The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1795-04-04 00:00:00, page 4

TWO gentlemen having
had lome high words, one of
them was leen the ensuing
morning taking the mean re
venge of chalking “ d Rafea!”
again II the door of his oppo
nent. The latter called after
wards at his house, the serv
ant informed him his mailer
was not at home, and enquir
ed whether he Ihould deliver
any particular message to him
on his return ? O no, replied
the gentleman, I called mere
ly out of compliment, as he
left his name at my house this
morning.
§ Poet’s Corner. f
Fr^m the Amber Ji Journal.
tylr. CoVERLY, .
By inerting the following Unit in your Po
epi Corner, you will oblige one ofyour con
fl ant cujiomers.
BEHOLD Belon a mounts the paper
C3T *
And summons forth our fcribling Tons of
WStJ , . , J
dilcord ciOthed with cornmand,
And ipite, and envy raging hand in hand;
Fell malice is their furious charaftcri
And direful vengeance hastens up rhe rear,
• To arms,to arms,’’the cruel goddess cries,
*■ Let Amherst new to fierceft combat rile,
li L'et ev’ry fcribblcr fharpea up his quill, T
«« And laUy forth, and draw it if he will, >
“Its ten io one buthe may chance to kill. J
«« Or inilead of ink, charge ev’ry pen with
lies,
<< And (hoot them forth, like hail-stones
from the fk’es, < ■
“ In either case, you fee its quickly Bone,
“ The quill is chang’d to either (word or
gun*
»< Let ev’ry man prepare a paper shield,
*• For his defence, when fummon’d to the
field ;
•• For charafters are fir*d at, & not the head,
• Qu lls ps sforguns,& calumlny forlead.”
Thus (poke the enaid of war, & difappearS^
And leave all Jmherji, grappled by the ears.
M*
YONDER ! under tbofe
ragged rocks, where the
paleful yews waving their fa
ble branches of mournful cy
press throws an awful gloom ;
a den dark and ghastly opens
its horrid mouth I ’Tis there
idleness is lodged, the great
thief of time, and destroyer of
innocence and human felicity.
What a dreadful cave!
how it yawns amid the noi
some lakes and shaggy bushes!
Vices and fins breed here; like
monsters they hiss with impu
dence, and howl with too
late repentance. Security and
Carelessness, half asleep, lie at
the mouth of the den, Sloth
and Ignorance, joined hand in
hand, stalk around* Hark!
how their mingled yells echo
in the caverns of the
rocks, and drive downy
footed silence far away I Prod
igality and Wantonness hover
aloft, anil call their votaries
to the Icene of irrecoverable
kfs, and to the prison of uq-
A PEEP into the DEN of
ANECDOTE.
* The Printing-Press.
Miscellany.
IDLENESS.
avoidable de ft ru&ion, which
at a little distance opens be
fore them j—there crowds led
on by Erfor, and intoxicated
with Folly, sport in ruin.
But what dieadful figure is
that now emerging from the
cave I—Riot and NoUe attend
him, and Bacchus (jolly god)
and Venus(bewitchingqueen)
appear in the rear. That fig
ure is idienels, for defiance
appears in his looks, and te
merity and effrontery are
ftampt in indelible characters
on his brow. Ebriety too with
slushed cheeks and daggering
gait appears in the group,
whilst light-footed Mirth, led
on by Gaity, dances to the
warbling notes of the birds of
pleasure.
All around fee the traps
put up to catch the imprudent
the giddy,Sc the thoughtless I
Artfully are they coveted over!
but Wifdcm’s keen eye lees
the dangerous fnaress and
turns back with abhorrence.
Come, heaven born Peace
and meek eyed Religion ’*Oh!
come, and destroy this horrid
denj this rueful (pot, where
Deftru&ion lecretly lurks, and
where crowds daily unwarrily
resort, to inevitable and deli
cious ruin.
FROM THE EAGLE.
VIGIL, No. 17.
** fefnoww, & totnorrow, tomorrGnvfn
Shakespeare.
I JUST now fat me down, with
my pipe puffing away difqui-'
ccudr, when, as well became me,
1 began to rominate on- fume
" grave” fubjedt for a VIGIL —
But, as though I had chafed away
every fparkof folly from society,
and all around me appeared inno
cence and peace; I could find no
theme of inquiry, on which to vent
either nry pity or my Ipleen . Yet
thinking, that perhaps my power
of invention might be more than
wfually supine, for energy of in
telled depends much on accident,
1 betook myfelf to the old hackni
ed refuge <e tomorrow?
Tomorrow t said I, perchance; ac
cident may pop into my mind
some hint,that may be " profitable
to di red” As if there had been a
kind of fatality attending it, in
order to prove the above remark,
that invention depends on acci
dental causes, this very word " to
morrow" difeovered to my mind a
large scope for critical dilquifnion
and Ct grave" remark.
" Tomorrow !" What ruin has
this one word occalioned ? Not
only ruin of moral charafter and
fame-, but, of the statesman’s
schemes, the scholar’s talents, and
the husbandman’s corn t
Where the months and years,
which have been squandered away
And lee yonder the deceiving
waters of pleasure and fi'thy
lakes of impurity ; a fink of
vice and fin where evil con
ceptions breed, an<£ hell-bred
monsters Iport in the sordid ।
waves. I am (hocked at the
very heart at the fight !
on * tomorrows? withont energy
or a&ion, to be enumerated, the
sum would appear a portion of
time fufficient for preparing, and
peopling, a world, as large as the
one we now inhabit.
