Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-05-15
ADDRESS.

ADDRESS.
Fellow citizens and gentlemen Of this society,
Though on occasions like this there IS great
impropriety mon,
In siving addresses, because they're so com.
Vet I'm determined to speak, and be hlnder'd
BY no man.
indeed, ifremarks on improvement now made,
And those rapidly making by folks Of the trade,
Are of any in portance, and ever come pat
Why now is the tiue--so, no more-Uer6ans
sat.
J was always quite friendly to things of this
kind, Imind,
For they give one occasion to speak out ones
And induce all the people to come forth and
hear me, me,
Fitting places fer which viii, hereafter, fear
Grow scaTcer and scarcer, as now, you we'll
know,
Jam left out of Congress, but let all that 90
There are other advantages / must acknow-
ledge,
So listen all you that have e'er been to College;
For though not ofsueh weight as to cause much
attention, ing OF CIcntIon
AS they're eten thought we'll OF, they re deServ
u
noush tang, spring,
As our gigs can now run without danger to
.hlessrs Granite and Gneiss too have had their
heads broken, Token
Winch is true YOU NAV swear, for bvthe same
The re transformed into fences OF stone, neat
and strong. along,
Which you'll see. If you look, on the roads all
Bridges stride over rivers, and on them diy
Shod Todd
Men may walk over water, and what's rather
BY means of Ferry the same may he done:
AT least so i've been told, SO think not I'm in
fun.
By premiumsto dairy.maids offered, for butter
We've raised 'mong the owners OF diaries a
hutter make
Which promises well, as they find they can
A uuantity great as our market can take;
And when the lne arts III our country take
root, boot,
As much printing and ice may be had, to the
As WI tickle the taste OF the cts most refined,
If TO the added expense they can make up a
mind.
That milk is kinsman Of butter IS well known,
But the quarts of it drank In this monstrous
great town,
Every day. IS by no means So well understood,
Nor the bad very easily known from the good !;
Considering all this, I'D be glad we knew how
Best to keep and to feed the supplier, the COW.
I'm deli GIFTED so much, declare with the bon.
nets, Inets;
That if had time, would write on them SON.
But as TINS can't do, why, I'll give you some
Latin, VERY pat IN;
Which, on this subject of bonne(s, comes SO
The word, IN that language, for spear grass, IS
POG, lmay know
And 4grOHiG means bent grass, and, that you
Small matter more Of the learning Pve got,
Dwarfwheat is called 1r;ticuna--whst more
matters not.
That our artists know vel, how to die and to
weave, [believe;
May be proved from their fabrics Of silk, |
The mulberry tree grows quite well in our
cline, wrong for this time
And the bOmbast-no, the bombyx-I was
Flourish well near eur city, and make their
Quite as we'll as elsewhere, as every man knows.
The plant called gossypium-by vulgar folks.
cotton Irock In,
Whose seed wrapped in down, for cradle to
With New Workers for nurses, ID land near
our city, Iwhat pit v,
Shows its blossoms and capsules; but, oh!
The rascally trost-what saw is no Joke
Won't let It grow well farther north than Roa.
noke.
I csnno. let slip the occasion to mention,
OF machines, both at home and abroad, the
inv entiOn
Whose object it is; in the bsst way, to vex
The cortical part of the plant tney call flax;
BY the 'cortical part you will ali hear in mind,
can mean nothing else but the bark, or the
md. Icere
AS for hemp, can tell YOU, with lov most sin.
That the quantity raised in Kentucky and here,
Is sufficient to keep whole people in awe,
And answer entirely the end Of TIE iatr.
OF the wood of our country, we make guam
tum suff, Ienough;
OF things in their way, that are quite good
And plenty Of blocks in my presence now
stand. brand,
Though our forests are gone blythe axe aud the
Aud of leather, IN say our cordwainers and
sntcners Iers;
Are become, now -a-days. very noted bewitch-
For they'll take you skin, and transform, in
tnee, mice.
The whole into shoes, that will fit YOU quite
The wholetribe of metals srope in huddle,
For tear thstlong rslking your senses should
muddle,
Before can give YOU some hInts of the elf
Who addresses yea Ssw--SidslisIt, myself