The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-03-04 00:00:00, page 4

and children crying for bread, we
are wont co fay, “such an one had
not a good bringing up,” but,
when we fee children allowed to
ramble the kreets, without con
fuking their parents, fix nights in
a week, and sometimes the se
venth, there co (how their dexteri
A where is home,” fays destitute
distress,
“ This home that gives to i< juries redrefa ?
Is it confin’d to c’ofe domeitic ties,
is it for thole « ho’diiiant sigh and groan,
Gr feme, may hap, who nearer make their
^Then let me live, unfieen, unknown,
Thus unlamented let me die ;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tei! where 1 lie.
O tell me how this dwelling may be mine,
This home where charity begins to ihine.”
Thijs' fpeke distress, and heav’d a plaintive
sigh ;
When loft humanity made this reply :
“Cease, poor afPr.fled, by the world forgot,
Cease to bewail thy milerable lot,
Dry up thy tears, and welcome to my cot.
That charity begins at home, is true.
Yet this is, righ.ly, underftcod by few :
The glutton wallovs On luxurious haunch,
And ftuffs with dainties his e’aftic paunch I
But Ihould distress accost him on the way,
My charity’s at home,you’ll hear b:m fay :
So all can hypocritically cant.
Or free io .Tl alike beneath the Ikies ?
The miser turns it to his own define,
And robs the labourer of half his hire:
And ihew true charity is what they want.
But left you fhocld hot easily difeern,
1 counlel you my friend, tbis-iefion learn;
The home of charity’s a mind poiTefs’d
Os wishes to relieve whoe’er’s dilhefs’d ;
In town or country, Alric’s burning there,
She’s ne’er from home when pity’s at the
Whole herds wi h milk, whole fields with
bread, ’
Whole flocks fiupply him with attire;
Whole trees in lummcr yeild him (hade,
in winter firc^
Bleft, who can unconcern’dly find
Hours,days, and years Aide fiw.h away
In heakh of body, peace cf mind,
Quiet by day.
HAPPY the man, whose wifih and care
A fe* paternal acres bound ;
Content to breath his native air,
In his own ground.
Sound sleep by night, study and eafie,
Together mix’d ; fiweet recreation ! -
And innocence* which moll does pleafie
With meditation.
A CERTAIN writer some
what famed for wildom, and
who could deduce moral inliruc
tion from events, fcemingly rhe
moll trivial, once gave this plain
caution, “Train up a child in the
way in which he Ihould go; and
when he is old he will not depart
from it.” A caution well adapt
ed to the ci re urh dances of man*
kind in all ages; and were the
Voice of wildom better attended
to in the present period, our streets
would not thus echo with the hfps
of puerile profanity. Diflipation,
though disgusting at firft view,
like Ila very, becomes familiar with
the use; and, in the course of its
progress, establishes an empire in
the mind, which outlives the ra
vages of rime.
When we fee a man, who has
grown old in the career of vice,
cuTing. his hard fate, and the
times—a wife with a broken heart,
Cn a k try n e g r n s at Hom e.
moan ?
door. 1 *
From the EAGL^E.
ODE on SOLI FUDE.
Poet’s Corner.
By Mr. Pope.
M?fTr. Editors,
RE is a trite remark, that
| we more easily perceive the
faults of' the s, (han of ourselves.
This remark may be extended, and
it may be further observed, that
• weare blinder to the foibles and
prejudices of otir cotemporaries,
thantothoftof a formerage. This
is illuftraied in a striking manner,
by the greater readiness with which
we perceive what is ridiculous in
the obfolate laws of our anceflors,
than in our own existing code.
The blue laws of Connedicut,
and the early institutions of Mas
sachusetts, have been often pub
lished as fubjeds of mirth and
curiosity, but among the laws of
the flare of Newhampfhire, may
be found an article, which no per
son who had not demonstration of
the fad would suppose could exist
at the present day ; but would be
inclined to refer it to the &ra of
thf law against long hair, witches,
aad other crimes equally whim
(icak
ty io qu r tiling, and uttering the
boisterous oath ; we are sure that
such children are not “trained up
in the way in which they (bould
oo.’* Better is the rod of correc
o ...
cion to make wood citizens than
(he Chtiiff’s scourge, and the hang
man’s rope.
Liberty is a mighty good thing
for those who are capable of com
paring adions by certain invaria
ble rules; but never was designed
for children in its full extent.
It must appear flrange, to the
reader who never before adverted
co this fubjedt, when he is inform
ed by the laws of a liberal and en
lightened people, for such are the
citizens of Newhampfhire, it is
criminal to profefs ones felf adif
ciple of Lavater, and that to pre
tend to have read and understood
the treatise of this ingenious phy
fiognomift is a crime,on conviftion
whereof before a Justice, the per
son con vidled is rendered liable to
be committed to the house of cor
redlion. However fanciful this
may appear, it will be found on
examination to be fadt.—ln the
book containing the Reyifed laws
of Newhampfhire, and in the adl
entitled, “An Adl for the punish
ment of idle and disorderly per
sons, &c.” There is a clause which
makes “the pretending to know
ledge in phyfiognomv” criminal,
and (übjedls the offender upon
conviction, to commitment to the
house of correction. —It can hard
ly be supposed, that the Legilla
ture of this state could imagine,
that the science of physiognomy
was productive of such serious mif
chief as to require their interposi
tion to prevent a person’s judging
another’s charadter from the sea
But perhaps, the fond parent
may fay, if 1 corredt my child,
it will damp the ardour of his
spirits, and make him dull. But
hark’e kind parents, Botany Bay
is inhabited by such children of Ipi
rk Castle William abounds
with them—nay more* according
to the belt information We have
obtained, the world of darkness is
peopled by such spirited lads.
