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All, Sir,
Small, Sir,
No bread at all, Sir, oh !
Oh! had I a wife, tho' half-starv'd like your
humble,
There's some consolation in something to
mumble ;
Yet I'm married tho' dingle —l tell you no
fibs, Sir,
For examine me well, I am nothing but
' ribs, Sir,
Fibs, Sit,
Ribs, Sir,
Nothing but ribs, Sir, oh !
Was ever poor servant in such a disaster !
I'm master'd by starving, and starv'd by mj
master;
I'm in a sad taking, withnothing to take, Sir,
I'd stake all I'm -worth to be "worth a beef
-steak, Sir,
Steak, Sir,
Take, Sir,
Take a beef-steak, Sir, oh !
-=-— — — — —^^=^^
For the Constitutionalist.
iterumque iterumque monebo." —VIRG.
ON the bloody catalogue of critics
•which disgrace the character of the
civilized world, and tarnish the page
on which our national character is
written, no one has acquired such uni.
versa! and such alarming prevalence as
that of duelling. The wretch who
is compelled by the griping hand of
poverty to seek a miserable sustenance
on the high.way, if over-taken by the
powerful arm of justice, is compelled
to linger out the worthless remains of
his existence in the recesses of a dun
geon. The midnight murderer whom
necessity obliged to sell his soul for
gold, receives the punishment of his
guilt on the scaffold, and groans out
his dying words in the Chains of a gib
bet. But the professed and acknow
ledgod duelist, who dyed his hands in
the blood of his associate whilst the
meridian sun stood witness to the deed,
not only mingles with safety in the
" busy hum of men," but his society is
courted with avidity, and contended
for with ardour by thegreat.
Is it because in the formation of his
frame, mercy, that noblest attribute of
Deity was excluded, —that when rais
ing his deadly weapon against his
brothers life, the thought that he is a
bout to consign a fellow mortal to
" That undiscovered country from whose,
bourne
No traveller returns,"
and a widow and orphans to irremdia
ble misery does not wrest it from him,
@nd palsy the arm that lifts it? No!
accuse not the Creator of partiality.
To his nature an equal share of mercy
was imparted as to other men, but the
evil passions grew and prospered, they
drove the cherub mercy from the re
cesses of his heart, and closed its iron
portals against the heavenly outcast.
But rather than exclaim indiscrimin
ately against this practice let us reason
upon' the danger of it as calmly as the
subject will permit. When a man is
insulted or charged with a crime he
must either be innocent or guilty. He
meets his accuser, terms are agreed on,
& they proceed to the work of murder
in a gentlemanly manner. If happy
enough to murder his adversary, he adds
to the weight of his former guilt, if
guilty of the crime alleged, that of the
most attrocious crime in the power of
man to commit and if innocent of it,
whole years of sorrow and repentance
cannot expiate his ggiilt alone. If his
Board -wages ! had, now bare boards are m,
Images ;
To^et into bad bread sure I had no call, Sir,
But bad bread is better than no bread at all,
Sir!
Farewell, old Coila's hills and dales,
Her heathy moors and winding vales;
The scenes where wretched fancy roves,
Pursuing past, unhappy loves!
Farewell, my friends ! farewell my foes !
My peace with these, rny love with those—
The bursting tears my heart declare,
Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
PUNNING SONG,
By G. Colman, Esq.
I AM worse than poor debtors coup'd up in
their cages;
The Autumn mourns her rip'ning cdrn
By early Winter's ravage torn :
Across her placid, azure sky,
She sees the scowling tempest fly:
Chill runs my blood to hear it rave,
I think upon the stormy wave,
Where many a danger I must dare,
Far from the bonnie tanks of Ayr.
'Tis not the surging billow's roar,
'Tis not that fatal, deadly shore ;
Tho' death in every shape appear,
The wretched have no mor^ to fear:
But round my heart the ties are bound, x
That heart transpierc'd with many a wound ;
Tliese bleed afresh, those ties I tear,
To leave the bonnie banks of Ayr.
POETRY.
—3 C<>O=
SONG.
By Robert Burns.
