American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-04-12

can exceed the folly and madness of frowning in
the face OF people who have dagger's point at
your hearts.
--" BY heaven, not half so bold
"The puny bird that dares with teazing hum
"Wthin the crocode's stretched jaws to come ~
You have every reason to be comforted-iudeed,
to be thankful. God has spread with bountfu
hand, his blessings around you. There is. depend
upon it, no Just cause for all the sad turmoil into
which you have permitted yourselves to be drawn.
You have abundance OF trade, whereas we have so
little about stopping up all our creeks while
yours are all open and covered with steam boats
upon steam boats II costs you nothing to go TO the
city and back again, while it comes with US, to a
world oil money to go there. Take example from
your neighbors, the further up the country people.
Dig into your hills, as they do into their mountains,
and who knows but you may find coal and copper
and lead and gold And why not gold with
you as we'll as in North Carolina where they are
finding il now by bushels full? Indeed, in ev.
cry point OF view you are better off than are,
|allhough you are not contented. The old coun
try people, am afraid, spoil you. Ant they apt
to love drop of comfort too well? If you desire
Liz, and think it would be greatly TO your advantage.
we could pass law that would correct that matter
leffectualIy. can't promise you, however, that the
state tax would even then, be given up. The hon
or of the state would require il 10 be kept on tor a
while-for five len or twenty years, say.
| In comparing your and our part OF the state to.
gether entirely forgo! one little matter that ought
not and can not be kept in the back ground-I mean
the musquetoes don't believe you have got one Of
them in your whole county, whereas we have 60: hem
by cart loads You don't know the value of the bles-
sing to be exempt from them. Take our musquetocs
off of our hands and well pay willingly two thirds oil
the state tax. You can have no idea how we suf-
| fer from them. We have the lever and ague too
Clear US OF that alone and we will pay the whole
tax If you were to feel for US as you ought to do
you would not make such wry faces about your con
founded taxes. YOU don't know how rich and hap
by you We shall be sorry to sell your lands for
a song. We have men, know, who would sleep
the sounder after buying few Of them at that price
but then we would rather you should act handsome.
| " and pay the tax at once. We have got people
offering. by the DOZENS every day, to go among you
and coectit. Tarring and .teathering they don't
mind-it is natural to them. Their friends would
think the better Of them when they returned. II
would only call TO their memory the " olden" time
| 1t is true, | know it would go against our State
Treasurers usual course to buy an honest farmers
all for just half nothing. And there are, too Other
\ kind souls among us, whose very heart strings II
would rend assunder TO get valuable farm with
brick dwelling house and stone barn and orchards
4 and meadows and woods, all at the same rate. But
lif you actually put us TO it, we cannot heipit and
a century hence, it will make no difference wheth
Ter in the course of the present year your lands are
ours or your own.
| There are more than few of US who think yot
ought to pay the uhole Of the state tax. The hon
est truth is, that our public, poor and road taxe
Ills as much as can we'll bear; yet still think
that these two counties will be, in degree, conten
Ito pay one half the state tax if your county Will
agree and agree cheerfully to pay the other hall
lyou had better yield now, before they all gel
: into the notion of putting tloo thirds upon you
Countermand then, Immediately your hundred
meetings, or, il they must be held, be careful moi
Ito say at them any thing which may occasion among
Jour people further offence; and think It would MOI
|be amiss to request Mr. Witson to be more par
Itcular in what he publishes. If l can be OF any
use to you, among our folks, beg you to command
me freely, upon condition, though. remember, tina
!, you pay the tax without any further grumbling
At parting. Just let me remind you OF the fable o
! the frogs and king log and king storE. You nov
r can get off with one haf-you are in danger o
$ tpo Mirds--and il you don't take care and mine
r what you are about you will have to pay the ,rhot
tlof 1t. A FRIEND OF NEwcAsTLE COUNTY.
D P. S. Twill be constantly thinking of you, but
conjure you to lay still as mice until you hea
from me again. If you should approve of it, there
" is one certain way OF keeping clear OF all but on
j half-and that is to put .appoqutnimink hundre'
into our county. That would reconcile all our PEG
y pie to let the tax stand where it is. We SHOULD
o prefer putting that hundred little lower down int
u our county, il we knew how but that am a.ra
8 our assembly won't be able TO bring about.