitude there is peace. • Let tut make our
war a war of destruction and extermina
tion ! Let there be flame and bloodshed,
and barren lands; villages desolated—ev
ery vestige of property destroyed ! Let
every negro be emancipated ; let the
whole South be a desert. Let us confess
that this war is nothing less than a war
fol. empire."
Lord Dunmore' and Chevalier *Forney,
as is seen, were figting for one and the
same object. "I expect the Magistrates
of Williamsburg," said Lord Dunmore,
" to stop the march of the people now on
their way, before they enter this city ;
Otherwise it is my fixed purpose to. arm
all in own negroes, and 'declare' free all
others that will come to me. Ido enjoin
all )oval subjects to repair to my assist
ance; or I shall consider the whole conn
tty in rebellion, and myself at liberty to
annoy it by every possible means; and I
shall not hesitate at reducing houses to
ashes ; awl spreading devastation wherev
er I can reach."
Thq
people whd were_
. on their way to
Willidiniburg were men of the smile. prin
ciples as those of the North who are called
copperheads,: as is seen by the, banner
they carried. Patrick Henry- - headed
these_people and they_finallv drove Lord
Dunmore •oif their soil. These people
*ore gredulittittiik shirts, With. " Liberty
or Deatb,',' in . white letters, on the botionV
Their bapuer...diiiPlayeir 'coiled rattle-
Orike - With - the motto, ." Don't3treact - on,
.
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Roma in the next number:
MOiTROS'E r TUESDAY, JULY 2, -1_867.
FOURTH OF JULY.
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WHEN, in the course, of human events,
it becomes necessary. for ono people to
dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another, and to as
sumo among the powers of the earth, the
separate And equal station to which the
laws of nature and of nature's God entitle
them, a decent, respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the sepa
ration.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal; that they
are endowed by their Creator with cer
tain inalienable rights; that among these
are life li iberty, and the pursuit of happi
ness. liberty,
to secure these rights, guy-
ernments are instituted among men, de
riving their just powers from the consent
of die governed ; and that, whenever any
form of government becomes destructive
f these ends, it is the right of the people
to alter or abolish it, and to institute new
government., laying its foundations on
such principles, and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that gov
ernments long established should not be
changed for light or transient causes ; and
accordingly all experience bath shown
that mankind, are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are stiflerable, than to right
theinselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed. But, when
a long train of abuses and usurpations,pur
suing invariably the same object, evinces
a design to reduce them under absolute
despotism ; iti is their right, it is their du
ty, to throw off such government, and to
provide new guards for their future sects-
rity. Such has been the patient suffer
ance of the colonies, and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to alter
their. former systems of government. The
history of the present king of Great Bri
tain is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having, in direct object,
the establishment of an absolute tyranny
over these states.. To prove this, let facts
be submitted to a candid world:
He has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass
laws of immediate and pressing impor
tance, unless suspended in their opera
tions until his assent should be obtained :
and, when so suspended, he hiss utterly
neglected to attend to them.
lie has refused to pass other laws fur
the accommodation of large districts of
people, unless those people would relin
quish the right of representation in the
legislature ; a right inestimable to them
and tOrinidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bod
ies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and
distant from the repository of their public
records for the sole purpose of fatiguing
them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly,for opposing, with manly Srm
nese, his inva4ons on the rights of the
people.
He has refused, for a long time after
such dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected ; whereby the legislative powers,
incapable of annihilation, have returned to
the people at large for their exercise ; the
state remaining, in the meantime, exposed
to all the dangers of invasion from with
out, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the pop
ulation of these states; for that purpose
obstructing the laws of naturalization of
foreigners,l refusing to pass others to en
courage thOir migration thither, and rais
ing the conditions of new appropriations
of lands.
He has 'obstructed the administration
of justice, by refusing his assent to laws
for establishing judiciary powers.
He has Made judges dependent on his
will alone, or the tenure of their offices,
and the anibunt and payment of their sal
aries.
He has erected a multitude of new of
and Sent hither swarms of officers to
harrass ounpeople, and eat out their sub
stance.
