Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-01-03
HERALD OF THE TINES.

gold and silver-and some on the face Of the
airth dig, plough anG hoe, and chop wood
land that last kind Of work is piggy tuf mi
winter away off in the woods, with snow upl
to your knees and your dinner froze as hard
as a brick bat, )--and some 60 on the great
deep in storms and tempests and don't know
what il is to have a dry jacket on for weeks
tog ether-and no wife and children to SIT
around fire with every evening-and some
pick cotton and have this advantage over al
the rest, and that is when they get sick and
old they are taken care Of without going a.
begging or be thrust into poor house or prl-
son. Some folks ore by natur dependent oil
others and lean on em like bean vines to
polls. Now suppose some old women should
get notion TO petition Congress against let
ting folks dig nwny down in The alrth arter
Coal and Iron, and so forth, and say that a
man wasn't born like poodchuck to live in
the airth,-and then again to stop folks from
risking their precious lives at sea, as though
they were born with fms like fish,how then,
and what would be the end ont? Can any
man tell what would be the state of things II
any Of these whims was to be acted on only
for one year just for the trial ont ?-Apd then
ogin, has any one turned over the matter to
see what would be the condition Of things IT
|" Abolition" should take root--kck up q
bobery down Soull ,sDd Yet only crop OF cot
ton go unpick'd-foks abroad don't think
much of this malier,but look at 1t pretty much
as we do at the Chinese, and carelessly talk
of abolition as matter Of moon shine. Eng
land sends her abolitionists here to keep 'em
/ suppose from deviltry at home-possibly
that if their mad schemes were only for one
season to prosper here, a storm would howl
over England worse than uDivarsal cholera
morbus. Cut off one Of our crops of cotton
only-and then Let the Queen or her Minis
ters attempt to tell the thousands Of spinners
and weavers of England, that they and their
families must submit to go hungry and I'M
enploy'd,on account of the great and glorious
cause Of aboiition-and it they remain content
and hungry, why then no harm will come
from that point-but if on the contrary, they
don't understand the doctrine land some folks
do say that some Of John Bulls family get
Cross and ugly when hungry why then there
will be trouble and such trouble, as amt cool
cd by sage or catnip tea,-and for one wash
my hands on't--and say let we'll alone"
"I'll tell what it is Major says the Dea-
con, ''wc have now ben working along pretty
prosperousy for fifty years under Consiitu-
tion that las kept us all together happy
IanIly, anu any man VINO attetlPts W uis'u'o
any matter or thing guaranteed and secured
by that Constitution, aint got any more Pa.
iriotism 10 him than rotten punkin-and oil
petitions to Congress, asking things contrary
to the Constitution, are jist as bad as for a
man to ask another mans agent to do what
he knows he has no right to do under the
power of attorney he holds from his principal
that's La,o Major" says the Deacon, and
| don't know" says he, "if it aint Gospel too"
and Uncle Sam have been thinking over
this matter and upon the hull we come to the
notion that the Deacon's doctrine is about
right, and we hope you will not disregard it.
Your friend and fellow citizen,
J. DOWNING, Major
Downingville Militia, Cd Brigade.