The Arkansas advocate., 1836-12-09
} DECEMBER 3, 1856.
From the Salisbury Watchman.
 THE ROUND ROBIN.

From the Salisbury Watchman.
 THE ROUND ROBIN
 One of the very best legal stories we know of is that of the round Robin, 1t IS familary called in the low circuits of North Carolina, and owes its humor to the fertile and cultivated mind of lawyer who is still alive, but Ill distant Western State. All the lawyers at tending court about the year lSl0 boarded al the house of Mir. B- who at the beginning of his life, as a publican, assduous and provdent but riches mul tpled and Boniface became lazy crusty, and parsi- monious. His accommodations, they are usually called from being the very best had by degrees degen- erated into the very worst in the whole country This was borne with muttering from time to time, unt in fit o desperaon, lhe whole fraternity of lawyers after mature deliberations in Congress assembled' resolved to quit the house, and go to another in the same yl- lage. The duty of announcing the separation devoyed on the gentleman above specified; who being some- what struck with the mock importance the affair had assumed, wrote the following and sent 1t to the and- lord, signed with the of all the secedents in round ring below:
 "A DECLARATION "Nhen in the course of human events it becomes necessary for hungry haf-fed, mposed-on set of men, to dissolve the bonds of the landlord and board CT, decent respect for the opinions of mankind, re- qnres tha! they should declare ic causes sl;!! have impelled 10 the seperation.
 "Ne hold these truths to be self evident that all men created with mouths and bellies and that they
 
 rights, which are that no man shall be compelled 10 starye out of mere complasance to landlord and that every man has right 10 fill his stomach and wet his whistle with the best that's going.
 The history of the present landlord of the White Li- on IS history of repeated nsults exactions, and nju- res, all having in direct object the establishment of ab- solute tyranny over our somaehs and throats To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world
 He has refused to keep any thing to drink but bald ! face whiskey.
 He has refused to sci npon his table for dinner, any hing but tarnp soup, with little bull beef and sour crout; which are not wholesome aud necessary for the ] public good
 He has refused to let his only waiter blink eye Joe, put more than six grains of coffee to one gallon of water.
 lie has turned loose multitude of aeas and swarms of bedbugs to assai in the peaceful hours of night and to eat out our substance.
 He has kept in our beds and bedsteads standing ar oi these merciless savages, with their scalping knives and tomahawks, whose known rule of warfare IS undisgIsed destruction. He has excited domestic instructions among us by getting drunk before breakfast and making his wife and servants so before dinner, whereby there has been the devil to pay.
 He has waged cruel against nature itself by feeding horses with broom straw and corn stalks, and carrying them to drink at puddles where swine re- fused 10 waliow.
 i He has protected eye Joe in all his villany, m the robbery of our jugs. by pretending to give him a mock trial after sharing with hlm the spoiIs.
 landlord whose character IS thus marked by every act that may define tyrant, unfit 10 keep board ing house for Cherokee Indians. Nor have we been wanting in our attention to Mrs. B----, and Miss Sally; we have warned them from time to time of the attempt of B-, to starve and fleece We have reminded them of the circumstan- of our coming to board with hem-we have appeal ed to their justice and magnanimiy-we have conjured them to alter state of things, which would inevitably interrupt our connexion and correspondence. They too, have been deaf to the voice of justice We arc therefore constrained 10 hold all three of these parties alike inmica to well being, and regardless of our comfort.
 We, therefore, make this solemn declaration of our final separation from former landlord, and cast our deinance in his teeth"