The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-04-20

tending to call themselves such-for them
to put up the efigy Of young and lovely
woman as target to FIRE at with their rusty
muskets, is to put them in the category OF
savages. The poltroons who did that ACT,
would dodge the fash Of q Nova Scotia pri- !
minq-they would have run from the shake |
of an apron from . female passenger IN
British baggage wagon. We are reioiced
that It was but few of the Maine warriors
who did this disgraceful deed, and that their
officers promptly reprimanded 's--N. Z.
Gasctse.
LAw-Tom strikes Dick with cane q
bout as big as your finger.-Dick's la wyer
would tell the story in this way: aAnd that
whereas the said Thomas, at said town, on
the day, month and year last aforesaid, in,
on, and upon the body Of the said Richard,
against the peace, dignity, honor, and good
feeling, of the good people Of this state, then
I'D there being, did ct his own malice q
aforethought, with force and arms, make
most violent and outrageous assault. and in
fiicted a great many e. divers deadly blows,
kicks, cuffs, slabs, knocks, thumps, bumps,
thrusts, Commissions, bruises, gashes, wounds,
cuts, hurts, fractures, damages and injuries,
in, on, and upon the person of him the said
Richard, at, on, over, about, all around his
the said Richards head, neck, face, arms,
breast, sides, back, stomach, hips, heels,
legs, knees, shins, ancles; with divers and
sundry sticks, slaves, poles, canes, cudgels,
bludgeons, clubs, shelelahs, logs of wood,
brickbats, stones, guns, pistols, dirks, dag
gers, swords, cutlasses, tomahawks, meat
axes, blunderbusses, swiyels, and boarding
pixies; then and there in the last aforemen-
toned city, town, county, village, and state,
seized, grabbed, held, grasped, griped, PIN
ched, clinched, clawed, paved, gnawsd,
chawed, bit, and scratched, with the paws,
fists, claws, and clutches Of him the said
Thomas; to tine great and everlasting, enor-
nous, monstrous, barbarous, base, inhuman,
disastrous. dreadful, heinous, horrible, des-
tructive, deleterious, shocking, shameful, ig-
nominious, savage, atrocious, terrible, and
vile injury, detriment, disparagement, dam
iage, dishonor, disgrace, terror, torture, ag-
ony, harm, mischief, loss, and disquiet, oil
him the said Richard, my client"
il INDEBTEDNESS OF THE WEST TO HENRY
CLAY.-Ihe Buffalo, N. Y. Wing, in a long
and eloquent article upon the illustrious ser
vices of Henry Clay, and his eminent supe
Priority over all others as candidate for The
Presidency, has the following paragraph
] relative to his all-powerful agency at Chen
: in preserving to the u. States, the invalua
} BILE navigation Of the Eternal River
i AT the treaty Of Client, the British Com
missioners demanded as sine qua non, tina
! CT. Britain should, during all after time, en-
. Joy an equal right with the people Of the
I States, to navigate the whole of the MIssIss
3 lIPPI RIVER! And strange as It may no,
seem, it is fact, that majority Of the A
Q merican Commissioners were in favor G
g granting this most unreasonable and arre
CANT claim. 1t should be remembered how
2 ever, that the sun of Napoleon had the
g set; that the glory and power Of G Britai
q we're at their zenith; that the news Of til
q battle Of N. Orleans had not reached Eu
Z rope, and that the American Commissioner
) had but little grounds for hope, while thos
to of G. Britain were big with confidence
y But the master spirit; the great champ,c
d, Of ssSeamen's rights" Vas member Of tn
[e memorable council, and peremptorily ref
n, sed to sign any treaty which contained Il
ss conceded right Of G Britain to navigate III
n I.father Of waters" In this struggle, M
] Clay had not like Gen jackson, cotton ba,
ID for breast-work, nor murderous Kentlck
IL riflemen to level with the dust, an opposir
foe. No, Il was an open 6eld-6ght- Hem
Clay against three ffiends-the masters
!. Europe, and conquerors of Napoleon-
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