Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-03-31
TIMOI.EON.
From the Peohle's Monitor.
so TIE TALK is.


so TIE TALK IS.
Well how goes it I begin to think
times are hard-what was the price OF
Brown Sugar twelve months ago, eofore
the War? An eieven-penny bit pound
what is it now? Eighteen pence anu
on to quarter Of u dollar pound-what
was coffee Is pence pound-what Is
it now? Halt Crows pound-this
IS rather bad upon poor people who nave
ts work for their iiving-What is mo-
lasses a gallon from six shlllings to a
dollar-What was it before the war
Three shillings and halt dollar gal
ion-what was csarse muslin before the
var A quarter of dollar yard
what is it now Three eleyeD-penDy
bits. Have you got ali the brandy or
whi.key you want tnis year, for your ia
mily and for Harvesti No-thcn make
haste and contract FOR i.-for Congress
are going to meet in the spring to Tax
it heavily, and depend On it, 1t will come
after that, from quarter Of dolSr to
'thirty seven and half cents dearer III
the galion-what ars they going to Tax
brandy and whiskey for !! To raise mo-
ney to carry on the war-Salt Is flne
price now-what is it /? q dollar & halt
bushel, and will probably be three dol
lars-how so our bays and harbsrs are
olockaded by the British, SO that none
of eur vessels can get out or IN; and OF
course all the Salt we get must come
in foreign vessels, and then there will
be the double war du.y and the foreign
tonnage money, and the scarcity of war
times, that will altogether run it up TO
pretty size Good gracious thought
we were to have mad Peace il we only
elected Mr.. Madison President again !!
who told you that? why don't you re-
member last fall when they were cleo
,ioneering for Lloyd and Jump, they
said the only way to get peace was to
vote for Mr. Madison ?-Poh that was
only pull, to get your vote for Mad-
son; why what's The use Of ininding
these fellows? don't you and see what
will suit US ? and what sill suit W., will
sui, every body eisc-wras the name OF
sense car posr men like Us sc. by war
now Jus: consider viii: yourself-If men
are drefted VI recruited to 60 and fight.
who is 1t goes! why the poor men
look at the men they enlist, amt hey
al poor men look at the nen who are
oraiteu ant they all poor men : and if
d rich man OF two happens to be drafted
he can nire man 10 sc in his place,
out you md | Cant do that-wcll then
take ii the other way-suppose you Stay
at home; why then the high price Of al
necessities OF life is such and the low
price for produce is such, that poor
man Can hardly keep soul and body to-
gether: So that IN war times whether a
poor man Is taken away 70 the wars or
stays at home, lie has but bad chance
No, No-I am for no war, and if all the
poor people were like me, we would
soon knock this war 10 the hesd-why
how would you do that? would vote
against every man who was friend t.
this war, or who lad been friend to it.
Ifit vas war where they wanted 10
take our country FROM Us, or to take our
government from US, that would be sDo.
tier thing, I'D see them out then to the
last dr., p-but are the poor men Of this
country to be marched eff to Canada to
fight, and suffer and die because British
sailors ship oh boar d OF our vessels, and
King George says he will have bis own
British bora subjects to fight on board
his ewn ships, and MIR. Madison says
if they have been ns,uralized men, he
shanl? Now is this an a fair CT such con
sequence as to drag our men through
frost and snow without shoes, clothes Or
victusls to Canada, to be killed up b.
the Indians-to have enormous taxes
laid upun the people, and so to raise the
price of all articles necessary for life
and trade, as to bring the poor all but {;
starvation? In the name Of God Don
let usloese our senses-ls US see sbit e
as they are, and as poor men must bea
the greater bal6cn Of the war whether
they go out to fight or stay at home, let
US put an end to this war, whiie No cae.
which is attended to Us with nothing
but increase of hardships, misery anu
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