Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-04-04

To The Editors }de .Ns,o York Express
4 suine paper NY old iiiend AR. Dwight
II printed spell ogo.
\ Mr. Edilor,--A pritty sinlo Of fish
you made in printing some parts OF my
last Lctter-if you don't look sharp ia
future I'll take my figure head" iron,
iiy:u and send it up ~ my old friend
I Dwight, in Connecticut, aud ask hiln to
print my Lctters,-as none are genu-
inc unless that figure head stGnIs at Ina
top.
\ There is one thing always stumps mo
considerable, and that is, why a Printer
don't make, by his mistakes good sense
out of nOnSease sometimes--but Arrays
makes aoasense out Of good sense. Now
If you can manage to make your tipos
balance accounts with me, | wont com
plain. And so you think too, you could
mend matters by altering my spelling a
trile-why, do you know that the dc
tionary way of spelling is sometimes
very dangerous, specially when two
words meaning very different things
are speh the same way: My poor old
aunt Sally Danlorth came nigh "keei-
ing up" one spell, on account ont
the doctor left u written drection--''one
mustard plaster orer night, a.d Me merit
day, one dose Of fealomet rery mb,aie. -
Now this word very" like all Of tho
rest of the Doctors writing, warn't cop
per plate, and no ono could tell that it
didn I mean "every"-and as "minuie,"
meant "sir'y times an hom"--or "rcry
smaW'-just US you please, the folks,
to make sure ont, went to work-and
in less than half an hour put down 20
doses. and the old lady concluded that
was about cnul, aud she would 'take
the responsibility" of stopping there till
the doctor camc-and well she did
tho it was more fortunate that the caio-
mel was made in Mcriden, Connecticut,
and sold to the family by Pcdir
few weeks aiorc, and mark'd on the lid
"CaiomeI," or "Pateal PmpindieuIor
Poudsr," and "Worranied"-(pritty
much like his nccd!es)-"no. 10 cM IN
Mc eye" But when the doctor came
and saw his mistake, he took care ever
alter to spell "m;ait" and "minaie" as
they ought to be spc!t, and avoid mis-
takes.
am glad TO see the folks waking up
all abou; creation in regard TO Public
Lands, for l can tell you they need all
their eyes to sec that the hungry onts
don't get grab-all that is wanting is
to back their watchiul Trustees, aad
especially that everlasting wide-awale-
crittur Henry CLAY. Ii the Grabs cit
him I'm mistak en-but he can do more
. I,I IN, In al Il hatf 10
one; but the People must stand by him
and take warning, and u;cn tho G,Uts
\ will stand no chance.
Talking of ''graL@e e"-therc is an
I other skcmc on foot that must be look d
Ito, or we may see when it is too late
/ that we have ben grab'd to some pue-
pose. mean the movements of for
cign powers along down by our GaD Of
.Ucrico Coast. !fsuch movements were
seen along by the Hudson River, or
the Delaware River, or the Kenncbunk
/ or the Penobscot River, or any OF our
! Northern Rivcrs--thc folks in the back
country would begin to look into the
matter right off and would be asking
! if these orcigners-''what they were
mouGihg about in that quarter ior--aHd
,rd,n 'cm off," Now, according to my
O. notion, one eend Of this country is lust
as important as the other, aud we
!, should be as able to "warn OFF, at one
pint as another, or we may as we'll
knock under at once, u .2iabamo,
7. Louisiana, Mississippi, .frkansos, Ten
aoSsee, Indiana, OHIO, Rcmucky, Ms
sou,'i, and all creation .Nb,lh and Uesf
don't see the importance Of having their
| GUY Coast kept clear of all distinctions
it aint my fault they may clear out
snass and sa,ryers, and sasi bonks, and
make their Rivers as clear as Whistles
( from all such matters, but If they don't
keep up a clear outlet 10 Salt Water,
/ they may find some saags outside worse
than all the rest.
/ This fashion of picking n quarrel, as
France has with Mexico, is all very
well if It goes no further but it will
take more than see to convince me
that is the only object. Aud then Eng
! land cnmc along 10 watch France, aud
| all that is very well, If that is the only
object; but don't like the looks ont.
Folks don't come so far for nothing,
and il is no trillc brings 'cm both along
down by our back gate. Europe has
got an everlasting batch of chaps whip
baint got nothing else to do but TO .fght
and grab whenever good chance of
icrs. They are sent housing about by
their Governments, who haint got cm-
ploymcnt at liomc for 'cm, ard whcrev-
, CIR they find a scG spot and small power
To protect it, there they fetch up and
, begin to pick quarrel and then settle
: matter by the rule of powcr-"hardess
jsnd r."
\ don't mran 10 say that our folks
should meddIc in other folks quarrels,
providing their quarrels aist likely to
mcddlc with us, but | don't like this
quarreling and sGnsbbling SO nigh our
I neighborhood; and unless VIC show
them We have the power not only to
"worn c'n c0," aud, ii needs be, drire
en- III, 10 case that they trouble us--
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