He has kept among us, in time of peace,
standing - artnies,,without the consent of
our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military
independent of, and superior to, the civil.
power..
lie. has combined; with others, to sub=
ject us jurisdiction: foreign to our
constitution,} and unacknowledged by our.l
laws ; ,giving his assent' to their acts-of
pretended ,legisLltion—
.FASEl(plarterinn• 1a e ; bOdies 4iiiid
atn6v . ns : • •r' •
Forprotecting theni,"sbi Moct'frial t ,`,
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from prinishmunt fOr apy mniders which
theY*llcinidOdinait on the inhabitants uf
theke itates , i
• • arch"
"'For e'ritting ,, oft on * tfada
of thy •
'Pliit f iliiiitasikig
consent: '
FordepriVitig nfi, in many easeii; of the
benefit of trial by Pay :
For transportin,_ us beyond seas' to he
tried for pretende offences :
For abolishing the free-system of Eng
lish laws in a neighboring province, es
tablishing therein an arbitrary govern
ment, and enlargh'g its boundaries so as
to render it at once as example and fit i
1
in
strument for ' .ntr• awing the same abso
lute rule - into dies Colonies :
For taking awa our charters, abolish
ing our most valii ble laws, and altering,
fundamentally, th*forms of our govern
ments : ./.
For suspending our own legislatures;
and declaring- themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in all eases what
soever.
He has abdicated government here, by
declaring us out of his protection, and wa
ging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt onr towns, and destroyed
the lives of our people.
lo is, at this time, transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries to complete
the work of death, desolation, and tyran
ny, already begun, with circhmstances of
cruelty and perfidy scarcely patelleled in•
the most barbarous ages, and totally un
worthy the head of a civilized nation. .
He has constrained our fellow-citizens,
taken captive ortthe high seas, to bear
arms against their country, to become the
executioners .of their friends and breth
ren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Ile has excited 4jonteßtio insurrections
amongst us, and has endeavOred to bring
on the inhabitants of our frontiers the
merciless Indian savages, Whose known
rule of warfare is an undietkrgaisned de
struction of !all ages, sexes, and condi
tions.
In every stage of these oppressions, we
have petitioned for -reclressin the most
humble terms. Our repeated petitions
have been answered only by repeated in
jury. A prince, whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define a
tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free
people.
Nor have we been wanting in atten
tions to our British brethren.
We have warned them from time to
time, of ;the attempts, by their. legisla
ture:, t o catarna cm unwarrantable rice
diction over us. We have reminded them
of the' circumstances of our emigration
and settlement hero. We have appealed
to their native justice and magnanimity,
and we have conjured thern,: . by the ties of
kindred, to disavow thes6 usurpations,
which would inevitably interrupt our con-•
nections and correspondencek They, too,
'have been deaf to the voice of justice and
of consanguinity. We mist, therefore,
acquiesce in the necessity which denoun
ces our separation, and hold them, as we
hold the rest, of mankind, enemies in war,
in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of
the United States of America, in General
Congress assembled, appealing to the Su
preme Judge ,of the world . for the recti
tude of our intentions, do, in the Dante,
and by the authority of the good people,
of these colonies, solemnly publish and
declare that these United Colonies are,
and of right ought to be, free and inde
pendent States ; that they, are absolved
from all allegiance to the British crown,.
and that all political connection between:
them and the state of Great nritain is,
and ought to be totally dissolved; and
that, as free and independent States, they
have full power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, establish corn.
merce, and do all other acts and things
which independent antes may of right do.
And for the support of this declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of
Divine Providence, we mutually pledge
to each other our lives, our fortunes, and
our sacred honor.
The foregoing declaration was, by order
of CongreFis, engrossed, and signed by the
following members:
JOHN HANCOCK,
New Hamphsbire. Pennsylvania.
Josiah Bartlett, Robert Morris,
William Whipple, Benjamin Rush,
Matthew Thornton, Benjatilin Franklin,,
, John Morton,
MaSsaclinsetts Bay. George Clymer,
SamuerAdains, James, Smith,
John Adams, George Taylor,
Robert Treat Payne. James Wilson,
Elbridge Gerry. George Roes,
Rhode Island. Delaware.
Stephen Hopkins, Caesar Rodney,
William Eliery. . George Read,
ThotnaiblWean
Connecticut. • '
RogerSherinan; •", i Maryland.
Samnel Hnotington,Sainttel Chase, •
Williams, William Para, 1 *
Oliver !Wolbott. :Thomas Sione,
I
Nioil.• • Carrollton:
William -Floyd, - ; •••••
Philip Livingston, .
Francis Lewis, George Wythe,
Lewis Morris. Rickard Henry Lee,
New .Ter4ey.'' 'Thonias Jeffersou,,
.Riehard Stdcliton, 'l3enjarnirr Harrison, ,
Francie HOOkiiispijordes 'high tfonatiti,
'Sohn Hart; ri 7 j . .;Caitif'Bri'Wikty - 2 , '
'Abraham !I
North-Carolina. -.Thomas Lyneh, Jr.,
Williarn-Hooper, -Arthur ldiddleten, '
Joseph Hewes, •• • , ,';
John Penn. ", , Georgia'.
