The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-01-08

it be ever SO prosperous, and prevents its
members ever being happy or respecta-
BILE. Illtell you what, girls, you will
become laughing stock of the neigh I
borhood, and not one Of the young men
will ever cast sleeps eye at you.
You'll never be married if you go on in
this way and as for Garry, pity the
poor man, if there be any such desperate
character in the world, who should un-
dertake her guidance. She'll lead him
a dance, I'll be bound. My dear daugh-
ters, beg of you now, join hands, be
friends, sisters again, and each follow
your own tastes, inclinations, and en-
ployments, without interfering with those
of the others. Massy and the rest of
you that like, can spin and weave, while
you, Virginia, and those that choose,
may cultivate your fruits and vegetables
and garden flowers, and milk the cows,
in peace and quiet. All these employ
-ments are equally useful in their proper
sphere, and under proper discipline, all
essential to the welfare of your fathers
house. Come now, be good girls-kiss
and be friends, and may heaven bless
you all, my dear daughters"
But instead of making such diecreet
commonplace speech as this, the old
lady talked all around the compass ten
times worse than Miss York. She de-
claimed and Hourished away, first laud-
ing the spinning jenny and weaver's
beam and then denouncing them as
pestilent innovations and praising the
simplicity of a country life and rural oc-
cupations, until neither she, herself, her
daughters, or any body else could tell
what her opinion on the subject was. Ia
short, after talking herself dry, and firing
her hearers to death, she concluded by
coming to no conclusion, but at the same
time beseechipg the girls to have pa
tieDce, keep their tempers, shake hands,
and be friends.
swell, for my part" said Miss Mnssy
'Two-shoes, 81 have not the least objec-
ton, provided ! can have my will in one
thing"
"Nor L." said Miss Garry, son the
same condition."
"Nor l." echoed all the others in
chorus.
"My dear children" cried the old la
dy, with tears in her eyes, ''how your
father will be delighted with your dutiful
submission. And what is it my darlings
would have What is the condition 2"
"That we each of us have our own
way in every thing" cried the sisters in
full chorus.
The old lady was struck dumb at this
new mode of preserving the family un-
ion.
AGO." said she at length, ego to your
old father receive his blessing, and quit
our presence for ever, if such is your
wicked will" Dp
The refractory baggages obeyed her
for once in their lives, and departed,
crying out together, "Divided we stand,
united we fall" tw
Thus was the great union of Uncle
Sans family dissolved forever. But the
vengeance of heaven overlook these un-
natural children. Wherever they went,
people pointed their fingers at them, and
cried out, in their hearing, .'here are the
foolish virgins, that calculated the value
of family union, by pounds, shillings
and pence, and left the house oftheir
father because they could Tot have their
own way in every thing" Nobody
would receive them, nobody would asso-
ciate with them, and they wandered a.
bout in rags and beggary, prey to each
ether, a scott to the virtuous, a mark for
the finger Of scorn. They lived and died
miserably. Poor Garry, the ringleader
in this unnatural affair, was inveigled
into the arms of a willy stranger, who af-
ter robblng her of all she had, honor,
virtue, reputation and fortune, "fung
her like a worthless weed away," and
left her to perish by the roadside.