Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-07-18

l,ssdsssd comfortable, without ons dollars 81.
| so,,e 10 ns, had no cont eBieneo Tor making fee
- we therefore, con PEELED 10 abandon the
school from the want ~ comfort
Az iuGinq as this charge may seem 10 ,hse,
semitic reader, u has Revelation 70 me, which.
| ! trust, Will be of service ~ me and, FL SONS
utufo day, 10 many Of the citizens of Liberty
The question asked me sin christian faith"
may fully answer IN some fuiufe number Of
the Advocate Finally, this Knight Of 5Alamab.
ca-this warrior against windmills, takes hls
leave IN "souow" oh Cfoekadlian tsafslt
Where will be your boundaries
And nov question srises---Who IL this Epe
poell--tbs Knight Whose him on to wfite1
itesnys the old man has been about three years
In Liberty" las he been here that longl Are
any Of my old acquaintansc in Liberty enter.
tanning such evil suspicious Of mel Come out
man from behind the bushes. Had ! been con.
sulous Of serving any sinister end, would have
come forward with my own proper n anne to what
wrote2 Does openness Of conduct, denote du.
plicIty Of characterl
| have one son that went to Mr. Black school
IN Is 4, whom | kept at home the following
spring to work with his little brothers. kept
my children continually ab ut me, .abounng
with them part Of the day, and instructing
them IN their studies the remaining part of the
day. Ny son had not improved much in hs
learning which then, and now, ascrbe TO the
fact of Mr.. Blacks having a large number Of
boys, considerably advanced, and they from
different neghborhoods, and of very different
grades of improvement. During the spring OF
| 45, great many of Mr.. BIS patrons took away
their children, tsmall boys on the ground that
they were not making much Improvement.
From one of the charges preferred against me,
/ TINT ttJ ibprfadp AOnld have il n,
derstood that was instrumental in their with.
drawal from school. | am willing to risk my
reputation, Of II" has left me any, on their
declaration Mr.. Davis, Mr.. Butler, and every
other person that withdrew their children. II
they will say that |, directly or indirectly intiu'
enced them take their children from Mr.. b's
school, am willing to pass for one full of dupl'.
city.
| have sent two sons to Mr.. B. this present
year, whose improvement has been very good.
| have now lived near twelve years IN this
part OF the south, was raised in the south, and
have some old acquaintance in this country, who
have known me from my early youth. have
any of these persons ever known me to be CON.
nected with clique or acting part other
than my avowed designs And having accom-.
pltshed fifty years Of my pilgrimage on earth.
would | likely now, without any interest on
earth, become the dupe, or the crutch OF any
clique or party!
1 No! gentleman, none but Misanthrope
would think it. None but mouth-piece for
}, Mlsanthrope would say it.
! Mr.. Black has large family to support by his
profession and family that has seen better
} days. Hlshealth is such that southern climate
; suits him best and he is now well situated for
: eaching near Liberty, sufficiently remote from
town to be out OF the noise and stir OF business,
and yet sufficiently near for Liberty to reap all
the advantages of boarders sent to his school, or
OF persons settling at this place to educate their
a children. His merits extort Acknowledgement
d even from the waspish, malignant pen OF LIB.
81 Ulrau. Therefore, as many persons AS can con.
slstent with their own interest. will hope pat.
# ronlze Mr., Black NOR De gagged from the fear Of
. "Lbertad," or his - to speak out on the
n subject.
}, Now if "Libertad, or any person setting him
4. on, to in ure the reputation of one, on whose
J. REPUTATION his family depends for their bread
e and on which even much higher and dearer in.
a terests depend should himselfb be found depend.
r. ent on public patronage hope the public will
l. be indugent, and not drive him to that despair,
n to winch he has evnced desire to hurry me.
n trow he has been, 'more sinned against, than
). shining
r
purried on to deiame me from any enmity to
;, Mr.. b. or any interest cashing with him, he will
J surely avail himself of the only course gentle.
man OF true courage and honor can take. He
will examine the grounds of his charges and
= tlmeously retract what either in malice" or
! in error che has set down"
= Reading Libertad's pr2sy prem, reminded me
of the story Paddy McGatfety, who lived on
, one OF the Loughs Of the Shannon. Pat was
= subject to great nervous eXcitements and his
reading the old Legendary tales of the Romish
4 church and listening to the priests relating the
frequent interference of COLLINS, Witches. Wiz.
! ards, Devils, &c together with the aids afforded
= by interposng Saints, especially ST. Patrick
all these with an occasional call at the Shebeen,
2 and 'thdrapo' the erathur, completely trans
!. ported Pat into Farydom. He imagined him.
i sell haunted perpetualIy by Ciques, Mysteries
> and ArtStOcfdcyS as "high as huge Olympus"
f and numerous as the Quails that came around
the camps ol soloumng Israel Pat lost his ap.
I petite Tor food could not sleep al night, but
4 dwindled away to an Athletic skeleton.
$ One night he had been seeking, on his bed OF
h straw, "Nature's sweet restorcr" till at length
r ne iell INTO doze. lie iancied himself standing
2na n gu and sun.it eminence, in the midst Of
!, beauty and gaety and flood Of natures glory
but surrounded by bis ould ininies. Grantic
i forms of Aristocraces, frownng Clsues and bug.
Il eng Mysteries, snatched from his view, the glo.
rlous beauty ofthe scene and filled his soul with
4 portentous app ehension, Pat burst from his
slunlber, seized his Shillulah and commenced
turlons warupon his foes. Right, left and centre
i ne hurled his club, overseeing his water and
. praity shelf tumblng down his cd frame Of
taole, and two little stools, and beating the walls
i OF his habitatlon--Pat concluded that he had
il gained the day-and thinking himself standing
r on the PROSTATE ruins and fallen ranks of the
4 demolished foe, he cried aloud with exultation,
L mr. moo, thlr moo, We Ilakes and Mestries
/. ana Arlstocks, high and theck as We be I've
/, iotch We cracking, crashing, crumbling til the
groond And I've birried that spaIspeen OF the
d uuPe Of the crutch, whr Hodgeen DAILY hcrsel