South Carolina. :Button Gwinnett.
Edward Rutledge, -Lyman Hall,
Thos. Heyward, Jr.,George Walton.
Taking- a Bean in Raise.' 7
.
Theb,f..! ayette. Courier.says :
A rlady of : this city camp : home
o'6.abbath School . Convention last
evenßlo..with an escortAtint iievatwy,eare
01d,. - rOoiarg in his first pair.of suspenders
and wholly.
,lanlearned t -jn:,the : sublime
mysteries of pomatum find the arrange
ment.of his black, hair: nather. a young
bean," we remark. " Well, yeas !" said
she, He is a spring chickenve taken to
raise Ye see, Mr. Editor, the beaux of
the present day—that is the stock on hand
aro so worthless that I have concluded to
raise one of my own, to my own liking.
You s ec," she continued, "all the 'fellers'
worth having went to the war, the most
of them were married, and so many en
gaged that of those who lived to return
there are not enough to go round, and so
I've concluded to raise one. I've had him
out this evening taking the first lesson. I
think wheUTI get him finished up he will
be just the thing. The first. lesson I shall
seek to impress upon his mind is the ineff
able meanness of a young man to sneak off
to au ice cream saloon, t concert or lec
ture without asking me or some other
good fooking girl along. Isbell teach him
that an occasional drive to the country, or
a horseback ride to Nobes' Dural Retreat,
is eminently the proper thing, and I shall
him-i.watmor stag dances and gen
tlemen's euchre parties as an abomination,
and , poker as an unpardonable sin. I ex
pect, liim to be a light and an example to
the beaux of Lafayette, and revive if pos
sible the days of the ancient gallantry,
when a young man was not ashamed to be
seen, in public places with his mother, his
sister, or some other interesting friend of
the . calico persuasion. If there is any
thing in diet and J. ). could ascertain just
what Jupiter Jove and Apollo fed their
sons after they emerged from , the Milky
Way, I would adopt it for my little beau
as his regular rations. I infer that half our
Lafayette beaux were raised on spoon
victuals. for they are the flattest of spoonies.
I have seen them at an evening party, after
dancing themselves out of breath' and
, punishing the refreshments, steal off to
the coat-room and sneak homealone, leav-
ing twenty young ladies without an escort.
If my little beau, when. I get, him raiscd,
ever does anything of that, sort, he will
bring my gray waterfall in sorrow to the
grave. I intend he shall know something
too, and be able to carry on fifteen rnin
utet? conversation without exhibiting his
poverty of attaitim cuts." She ran on in
this strain for twenty minutes, and if the
boy survives " his raising," ho will be a
model of his kind.
Sharp Shooting Between Bonne!.
At a county court, hotd not a hundred
miles from this city, a distingished mem
ber of the bar, in appealing to the court for
discharge ofbis client, wound up with the
statement that if the court sent him on
for farther trial, a stain wonld be left, upon
his character that could not bo washed off
"by all the waters of blue ocean, and all
the soap that could be manufactured from
the ponderous carcass of the Common•
wealth's attorney." c To this, the ponder
ous attorney uromptly replied that, while
be " deemed it foreign to the case at bar,
be desired to advise the court if they
thoughteit advisable to boil his body into
soap, that they should look to the opposite
counsel for the concentrated lye out of
which to make it !" Court, bar and spec
taters, exploded, and our informant know
eth nothing more even now.—Lynchburg
News.
An Awful Rumor.
A Washington correspondent notices
the fact that many of the intelligent ne
groes are in favor of a re-emigration of
their race to their native Africa, where a
black Republic, modeled after the Ameri
can fashion, invites them. • What on earth
would become of the "loyal" party of
this country if the negro should leave?
'Every °nevi' the " eternal verities" would
go , with them, and thousands of lusty fel
lows, who are now living by politics, would
have to take up the " shovel and the hoe,"
thrown down by the black.—Brooklyn
Eagle.
More Reaction.
An'election was recently held iu the
second grand diiisiOn of Illinois, for
Judge, winch resulted in the' election of a
Demberat by-a' majority of 4,230: In No
vember, last ~. year, the Radicali3 carrier
•the muno.dietriet be. a' majority of 3,044.
Time it tvill by'seen that the reaction in,
Ccinnecticut has extended to the We'st;
A change,as decidild iu other States' \rill
give D6rnoCritic.,nii►jorities in nearly all
the States.:.`
144mv,.—An Efopliant,
ninetr." Gimtio
broke from the 1- circus, ,
broke into abonta,dozeif alobii.scnriset
waggo, bli . 6l6kthrough h bridge,
ietli -iiiiiviia4h&-;bx* iteneck,. - 9etalb
creature. 074.
