Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1818-10-28

our weakness, By cutting US of frori
.orei,," luxnrics. ohlige US TO eat oO
avn better victuals. All good men.
like Virgil, will lie forward and carlyli
in promoting reformation. equally
important in private economy and
public policy.
Whatever apology the inhabitants
OF cities and towns may have, for
their obstinate adherence to tea, coffee
&c. surely farmers have none. Their
farms furnish much better food, and
at cheaper rate. How then are we
to estimate the folly OF crossing the
ocean at an expense Of hazard meal.
cuiabIe, for the sole purpose Of indul-
|giug in articles universally admitted
to he injurious to health and destruc
tive Of property A Chinese would
give ten breakfasts Of tea for one of
milk. An American farmer purchases
tea, at Il sreatexpense, when he might
have plenty Of milk and other good
things for nothing. Which Of these
characters discovered the wise dictates
OF native instinct: and which shews US
the depravity Of infatuation ?
i, But a gentleman farmer, who has
. plenty Of revenues, and may live as he
, lists and do as he likes, will answer
Inc, that reason like an attorney on
J, one side, regardless Of the good sense
and general information OF my fellow
citizens. l, in that case reply, that
;. l acknowledge myself an attorney up
on one side, and the general iniorma-
ton of my fellow citizens: and, there
fore, do not hesittae to state my argu-
men.s with confidence and energy
against a peculiar infatuation. Ana
IF called upon to account for it,
ANSWER: that when we were British
rolonists, We were taught toorink tea,
|coiite, rum, &c. and to indulge in a
" variety Of foreign luxurics, in sub.
Iseryiency to their carrying trade.
they didnot encourage the like amons
l...eir own people. The policy Of the
.(;,riiisb was to favor the use OF thti
l.an malt liquors and other domesl,
lpsodurtions, and to prohibit rum, eve.'
" of their own colonies, and tea and
" coffee were tutied and regulated in
sucli manner, that the use OF them
WAS very limited, among farmers al
least. They thought il more expe-
" dent to send them 70 us and wOulo
~ fain have made US pay duty upon
;" them, besides freight and other char
lgcs. This gave occasion to Cur dis
union and considering we had sp;ri,
: and ener y enough to separate from
to SO unjust nation Of farmers, appea
ar to the good sense Of my countrymcn
$, if it is not very astonishing, that j
is has never yet occurred to US, to aban
l. don the vicious and injurious habit.
ly 'mpesed upon us by mercantile in
q. trigues. 1t might well have been ex
re pecte,i. that we should have felt som.
Of resentment at the means employed
X as well as the measures of govern
/; ,nent, for enslaving US. But slrang,
a to tell, from the day Of our deliver
e. ance to this time, we have consume,
10 their teas with apparent delight.
IS But my plan may be further crit
o. cised, by asking how do you entertain
your friends ,sithout tea or coffee
u' answer that do not own either te
Wy cups or saucers, and yet | am ut n
II loss to entertain my friends agreeabIy
lat My dinner is not very different lror
ne THAT of other folks. Breakfast AN
t" supper | eat out of soup plates. Sup
per is the principal meal of entertain
me ment; and with the best fruits Of Tn
to season, with and without cooking
in thread huffnr ..hnnan Az l nm mn