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PHILANTHROPOS, N°. 7.
FOR THE M/R>OUR.-- MRRUmLL ,
A N apology may be expected by some, for
my long silence; by others, an apology
will be thought nece&ry for my again in
truding on their time and patience— to the
fatter, I shall not make any ; to the former,
ffiall only fay, I have the common excuse,
" Want of time or in other fjords, my
catK>ns have been such that I have nqf had
opportunity tojelea such fubjedsasl thought
most ufeful And now so many present
themselves, that it is difficult for me to de
termine which to take up firft—But upon
the whole, I think War, fiixll be my pres
ent theme.—l am, Mr. Printer, much dis
turbed With the gentlemen " of the type,"
that they, jn detailing the events of the pres
ent deftru&ive European war, mould use
such expreffiens as many of them do ; as,
when they give an account of a battle which
ends in the death of thousands, to preface it
with " GLORIOUS NEWS," as it it was a
glorious adion for beings,, next in the chain
to Angels, to fend thousands of their fellow
creatures suddenly into an awful eternity ;
and not only that, but by so doing, deprive
tens es thousands of their fellow creatures of
their fathers, husbands and brothers, and
thereby ensure the ruin of numberless fami
lies. Such language, to the thinking mind,
mull, instead of gratifying, make it shudder :
I think if a victory is gained, and it ends on
the fide of what we suppose justice, that such
language might be made use of as to convey
.our agreeable sensations, without the great
words " GLORIOUS NEWS."
Give me leave now, to call a page or two<
for I never promised to fend you much of my
own produaion :—" Suffer me to execrate
that wanton and insatiable power, which
-scatters desolation over the land! Ah, this
dire Demon of battle ! this D^m^, who, with
giant footfteps,, tramples upon the best ante
most beautiful ^ffe&ions of the foul—who 1
delights to hear t be wail of the wounded, and
the groans of the expiring—-whose vessels.
fail upon a sea of tears, and are wafted by
sighs which are extorted from the boforOr*— I
Ifee, I fee the sanguinary powers—he shoots
athwart the realms of affrighted fancy, ina
robe of crimson. ten times dyed ip the blood
of hh votaries—the foft verdure of life spring
withers as he advances—the streams of plenT:
tv, which fertilized a happy world, (tend
checked in their progrrfs, or roll onward a
bid of troubled Waters—behold where the
futhlefs moriarch approaches—the bounties
and the beauties of nature fail before hinf
territories are torn up by the roots, and em,.
pires mingle in the common ravage. Behold,
chained to this triumphal car, fear, despair,
and all the family of pain ; while the lover,
the friend, the father, the widow, ,he or
phan, and all the,W ues, bleed in the pro
cession. Dreadful, dreadful retinue ! And
all for what ? wherefore is the peace of the
world thus teibi destroyed ? wherefore is
man to raise hishand against the life of man,
be f///, if thou canfr! the rulmbf different
, realms, in the wanton exertion of power,
infringe on what is falfely called the property
, ofeach othep-Meh who are utter strangers,
to the very p^rfons of each other, and are fep
^, perhaps, by partitions of a thouff
leagues, quarrel for a few vite acres of the
dirt which fell presently cover the toiling
• race ; and the lives of a people are devoted
to the fword.-Eyth itfelf, wide as is ex-,
tended her beautiful domain, is not 10^2,0
mortals to divide
^ e, /f are ,P%
eries of a very mart life, with moral,
illite ficill pvilc iiifficiprit
flaugfeer Thfchtfrty of the feene, the din
(frownstne cry^o^ thave time
whence the has been driven—Oh how iropi-
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ity which equally attends the shout of vifto
ry and the fhreik of defeat—could they be
hold <he inconsolable wife fink upon her
widowed bed, and the child, ftretcKipg forth
its little hands in vain to greet a returning
father, —a father, left naked, mangled, and
unburied, upon a foreign and an inhospita
ble shore—would not the torch of human
pity assert its foftening pressure, and all agree
to cultivate the bleffiogs of universal broth
erhood ? How many wretches, forlorn and
fallen, are at this inffant pining away on the
sorrow-steeped cooeh%while the heedless mul
titude echo the praises of one who has earn
ed a laurel at the expense of adding acrer to
his King, and anguilh to his country-women.
