Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1812-02-03

All SAD was TIC Jews ~ hiS WIG ""A iHo
child,
Her bosom was wrung and her eye it was
F,ld,
How giea, IVES his crimes and Row Gfievous
his Z .uIt,
70 brin; O'1r she iiues = & " bushels q s@is
Young Harrington Brooks short journey
must 50;
Ills VIE wees s-ah, what fills her bosom
Si.Il wee
Sc caaayt ten .Shy, but arouad her sad
heart
A fear seems to whisper, forever we part.
lie Grf killed his child--ihen his wife to his
breal
with words TO confOle her) he tenderly
pref,
"Ill return by and bye to my Poll and my
boy,
and then lhaIl cur COT fmils with pleafure
and joy"
Loug--lopg he's been gone bur behold yon.
der boat,
How quick ply the oars and how light il does
float
Hark! the voice of Young Brooks comes
blthe Ger the wave,
k Gngs Of bold Warren and Mercer the
brave.
But what means you chaie by the boat in her
wake,
The boa, that Purlues nun the forward one
take,
For Che brings DER the lines few bulhels of
fait,
And this by our laws IL a terrible fault.
When Washington ruled and our country was
free,
Our people might trade on the lakes or at
ies,
They bought what they peafed. aad meier
dFeamd twas fault,
To bring to theiE homes few buiilels of falr
But times are now alter'd new men bear The
fway,
Hark-hark, that report and behold yonder
fray.
Another gus rcars--o how PIERCING the
ihriex,
sThey have killed me - cried Brooks and no
more eoHd he fpezk.
AL blood IN his bofom behold what wound
How wild g,arcs his eye, a the blood it flows
He hears not--be fees not--death cIofes his
eyes
While the government boat rows away with
Ehe przs!
Yemaid, flop your fpinning--your weaving
give o'cr,
Ye farmers, you, All. let lie RiIl on che floor;
Eour longs, ceate ye ihepheTds, while .ending
your h9cks,
And hear The fad ifory OF Harrington 3 ooIs.
TheGe artielS and affecting lines
or the mah4cre of young Books,
wantonly killed by iavage cultom
houie othcer in the employment Or
government, come recommended 10
every feeling heart. On the fubiect
OF this cruel murder, | have refralned
TO fay much while the cafe was pen.
ding IN coart it is at lat faid, the
grand jury of the proper countv,
have declined TO find bill. Iwil
now then fpeak. | admit thar
BROOKS acted Improperly il fmue-
ghng and attempting to eicaDe with
his booty and will further admir-
that though It was a cruel law under
which he a6fed, yer, as thar was NOT
Immutable 10 the officer, he was
bound to execute il (; and lattlv, per
haps, it be had reafon to Tear he
fhould be unable to do 70 Oh account
OF BROOKS fght, there being no pro.
oaoiiftY THAI he could take him be
miShI have had legal rielt 70 FIRE
upon him and Kill him and i p,;oh+
have been julti6able homicide
But If the facts related be true thar
the cuitom heuie boat was fat over-
hauling Brooks boat, and had alrea- |
dy got within few yards, 70 that in
tew minutes they muli have over
taken and captured her, If fuch be
the facts, and 20 is the report. then
hshtate not 10 pronounce, as a law 1
yer, that IN taking the life of Books, !
she cuItom- houle officer was guilty
OF a nanFdsy--Ig0Rt1R buba, Gus MR. |
aer' But the grand jury have refu-
led 10 bic bill againit the perpetra. |
tors; a"d petit jury acquitted the !
io'dierS at Bolton on a trial for the /
maiscre OF the ever to be remember. I
cd 5th OF March, but il mutt Be- re- I
solicited, IL was a tranflefion that
II Continent in fumes, and ended .
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