The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-07-24 00:00:00, page 4

Bold they approach'd—a council's held, -
Our men, with voice united cry,
" Rather than basely deign to yield,"
66 They'd meet their fate and boldly
die :''
The fight now rag'd—from fide to fide
The thund'ring cannon's dreadful
found;
With purple stain the deck was dy'd,
Which iffu'd from each gaping wound.
Such havoc now stern death has made,
Vain our refiftance-—nought could
shield;
Wounds and fatigue on valour prey'd,
And with reluctance did we yield :
But scarce our batter'd hull we quit,
, Scarce from the sturdy wreck retire,
'Ere up Ihe blew, 'fham'd to be beat,
Shrouding her form in sheets of fire.
fflCceUanp. •
"So allfauldfpak vuboje Irofy befew glow
With patriotic ardour-joJhould a& ™
Each matron, virgin, &each bride to whom
(<Jfa, a brother, or a bujband ? s far.<
''[fennel;]}
YOUNG LADIES— to ARMS.
: 'A: % 'S< ' : ' • V. '•
The following pleating and patriotic
event, lately occurred in one of the
Southern States. —The noble example
' deserves general imitation.
A NUMBER of young ladies, observ
ing their brothers, levers and fathers,
forming themselves into different difei
plined companies, to tender their lives
and fortunes to defence of their injured
^country, fired with the amor patriae, and
Spurning the degrading thought of drag
ging out a miserable exigence in a coun
try debated by foreign domination, they
entered into an aflociation to promote
,by every measure in their power, a de
termined spirit of opposition, and resolv
ed to prefect a new formed company of
, young gentlemen an American flag, ex
, ecuted by their own hands, Notice of|
' ? ^^' ^.4.,^ ,
With passions unruffled, untainted with
pride,
• By reason my life let me square ; ,
The wants of my nature are cheaply (up
ply'd,
And the rest is but folly and care.
The b!effings which Providence freely
has lent,
I'll justly and gratefully prize ;
While sweet meditation-and cheerful con
tent,,
Shall make me both healthy and wife.
Impleafures, the great man's poffeflions
display,
Unenvy'd I'll challenge my part ;
For ev'ry fair objed my eyes can furyey,
Contributes to gladden my heart.
How vainly, thro' infinite troubles and
ftrife,
Do many their labors employ ;
Since all that is truly delightful in life,
Is what all, if they please, may enjoy.
SO N G.
THE CAPTURED CREW.
NIGHT scarce her mantle had with
drew,
And slowly ufher'd in the morn,
When bearing down, we 'fpied in view.
The savage foe not far afferent /
The stoutest trembled—small our crew,
The viaims of superior power ;
Yet courage bid the drooping few
Wait calmly for the fatal hour.
NO glory I covet, no riches I want,
Ambition is nothing to me ;
The one thing I beg of kind heaven to
grant,
Is a mind independent and free.
True Happiness.
THE Mibulet.
SENTIMENTAL MEDLEY.
which being given td the effembled com
pany, a deputation of young officers was
appointed to receive it in front of a bal
cony, where the ladies assembled for this
purpose.— One of whom gracefully pre
fented the flag, accompanied by the fol
lowing laconic and truly patriotic speech:
"Gentlemen,,
" Please to accept the American
flag made by our handi. The ty
rants and robbers of corrupted Eu
rope, will not fuffer ui to enjoy
that liberty, peace and happineb,
we have been accustomed to con
template from our earliest infancy,
at an inheritance bequeathed to ui
by the blood and fufferingi of our
virtUQUi fathers. Receive this em
blem of our independence. To
GOD, and to you, we commit
our protection and happineft."