Jam one who can never be persuaded that
the human form divine, the express image
of the deity—is created thus fair, and thus
amiable,to be cruelly fpdrted away in the riots
of ambition, pride and folly." ——l give the
above as dropping from a female pen—l pur
pose in my next number to purfae the f& #
jea° r '
FOR THE MIRROUR.
mr. RUSSELL,——R, infating tbe following
lines inyoar ujeful channel, you spill abundantly
oblige federal perusers of the Mir rour.
^ OBSERVATOR, N% I.
YT7HEN we fee parents fuffer their chil-
VV dren to run about the streets, in the
most shameless and illbred Banner— at: the
fame time, that they h ave a feat of ufeful
literature within a mile or two of thei r dwell
ings- fiirely, we must Conclude that it is a
curie for children to be born of such careless
parents. What can your expectations be, if
you let them go ph and waste the most im
portant part of their lives in mere folly ?—
My dear Sirs, what horrour must your guilty
conferences feel when you are called to give
an account of your ftewardfhip,,and your pff
fprings appear as witnesses against you !—
'O! ye guilty parents, make off your flupid
ify before if be too late ! for if you negle&
Ithetritehitein their youth,andty your neg
ligence they are* undone for this world, and
the world to comb—What &mc will ma^
your guilty faces ! What poignant grief will i
seize your conferences ! What heart rending
agonies will take pofleffion of your breasts,
when you approach the presence of an Om
nipotent Gon !!—,lf you are inftiumenta[/
in havingthem brought up in ignorance,
unacquainted with the hol, fcripthres, un
acquainted with religion and morality ,—in
Ihort, unacqu^Rt^ upth every thing but
vice anq filly —How! (fhfcking so relate !)
Hdw! will-you scream wi±wild amazement,
and rend the very Heavens with yourcries;
when you are obliged to call op the rflsffll:
mountains, ty hide your obnoxious heads,
from the frowns p's art inctyd Dea, !f But
what will rocks and mountains avail when
the heavens are wrapt togetherdik# ^ferelir v
and the earth con fumed with fervent beat!—
Therefore tarn, egrtat, implore, ,nd cqnp.
jurryoty not to neglect any longer ondof the
'moft important duties that ever was required
of the children of men—but if you disregard
these heart-felt entreaties, I can fa, no more,
but you ,must answer for it, before men, an
gels, archangels, and Gob himfelf ! - !
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^^^^QRTHEMIRR&IIR.,
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T'VE lately been a journey—You may with
J, to have the journal of it, together with
my fefle&ipns thereon—Know, tten, infra;
w^f, that this was the line of my route lat;
erally, (or in other words, to the right hand
and left,) : %
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Horizontally, (or in other words, uphill and
down) th'e path was pretty much as follows,
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@l, — /,. HERMIT A s the Woods.
r MONITOR
I i MIRRUUf & '
digaity, % the glory, & the happipefs of man.”
But although A virtuous arid benevolent, that
is to fay, a good- mind; is the proper foil for
that codeftial plaht, HknpiNESs, to flourifli^
in—yet there are many@her things, from
Which much,fatisfaaion may be derived.
'Firft, L^tti perfen be of a fociabie make,
and possessed of a competent share oT good
sense—a little ferifibility and wit affo, would
not bearpifs—then let him have a tew fenfl
ble, sociable, faithful friends, (if it be possi
ble so find fudhj—fret him foe a few well
chofen bocks to peruse, ntewfpapefs weekly to
read—a new magazine now and then to tum
ble over, a few correspondents to write him
good letters—let him have a house, garden,
grove, and orchard—some swarms of bees;
and trees of fruit—let him have some little
amusements within, for winter evenings, and
some pretty rural walk without, to breathe
the framer air- let him have some agreea
'ble aciffaintinces to visit, good health, and
cash enough to keep ft^n-looking poverty W
a very fefpeQable djftgnce— Let him have
these, and one thing else*, and then, if
he be not happy, 'tis truly because the D— 1
is in him. W. S. W.,
# The author is here fuppofedlo mean avnvE.
FOR THE MIRROUR.
