Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-03-21
From TIE Bssson eentinel.
Uncle JoHATHAN' to ( Bncle SAM
IA FRAGMENT. s

!. Uncle JoEArHAN to ( Uncle SAM
"a FRAGMENT,
g so, neighbour, we have got
Peace /; and a glorious and honora,
BILE one too. Don't you hear the
bells ringing, and the guns firing.
and every body rejoicing I"
Yes, says /, ] hear and see all
this, but lsdon't see the Treaty
what says the Treaty !?
g Pshaw-nobedy cares for sthe
Treaty or its terms; tits Peace. an
honorable Peace, & that's enough. "
Well, says !, if nobody knows or
| cares for the terms, why should IL
So huzza for Peace, 9 free trade
| and sailors rights"-and up went
my old beaver (not qHiteso high, ho1c-
euer, as it did IN 'ss.
A day ortwo afterwards my neigh
bour called rather chapfall-
en- i; but after swig or two OF old
| orchard, he brightenedup. " Well"
says he, 6 how do you like the
Treaty : Don't you think it aglo-
rious Treaty?''
Why, as to that. says |, ! don't
see mach in the Treaty but old
boundaries, and little work laid
out for the surveyors. Nothing a.
bout the g 6257" sailors we went to
war for-nothing about pay for cap
lures under Orders in Council-no
thing about the 8 uppermost' Cana
da, or the lowermost Canada--no-
thing about paper blockades-and
nothing about any thing we went to
war for.
Sc Why, upon my word" says my
neighbour, $ you've a mighty good
memory of your own. lhad forgot
ten all these matters, and l guess
our folks at Ghent forget them too.
May be, they mean to put all these
into a /" R1DER," as they call it,
and settle it somehow SO; and as
for pay for spoliations. our Minis
tiers were too cunning for that-they
did not chuse to be hung il effigy
like /" old JAY" for insisting on
such terms. tt has certainly been
glorious war, and you cannot deny
It. We have fought well by sea and
land, and defended ourselves like
men, and proved to the world We
are no coWaras, and that's worth a
dozen wars. AS for Canada, d-n
Canada ! Nobody wants Canada. or
Nova Scotia, or any that belongs to
them. They have nothing but rocks
aud " sea coal"
Keep yourself cool, my friend.
said Don't swear; don't get in a
passion. If your Treaty is a good
one, swearing won't make it better;
and since you mention it, III tell
you story about" coat" You don't
remember my old friend Jeremy
Schemer, do you? No, no-he died
long before you were born or thought
Of. He was father of all the Schen
ers in our neighbourhood, & here's
enough Of them in all conscience
unless they were better.
But as was saying; jeremy bad
a fine farm, and was doing we'll for
those times But as wood grew
SC arce-that is, Jeremy had to SO
nearly a mile to his wood lot. and
then could get only oak and hickory
and pitch piue for kindIing-Jsremy
set about scheming for a substitute.
He persuaded himself that his field,
which he had just laid down to grass.
contained excellent coal, if he would
only take the trouble of digging for
it. So he concluded to give up farm
inc for his coal mine; and nothing
that his more rational neighbours
could say, could divert him from his
scheme: Jeremy borrowed money,
mortgsged his farm. hired his men,
and went to digging in good earnest.
He dug and dug-he dug for two
years and eight months to a day; IN
the course Of which he dug himself
cut of house and home, and out OF
credit with all his neighbours and
was all but buried in his own pit
When he very prudentIy gave up the
coal mine as hard bargain, "welP'
says Jeremy, throwing down the