To which one of the Officers replied.—
" Ladies,
" From four fair hands we re
ceive the glorious emblem of A
merican independence.—Our most
ardent wifhet, in common with the
general voice of our country, wag
to have exhibited to corrupted Eu
rope the novel example of Offer
ing even outrages of the basest
kind, rather thin to have had re
course to the diabolical practice of
war and human carnage, as cho'
life was not in the course of nature
(efficiently short. But since our
honor—our fafety and happinefy —
our all is at flake—we (hall cling
to the flag now presented by you;
and while a drop of blood fliws in
our veins, we will proted you, and
defend the fair inheritance be
queathed to us by our fathers—
determined not to survive the hor
rid (pedicle of beholding Ameri
caa debated and humiliated na
tion.
66 We will convince that eccle
siastical tyrant and apostate spy,
Talleyrand, that he knows noth
ing of the American genius in
comparing us to the infigaificant
and degraded republics of Venice
and Genoa. No I France may as
well attempt to pull down the
Moon as to subdue the unconquer
able spirit of Americans.* Be
calm— be confident —-Heaven is
with ui—We (hall rife gloriously
triumphant— for even in ourdeathi
we are sure of vi&ory, and we will
transmit to unborn million of hap
py future American#, that inde
pendence and liberty committed
io trust to our charge, and fouch
from the wreck of nationt, and the
crush of empirei, a foot on the
globe where liberty dwelli—and
to which the oppressed of all couri
,tiea may io due time fly for an
.asylum."
Does there exist a man, woman,
or child, who poffeffea a spark of
spirit or public virtue that can
read the foregoing pathetic feene
without emotion, and being inspir
ed with enthufiaflic ardour in the
defence of our country. Ruth on,
brave Americans ! Suffer not an
inch of our territory to be defiled !
* They mistook our love)
of Peace and domestic virtues
for pusillanimity, but their
repeated aggreffioas have
forced the sword to leap
from its scabbard.
'' TO RAISE TH± GENIUS, A N Q^O MEND THE HEART."
r The AnJwer to the Addrejs
OF THE,
Legislature of Newbampjbire.
Gentlemen,
MY most refpedful and affec
tionate thanks are due to
your two honorable Houses for an
Address, tranfmiued to me by
ycur excellent Governor, and pre
ferred to me by your Representa
tives in Congrefi.
The American nation appears
to me as it does to you, on the
point of being drawn into the vot'
tex of European war—ycur entire
faishaigo in the administration of
the federal government, and in the
perseverance which has market its
endeavors to adjust our disputes
with France, is very precious to
me. Distressing and alarming as
the political situation of this coun
try is, I am coo feious that no mea
sures on my part have been want,
ing that could have honorably ren
dered it otherwise. The indigni
ties which have been so repeatedly
offered to our Ambassadors, the
greateff of which is the left unexarn
pled in felt, in choosing out one of
the three, and discarding the other
t„, the wrongs and injuries to
our commerce, by French depre
dations, the legal declaration, in
effed, of boftilitics against all our
commerce, and the apparent difpo
firion of the government of France,
to render further negotiation not
only nugatory, but disgraceful and
ruinous. You may tax the French
government with ingratitude, with
much mere justice than yourselves.
. The increafiog union among the
people and their Legifhturei, is as
encouraging as it is agreeable.—
The precept " divide & conquer,"
was never exemplified io the eyes
of mankind in so striking and re
markable a manner, as of late in
Europe I— Every old republic has
fallen before.—lf America has not
spirit and sense enough to learn
wisdom from the example of so
many republican cataftrophies puff
ing io review before her eyes, fee
deserves to fuffer, and most certain!,
will fall. —1 am happy to assure
you, that as far as my information
extendi, the opposition to the fed
eral government in all the ether
States, as well as in Newhamp
fhire; is too small to merit the
name of divifan ; it is a difference
of Sentiment on public meafurei,
not an alienation of affection to
their country.
The War-worn foldieri, and the
brave and hardy sons of New
hampthire, Second to none in Skill,
enter prize or courage in war, will
never Surrender the independence,
or consent to the dishonor of their
country.
,Ireturn my warmest wishes for
your health and happineft.
