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Newhampfhire
EXTRACTS-^ /[
COEDUCATION.
ONE of the firft laws
of Massachusetts provided,-
"T.hct the Selectmen Shall
have a vigilant eye over
r%iatarcH d'tr^r^oib
by themselves, or &hcrs, co inftfuft their
children in learning; and that if, after
w&ojAftgiven by the Sule^m^n, any
pSe&fa^ be negligent, he lhall.beI
fintU: some think this law to have;
been rather arbitrary, but the reason the[
law-makers themselves assign will bej
fatisfaftory. They fay, "left the chil
dren Should grow barbarous, rode andi
Stubborn, and so prove pells, inficad of
blings to their country."
The learned and patriotic Dr. Price,
in a late difeourfe, fays, " Our firft con
cern as lovers of our country, must be to
enlighten it. Why are the nations of|
the world so patient under despotism ?
Is it not because they are kept in dark
hefs and want of knowledge ?—enlighten
them, and you will elevate them.'.'-
Should the Seminaries of learning be
; neglected by the commonwealth, there
pn be no way ro Support them, but by
enhancing the price of education. The
rich men will then give their children
an education,while the people in the mid
dle walk oflife, and the pour,sill bede
Died the priviledge of learning. The
people will then be obliged toxoid learn
ing in contempt, to exclude it from their
public assemblies; or, the powers of
government, and the offices u ill be held
PZ.^r.^fo^ oW ibg^hgL.
The fir"ftjff^En;tWe leads to a Slate of
barbarn^ffothea leads to aristocracy
and delp#ftn.
4 There is in men a natural pride, and
a natural envy. The wealthy are apt
to bold the poor in contempt, and the
poor a^apt to envy the opulence of
the great. iThcCe tempers, however re
prehentible fifty , are, have their uTe in
society; therft leads the wealthy to
fapport government, the latter induces
@ spirit of equality, which prevents that
government from rising to a ftaie of
defpotifm-~•
The^habits arid education of lie rich
lead toariffocracy, and if they can have
a monopoly of the learning of the coun
try, there will be an end of democracy ;
the equality which is now the glory of
our country, will never more be seen,
and the calamity of America will blast
the hopes of the patriotic part of the
European world.
Parents are led by , their fondnefs for
their posterity, to try to give them an
• education : but they havebut little inter
est in the business in comparison with
what society has—-Parents are soon re
moved from their tender conneaion with
their children, but society remains fore
ver, and must be happy or miserable, in
proportion as knowledge and infor
mation are poffefled by it.
EXTRACT
From the ALBANY REGISTER.
SUPPOSE a man have fix children,
three of them sons, whose eftare is
worth goool.—the incereft of this is only
1801. per annum ;—with this small sum
lie has fix children to maintain, clothe
and educate— He certainly cannot bring
all his sons up profeffional men, nor his
daughters fine ladies. Let him then make
them useful members of society. Two
of tai sons let him make tradesmen.
By this he will save the expense of sup
porting them from 14 years of age and
ever after; and give them what they
will ever have reason to bless him for,
a traps, which is better than an estate,
s EXETER, (New-Hampfoire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
FRIDAY, September 9, 1791.]
foecaufe it can never be Spent. —The
third if he be favoured by the idulgent
hand of Providence, with that definable
blessing GENIUS, let him make a pro
feffional man. And his daughters let
them be inArc^ed o spin, knit and few,
as well a^ the ordinary work of a houle,
but by no means negUaiheir educations
La th,-? bc^^hh^ 3 confciou,prKe. 4
that the cToachs they wear every day
are the fruits of their own Industry ; and
I'll engage those allurements will icon
attract the notice of men cf sense, arid
I dazzle in their eyes, Superior to the bril
liancy of a crimson silk—the gay ap
pearance of a fugarloaf hat, thrown
I carelefs'ly on one fide of the head, with
the addition of an elastic bishop, and a
' .full breasted stomacher. >,
An Observer.
