The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-07-31

y Atter New England has Denehtte0
q ! NAV be permitted to say, oTnamented
common country, by such Yankee notohR
may she not be INDUCED IN ancient and in
noceni habits and predictions for food
Mpst she notonly give up but be ridiculed
for using molasses for food, az she has been
by the two gentlemen from Kentucky,( Mr..
Daniel and Mr.. Wickliffe.) Are we 10 be
told with a sneer, TO sop our bread on one
side only 4? Long endeared innocent hab'
its should not be ruthlessIy and without
caGse violated. What would those two
gentlemen feel, aye, and what would they
say, too, if a law were enacted in violation
of their long endeared habits, and they
were each of them, compelled thereby tn
have, ana to Consume no more than one
pist instead Of one full quart of ,ch,skey
with their hog and homony for breahJast
These two gentlemen, sir, seem to have
taken the whole economy Of our food into
their own care and conduct. One OF them
says, We may advaDtageously change our
diet; we may have hog and h0mony. And
the other gentleman IOin in the offer. Ii
should never be forgotten, sir, that all anl.
mails take much Of their character from
their feed. The horse is fed on gram and
grass. He is mild, docile, and nevertheless
Courageous. The bear feeds on nesh, on
hog, and he is ferocious, stupid, and obsti.
nate. II, occasionally, you do feed him OH
corn, or ra,O homony, SO as somewhat 10
tame and domesticate him; and as some
showmen have done put him in pantaloons
and frock coat, he will, sir, after all, still be
bear.
The great consumption of molasscs for
food in New England, has given that mild
ness Of manners for which Yankees are go
remarkable. They are always ready to
fight the enemies of their country, as AT
Lexington, Bennington, Bunker Hill, but
they never fight one another Moasses
has had the same effect on Kentucky, with
two exceptions In the two districts of
these two gentlemen, hog and homony men
are still rather more thcnTa bare majority.
These men never had meeting some few
years ago, as travellers in these two dis
tricts relate, either for sacred or secular
purposes but that when the service was
over, they always took q set TO, knock
dorm and 6rag ont. Tt has been said to be
a fact that twenty years ago, IN either ol
these districts, whenever such festival
had happened over night, boys might in the
morning, gather up several baskets full of
eyes, noses, ears, and other members sub
jectod to depreciation by the established
laws of combat
That the Kentuckians will fight no man
doubts; nor do know Of more than one man
who ever said they would not. Why should
they nDt.--Evcr since the moasses trade
was opened between Louisiana and that
region, all who have freely used it are as
brave as yankees themselves and that we
think praise enough for any Of our best
friends II is said that this food had been
rather sparingly consumed in the districts
OF those two gentlemen. This may have
been the cause why General Jackson as.
serted that the Militia Of that state ran off
al the battle Of New Orleans. Some few,
from the majorites Of those districts, might
have been at the battle, and having always
addicted themselves to hog, homony, and
whiskey, and neglected all use of molasses,
Jackson might have seen some of these
men, inRcmcd as they we're by their usual
mornings repast, he might have seen their
faces bdeing through the fog; and, because
they ran off, ne took il for granted that the
whole brigade had fed.
Sir. il is asserted. that those very dis
trcts have, since the last election, made
surprising advances in the use of molasses,
in consequence, as it is said of the very
lately improved condition Of steam navga-
ton on the Mississippi, having cheapened
price of that article. II has vast effect,
and strange to tell, no man, in any contro.
versy, either dental or manual, in either of
those two districts, now loses more than n
the single car. Ifthey 20 on improving in the
,lsc Of molasses, and give up their old food
and beverage, the march LIBERALIZATION will
be completed in both these districts; and
men there. as in all other parts ofthe State,
and of the United States, will be suffered
"a 90 to their graves with two eyes in their
heads.
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