Freeman And Messenger (Newspaper) - December 19, 1839, Lodi, New York FREEMAN AND MESSENGER DOLLARS PUR AXM 1 HOUGH EDITOR AITO T H B r U B I C VOL I imper U SO per year to village the delivered To Companies 50 per provided the subscription the of months and Ii 00 if paid within the ty wilt be added in all where w not made within the LODI PERSIA THURSDAY DECEMBER 19 1839 ISO 50 POET BY my OWD part 1 have leat my my MBS I not thou a stem To the tuneless The lender stream Thy discipline is harsh Hut unto man Methinks hast a kindlier The lengthened eve is full of And deathless linking of warm to heart So that stream by Earth in white a peaceful holds And silence at her feet Shn from the or the plough And Man should rest from his fevered inhale The carbon of his fostering thought And drink in health As the tossed bark Poth the of somu quiet bay To trim it ami repair should the mind Unfit for time's Man perchance Soured by thu world's sharp commerce or im- By the wild of his summor way Turns like a truant his And hb nature to sweet influences save The bnv with his shouting from their On tho smooth lake star 1 pure anil eoW silver forth And throwing his skates witli boisterous pi cis to his mother's side Her tender hand Doth the from his glossy curls And draws him nearer and with voice of his lesson her lifted heart Solicits silently the Sire of Heaven To bless the lad The timid infant learns Better to love sits Upon his kner anil with velvet lip Prints on his brow language as the tongue Hath never spoken Come thou to life's feast With dove-eyed and And thou winter's blast The of the well tuned soul And when the last drop of its cup is drained Arising with a sonir of praise go up To the eternal banquet mf cat ny my shawl my and have been asked for my combs and brushes and my husband Tor his ving apparatus and his But the cream of the joke in the manner of thing It is M straight forward and honest none of your civility and servile gratitude Your true republican when he finds that you possess any thing which would contribute to his convenience walks in with Are you going louse your horses to-day 1 if your horses happen to be the tiling he needs Yes I shall probably want them well if you want was thinking to gel em to go up north a piece Or perhaps the desired articles comes within the female department Mother wants to pet some that ere butler you bought of Miss ton this mornin And away goes your golden store to bo repaid perhaps with some cheesy greasy stuff brought in a dirty pail with Here's your butter A girl came in to borrow a wash because got company Presently she came back Mother says you've forgot to send a The pen and ink and a sheet of per and a is no unusual request and when the pen a returned you are generally informed that you sent an presented herself She sat down and stared without speaking of or ad- and then informed us that her mother wanted Miss to let her have her baby for a little while cause Benny's mouth WAS MI rare that ful bad pen t have been but she bad no sentence pode Amanda K stepped forth time finish the MY and her ance failed The new mother's feelings were fortunately loo big for speech and wisely disappeared before Mrs found her tor g tie Philo who entered on the instant burst into one of his electrifying laughs mv frequently reminded of THE SCIENCE OP BORROWING The following amusing sketch is from Mrs new volume entitled A New Home who'll follow T descriptive of Life in Michigan It shows to what length the practice may be carried Lend your EARS G rant graciously what you cannot refuse safely LACOV Mother wants your said Miss Howard a young lady of six years standing attired in a tattered ico thickened with dirt her unkempt locks straggling from under that hideous substitute for a bonnet so universal in the western country a dirty cotton which is used ad nauseam for all sorts of purpose Mother wants your sifter and she guesses you can let her have some gnr and tea cause you've got plenty This excellent reason cause got is conclusive as to sharing your Whoever comes into Michigan with nothing will be sure to better bis condition but wo to him that brings with him anything like an appearance of abundance whether of money or mere household conveniences To have them and not be willing to share them in some sort with the whole community is an unpardonable crime You must lend your best horse to qui que ce toil to go ten miles over hill and marsh in the darkest night for a tor or your team to travel twenty after a your your els your utensils of all sorts belonging not to yourself but to the public who do not think it necessary even to ask a loan but take it for granted The two saddles and bridles of spend most of their time travelling from house to house and I have ally known a stray martingale to be traced to four dwellings two miles apart