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THE
WHEELING REPOSITORY.
(No. 24.)
Thursday, 8th October, 1807.
(VOL. I.)
OR IG IN AI PO E TR P
Litekkay Fables.
'Translated from the Spanish of
Thomas Df. Yiiarte,
By an Inhabitant of Wheeling,
• TABLE XI.
7'he txvo Rabbits.
O’er briers and bogs,
Pursued by the dogs,
A rabbit was posting away,
When out from his hole
Another one stole,
And ask’d‘why this hurry, friend, pray?’
Exhausted of breath,
J he first one cried 4 sdeath ;
^ Why what in the world should it be*
But yonder fierce hounds,
That skip o’er the grounds,
l Are bent upon kidnapping me ?’
4 Yes,’ t’other replies,
4 I see with these eyes
What seems to be hounds in thy fright;
But hounds they are no'—’
4 Indeed ! then say what ?’
’‘Why, dogs :—I am sure I am right.’
i 4 What, dogs?’ 4 Yes indeed;
I kftow well the breed;’ [know,’
•And hounds too,’ replied t’other, 4/
4 No, no they’re not hounds,
’Tis terror confounds,
Else surely thou couldst not say so.’
In such dialogues
They talk’d, till the dogs
ICame up the dispute to decide:
Voracious and grim,
Th^ tore limb from limb,
* When, laclg, ad ay 1 both of them died !
* Let those who in rhyme
Or in prose spend their time
lit trifling disputes of this kind,
Regardless of stich
As are more w orthy, much,
Bear these rabbits’ f. c in their rr.inJ.
“A great man will not u ample upon
a worm, nor sneak to an emperor.”
PUBLIC SENTIMENT.
AT a meeting of the Citizens of O
hip county, Virginia, held at the court
house in the town of Wheeling, on Sa
turday the 29th of August, 1807, agree
ably to an invitation previously given
by Col. Moses Chapline, for the purpose
of taking into consideration the late das
tardly attack made by the British ship
Leopard upon the United States frigate
Chesapeake : Col. Moses Chapline was
unanimously chosen chairman, and Tho
mas Evans and Noah Zane secretaries.
The business of the meeting was then
opened by the following address from
Fellow-Citizens,
In obedience to a request from the
Lieutenant-Governor of this common
wealth, you are convened for the pur
pose of publicly expressing your abhor
rence (which I have no doubt every ci
tizen of America feels) at the late out
rage committed bv the British ship
Leopard on our national frigate Chesa
peak. Believing that we were at peace
with all the world, and not suspecting
an attack from any quarter, our frigate
was in a measure unprepared for imme
diate action, and about to pursue her
destined voyage, when, to the astonish
ment not only of those on board, but of
all the civilized world, she was attacked
by the ship just mentioned, a number of
her men were killed and wounded, and
herself so crippled to l>c obliged to re
turn into port for repairs. And that no
thing might be wanting to aggravate the
offence, it was committed in the presence
of a powerful British squadron, nnd in
pursuance of an order f rom the British
admiral Berkeley. Therefore, there can
be but little doubt of its being authoriz
ed by the British government.—Altho’
peace is both the interest and desire of
the people of the United States ; yet
when our nation is iflfflmed, our proper
tv destroyed, and oiui/cifizcns murdered,
an apiyjjn to rns^jeehis unavoidable ;
and 1 h ive no dou^t bit; we ah all rise
up iu the strength of the nation, and
- teach the lawless Britons that the rights
and liberty we achieved irl childhood,
we are able, and will support now that
we have arrived to manhood. As you
have all, no doubt, read and heard the
particulars of this lawless transaction, it
is unnecessary for me further to dilate
on the subject.—Owing to some failure
in the mail from Richmond, I have but
lately received the Lieutenant-Gover
nor’s communication.
The resolutions adopted by the citi
zens of Richmond, Manchester, and
their vicinities, together w'ith their ad
dress to the President of the United
States,were then read; whereupon a com- »
mittee was appointed to report resolu
tions for the consideration ol the meet
ing. The committee retiredfor a short
time, and Tipon their return prted the
following resolutions, which we agreed
to.-—
1. Resolved unanitnouslyjYhzi although
far rembved from our brethren of the
seaboard, and therefore supposed, per
haps, to be less affected by commercial
regulations; yet as members of the same
political family, we feel with equal in
dignation any insult or injury, be it com
mitted against whatsoever part of our
common country it may.
2. Resolved unanimously, That we
view the latfc*outrage committed by the
111 itish ship I.eopard upon our national
frigate Chesapeak, as a wanton attack
upon our national independence, which
calls loudly for vengeance on the heads
of those who committed it. ^
| 3. Resolved unanimously, That altb.o
! to live in honourable peace with all tnc
world is the first wish of our hearts; ne
vertheless we would embrace wax la
ther than submit ""to the violation of a
particle of our just lights, or suffer the
least diminution*of that liberty and in
dependence purchased for us by the he
roes of our revolution.
4. Resolved unanimously, That what
ever measures the general government
may take, to obtain honourable restitu
tion for the national insult we have re
ceived, and, as far as the nature of tho