What is the reason, that fom6
men, w.thin the compass of an
ge, effect three times so much as
others? Nothing is plainer-—lt
is because they observe the mo
ments as they pals; and do not
calculate their gam by “ tomor-
Were*T an ad pr at arithme
tic, £ might prove, by Addition
and Subtraction, that by mode
rate attention to business one sixth
part of a dollar may be earned
■ kar to day ; whereas, by (loth,
the fame sum, will be (oft ; for
men must eat, though they do not
work. 1 might calculate this tor
ten, twenty, or forty years, which
would amount to a handfopre sum,
perhaps between two and three
thousand dollars: enough to se
cure old age against want, at least,
if not in honorable eale & plenty.
The merchant, whoj on Sunday,
Ihuts up (hop, and rides out of
Town for pleasure, but rising up
on Monday morning,reafons thus;
“ perhaps in ail this day not one
customer would call at my (hop,
if I were at home: and if they
should, fhere are other {hops in
town, kept by thole, who are just
fr fur drudgery, where they may
be [applied, It can’t make much
odds, /even years henre I will
e’en ftav, and keep h op till a to
morrow? Tiur merchant, £ lay,
Ought to re^bn thus. It no out
would call to trade at my {hop,
many will probably ride by and
lee my doors ba: red, and bolted :
and a retailer’s (hop (hut up looks
a little like " want of jiock? or
credit _ /
Just io it is with the mechanic.
Hammers and awls are good, for
naugh. They earn no bread,
while the workman is drinking
gin.
It isi femewhat different With
the farmer, £ acknowledge-, his
crop may grow, while he sleeps
provided be does not use too many
“ tomorrows ' io planting and fowi
ingrf YetJ remember, last Juee
to have heard the following dia
logue, between my neighbor
Loungabcut and his wife.
Wife. You know, you^ that
our garden fence has npt been
mended this summer yei. f v
Loang. Weil, wife, 1 have set
out m« cabbage plants, and plant
ed my beans; and £ c^n’t do every
thing at once.
Wife. But the pigs, you know,
in one night may destroy every
cabbage plant, and bean, that you
have, in ail this earthern world.
Loung. W^li, well, don’t fret
your gizzard. Ihe world want
made in a minute; £ will mend
the fence “ tomorrow."
It seemed as if neighbor Leung
aboufs wife knew fomcthing of
divination for, to close the drama,
the pigs did, in fad,deftroy all my
neighbour’s sauce that very msht.
May all good farmers, this spring,
rake warning from the example of
Loungabout.
f remember, about ten years
since, to have leen one Simon Spun
ky, who had been at College, but had
returned home to spend a winter
recess. After the expiration of the
recess, Simon was reminded of the
aeceiScy of a speedy return, left
row?
haply he might c< fail” for lack of
knowledge, But Simon, with an in
fignificant yawn, luch as was be
coming him, exclaimed "zounds,
tomorrow" is as good as to day.
Belidcs ’tis soon enough to go and
hammer over your d—md meta
physical trash! What care I wheth
er the mind always thinks: or
whether there afe innate ideas.”
But at the ensuing examination^
Simon had like to have demonstrat
ed, that there were neither innate
nor acquired ideas; Yet the gov
ernment did not wait until tomor
row, to recommend Lock and a few
such hard founding books, to Si
mon's perusal, that he might be en
able to form an acquaintance with
ideas *—Above every thing, my
f ul abhors the man, who waits
until " tomorrow? to be benevo
kru, honest, and just.
RAN away from the sub
scriber, an ^ppren’icc Boy named
J ^MES COOK M ARSHEL, about twen.
tv years of age. AU perlons are forbid
harbouring or <ruftine him on thy account,
as th<v would avoid .he penury of the law.
1 John lane.
Giltßinton March 5, 1795-
for fab two fharea in the /
Concord & Haverhill Stage.
As the fubfcviber has it in eastern pl alien
to leave Chester in a few month?—-would
request all tho(e indebted (o him to make
immediate payment to him, ocherwife their
norea and accounts wiR be kit with Ar
thur Livermore, Esq. his attorney,
without further notice.
TOPPANWEBSTER.
Cht/er t Febr*ar] t J 795.
Wanted a good Milch
COW.
Enquire ot <h£ Printer.
WANTED,
BY the Printer hereof, a
&w bufheh of OA^TS, for
which a generous price will
he given; O A
KA_GS.
CASH, Writing-Paper, or
Books given for clean
cotton and linen RAGS at
this Office.
THE Subscribers, Com
miffionerson the Estate of THOM
AS COOK late oi Kerfmgton Yeoman de
ceased, rep:efented insolvent, give notice
that ue'will attend fa’d business, at the
h vfe of Ebeneafltfr Potter, Esq in said Ken
fingtln, on the ad Monday of April next,
an oi the Your following months, from z
to 6 o ilock P. M. on laid days.
which he now lives in, together with a
very convenient
Store, two stories high,
vvkh'agood Cellar under the whole, a back
Store adjoining, with a Chaise-House,
Wood-House. Stable, and every heCeflary
our building AHb a good Garden, with;
a number of fine fru t- reet, with a small
piece or excellent mowing land, the whole
cnclnfed with a high bo«rd fence, well
pointed ; he tlfo has a stock of GOODS
in the Store, of about £2000.—-The Dwe!-
ling ttoufeis decently fornifhed; the whole
will be fold together, if more agreeable tor
•he purchaser, and generous credit will be
given with good security.
BY the fubicriber, within
half a mile of th? Re’’. Mr. Brad
street’s Meeting-House. in Chefler. in
a centra: part of rhe town for trade, and on
the great ?a»d from Coos to Portsmouth,
Newbury. Port, Salem, &c. A large and
well ftniflied ...
Jers Bachklder,
Jermiah Fogg.
jfenjington, March z^. 179 v
One Farthing Reward.
Dwelling-House,
To be Sold or Let,
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