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WRIGHT. . d46m6 n made in the sum of money, executed his wile, of the County of Che- to Joseph of New Lon- ticut, dated the thousand eight is hereby the statute in and by virtue mortgage, All of Land, situate Town of Pbarsa- being part of Fifty Acres, Beginning at lot, thence s uth links to a beech west thirteen heap of stones thence north iwo links to a two chains and stones; thence thirty-six Imks the north line of chains and sev- of beginning. ex- excepted and re- Patent of said Will be exposed at the house 9? in the Vik unty of Chenangos August next. at - Dated Feb- SEPH SMITH, y. 8 bm6 publican; rOPLE!8 ADVOCATE Niday, by CORY, OPRIETOR, 0 COUNTY, N. ¥. to Village Subscr® o take their paper® ut of the Village, at the office, On¢ ir year. de half yearly, IN for a shorter period tinued ustil all are ss at the option of to natify a discon- red a new engage: isements conspicu- ks, for One Dollar ive Cents will be ment insertion. | 8, the statute prices» or must come post® sttended to. fand me ~ a VOL. 'II.‘.,..N%§;3. OR, OXFORD GA - m ' °\ erv . \. Pogrnny. _ Lines for the celebration of Intiépcnrlence. ~BY WM. B. TAPPAN. - patriot sires in glory sleep: - Their sepulchre is holy earth; And we uson their ashes, keep The sabbath of a nation's birth. God of our battles! didst not thou v The right arm of those warriors guide, W ho laid in blood the foemen low And freely gave their own heart's tide? And didst thou not along our shore, Bid ange! Peace extend her wing; And folding banners wave no more, Andsocial arts in verdure spring? These are thy works, O God! and we,. The sons who never could be slaves, Who proudly view fair Freedom's tree Expanding o'er our fathers' graves- We crush the mind, we forge the chain, Yea, from the soil by charter given, 'This hallowed hout the sigh of pain Ascen'4s, accusing us to Heaven,. Will mockery ask, this Day, what spoil Hearts shall in glad oblation yield, The firstlings of a teeming soil, Or choicest cattle from the field? Will solemn vows -where pans swell, Lauding our fabric's goodly plan- Atone, while stripes and fetters tell That man is pitiless to man? Vain all, the Highest hath no need Of our first fruits or altar's smoke; Deaver to God is Mercey's deed, Freermien! to break the Ethiop's yoke. -Lp- Wasy thy own Israel, God of love! Forth from Egyptian bondage came;, Thou didst before her armies move, In thy pavilion-car of fame;, And brightly shone thy power about, To guide and guard the chosen band, \Till thou hadst safely brought therm out From peril, tothe promised land. Sp wast thou, Lord! our fathers' shield, When they were feeble and alone; - hat field Thou from thy war-cloud, on t Look'dst, and the vaunting foe was gone; So didst thou guide the Flash'd banners 0 f And thou hast W hose toil and battle were the Lord's. We worship When drum ghd trumpet sounded long; And on t} s soil that drank their blood, In peace/fiwve pour the festive song; 'That goil!l -it nourished Eceeds when no more littering swords; ost the sea and shore, 'ere those warriors stood, 's tree, The plant that freshly bourfeons now; O God! may unborn nations see Our sons rejoice beneath its bough. We worship -but where are the Brave That warred and watched in manhood's bloom? Their lacks are hoar, and some do wave Amid the breezes of the tomb! Yet thou, with more than angels's wing Wilt overshadow Freedom's coasts; As did their sires, the children bring Homage to thee, lord (iod of Hosts! -F ~- ¥£t on thy azure robe of light,, Where starry gems of glory lie, One spat, Columbia! dinp'd in night, One cloud is seen algng thy sky;- 'Tis Slavery! yea, the Negro's tear Hath dew'd the soft\ where martyrs bled; His with'ring curse hath met the ear, Breathed wer. thé bones of Freedom's dead; Farewell to Liberty for thee, \Pill these, thy basely thrailed, are free! COMMODORE PORTER. wml 4 I sing the hapless hero's name; Who brave in battle stood, VWho danger dar'd for deathless fame, And for his country's good: I sing of him who met the foe, Far on the stormy sea' Whose valor laid the tyrant