From the Gazette of the United States,
j [We have received feueral numbers of the
BEE, a new work now publishing ty
Dr. Anderson, in Edtngburgh, Jrom
which extrafis may occcfonally appear
in this Gazette.)
FROM THE BEE.
REVOLUTIONS in societies, and
nations are not affairs universally
demonstrable, that owe their perfection
or circumscription to the powers of the
human mind. These belong rather to
the nature ofcaufe and effect. Their
hidden and Secret nature are bast known
.bytheir eonfeqoences. One cause however
is obvious the oppression of men in power.
TFHpofic govermine ntn^g hTpreOTmarf
peace and felicity of their fubjeds by,
lenity and equity of administration. —
The people under such princes might be
cemented to their sovereigns without so
much as knowing for why—at least with
out any inquiry in;o the rights of so
vereignty : But whenever oppression be
gins, the painful chains speak to their
underftdndiqg mare emphatically than
all the eloquencesffUmofthenes. An
other evidtffer^afen ' of date-revolution
is, the inmeuroo^ of commerce. Tie
heads of she" people might even be ge
nerous and humane in framing an abso
lute government: But these principles
being only flexible, and corruptible by
interest, what can save a nation from
ruin but the common and commercial
people ?, and how shall these become fa
viours of their country, unless by me
chanical ingenuity ana commerce, they
obtain influence to raise up their digni
ty? Unless they iaduftrioufly cultivate
those arts which have fertility to supply
the defers of nature ? Oppression, there
fore matching with influence and men
tal refinement, will ftrwggle and debate
from their own weight and importance ;
and the result must turn out according t®
the foperipr balance of contending pow
ers. Such things appear to have been
two causes of rhe French Revolution,
which, if as ftedfailly maintained in
infancy, as at the birth,mull be produc
tive of the manhood of liberty. If these
principles laid down are general, Spain
in its multiplied degrees of society, and
ill situation for trade, on account of the
influx of, the . Mexican specie, muff yet
spur long in the furrows of Haveryi
^INTEMPERANCE.
[Extruded from the Newport Herald. J
LAW-GIVERS, and men in authori
ty, Should confider themselves, as
they are, the guardians and jrbte&hrs of
the public health and economy for the
time being, and that they are account
able at ' the tribunal of. confeience and
reason, far the good or bad use they fluke
j'^^Wc
THE
of their power : they Ihould fay to them
selves, as a Trogan said to himfelf when
he was Emperor, " Now I am Emperor,'
I will 4° what I wished Emperors to co
before 1 was Emperor." Fifteen years
experience has ^ught us that the earth
will bring forth its fruits, and that men
may eat, drink and sleep, as much and
well, without Nobles and Kings, as
they ^4 with.——*— Let a# next cepefe
the .tyrant Rum-let the priviledge of
felling rum be.confined to Apothecaries,
and let a dollar a gallon duty be paid
on every gallon consumed in the govein
ment,it will then be efficiently cheap for
medicinal purposes. —A tyrant so roif
chievous and cruel, cannot be too ffraitly
confined.—How many wives and chil
dren have been obliged to leave the de
finable raanfion-hoble and hameflead,
with all it delightful yards, gardens,
walks, meadows, springs and orchards,
occasioned by the loss of time and ex
pence of the hviband's drinking rum—
The wretched lot so constantly drenched
in rum, as never to afford time to super
intend his own ground, or his own team
—when all is fpenr, we fee late in life,
compelled by hard necessity, cultivating
his neighbour's field, for a part of the
crop, which he wheels home in a bar
row.
INDI^NISM.
TO prove, if there are any that
doubt it, that the Indians possess
strong natural abilities, and are even
capable of receiving improvement from
the pursuits of learning, we relate the
ttfo'le^/irg, from KAI m's Travels.
" An old American savage being at
[an inn in Newyork, met with a gentle
iman who gave him some liquor, and be
ing rather lively boasted he could read
and write English. The gentleman
willing to indulge him in displaying his
knowledge, begged leave to propose a
question; which the old man consented.