" Men are of nothing so liberal a, of
their advices."
IF it be afad why men are jo free in giving
away advice, it may be anfaere#, became it
is generally of merj little 'vaht.„lrcojh the giver
nothing, and it is jeldum worth a, thing to the
receiver: infrnaion I t&he lo be different from
adfee. Wereldijpojed to acquire a knmledge
in:mufih or any mechanical art, I &mld, like a
• frudent man^afol, to feme perlon fy^ in ^
matter b voiJbed (0 learn, to be my 'infirußor. —
Profefonal men fauld befu,fofed better acquaint
ed wilh ibefmßce oj their profeffion, than tho,
auhofe pursuits are different.
!.ifem"^ " likreife a mfrrent thing from
advice. Aman, who has travelled a read dha^
not, cart inform me ^bat accommodations be mis
with, and give me such an idea of tbe counby as
.could never be .obtained by analog, or conjeflurr. ;
All i fauld afe of him iftytonation about bi;
difeofyeriH.' But wbetber Ifall travel that „ts.
o#»fy fldprforfyW'&ef^^ teu
etyten ^btd&s not diveß bitten 4ty, nkrill
have therm badly direßed. h i, ver, ^ualfor
men to /elicit 4d^jcerqDitb # „ fyofyatf
bu^d^anQ r fy af ° 4 gff^pte 0 f
\bdffiriff. '^ there.feWtam njtlts any good from
fellowingfucb advice. The various lontingeiclfr
which attend the affaire ts ever, individual, and
which can be known, or which perhaps ought to
be &who*ty t^ bimfelf, make it exftdiett that
ever,rcfinjhid be the keeper of his own Secrets;
l and the manager of bis own concerns. Theft who
have jo littlejagpeit, as to need advice, will, in
most instances, have too little judgment to determine
whether what is given them, be proper. That
knowledge which is most beneficial, is therefelt
yfegprtietie'e. Isl look fidfriend for direßion
l about m, affairs, be must predicate bis advise not
cn an, experience which isyeculiarl, applicable to
my case, and therefore I bad better do without it.f
may aJk him fir faßs ; t ma, ask him to recite
inflanty of fois o^n experience, but Imuft ntyelf
judge Whether m, ftuation be similar to bis, and
if I have dijeerament enough do tell whether bis'
coufya be a model for M,&&n, 1 have like*ife
enoughs, aa vlithoMfab, model. \ - _;,
1 furnifas,fi r % argument @g&, the b#y
est of general advice, that ^urfriends aJk,o eem
pmf&itofdr it. A lav,er demands a rlcompnfe
faall,he counsel be profefaall, gives, andfo
does a physician. Yet either of them pill pretend
the, take a picture in giving advice gratts, that
is out of the line of their pfof#on. Their <fting
'^otbityfoade a prettygood pref, that it u.
folate * ^pe^g^rtte
mtnH% M, ^bm% ^4^" ^^,
%ft „% <b.rre %%,,
rea/on u obvious. No man,can so ceffletel,Rate.
Lis caje to another peso, at to gsve him a prfrf
tfof^& circumfances. Some material point
™''"'ff"''%T'^'^^
dhat begot titili&fyf\i^^u tyofifidi fai&.
od»r^ bit, afaisthe prdßice o) the if ass
e^gc' in commercial affairs.' The lawyer fol^
purpose, and fuel? as will authorize a cOncl&fon, - ^
tfa unity a person dtpends on bis ciurjudgment
for the general mm^mene if bis affairs, be run^
fa rijque that they Will never ,be well managed,
ftiTeCON^l^^^
Gather u, tbcfrrgrantf; that nothing he Its,
WAS a family order; givehaf era pteh-'
tiful total, Sfone-who cbuM infant
ly command a Supply of bread. Thepewer
of Providence is exercised with the fame wife
economy, as the pswtr of miracles. Neith
er of them is proftitufed to the grarifratfotr
of luxury, or the encouragement of florhand *
laziness. In the divine TO© there' is no
iptrifrifene^iatid Ihete bright tb be'noffe ih b
(ours. Providence is bountiful, but net wafte
ful fits blessings are bellowed freely; but hot.