LUCIUS.
Frem the Nbwhampshhb Journal.
Meff’rs Printers,
THE publication in one of
your late papers on the fub
jed of that condudt which ought
to be exhibited by the American
states, as in a Bate of neutrality,
with regard to the belligerent na
tions was, for the juftnels and
candour of the sentiment, and the
good fehfe that dictated it, an in
imitable produdion, and I only
have to lament that the impres
sions it was lo wifely intended to
make on the public mind, have
not been more extensively felt;
for 1 think that neither in adion,
or expreflion, ought we to difeo
ver in so intemperate a manner as
we do in some parts of the union,
that exceflive partiality for the
French nation, as if we are adua
ted by that violent spirit of mati
cifm which has so uniformly mar
ked every step of a public na
ture, which has been taken by its
envoy! Such behaviour is cer
tainly in a degree hostile, as it ref
peds the other nations Engaged
in the war. Besides, as an inde
; pendent American I am far from
feeling that my country is under
such unbounded obligations in
gratitude to that nation. It will
be said that they aflifted us in the
obtainment of our independence.
Did it proceed from such gener
ous motives as are frequently the
fubjeds of declamation ? Did not
their interference in the American
war proceed from principles the
most interested imaginable? Had
they not as much, or more to gain
by the event of the American
revoFuion? they obviously had.
To diminifli the power and re
Fources of Great-Britain was the
foie objed; disinterestedness and
magnanimity had nothing to do
with the question •, it was to weak
en a rival nation, whom they fear
ed and hated, and which was
formidable to them, and to put it
beyond the pofiibility of receiv
ing offence from her for ages to
come, to obtain the neutrality of
the American people, which they
now realize, and which ought to
be fufficient for them. But the
French nation are now engaged in
the cause of liberty; it is our caule,
it is the cause of all mankind—
Sympathy then should engage us
to take part with them. The in
terdis of neutrality, those immu*
tures of the face.—This difgrace
fulclauie, is rendered more strik
ing by its remaining in our laws
after a Rivifion so lately made.
The author of t'he Commentaries
remarking upon some obfolate un
fepealcd ads of parliament fays,
“Were even a committee appoint
ed but once in a hundred years to
rev fe the criminal law, it could
not have continued to this hour a
felony without benefit of clergy,
to be seen one month in company
with persons who call themselves
or are called Egyptians,” but by
fad experience, We find that gross
improprieties may be found re
maining in our laws, even after a
Revision by a Committee. Per
haps it may be thought worth an
experiment, to try what effedt a
revision would have to be made
by the whole Legislature.
From the Conn ecticut Courant.
RMngkam.k. |g Y t h e Hon .
SAMUEL TENNEY, Esq. Judge of the
Probate of Wi Is, &c. for said county——
The heirs to the Estate cf Stiphsk
Blake late of Epping decesfed, are here**
by notified that John Blake has ex
hibited an account of his charges in pro
curing the division of that part of said es
tate which was set off to the widow of said
dtceafed, as her thirds therein—and that
said account will be examined, in order
for allowance,st 'he Piobaiecffie in Ex
eter, on the third Wednesday of March
next, when they may shew cause, if any
hey have, why the fame fhouldnot be al
lowed.
By ordr of the Judge,
Wm. PARKER, Reg’r.
Feb. 17, 1794.
ALL persons to whom the
fubferiber is indebted, in this State,
are desired to -fend their accounts to his
house in Exeter, in order for a speedy
payment.
And those indebted to him
either before or after the Revolution, are
also desired to make payment.
„ FOWLES.
Exittr, Feb, 18, <794.
table maxims which have con
flantly been decisive in the con
dud of nations mull all be faert
ficed to fympathy —A fympatby
which I thank my God 1 have
never felt. As for such of my
countrymen as really do sympa
thize with their French brethren
in all those complicated feenes of
guilt and bloodshed, of which the
hiftory of the world furniFhes us
with no adequate language to des
cribe, 1 would recommend them
to Citizen Genet for commiflicns
to expatriate themselves, and to
march southward under General
Clarke, into Mexico, agamft the
Spaniards; when upon their de
parture 1 will felicitate America
upon her deliverance from such
enemies to human happinefs^
thence let disappointed ambition
cake its course, and the whole fra
ternity of Gallo'Americans, with
all lovers of plunder.
THE Commander in Chief reccf'm
mends, Thai the Non-ccmmiffion
ed Officers and Soldiers of the Infantry
uniform themfeives in the following man
ner, Viz.—With white frocks and over
halls, with a fringe the colour of.the facing
of the divilion to which they belong.
That the Light Infantry Uniform them*
selves with fhoit, darK blue Coats, with
facings and trimmings of the fame colour
of the division to which they refpeftive
ly belong—with white waistcoats andover
halls, with half gaters,and caps in a fugar
loaf form.
RAN away from the fub-^
scriber, on the i Sth infl. two in
dented boys, named Fheophelus and Brad
bury Shaw. All persons are hereby for
bid harbouring or trailing (hem on my
account, as they would avoid the penalty
of the Law.
Whoever will return laid boys to their
master tree of expence ffiall have the a
bove reward.
William Samborn.
North-hamptQn t Feb. 19. 1794.
Thai the Uniforms for the M.die be
short scarlet coats, with buff facings, white
buttons, white waistcoats and overhalls,
half gaters and caps.
And the Adjutant-General is hereby
diredied to iffuethe foregoing Orders to
the several commanding Officers cf Divi
sions, as soon as may be, and that they if.
sue their orders to the commanding offic
ers of Brigades accordingly.
By order of His Excellency the Governor)
MICHAEL MCLAREY, Jdj, Gener*!.'
General Orders,
Given at Exeter 3 Jan. 1794.
One Farthing Reward,