having been lent from one to another without a word to the original tor who sat waiting not very patiently to commence a journey one of Johnson's humorous sketches A man returning a broken row to a Quaker with here I've broke your rotten usin 1 wish you'd get it mended right off cause I want to borrow it again this afternoon The Quaker is made to re- ply Friend it shall be and I wish 1 more of his spirit But I did not intend to write a ter on involuntary loans I have a story to tell One of my best neighbors is Mr lo Doubleday a long awkward honest hard working Maineman or I suppose one might say so ed that he might be mistaken for a but that must be by those that do not know him He is quite an old settler came in four years ago ing with him a wife who is to him as to or as mustard to the sugar which is used to soften its bi- ting qualities Mrs Doubleday has the sharpest eyes the sharpest nose the sharpest tongue the sharpest elbows and above all the sharpest voice that ever penetrated the interior of gan She has a tall straight bony ure in contour somewhat resembling two hard oak planks fastened together and stood on end and strange to she was full when her ture graces attracted the eye and won the affections of the worthy Philo What eclipse had come over Mr Doubleday's usual sagacity when he made choice of his Polly 1 am sure I never could guess he is certainly the only man in the wide world who could possibly have ed with her and he makes her a most excellent husband I was sitting one morning with my neighbor Mrs Jenkins who is a sister of Mr Doubleday when Betsey Mrs Doubleday's hired girl came in with of handwork in her hand which bore in Mr Doubleday's well known chawk Come quick And the pranny For Mrs day's in trouble And the next intelligence wai of it fine new pair of at that hitherto silent mansion I called very soon ter to take a peep at the latest and if the surprised delight of the new papa was a treat how much more was the softened aspect the womanized tone of the proud and happy mother I er saw a being so completely ed She would almost forget to an- swer me in her absorbed watching ofthe breath ofthe little sleeper Even when trying to be polite and to say what the occasion demanded her eyes would not be withdrawn from the tiny face Con- versation on any subject but the and I could not help thinking that one must come west in order to learu a tle of every thing The identical glass tube which 1 of- Mrs Howard as H substitute for Mrs Doubleday's baby and which had already frail as it is threaded the country in all even an I write in a man on horseback comes from somewhere near and asks in mysterious whispers for but 1 shall not tell what ho calla it The reader must come to Michigan WHO'S THAT All was bustle and confusion among the fashionables in one of tlie western tier of counties of our Mate on the day preceding the evening for a select ball Tho ladies became great pedestrians and were on foot for hours together whilst the husbands and fathers were at home waiting in awful suspense for their return with the shopkeeper's The shopkeepers were more polite than usual inasmuch as gauze lace and were the only articles in demand and were bought without th irritating ry can't you take less and not a iner could complain at night of a want of custom and a full purse Evening advanced and the bustle increased Beaux just from the bandbox might be seen with a glove in one hand and age in the other tapping at the of the wealthy and tipping and bowing as if made of vibratory materials with as much cash in their pockets as brains in their noddles and more brass in their faces than either One of these mushroom gentry who had the faculty of talking nonsense had captivated the charming Mehitabel rissa Adelia Bacon third of the wealthy captain Jacobus Bacon of the invincible volunteer of roes vulgarly called who with remarkable valor during the latu war effected a bloodless not a mudless retreat through a swamp miles wide with the enemy in expectation at their heels At the appointed hour and cording to promise this sprig of the beau monde alluded to pulled the bell at the door the of redoubtable captain which into the world dependent upon alone for Hut thr good wishes of her adopted family went with her and a situation in the family of captain secured to her at which place reader will recollect he or she found her But I will resume my story At an early hour the ball raom was filled with a truly brilliant assemblage There were red cheeks in profusion somo painted by natura and others by art Bright eyes in abundance some sparkling with intelligence others with and among the er sex many with wine hilarity bore regal sway until a discovery was mmle a discovery considered by that intelligent assembly of equal importance to Herschel's Lunar observations The dance Sambo still