lavishly. We^re to.receive them thatifcfifllyr
and & them ffflg!fffrria iofelhemfefcate-'
leffhefs, nor fiha#drflhefh awfyttbirfrau?
gance. The nun who gathers upwhat heav
en gives, and who friers niching so he foft,
will always have a supply. -He who receives'
not what is offered; or preserves not wbrt is'
cast into his hands, 'will al ways be in want.
!My friend Pr 6%bus is a prbfp&&fl htrf
bandman.* His Crops of grain rinO/htyate'
plentiful, his cattle are in heart, arid his cows
afford him better arid ' cbeefe inhabit ridimce.
Some, who live near him, on fermras large,*
andtof nearly fhc fJmequalitf,'lrioh^lf theirs
bread corn ; arc dMitute of hayerefy faring,
and from the iamembthber of rows;'have
scarcely milk fefr their families. -They wbn<[
dir what is the matter Theyfay tri Proi-"
dris, '' There if a friiKar bleff/ng on your
husbandry." f '<NW lays he, " there is np~
greater bhiongs sent to me, than to you.—
The only d^pffcftif< &a m foft ready to
receive and impfo^e ife T^^
clearly, and iharQ fallsas seraUy on yc,r
farms, as on mine; but they will de you no
good, if you fowno feed in season, or make
no fence nntil, the cr^pifdgftroyed ,PfQ
ipatterii, nefflrwm^^ them tariff fenced
them effeftually,gather my grain whtait is
ripe, house it before the rain,; have ruined it,
;threth if before &he rats Jiave eaten half of.
;it, and what I ineari to Spare, I fell when I .
have a good market? '1 ridver so confirifemy'
old fta.r& as to reap m, grain before it is,
ripe, or.run so muQ i» debt for rum or #ny I
I thing else, as to,hrelh for my gregityr, when
Iffiould be preparing tor another crop. I cut
,my grass wberiit is iriits proper fflg ffi,]
proportion my,!^ck to my forcer. Irevery
destroy my grain ormy mowing,grals by,
feeding them down 19, the fprimg. ,1 keep^
my cattle well, and m'y'oxen are strong, arid
my cows yield me plenty of rnilk. My wife/
in her department, uses the fame economy.
1 She gathers up the fragments and fuffas op
thing to be loft. What cannot be immediate
ly applied to human use, she applies to some
other use, whic^ ultimately turns to the ben
efit of the family. She cuts her pork in the
barrel with &ten*(>ii; so that one third of it
is not reduced to morsels and scraps, and
thrown by for soap grease. H^dairy she at,
tends with care, and her cheese, is net half
destroyed by maggots. When she makes her
bread, fhedoes not let it stand urim it is too
four to be eaten, oilekveit ih the oven until/
o it is reduced to a coal, and thfphrowjt to
the hogs. She knows haw to time ber visits.
She mends her children's clothes before they
. are tattered^iiff& rags*.She makes every
thing which Shandies go as far as it can.
Nothing is loft in her hand, Thuswe man
age our affairs, We aft id concert, often
advising, but fever opposing each other-
Ifthere corner a blessing, we have the benefit
of it. Use the fame economy and indaftry
within doors and without, and you will have
' your share of the common blessing, and find
that Providence is more impartial, than you
tfeem to imagine. ^ri ^
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;- ... Pfa f^ Notice.
29 ^Bo,&7^r ac<wi n &CU%Q,
4 „pr,fa,tffl, and the,^ requefad
,„wfa#fcffQ,>U^ tb,rf secoamr
raul be talum out of the lQlt $ bander— and ~=r
[Num. 103.],^