Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-02-11
we send cur army out to Sea.

80 fi. N. VA liiouSand--WilV, JOd save }S--
one Halt would take the British navy
AND y. tother half dye see, the 4uhiies,
| N1lSht board all their West, India Isles.
You think that we shall be at fault
about the article of salt;
we We OF resources a grand trio;
f1aye We not Ltcks on the Ohio
is not the sea an endless fountain
And have we not the, great Salt Mountain?
suppose 1t is not very hear,
You may get to it once year
And When there, may get a load,
Enough TO lastyou on The road
Suppose we have not flutes AMI fiddies,
suppose we have not pins and needless
Our red 6rethren will us shew
How in such cases we must do;
Without needles, thread or pins,
guess they make their coats Of skins;
Ere the PIN making race was born,
Pins grew on briers and on thorn.
Suppose we have not looking glasses,
To shew ths6aces of our lasses;
IBID not Narcfssus Observation-Disclosures
fiis face survey IL the calm food /?
Who knows but Mitchell, chymist good?
May Venice glass make out of wood
Or--what's more Ike to come to pass
Make looking Out Of Iasnslass
BY which our trade viii be expanded,
And Grafton* stone be much demanded.
You say we Can't get vine Don't think it,
But be it so--the Turks don't drink it.
Our own distillers arcs handy,
They can make peach and cider brandy;
In MANY places they begin
TO MAKE good Whiskey too, and Gia:
Our Mitchell, taught by Joye's wise daueh-
ter,
May best Brandy make from water!
Bat maybe, for some time TO come,
We shall not make New-England Rum:
For It's aflirm'o, by thosein trade,
lis not without Mo!asses made.
But some pains we viii speedy take
TO find great Molasses lake
Or river, whlcn enough may pour ye -
We sent to taste the red Missouri
But though twas red and maddy found,
In sweetness il did not abound.
We sent captain of our host
Quite over to the North West Coast;
But for the lake we seek, It's clear
lie did','t IN the right track steer.
Twill be in Lous1au found
When found, wen Rum make cheap as swirl,
That ey'ry man his skin may fill
Forget his losses, trade and Wealth,
and drink, III Lethean streams, our health!
I long to see your heads and ears
In caps made out OF skins ofdcers;
Your bear-sAin breeches, bcar-skin coats,
Ana waistcoats made Of skins of goats
Thus hsbited, you'd look akin
TO Hcrc'les in the Lions skin
Or the smile would look more new, SO
We would say like Robin Crusoe.
A most Important branch oftrade is
To get rich dresses for the ladies
Instead Of long-tail'd gowns and big sleeves,
Why not dress them: like Eve, in figieayes !!
Why no. oblige the girls by law,
To wear a blanket, like SquaW?
question if 'twou'd not be better,
To place them in statc of nature;
They then wou'dn't be SO vain all
So Goodwin says, and Able Raynal.
You then might pass--for every one
ST. Tamm'ny s daughter or MS son.
Then Sarhem Mitchell should you soon see,
And the great iather-Father Mooney
Each brutal Indian, and his wife,
Adopt the wish'd for savage life
Then swords should tusn to pruning hooks,
And spear, to peaceful shepherds crooks;
Great guns and muskets, thrown aside,
| No more should swell the purple tide.
Then, no more shot like crows and sparroWs
You should be kill'd with bows and arroWs--
Or after ev'ry warlike TALK,
Scalp'd with an edseless tomahawk.
Give then til Embargo all due praise,
For bringing on the e halcyon days
And ssy not from the sea we're pent;
,Tis & dianifed retirement."