The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1795-02-21 00:00:00, page 4

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Poet’s Corner.
[From a Ute Eoglifli Paper.]
VE R SES / , '
IByaLadytc a Gentleman who bad sades
in bit engagement! to -her, mt returning
him a Gola Watch be bad given her. " '
WHEN you implor’d. and I believ’d.
This golden bauble I receiv’d—
•* Look, look, my Love {you fondly cry’d)
•* Hosv faft the little minutes glide.
M Let us the precious hours improve,
•* And wing each fleeting day with Jove,
” ’Till awful Death, my bounteous friend,
•* Your lover with, the earth (hall blend,
•• Time ne’er my darling girl, Ihall fee
•* Horatio love a maid but thee.”
Then rapture fpsrkled in your eye.
Then rotes breathed; in every sigh t
Then, rafting on your beating bread.
Each thought my artleCs foul e^reft ;
And, trusting to your generous mind.
My honour and my peace refign’d I
Since then, alas ! what magic powers
Can charm to rest my anxious hours ?
For guilt is painted on my cheek,
. Confufion checks me when I Ipeak*
No more, uneonfeious and serene,
I gaze upon this bright machine,
its still reproaches wake my fight.
And call, the tears that dim my eyes
♦< Where are those happy minutes fled,
“ When Innocence her radiance filed,
•» When, pure as Morning’s orient dewi,
«< Health gave her foft celefti^l hues ?”
, It seems to fay—“ Ah me, no more $
•» In future time’s exhauftlefs store,
•< Shall you, fad maid, such moments fee,
«« As ere you firft accepted me,”
Then take, O take it from my yr>w,
Valued alone while yoti was true.
Alas ! how oft with eager love,
I’ve watched its sparkling finger move,
And touch the apointed hour at last.
When, every care and danger past.
While the ftjll orb of midnight fiione
To every eye but love unknown.
You fought repose in Dilin’s breast,
A charming,.dangerous, faithlefs guest I
My views of bliss forever gone.
Deceiv’d, deferred loft, undone !
Ah I what have I with Time to do,
Since he can never bring back you ?
Then, busy Monitor, depart,
Return to him who pierc’d my heart;
Remind him of thbfe coming hour s,
When youth no more his rotes iho w ri I
When no reflexions pillow laid.
The image of a pale ey’d M*# _
Shall chafe the timid powers of sleep,
And bid his tortur’d mem’ry weep.
While fad compunXion’s ranklin dart
Works at his late repenoing heart.
Yet, ah I he knows my tender mud.
Which love’s foft laws mast ever bind ;
He knows I cannot wifli him woe.
For, genuine love, till death will gtow.
If still the world’s gay charms invite.
If still he lives to young delight,
If no remorse deforms the feene.
If all is cloudless and sere ne,
So may his moments ever fly.
Lit him be blest, and I will die.
anecdotes.
GmMoLD has often been
known to flop the organs
of speech ; the following in
stance will (hew that it can
also re!iare them: An Iriflwnan
in the army, was lately dis.
charged for luppofed incura
ble dumbness ; a few day s ago
he enlisted under the banners
of a new corps, in a northern
city, when, on being recogniz
ed by an old comrade, the lat
ter questioned him, how he
learnt to (peak? « By -J—s,
(replied he) 7en Guinea! would
make any man Speak.
A TRAVELLER flopped
at a certain Inn to dine. When
the bill wasbrought in,( which
by the way was lengthy) Mr.
Host was aiked hrs name j Pa
the landlord.
Indeed 1 it ought to have been
IPtodcoA, hy the length 6f
your bill.
A NEW SONG.
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{From Gribnlbaf’s New-Yorkjpur»<l.}
RETROSPECTIVE REMARKS,
on the Year. 1794*
AT tiie beginning of the ye^r
1794, the Savages on the
. iiortn welt of the Ohio, proud of
Britilh protection, held the friend
fhip, and enmity of the United
States in equal contempt. They
have since learned, that the can
non of a Britifli fort cannot Ihd
ter them from the pbrfuit of an
American army. Their viljages ,
an<j corps have been reduced to a
heap of alhes. Their warriors .
have been defeated! and their
families are now either starving,
or receive their subsistence in char
ity at the Britifli post. There is
now'ift January, 1795) every
re4bn to hope for a speedy, hon
orable, and a Jafting peace with
these tribes, The oix Nations,
who had olfo become extremely
troublesome, have in confequenc^
of the defeat of their brethren,
entered into an amicable treaty.
In the end of the year 1793^
] Britifli privateers had begun to
seize American veflels in the Weft-
Indies. In the end of 1794, there
is lome profpeft that compensa
tion will be mada for the ravag
es which have long since been put
almost entirely to an £nd.
On the 3d of January, i794»—
Mr. Madiioh brought forward his
notjed refoluiions, for reftri&ing
the trade of this country with
Britain. One of the main argu
ments against them was, the fear
of a declaration of war from Brit
ain.
In January 1795, Copgrefs
have before them the bill to re
drift the admiflion of foreigners
as American citizens; and one of
the avowed reasons for prefling
this business, is the crowd of
grapts who are flying into this
country from the convulsions of
Britain. That country, so far
from being in a fixation to declare
waj against America, can with
difficulty prevent a civil war from
burftingout at home. The coun
try has been converted Kito an in
ful^r baftile. Nothing is talked,
or fought, or heard of all over it,
but the marking out of camps, the
erection of barracks, arbitary im
prisonments, trials for high treason
the exterminationofold regiments,
and the railing of new ones, the
defplution produced by the taxes
imposed last session, and the rapid
annihilation of Britifli commerce
by French cruisers. So far from
the Britifli being in a condition to
declare war against America, the
coqnmerce w hich they carry on
wiSi the United States, forms,
perhaps the largest-and most val
uable half of their whole fbrei^
trade.