He was then asked who was the firft cir
cumcised? The Indian immediately
replied, father Abraham :—and diredly
allied the gentleman who was the firft
Quaker? He said it was very uncertain
—that people differed in their fenti
ments exceedingly. The Indian, per-,
ceiving the gentleman unable to rcfolve
the queftion,put his fingers in his mouth,
,to express his Jurprize, and looking
ftedfaftly, told him, that MordecA I was
the firft Quaker, for he would not pull off
his hat to Haman."
ANECDOTE.
CHARLES the Vth going to
fee the eloifler of theDomi
nictans at Vienna,Jell in with a
peasant upon the road, who was
carrying a pig; the noise of
which being disagreeable to the
Emperor, he aJked the peasant,
if be had not learned the method
of making d pig be quiet? The
ruflic confefled inge'nuouJly, that
be bad not, and added that be
Jhould be very glad to be ac
quainted with it. " Take the
pig b, the tail," said tbe Empe
ror, " &,ou will fee that it will
Joon be silent? The peasant
finding that tbe Emperor was
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in tbe right, said, "you must
have learned your trade much
longer tfon I, bir,Jince you un
derfund it a great deal better."
^AMERICAN ADVICES?
LEXINGTCN, -J UNE ^s.
Extras of a letter from a gefo
pieman who was with Gen. ^
Scott on tbe late expedition
again/l the Indians, to bis
Jriend near Green Castle,
dated Dancilles, yune2g,
" JT is with pleasure I inform you,that
I have just returned from a long
tour through the Indian country ; during
our march Ue puffed over a most delight
ful country,the land beautifully watered,
and well timbered ; when we came
within 25 miles of the Wubafh, on which
the Indian towns lie, we found the land
clear, and covered with grass three feet
high, and as level as the fineff meadow
in Conogecbeaque, Our arrival at the
towns, we filled about 30 warriors; and
tock 58 prisoners, among whom were
only one old warrior, two boys about 15
years of age, and all the rest women and
children, 17 of whom we fat at liberty
at the place where they were captured,
the remaining 41 we brought on with us
to the garrison at the falls of the Ohio- —-
the towns we consumed to dikes before
we left them.-
p .^J^pHaW^re urn^.^ r . n aee ar
better concluded expedition ; not a man
being loft until we came to whet is called
White River, where three men were
drowned by their own carelessness. Our
number were about 860 private soldiers,
besides, officers, &c. we were cut
about 35 days. Our provisions were ex
hausted before we arrived at rhe garrifer;
some indeed had none for ten days, ex
cepting What they obtained by hunting
which you readily suppose was 2 very un
certain mode of fubfifling among such a
number of people. The expedition was
severe on our borfes, being Obliged ge
nerally to tie them up at night without
corn, and often without even graft, in
consequence of which we left about fifty
of them.
PHILADELPHIA,_AUG. I?.
Lass Tuefday night, about 10 o'clock,
a small frame house, near Walnet and
Ninth-streets, was set cn fire, in an ex
traordinary manner. . A rat having
seized on a candle which had been care
lefsl, left, without being properly e%-
tinguifhed, carried it into a place where
there was/fome tew or flax, .which im
mediately caught fire, and in a Ihort time
the whole frame coafumed ; but we are
happy to hear, no other damage was
done.
On Tuefday afternoon, Timothy Pir
e«in§ Esq, arrived in this city from the
Indian country, whither he had been,
sent py the President of the U.States, to
negociate a treaty with certain Indian
tribes. We have every reason to infer,
when we reflea on . this gentleman's ac
knowledged abilities, steadiness, and
moderation, that he has fatisfaaofily
compleated the very, important cbjeds of
his mission.
Extras of a letter from Fort-
Pitt, dated Augufl 2, 179^
" On Sunday, the 24th uh. two In
dians arrived from Fort, Franklin with a
talk to General Butler ; they inform us
that a majority of the Five Nations in
tend to war with us, and may be expea
ed to march towards Pittsburgh in afe#
weeks. t ^