Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-07-11

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City and County. y
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the Recorder.
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Senate aud Assembly Of the State Legislature.
Members Of the Bar. 81
President aud Trustees Of the Village Of Brook
Officers of the Army and Navy of the United
States.
Militia Officers not on duty.
Chamber of Commerce.
Board of Trade.
Officers of the Customs.
Wardens of the Port and Harbor Masters.
Marine Society.
And such other Societies, as may wish to unite
on the occasion, in such order as the Grand
Marshal of the day may designate.
Citizens Of Brooklyn.
Citizens Of New York,
After the funeral ceremonies shall have been
performed at the Cemctry, the Societies will leave
the ground under the direction Of their respective
officers. Commercial Hdreri,ser.
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The following buresque imitation Of a fourth
of July Grafton, is published in the Richmond
Whig.-It hits of pretty we'll the style usually
INDUCED in:
At dinner given by several gentlemen at the
Humming- Top Club Room, on the 4th Instant,
Mr.. Peculiar Prim, who had been requested to
read the Declaration of Independence, prefaced
it with the following eloquent and highly inter-
| esting remarks
Friends and Fellow Cirizens!-T wheel of
a.. - ,v,fh
has again found US very we'll in health, and some
what improved in spirits, though upon the whole
we are much IN the same condition, that we
we're in when it left US last year-about this
time.
The altar Of Liberty! which it was the brave
men that fell at Lexington, who dug its fonnda-
ton in the solid granite of Marbehead, and may
1t never be overthrown
While the Earth hears plant.
And the Sea rolls wave"
Yes, friends and fellow citizens, it was at Ply
mouth that our forefathers first landed, borne IN
the Bark of independence, aud breathing defiance
to the many headed Monster, who drove them
over the pillows, which it was avery stormy sea-
son of the year that they arrived 10 it. think
can see them now, with their helpless wives,
their little babies, and their dumb beasts. If they
had any, which they all of them must have suffer
! ed very much from sea sickness and salt provi-
sions, and which it was fare that they had not
been accustomed to eat it. think l see them
now landing with no other human being to wei
come them to the shore of liberty, unless it was
bowling wolves, barking hyenas, roaring tigers,
treacherons lynxes, catamountalns, panthers
black snakes, moccasins and opossams. Soon,
however, they had to build their log houses in the
midst of the wilderness, which it was never any
white man before that done it, and then friends
and fellow citizens, they conquered the Indians
which they were the aboriginese of the country,
and forced their proud Chiefs Powhatan and Po-
cahontas to rock the cradle which infant liberty
was born in II!
| will not follow our brave torefathers in all
their meanderings like small brook at first,
but was to increase afterwards to great river,)
aud all their rracks.-You have all no doubt
read Weems' life of Marion, which is book that
! would advise all young persons to read it, it
only cost ixty-two and half cents No, friends
and fellow citizens, will skip over this long Wis.,
ia which it would be beautiful sight to look in.
to, and see the bright sun Of independence shin
Ing at one end of it; and come at once to the
immortal Jefferson who it was, with perhaps
only one single dipped candle to light him, was
consuming the midnight oil to write the Declare
ton Of Independence which it is me that you
have determined his dav that should read t.
How great and brave must that Immortal patriot
have been when we consider that he as well as
the immortal General " ashlngpn and Aaron
Burr and Gen. Han,Iton were all obliged to
write it with hal,ers tied around their pecks and
with the King of Great Bri. whose lion was
rushing on to t,ampie in." lust the feathers of
our eagle whic it was flight that it took to the
top of the Peaks uf Ote: and there rested safe
from his murderOus taions..!
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From the Philadelphia Sentinel.
The following letter has been sent TO us for
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