Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-09-28
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Etce Herum cri,pinus
Monsi ur I'Onson come again.
Mr.. Editor-I had thought that the Dog Tar
question had been settled--that that tax had been
reduced to what is paid BY our neighbors in Wash
ington. Judge. then. of my surprise, on my re-
turn home, at being immediately called on. as IN
former wears, for s., by the Collectors. 1t was
no fault of theirs-theii bill was paid, OF course.
But, Mr. Editor. according to my caption.
am here again; nor shall be silent until this
Just demands granted. or the subject may fatigue
your columns. am just informed, that the tax
on Dogs has been lately agitated IN Frederlcks-
burs-that poney parse was made up oy the
Dog owners, and an Attorney employed as coun,
sci, who established the point-that no law could
be made, constiutionaly, to tax DoSs-not
tithabes.-the Corporation OF that town was de-
fea,ed. Ipropose enquiIing further into the mat
ter. and if the position be tenabe here also. not
only to refuse to pay the tax, but to reclaim the
MANY five dollars heretofore paid by me- Men
"drest in little brief authority" often feel pow
er and forget right.--An awful lesson has lately
been given 10 Charles the Tenth for las ordi-
nances.
This ORDINANCE OF the Town Council OF
Alexandria, ohstinately persisted in, may thus
fall with redoubled force on them-a general tie
mand made that former taxes be returned.
This in part .'Pofgnac" Council will. like their
now miserable archetype. have to rue the day
when they scofied at. scorned individual repre-
sensations against an iniquitous. an unequal law
So be it with those :. who count Themselves king
of infinite space; thev will find the searching
example of the late French revolution; that 1t
will pervade all corporate bodies. far and wide.
For the friends to the DOG may shew, at next
election, that they can bite as we'll as bark. and
that the present gro,cls may prove growing thun-
der OH the ides Of next March
Nay, more, Sir: consider the wound to my
amour propre! thus to be treated. after having
edited, doubtless delighted. the Members Of the
Honorable Council with quotations from the
Odyssey of Homer, as to the affectionate attach
ment and death of the Dog of Ulysses, who ex.
PRED with JOY at his masters feet on his return
from tho Trojan war.-After quoting the descrlp'
tons from Shakespeare Of "my Dogs are OF the
Spartan breed" &c. &c. limiting at Iobit's
Dog. with various other choice classic morceaus,
for the special entertainment of the Honorable
Members-al these reconcile illusions TO be thus
set at naught. as the yelpings of Cur" Think
of that. Master Brooke! as Sir John Falstaff
said after his basketing and lucking Allow me
70 conclude with few lines from Burns Tale OF
1.-THE TWA DOGS:"-
"By this, the sun out o. sight,
And darker gloomng brought the nights
When up they gat, and shook IN II Tugs,
Rejoiced they men but dogs;
AM each took off his several way,
Resolv'd to meet some lthcr day" A.
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Correction-Since the article oh" was sent
for insertion in the Gazette, the writer, on re-
Election, is aware Of an error.
The spoations anterior to those under Napo-
Icons Berlin and Milan DEGREES. were assumed by
our Government i'm Convention with France,