Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-09-03

We elected you--cr rather. to use that PM "a
seulogy which seems dear to your recollection;
ne enlisted you for four years. we thought we
owed you a debt Of gratitude; and perhaps, IKE
generous people, we placed upon 1t too high an
estimate.-That debt. whether just or overrateu,
has now been fully paid. The bond is cancelled;
We owe you nothing now!-flow much yon stand
indebted to YOUR own country-how you have re-
paid the trust reposed in you. we leave to another
occasion, and your own reflections, when you re-
turn to the Hermitage, TO decide. Perhaps hmay
be my task to show. -
But your military dcspotsm of temper misicads
you. We are no uercenarles We are not the
Swiss recruits of an absolute lord and master.
We owe you no feaIty. We are h eemen-not
serfs-sons Of liberty--not your custom mouse
slaves, your palace minions, or your geht'en'eh
pensioners. What, sir, do you call US deserterS
for daring to exercise our rights Are you indeed
the military Chieftain, predicted by those VINO
now surround your person, IKE the mefceha
rybands of Sultan? deserters. from what-ifom
whom have we deserted? From an ambitious man;
from corrupt system OF bribery aud prosatution'
from aduitry, and duelling F-Bnt, SIR. We nave
not. as you have. deserted the Constitutlon-de-
serted our principles-d"serted the American
System-.deserted our friends-deserted our coun.
try-or deserted that chastity, which Is the Jew
ell Of female virtue. and tie rock OF the pubic
mora Is. No. SIR, II Is you WEo are uesertet-
not we.
Think not, sir, to carry your election BY storm!
This nav answer in battle-when assailing an
Indian fort but not when you attempt to compelthe
people who are neither slaves nor man worshippers.
You cannot shoot them, If they desert you. They
will not re.elect you even at the point OF the oayo'
net.
Arbitrary and ambitious man when youawake
To a sense Of your real glory, and true interest,
to obey the cali of decaying nature, and retire
to the shades of your farm, to prepare Tor the aw
full exit, which God has decreed all must come
to at snme time; aud which, at an age like yours
may befal YOU in mument!-Save, yet save your
few unwithered laurels, and depart in peace; for
DEPART you must The period of your enlistment
is about to expire!
STEPHEN SIMPSON,
Oh, behalf of the sir yigners 10 the protocol file
original Jackson linen.
TROUBLES IN nOWNINGVILLE
To cousin Jack Downing down to Portland, if
he's got back. If he hasn't want the Portland
Courier to send this to Washington.
Dear cousin Jack.-Your uncle Joshua has been
turned out of Gen'l Combs employ only just be-
cause your cousin Nabby,' Mrs. Inkhorn, and
Mrs. rhimbleberry, and few other Of the top
ping folks. wouldn't invite poor Mrs. Notea to
their husking and their quilting parties. had a
long talk with the General tother day-he was
hopping mad, and declared that he would turn
away every man and woman of his farm and out
of his mills rather than that good woman should
be treated in manner she had BEEN She was
as good as the best oiem any day. and he could
IL Ia hon ko~
inc to their afternoon visits when they went soci-
able without stays, and took their knlttng-work
aud got home again before milking time; but when
there was grand husking or quilting, he thought
it pesky hard aud lonely for her to stay at home,
while every BODY else in Downlugsville was try
ing the double shuttle and the cutting out jgg.-
tho't so too; but told the General 1t was
for him to make such fuss about it; that he had
better attack old Ticonderogue in front and rear
than undertake to make women haw or jee If they
want mind to; they always would have their own
way in spite Of every body and Tom Walker be.
sides. and the less he had to do with them the bet
ter. With that he up and smashed his pipe into
the fireplace and stompt like fury and bedlame.
scampered off in less than no time to inform
you how matters were going. You had better
come up and try to put things to rights.
As you have no wife, no children, think you
can manage affairs more to your own and the Cen
erals liking than any one else IN the family.
Your Luvin cousin, EPHRAlM.
In the early part of the present summer gen
tleman who was experimenting the erection Of
building, about which, as is usual, there were
large number of Iaborers employed, proposed to
them to drink molasscs and water, as substitute
for ardent spirits. A very little persuasion in
duced them to make the experiment, aud in few
days, the whole party came into the measure; and
spirits of all description were entirely abandon.
cd nv the workInen With the moasses they Oc.