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shelter distressed innocence, and defend
virtue, however beset with contempt or
ridicule, envy or defamation. In short,
we should not any hanger regard our
fellow-subjects as Whigs or Tories, but
should make the man of merit our
friend, and the villain our enemy.”
MIS CE EL A A r2'.
From the Port Folio.
Air. Oldschool,
The following beautiful lines, taken
from an English publication, are sup
posed to have,been written bv an Afri
can Prince .who arrived in England
some time since, and, on being asked
what he had given for his watch, re
plied, “ What 1 shall never be able to
fecal!” Philantus.
When avarice enslaves the* mind.
And selfish views alone bear sway,
Man turns a savage to his kind,
And blood and rapine mark his way;
Alas f for this poor simple toy
I sold a blooming Negro boy.
His father’s hope, his mother’s pride,
Tho’ black, yet comely to their view ;
I tore him helplt ss from their side,
And gave him to a ruffian crew :
To fiends* that Afric’s coast annoy
i sold the charming Negro boy.
From country, friends and parents torn,
His tender limbs in chains confined,
I saw him o’er the billows borne,
And mark’d his agony of mind ;
But still, to gain the simple toy,
I gave away the Negro boy.
In isles that deck the western wave,
I doomed the hopeless youth to dwell;
A poor, forlorn, insulted slave,
A beast that Christians buy and sell ;
And in their cruel tasks employ
The much-enduring Negro boy.
His wretched parents long shall mourn,
Shall long explore the distant main,
In hones to see the youth return ;
Hut ill their hopes and sighs are vain;
Tney never will the sight enjoy,
Ot th:ir lamented Negro boy.
Beneath a tyrant’s harsh command.
He \v ars away his youth;ul prime,
7/ar distant from his native land,
A stranger in a foreign dim
No pleasing thoughtsh:s mind » mploy—
A poor, dejected Negro boy.
* Shave traders.
But lie who walks upon the wind,*'
Whose voice in thunder's heard on high,
Who doth the raging tempest bind,
Or wing the lightning through the sky,
In his own time will soon destroy
j Th’oppressors of the Negro boy.
Military Anecdotes.
W'* had an opportunity of conversing
a few days past, with a respectable and
worthy old revolutionary soldier, who
among other things, related to us the fol
low iugcircmnstances which, though well
known in the neighbourhood where they
occurred, we do not recollect ever to
have seen published, and as they ought
not to be forgotten, we with pleasure
relate them in the old gentleman’s own
words: ‘ On the 15th day of March
1791, 1G brave Americans were made
prisoners by a party of British troops,
in Spartensburg district, in South Caro
lina: four of the number, viz. captain
Mathew Pattern, of that district, capt.
James Elder, LandvFarrer and Charles
1 Bruce, were tried as rebels, and without
much ceremony, were sentenced to he
executed the next day at 10 o’clock.
When they were brought to the gallows,
and after the ropes were tied about their
necks, captain Pattern in a cool, delibe
rate &c undaunted manner,addressed the
officers and attendants in these words:
‘Gentlemen, I am invour power,and you
may easily take my life; but I have a sa
tisfaction you cannot deprive me of,— I
1 have yet friends left, who I well know
will have twenty lives for mine.’ This
short address was delivered in that cool
and confident manner which made it im
pressive, and the condemned prisoners
were immediately pardoned; and our in
formant, who was one of the number,
adds that captain Pattern is now living
with liis third wife, and he hopes he may
long live to raise a numerous offspring
as brave and as worthy as himself.’
There was a public magazine kept at
the house of col.Thomas,in Spartenlmrg
district, South-Carolina, in the year
1779, and it being discovered that a par
tv of Tories had determined on a certain
clay to attack, &t, if possible, make them
selves masters of the place, a number
of men had collected together from the
neighborhood for its defence. But it so
happem d,that as soon as the Tories made
their apptarance in a body, on a hill near
the magazine, all the men to whom its
defence had been confided, fled, except
J osiah Culbertson, a private soldier,who,
’ animated by true American spirit, resotk
veil that he would neither fly' nor yield
while he had strength to fight. He
therefore called his wife and her mo
ther and two or three other women to
his assistance, and having several mus
kets in the house, the women were di
rected to load the guns and hand them
to Culbertson, as fast as he fired them off.
As soon as the Tories advanced within
moderate gun-shot, Culbertson began to
fire upon them, and as he had taken his
station in an uper room, he fired from
different windows with as much rapidity
as his own exertions and the activity of *
the women in loading and handing him
the muskets would enable him to do.
The Tories, though they returned his
fire from their whole body', yet they did
not know by what number they were op
posed, but they saw and several of them
severely felt that they had to contend
with a bravery’ which they had no wish
to encounter in close quarters; and after
an engagement of 15 or 20 minutes, the
assailants precipitately retreated, and
could never more he prevailed upon to
renew the attack, and the brave Mr.
Culbertson had the satisfacton to find,
that he had actually heat off one hundred
and iorty-five Tories, and preserved the
magazine. This worthy veteran, we
are told, particularly distinguished him
self in the battle of King’s Mountain, &
in the famous defeat of Colonel Tarleton,
and he now lives an industrious farmer
St good Federalist, in the upper parts of
South-Carolina, respected by his neigh*
| hours, and we trust, will be long honored
! by his country. [Augusta //er.J.
Carry's Editions cf Family and Schoo}
Bibles—File variety about 30 Hinds*
It must be highly gratifying to the
friends of sacred truth, to observe the
numerous editions of the holy scriptures
which have been printed and circulated
throughout this countrv within a few
years past. The English bible has been
given to the public in almost every size &
in almost every style of printing in which
it has appeared in Europe; and perhaps
the same portion of population, never, in
any other country, possessed a number
ol the sacred text equal to that which is
now in the hands of the citizens of theU
nited Stan All those who have been
concerned in thus multiplying the editi
ons of the scriptures, though they have
no doubt, in common with other men,
acted with a regard to their own emoiur .