The daily gazette., 1875-02-09
PRICE iCENT.
AeffesS5s'om Samuex Ioacnse,,d
He Speaks for the Rows,
EO1 TIE Gnrettn

/ ''C tUSette.
! nave received two or three petitions
| meeting held In Wilmington With ;Sf A.. b
": II. Brown signed as Secretorv ~ IL
sald meeting. Gentlemen, after read;ne
your petitions cannot take part in tbiss
matter. 1t calls for bill which + smn'
pose sets forth more fully what il IN
| 1eneed. This intention should be fplIy
set forth In the petition before n oarso;,
i;rad addq.ested to sign it.; at least / have
httu t3o long to be caught with chair
tha4 pue Us oid as am have not forgotten
;nst ; a.. - oncn ,ncti was boy and loved apples
low used to haye very fine opeap n an,,inr ,1i
IN the village Of CantweIPs Bridee. @ppies wfass
l ~, IVed until l was about eleven vaore
| oia. lie had an old gun and preten5ad
| ne would shoot the boys, but ,ls bovs Al
not believe him, although we W., va,.,. a.r
careful TO give him wide berth u sst
= 70 tne nice apples which were4 yint, nm
ene ground rotting, and we helped onr.
oJ onSe oometlmes we would ask him
aL anu sometimes we Did not; of course we
should have always asked him hnt Nc
We're boys and did as bows have 49,
from the beginning and will oont;nue 4o
eLe elaa. AND suppose that man had sbot
one OF these boys after irving 70 brai,,
nm with club, as was done neor WI
miington in the chestnut tree affair last
iail-the men III CantwelPs Bridge woujd
nave lynched him on the spot. T Eve
near little village, and it does me good
70 give the children fruit; and some
.ilues Gely tney ask and sometimes they do
not. Glten when they have not asked
me ana see me coming unexpectedly il
does me good to see the little rascsls rrn
ana hide as | used to do. When a man
Is planting fruit trees it is very litfIa
trouble 10 plant out O few extra ONES
around city like Wilmington II nroba.
Oily would be proper to have a policeman
on eacn important street or road LEADING
70 the country to hail suspicious bows
~ Is hard to make laws to meet every
case passionate, cold-hearted man
IhaI does not like boys and thinks of
ioti!ihg plt the almighty dollar ought
not to live near q village, town or civ
rms world is not peifect-we have "a
give and bear with one another: in fact
the owner of land should bear in mini
that when he dies he cannot take that
land with him; he is merely tbe nossns
sor OF it for the time being: and ofhe,
peoples little children, as well as his
loVe 1r1it and nuts, although their faith
efs might not happen then to own land.
anu any member OF the legislature who
ish OF needlessly restrain bows. tbin[
will commit great mistake + mvsalf
would rather have the good will Of bows
than OF men. The worst thing that csn
be done is to harden the ,hearts,of the
boys; treat them kindly and tell them
that such and such persons will not nj,
low them to take fruit and nuts from
their land, and the boys, as a general
thing, will not disturb them; but other
and kinder men will give them fruit and
nuts, and the boys at once believe that
they still have some friends; but cnt
all the farmers as their deadly aristo-
cratic enemies, and the boys viii grow
up as they do in monarchial govern
ments, to hate all people who own pro
perty,. Why? Because wealth has COM
hlned to crush them. Therefore, gen
tlemen, l cannot ask any persons to sign
said petitions you sent to me.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, February 8, 1875.