In January, 1794, the Algerines
weye capturing American vcfltds.
This calamity is now, for a time
at least, ended.
At the former period, the com
mtrce of the United States was in
a very embarrafled situation. It
is pow more flourifliing and prof
itable than at any former timt.X
I While <b many nations are fearing
ea^h other to pieces, America enr
jots greater advantages by con
tinuing in tranquility, than almost
any other people ever gained by
the most fuccefsful war. A do*
•* •
meftic infurredion of a dangerous
appearance, has been fupprefled
J without the necefli ( ty of firing ja
(hot and the poflefibra. of the
weftern post have receded from
[ their menanced intrusion into the
j territory pf the federal union.
For. these bleflings we are, under
Divine Providence, indebted to
the wisdom of the President, the
; pacific difpoficion of the countryin
general, the brave and patriotic
exertions of the army on the
nprth weftern frontier, and the
ready support afforded to the con- y
ftitution, in the hour of its dangers
by the militia and other citizen,
; of the middle states-
Indian affairs.
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[From a New-York Paper.]
of a lets er from Philadel
pbia^ dated Jan. 6, 1795.
<‘Col. PICKERING’S late
treaty with the Indians of the Six
Nations has been received and rat
ised. The Indians renouce all
claims to land within any part of
the Pennsylvania territory, and are
fully agreed that our settlements at
Prefquifle should go on.
“The lands reserved for their use,
are so accurately described as to
leave no room for diCpute, and all
complaints seem to have been fet
tlpd to the fatisfadion of borh par
tips. Johnson, the Britifli a
gent, accompanied rhe Indians,
and they requested that he might
be present to take care of their in
terests. Col. Pickering told
them, that the Americans never
sent agents^to their treaties with
the Britifli; and that he was sur
prised at their impudence, in ob
truding a spy upon us, to sow ie
dition, and prevent peace. He
then informed them that th? Brit*
ifli King had never loved us, since
we refufed fubmiflion to his tyran
ny, and in the late war had thrown
him upon his back. That his
oncers had, in 1793, exerted
tlfemfelves to prevent peace be
tween the Weftern Indians and
th|e United States. That Capt.
Brandt said it to their faces, and
t^ey could not deny ir. That
last winter, when the Indians were
cqlleding the prisoners, for the
pyrpofe of bringing them to Gen.
Wayne’s head quarters,abd mak
ing peace, the Britifli difluaded
them', and said the Americans
would dective them, and cut them
of. That they had built a fort up
on the lands at the rapids of theMi
atpi, and attempted to remove our
people from the great Sodus ; but
at Chis last place, if they hjid come
force would hav? been siei
apd repelled with fp[pp, as our
warrior^ were ordered to. be in
r^adinefs. He then appealed to
the Indians, whether Lord Dor
chester had not attempted to ir
ritate them against whether
o|her Britifli officers had not done
the fame ; whether Simcoe had
npt taken secret measures to lead
tie Wefterh Indians astray, at the
time he was wiihingour Commit
fioners fuccels in their regoda.
mn; ana for fear they mould (er;
the warriors and open their eyes,
he inftrufted the Captain of his
’ boat not to carry the Commif
ioners to the place where
’ Indians were in couhcik The
ponduft of the Britifli towards <he
Americans at sea, and our mea-
fures to objain fatisfadion were
then explained, to which was ad
ded, an account of the war waged
by the European Kings against
France, because the French feeing
in the last war how wifely the A
mericans managed their. affairs,
determened when they went home
that they would have no more
kings> but have a great council of
their wife men; and how the
French were beating all the Kings.
“ He concluded by telling them
that he would hold no treaty while
> this spy staid among them, & that
they must instantly fend him home
unless they wiflied to defeat the
great business upon which he'
came to fee them, and break of
all friendfllip with the United
States—After this speech, the
most fpii iced and lengthy ever de
livered at an Indian treaty, and to
which Mr. Johnson was liflening
all the time, Col. Pickering
broke up the council until he
fliould know the determination of
the Indians. They came to his
quarters in less than an hour and
told him they were sorry for the
animoficy which they difeo^red
between the Americans and the
Britifli, that Johnson had gone to
Niagara, for his stomach was 'o*
vercharged with Colonel Picker
ing’s speech and that they would
cheerfully proceedto make kisown
their complaints with full confi
dence of justice being dune to
them. After this all the chiefs
except Cornplanter, who seems
to be much under Britifli influ
ence, went on without the least
difficulty to adjust every thing
doubtful or disputed, and finally
they all signed the treaty and wenc
home in good temper. It is be
lieved that this face to face denun
ciation of Biirifli interpoficion and
Britifla councils, produced a very
good effetft upon the minds of the
Indians.
“ The well known abilities of
Colonel Pickering, his military
experience & indefatigable appli
cation to business made the pub
lic anticipate his appointment as
the fucceflbr of Gen. Knox as
soon as it was known that Gentle
man would resign. It will cer*
Mainly afford great fatisfaction to
the people of the weftern country
to learn from his previous public
condufl the new Secretary’s tem
per of mind and probably future
measures in Britifli and Indian af
fairs.”
ALL Persons indebted to,
or that have any demands on the
estate of JOSEPH LAWRENCE, late of
Exeter, deceas’d, are requested to exhibit
them for fcttlement. to
David Fifibl? of Brentwod, and
Josiah Lb avitt of Exeter,
Adminiftr atari tofaid est ate.
Exeter f Feb. 7^279^ ' s
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