JQHN ADAMS.
Philadelphia, June 29,1798.
Toasts. %
Aln^ paper wq re*
ceive is full and overflowing!
with Tbafts-.-They in gener- 1
[al possess merit; but fre
quently and neceffarily^ they
Sments dressed in
new habiliments. To give
the whole would more than
fill our Sheet. However, as
originals, we feled the foL
lowing :-----At Philadelphia.
" The opptftim. May the man who dares
to flop the machine of government, be
crushed undefr its wheels.” At North
hampton. " May we have no Efacs to
fell their birthright." At Worcester.
^Mr. Gerry. May he have the protec.
tion of Daniel, when in the Lion's den.
''The American People, May they never
. bluth at the pletogh, nor tremble at the
jword." —" The land we hut in May it
produce thistles inftcad of wheat, and
cockles instead cf barky, for the genera
tion who (hall basely surrender the right
and privileges which have been purchased
with the blood of their fathers.'
By the Rev. Mr. Austin, " The bravest
American, who shall die on the Altar of
his country, repelling the aggressions of
France—Ma, he never want a monu
ment to perpetuate his memory ; orrhe
melancholy song of female tendemefs to
celebrate his virtues." At Hallowell.
"Our Federal Councils— May they, like
Franklin, (natch the lightning from Hea
ven, and, like Archimedes, turn it to the
deftrudion of our enemies.——" John
Adams. May he, like Sampson, flay
thousands of Frenchmen with the jaw
bone of Jefferfon —" The memory of de
parted heroes ; our liberties bought by
their blood, we swear to defend with
our own." — [Here the com,an, rose and Jo!-
ernnly repeated the teaft,with uplifted banal]
At Baltimore. " The bottom of Mount
^tna to the Congress of Monticella^''—
At Wifcaffe;. "The flat-bottomed boats
and rafts of France—May a friendly gale
waft them within the reach of the hardy
teamen of Old England." At Med
field. " The Unt d States— May they
never bejubdued by a joe, nor divided by
a faaioa." At Gloucester. " The
Clergy—Under the banner of the Prince
of Peace, may they fuccefsfully contend
against atheism, deism, and every princi
ple which tends to the fubvetfion of reli
gion, and good government." At
Concord. " The French part, in Congrefi.
May they be as closely doomed to the
pathway of rectitude, as Sisyphus to his
Stone, or Ixion to his Wheel." at
Dedham. " Peace with fafety and hon
or, or war with vigor. If we must pay
the French tribute, may it be in our way.
Freedom of speech—let the revilers of
our government "have rope enough.-
For honest men of all parties, the cordof
friendfllip ; for traitors and foreign spies,
the bangman's cord." At Fryeburg,
fametimes called Pigvackti. " The Ja
cobins of America—May they be expos
ed, nabed and hungry, to all the winds of
Heaven ; and, Nebuchadnezzar-like,
feed on thistles, and Jie down on thorns."
" The Soldiers who defended our Inde
pendence— May they ever find a good al
lowance of provisions, and when the, shall
have finifhed their tour of duty upon earth,
may they all pitch their tents in the Elysian
fields, and draw fall ,a, from the Right
Hand of the God of Battles." 5 cheers. 4
ORIGINAL ANECDOTE.
CHUBAEL CROW, a noted
„ horse-jockey, in Connec-
cicut, not many years since,
met a stranger whose horse
very much pleased his fancy.
Crow immediately determin
ed to have the horse, and ac
cordingly dared him to fwop;
and by praaifing some of
those art§and intrigues so fa
miliar to gentlemen of that
profeffion, finally effected his
purpose, greatly to the disad
vantage ofthe stranger. The
priest of the parish hearing of
the tranfa&ion, reprimanded 0
him in severe terms for his
conduct "Why ? " fays Crow,
" I a&ed agreeably to the
scriptural precept, he was a4
flranger, and I took him in."