low, 'Mid shouts of victory. , And where is he, whose deeds sublime - Now gild the glorions page, Whose brilli in Shall light a Aye, where is A tide of tyrants' gorg. Whose wrath beneath the iitare age; The pride of Atbion's shore. O tell it not on Europe's strand, My country's shame 'twill be, An exile from his native land, Dishonor'd now is he. Dishonor'd ! no. the cruel shame, Stains not the hero's scroll, As bright and briffiant is His fame, As dignified his soul. But on the heads of thass who thirst Far vengeance void of laws, On hearts of calumny that curst The hapless hero's cause, Shall fall the curso of him forlotn, Who was from crime exempt,; Aud they shall meet their country \s seorks The nation's cold contefript. \ » e down the tide of time, billows suuk, dre 1 WA% lof he whose blade bath drunk {from the press of Messrs. I. R. Butts, &c., and | {to the reason and consciences of the rich, in favor rear vere OPLFS ADVOCATE. HE COMES, THE HERALD OF A NOISY FKQK ann wéTroms rumesrinc at mis sack.-Cowper, OXFORD, N. ¥. FRIDAY, JULY 1 o domestic liquors-but. should they even 1 yom‘tixe National Philanthropist. Ibe cou’ragégus en'oughfi to do 56, fife?“ MR. SPRAGUE'S ORATION. _ | only tempt the impdrier to become a This eloquent performance has been presczlt— smuggler, and instract the distiller to out- ed to the public since our paper was issued, wit the exciseman-perhaps it might put money into the public treasury--bui it would not teach men temperunce, No! we must go beyond all thik--we must first minister to qurselyes. {Before we revive old laws, we must aboligh old customs.--; Before we to th§ government, we we may justly pronounce it the happiest appeal. | of Temperance, which we have ever seen. We shall, however, omit all praises of our own, which are entirely superfluous when bestowed on such a production, and come directly to the Address, which will speak for itself, regretting must pr r osincérity by b i at the same time, that our space falls so far short prove our «incérity by becoming of our xpchnatmps, that in our desire to give our j pu‘r own legxslatots. Tbs Slaw we’need 5:23:1er tgomtev 3!an of the wholé, we have no” 1s that which must speak ir the unwritten I £1415 ice 1°}? supgnor merits. , majesty of Public Opinion. 'The peo- explaiming the purpose for which the' ple's virtue must enact it, and the peo- laudience had assembled,-to bear their testim0- | plo's nractj st be i ent H ny against Drunkenness, he describes its effects, ; ples practice must be its emu-cement. and urges prevention as the.only remedy, The} % # % # i foufwlf‘g are “Rafi“! It is truly astonishing to behold how 'The spectacle before us is indeed ; completely the habit of unnecessary drink- appalling. The victims of intemperance | ing pervades the various classes of our are wasting around us in frightful oum.] community. In one way or another, it bers. Neither sex, nor age, nor rablk,|is their morning and evening devotion, nor talent, is unsubdued by the subtle! their noonday and midnight sacrifice., destroyer. - Man falls away from his glo-; From the highest graile to the lowest, rious destiny, and woman is degraded from the drawing-room to the kitchen, from her angel station; the young bow ; from the gentleman. to the labaurer,down their faces in the beauty of their pro {descends thé universal custgm. From mise, the mature are arrested in the pride those who sit longsat the- wine that has of their usefulness, and the white locks. been rocked upon the océgnjiand ripen- of the old seek the tomb in disgrace; the; ed beneath an fndiun sky, down to those, rich are overcome in their spleadid man- 'who solace themselves with the fery li- sions, the poor in their dreary hovels;, quor that has cursed no other shores than of learning is extinguished; genius is rable abode, where the father and moth -| struck d'ovyn in his eagle career, and the éf will have rum, though \the children: holy functions‘of piety are defiled in the' ery for bread-down to the bottom, even i dust._ to the prison house, the forlorn innate of | F:iiends-we may not sit in silence;1which