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_ Granting an. Expositors.
M. It. had failed ; - that is, 1. Series of
misfortunes: unlooked for; 'and - agahuit
which it was impossible to provide, had
reduced his. means, so that he -was unable
to meet his,engagements. With a gloom
cif mind natural ender the circumstances,
13: prepared to his creditors and give
them satisfaction, sic far as he wee able.
The day on which they assembled at his
counting-room :was rainy and dreary--41
day on which a singlegleamings,ray of the
sun would have . been, to Jinn, R.blessing.
'The creditors were therd arentld' a
table ' and with. gloomy broWs they await
ed the announde.ment of the amount they
wereite expect Upon each dollar they_ had
advanced to the broken merchant. B. ap 7
peered with an expression of resignation
upon his countenance, and yet it was not
difficult to perceive the suppressed agony
in his heart.
For a time there was a silent examina
tion of books and papers, as each creditor
sought to ascertain the amount for which
he would have to suffer. Then a man of
ready syni i pathies, to whom his faience
was painful, remarked, "It is a. rainy
day." •' Yes," replied. 8., and there was
now a beam of light on his countenance,
" but it will not always be rainy." The
tone and nature of this expression struck
the sympathizing trierchant i and he almost
immediately arose, and proposed that an
extension should be granted, to allow B.
to recover from his disasters. There was
but little discussion. 'The proposition was
unanimously agreed to. Tho result of
this extension was, that B. returned to
his business with .a light heart, , labored
earnestly and devotedly, and in a snrpris
ingly abort time wafi enabled to pay all he
was indebted.
—On one occasion as the Rev. Matthew
'Milks, a celebrated London preacher was
on his Vey to a meeting of ministers, be
got caught in a shower in the place called
BillinWsgate, where a large number of wo
men dcaling in fish, who were using most
profane and vulgar language. As he stopp
ed under a shed in the midst of them; he
felt called upon to give at least his testi
mony against their wickedness.
" Don't you think," said he, speaking
with the greatest deliberation• and solem
nity, " I Shan appear d a swift witness
ogainot - you 4 'are any ofklagrnont, s"
" I presume so," said one, "for the big
gest rogue always turns state's evidence.'
Mathew, when he got to the meeting,
related the incident.
" Anti what did you say in reply, Mr.
Wilks ?" said ono of the ministers pres
ent.
" What could I?" was the characteris
tic, reply.
Fniniqnsrap.—flow often we speak of
friends as though they might be found
on every hand ; and yet how little friend
ship we find in this busy world 1 A truef
friend is ono who will cling to you in adver
sity, sympathize with you in sorrow, and
rejoice with you in prosperity. Ho is
being who feels, who thinks, who acts,
from the purest motives. Friendship is
one of the noblest feelings—one of the
grandest privileges of humanity; it can
only be found in connection with the no
blest sours; of merit and virtue unitea. In
fact to posese true friends, you need the
most complete and nicest 'power of dis
crimination in selecting them, a natural
gift to cherish them, with the most, un
selfishness.
" I TELL you my fat friend, Iron have no
business in that boat," said Theodore
Hook one day to a fat man in a dingy on
the Thames. "No business in this boat,
sir? What do you mean ?" "I mean
what I say," cooly responded Hook. "Yon
have no business in it, .and I will prove
it." " I think, sir, you will prove no such
thing," said the navigator. "Perhaps
you don't know, sir, that this is my own
pleasure boat ?" "That's it," said Hobk,
" now yon have it. No man can have any
business in a pleasure boat. Good day,
sir."
AN exchange, speaking of the. magic
strains of a band organ, says;
"When he played Dog Tray' we
noticed eleven pups sitting on their
haunches in front of the machine, brush
ing the tears \ from their eyes with• their
fore aws."
—At a recent jointly held media` in
Tennessee, the Democratic speaker, Eth
eridge, was presented with a bouquet by
a white lady. The Radical speaker, May
nard was similarly honored by a black—
bd y. •
IT is said that fourteen thousand four
hundred and twenty-three tons of stone
were thrown out by a single blast, with
three kegs of powder, at a quarry in Mid
letow n, Conn. - , on t he 7th instant—the
largest blast ever - made ,there.
•,—Lord Buckingbam was once at dinner ,
where a Mr. Grubb was required fo sing:
lie begged to be °soused urging that' he
knew not what . to sing. • "Sing 'l'd be a
butterfly," suggested the nobleman.
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