THE gloomy night is gath'ring fast,
Loud roars the wild inconstant blast,
Ton murky cloud is foul with rain,
I see it driving o'er the plain ;
The hunter now has left the moor,
The scatter'd coveys meet secure,
While here I wander, prest with eare,
Along the lonely banks of Ayr.
THE CENSOR....No. 2.
" It is natural to inquire how is this
deplorable state of our public councils
to be remeded ? The remedy is to be
sought only in the candor, wisdom and
virtue, of the people. In their choice
of representatives let them be governed
by that rule which guides a prudent
man in the selection of his private
agents ; let them inquire, " Is he hon
est, is he capable, is he faithful to the
Constitution ;" let them select for their
service men distinguished for their vir
tue, their superior talents, and proved
attachments to the interests and gov
ernment of their country ; and discard
from their favor the applicant whose
leading claim to their attention is that
servility which peculiarly fits him fora
party tool.
" Then, sir, we might confidently
hope, that the councils of our beloved
country would be again marked with
wisdom, firmness and magnanimity.—
The shame of that disgraceful miscon
duct which has brought us to the verge
of ruin at home, and to contempt
abroad, might yet be removed. That
scandalous waste and profusion in the
army and navy, forenriching hirelings,
and multiplying dependents, would be
reformed, and the people of the United
States once more become happy and
prosperous amongst themselves, and
regain that enviable height, in the view
of foreign nations, from which wehave,
of late, been so rapidly descending."
" Would to God that the great
body of the substantial yeomanry of
the country, the planter, the merchant
and the mechanic, could quit his plough,
his warehouse and his shop, and visit
Congress in their session ; that they
might fairly judge of the competency
of those to whom they have Committed
the helm of this mighty empire.
" The causes of this disgraceful state
of things are, I repeat it, sir, to be
found in the blind violence of .party
spirit, from the overflowings of which
men thirsting for office, ambitious of
its honors, or avaricious of its profits,
(as a torrent sweeps the fruits of the
orchard and the offal of the barn-yard
together) from the mere circumstance
of swimming on the same current, im
agine themselves converted into states
men. They keep alive that ferment
of party, in which they have risen
from the dregs of society, and without
which they would again sink to their
proper level.
,From the Georgetown Ind. American.
An old woman the other day acci
dentally in company with a person
just arrived from her native far distant
town, from which she had not heard
for twenty years, was particularly in
quisitive respecting a family once her
nearest neighbour.
" What has become of John the
eldest son ?"•
" John, madam, married a scold;
who drove him to the tavern ; he took
to drink, and died one day."
" That's bad ; and where is Joseph ?
" He is in the penetentiary for for
gery."
"That is worse ; and where is
Samuel
" Samuel, when he grew up, got
into Nd company, and turned demo
crat."
" Oh, worst of all—well, I always
said he would come to some bad end."
A Royal Epitaph.
King Charles 11. once said over his
bottle, in his usual lively way, that he
supposed some stupid pedant would
write a nonsensical epitaph on him when
he was gone. " Now ( says his majes
ty) I should like to have something
appropriate and witty—Rochester,let's
have a touch of your pen on the sub
ject." His lordship instantly obeyed
. 0
" Such, indeed, is the dearth of ca
pacity for business in most of the demo
cratic party, that the few individuals
amongst them who are respctable for
their ability, find themselves incom
pentent to the difficult task of manag
ing a machine in which the leaden
weightsaretoo numerous forits springs,
or to conceal or excuse the dangerous
errors and ruinous projects of their
partizans. So notorious has this im
becility become that the democratic
papers, their oracles of political wis
dom have repeatedly advised their
democratic friends to elect men of
more understanding or that their party
is ruined
adversary prove to be a better adept
in the art of murder than himself, he
enhances his guilt,, if the accusation
was true, and becomes criminal if it
was false, by exposing his life to the
malicious wantonness of a well-bred
murderer, and presents himself at the
bar of his judge with all his imperfec
tions on his head.
Extract of a Circular Letter frop
the Hon. Mr. Stanley, of North-
Carolina, Member of Congress, to
his Constituents.
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