sawed his cat gut and a per ran through the crowd The purse proud vinegar Mrs had the honor of making the discovery good their around their quiet atvl slight touches the frort of ago arc gathering upon of her fund hiiMbainl lot pure and holy warms the domestic circle the altar of true lence in reared The good of are poured into her lap m hen she with a hand their among the children of cheerless may be ly said that her children and call her Messed her hutband also and her What an moral may ba frum of this kind in- which occur almost daily in the mass of society The simple tale have told is tint the work of fancy wrought up from the tinsel material of exhibited to a discovery in which was involved tho reputation of all present It was ing less than tho lamentable fact that Amanda K the servant girl of captain Bacon had impertinently intruded self into the company of her betters and actually danced two cotillions with them before the degraded truth was known you over see such says What a brazen said another Why see how she's saiJ a third Such a whispered a fourth They say but never mind now A in nur company the chimed in Mrs with that elegance her and turning up liur nose advised the Indies Jo leave the room and no longer be insulted with her presence This advice assented to by the intelligent company and the poor but infinitely superior girl left and almost overcome with emotion He who invited her hither wan the son of her a- father who united with gence a graceful and gentlemanly de- portment and the command of sive possessions in land in one of the most fertile portions of our State He was absent when tho revolution in the ball room took place but returned just as it was evacuated by the ladies at the change and perceiving Amanda standing with her face suffused with blushes he hastily inquired the cause A friend drew him aside and communicated the facts as I have ned The young man was ed and with an emphasis adequate to his just excitement exclaimed What's that purseproud fool that ignorant rot of fashion worth who scorns virtue because it is coupled with poverty i Ten thousand answered his but our view to the great discredit of lectual worth Virtue beauty gence moral worth the highest bute of intelligent are often forced to bow he lire the gilded shrine of Mammon whoso are often built uji amid the ruins of ius and sacrificial riles consist in the utter and destruction of all that is noble in all that is bright and in Then within an inventory of your plenishing of all sorts would scarcely more than include the articles which you are solicited to lend Not only are all kitchen as much your neighbors an your own but steads beds blankets sheets travel from house to house a pleasant and mode of securing the perpetuity of certain efflorescent peculiarities ofthe skin for which Michigan is becoming almost as the land twixt and John Sieves ing irons they hud churns run about as if one kettle is e- for a whole neighborhood and I could point te the which has ed half the babies in new theme of babies was out of the question Whatever we began upon whirled round sooner or later to the one point The needle may tremble but it turns not with the less constancy to the pole As I pass for an oracle in the matter of paps and possets I had frequent com- with my now happy bor who had forgotten to wold her band learned to let Betsey have time to eat and omitted the nightly scouring of the floor lest so much dampness might be bad for the baby We were in one morning on some im- portant point touching the well-being of this sole object of Mrs Doubleday's thoughts and dreami when the same little Howard dirty as ever was answered by their female servant who among the rest was preparing for the ball and in her best bib and made a polite bow and invited the young coxcomb in Twilight deceived his already defective visian defective for it is sometimes said that love like wine makes men see double ly if they run against a post and he mistook the servant for his Doffing his hat and describing with his body all the figures of Euclid such as circles squares and triangles he at last completed his bow a la mode and lisped that he had the of being in iness to ethcort her to the Room I am engaged sir said the kitchen belle exclaimed the youth fallen Mith Bacon engaged O it's Miss Bacon you wish to see replied the girl Why I and talking to a Where ith your Walk into the parlor answered the insulted girl 1 will call her Reader wouldst thou know who this servant girl might be of whom we have been Well listen and I'll tell thee Didst ever hear of Wm once a very wealthy shipping merchant in New York who through multiplied losses was exiled from the dominions of wealth and consequently fashion and for many years dwelt obscurely in a country village with the only remnant of a once large family a charming