Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1832-02-02

Parliamentary Reform, If il had nei
bcen Tor steam engines. I hope Mr..
Colburn will not have his magazine
containing this article printed 9Th q
steam press for If he does, I shall not
dare TO read il for fear Of being blow {,
up. What did we want with steam
eusines? Did we not beat the French
without steam enginess To be cure we
did. hate innovations. 1 should Just
like to know what 10 to become Of al
the hackney coach horses, if we are to
have steam carrisgess The poor beasts
look half starved 40 il is; they will be
ten times worse, if they are 20 be turn
ed out 10 make room for steam eosincs.
And what shall we do for dogs meat,
IL there are no horses TO cut upf Then
We must have graded or turnpike roads,
too! Our ancestors did very we'll with.
out either. They took their time in
travelling from one place to another;
and If they happened 10 be too late for
the stage, they had nothing to do but
run after il and catch il. Let them try
TO do 30 now.
Buildings too! did ever any mortal
see such an overgrown place - Lon.
don is nowF There il not dirty ditch
within FIVE miles Of London that has
not got some Paradise Row, or Mount
Pleasant. or Prospect Place, stuck in.
to IL. Why can't the citizens live in
the city as they used to do, and stick
in their shopsf There is no such place
as the country now il has ell come to
London. And what sort Of houses do
they build? Look nc them-a bundle
Of matches for the timbers and has
ket Of bricks for the walls.
Railroads. pretty contrivance for.
sooth! to pick the pockets Of the good
old wagon horses, and the regular Ie-
climate coach horses, that had stood
the test of ages. Pray, what is 10 be-
come OF the farmers, If there are no
horses to eat their Data? And how are
the rents TO be paid, and the taxes, and
the tithes, and the poor ratess Who
IS to pay the interest Of the national
debt F--and what viii become Of the
Church, if horses do not eat oats 10
enable the farmers to pay their tithes
and feed the clergyf Manchester and
Liverpool were quite near enough with
out the assistance Of a rail road, and
| if the building mania goes on much
longer, there will be no need of road
from one TO the other, fer they will
both join, and the people may be IN
both places at once. People are talk
ing now of rail roads superseding ca
malls, the good old canals, half Of which
are already three quarters full Of duck
weed and dead cats.
What did the Wellington ministry
mean by opening beer shopsf Why
could not they let the good old gin
shops alone, and stick TO the regular
legitimate public housesf Our ances.
tors could get as drunk as heart could
wish at the genaihe licensed old fash
Toned pot house.
Look at the population too! Peo-
pie go on increasing and Multiplying
as IL they never intended to leave on.
Hundreds and hundreds of people are
coming into. the world who have no
right TO be born. The world is as full
as IL can hold already; there is posi-.
lively no room for more. There was
nothing like the number Of children TO
be seen about the streets, when 1 was
boy, as there is now. have some
times half mind 10 ask those lubberly
boys that see about the streets, what
right they had to be born; bot perhaps
they would make me some impairment
answer, for they swsgger about rs if
they thought that they had as good q
right to be born as any one else. ]
wish they would read MAlihus's Essay
ON Population they would then be
couyihced that they have no right 10
be born, and they would be ashamed
Of themselves for existing TO the mani
fest Inconvenience az gentlemen aud
ladies' TO whom they aIe exceedingly
Annoying.
Look at the Reform Bill, that sink
Of innovstiob,to speak metsphofiealIy;
that climax Of novelty, that abomins
bic poke IN the ribs 0l our Constitution,
that destroyer Of all that 10 venerable.
lts opponents have been accused Of
talking noBseDss against u. Very
likely they have talked nonsense, lOr
they has been 30 GaLbeJtIsfed at the
Innovation, that they have not Known
what they have been saying. The
Constitution - gone--quite gone -
Lord John Russell hiss puIgrd 70 TO
death!
u things 20 on changing at Ihis rate
FOR the neat hundred years - they
have done Of late, We shalt scarcely
have relic Of the good old times left.
Ihr weather. - no, what q used 10 he
when J was q boy. oh! thsso were
glorious old times whsn We had sun
shine I'll ihrough The GUNNER, sEd
hard lrosts al through the winter,
SheR isT one half tie yeas-we eoald
battle every. and foe the other half
could skate every day. TAgre is no
fhtu~ Of that Sgft now Ifawsu bsvs