little daughter This was the very At the age of ten she became an orphan but not The gentlemanly character of her father even in poverty had won the esteem of all and this last survivor of his accumulated tunes found a home mid a friend with a wealthy country She grew up to womanhood and and beloved by the family in which she resided as a sister and a friend Ten thousand eh 1 Well Amanda is worth that sum and the haughty fool in the bargain Ten sand and that forsooth ed against virtuous respectability Here Amanda my said he taking her by the hand and bowing respectfully to the gentleman present let us leave this place Where haughty pride ed and fed with the crumbs of wealth exercises an influence superior to tho dictates of goad sense virtue is gered So saying they left the place and re- turned home The young man's honor was involved in the transaction he had been sorely wounded and he resolved on revenge The very next morning after the ball Amanda poor slighted the obscure girl who was de- nied tho boon of mixing in society be- cause she wore the of erty received from the hands of the in- young man an instrument of writing securing to her possessions to the full amount of ten thousand dollars This gin and the motive which prompted it were soon made known to the haughty Mrs and envy more rankling painful than disdain supplied the place of tho latter Nor was the cup of bitterness yet full With all the solicitude of a mother she had laid snares to entrap the young man in question as a husband for her charming daughter tut unit IN 1 announce tho fact to he in- that the of this town inay an with men whom they to thieves nod more and consequently an lo tell them to their lares what they think of them aKo er known as abolitionists or imt for I believe there are tho Christian who have not seen lit with but are decidedly slavery men tho professed pies of Christ mity now a to expostulate with them men that they may remember in as bound with them that they may break every yoke and let the ed Tree I will now endeavor ID pivo my readers such a description of these that they may easily know them for I nm not able to give nil their names may be nu ly found out as can the customers merchant or in short to relate it would be more cult to inform my readers where they are lean hardly select nn individual in town who is not in ple a slaveholder for I must edge that I am so stupid ns not to be to discover why the consumer of the duce of slave is not as bad a son as the holder of tlm slave as ly and self na that the partaker of stolen property is as Imd as thn thief or that five ami five mako ten It is in my humble opinion like saying to Slaveholder of the wnith we think are dreadfully tn pnar in kerp beings ax ymi are worsf ihan highway because they only the anil Irt the but you deprive your of but h cry and liberty then own and fondly imagined that his urbanity was an evidence that she had caught him in her meshes But how soon do he most towering expectations fall from their high station when bolstered up by unsubstantial Ere two months had elapsed the humble da became the wife of the wealthy gar Time rolled on in its lent course bearing upon tide sweet flowers and beaming sunshine and ery ingredient of happiness forthe ful and turned their backs upon servant girl became i child But death her adopted the fawning sycophants of mother as nnd prospects Mrs N The womae who supplied her place a few was her who in her new station nn more worthy of no beloved by truly no more that you will not any longer us e buy any more of our cotton sugar molasses Abolitionists Mold let's sen ns to this matter it don't quite right to encourage this thing but why we must hear a a- gainst Wo don't though quite understand why your should tasto so and your he so good when they arc fruits of so much suffering NO much oppression As lo shirting cotton let's see sheeting calico Oh we must have Ah consistency where thy jewel 1 I am not able to see why the people ofthe northern states are not an guilty of this nefarious system as if they ally bargained with southern men to pay them a certain salary for a specified a- their goods annually thus king the Northerners as principals and Southerners only an agents in this dia- Again I believe that by an indiscriminate purchase produced by Slaves we are an much guilty of theft and war as if the holder agreed to pay his slave a certain say in cotton and after paying him succeeded in stealing or it by force from his slate for the northern market Now if I have not clearly shown fi tho understanding of my readers there are in this town ami any one believes that f am in an error or have come to an unjust conclusion upoR this subject I would to be shown my for I would to God that inhabitants of this town wera in- nocent of the blood of slavery But oo the other hand ifl am