bails him his best friend, who is; while this dmnstation is going on. We icunning enough to convey to him, un-. have a duty to perform; and what we discovered, the all-comsoling, the ull-cor-i would do effectually, we must do united. roding poison. | ly. It is time tor us to speak; -the car; Young men must express the warmth; that would be deaf to the kind whisper of of mutual regard, by daily and nightly li- individual remonstrance, must bear the bations at some fashionable hotel--it is' nity. Above all, it is time for us to act: turns in flinging open their own doors to -the sin that shrouds itself in the broad each other, and the purify of their es- mantle of custom, custom mustexpose and teem is testified by the number of bottles destroy. A vast proportion of the cases they can empty together--it is the cus- of confirmed intemperance may be trac-| tom The husband deems it but civil to ed, not so much to ar; innate depraved- commemoratythe accidental visit of his ness, as to the crafty workings of the un- acquaintance by a glass of ancient spirit, reproved usages of society; and we, who 'and the wile holds it a duty to celebrate continue to follow these usages, even the flying call of her companion with a while we laugh at them, are ourselves taste of the latest liqueur--for this also is more or less chargenbtle with the evils we , the custom. 'The interesting gossipry of lament over, and are bound to exert our every litlle evening coterig must be en- efforts for the alleviation of them. I say, livened with the customary cordial, Cas- our efforts-not merely those which are:; tom demands that idle quarrels, perhaps 3, 1827. - the Sight of his face, and trembles at the [so faira surface, it becomes more imper- sound of his voice? The hearth is indeed |riously the 'duty of every patriotic citi- . { dol tq # as * the arm of labor is paralyzed; the lightI our own--down, till it reaches the congregated voices of an alarmed commu- n the custom. The more advanced takeibmerly indeed, the tears of grief would Istation he once adorned, degraded from leminence to ignomy--at home, turning dark, that he has made desolate. There, zen to assist in removing it, Let nof through the dull midnight bour, berjour glory and disgrace go hand in hands- . griefs are whispered to herself, her bruis- When we exaltingly proclaim to the 'de» ed heart bleeds if seeret. There, while crepit communities of the old world, how the cruel author of her distress is drown- far we have outstripped them in lilzerty' ed in distant revelry, she holds her soli- let them not be able to tell us that‘wé tary vigil, waiting yet dreading his return, have also outstripped them in a vice that will only wring from her by his un- which is liberty's most deadly foe,. If kindness, tears evep more scalding than that be true, which we bave been told, those'she shed over his transgression.- [let it teach us humility, and excite us tc; To fling a deeper gloom across the pre- |amendment--that though but two hun« sent, memory turns back, and broods up» | dred years a people, but fifty years ana- on the past. Like the recollection to the tion, we have already, in this part‘ic'u‘lkai? sun-stricken pilgrim, of the cool spring attained a- wicked pi'ehminence (we; he drank at in the morning, the joys of| kingdoms that had seen centuries come other days come over her, as if only to and depart, long before the white sail of: mock her parched and weary spirit. She Columbus caught the inspiring winds of recalls the ardent lover, whose graces} our western sky. won her fiom the home of her infancy- zzz The Devil.-In all ages the Devil the enraptured father, who bent with has rendered great service to the such delight over his new born children DS -and she asks if this can really be him learned, for whom he has always evinc- -this sunken being, who has now noth- |ed a particular regard. Scaliger was ing for her but the sot's disgusting bru-|said to have entered into a compact tality-nothing for those abashed and (with him. Socrates, Apuleus Agrip- trembling children, but the sot's disgust- pa, Cardan and Caglistro, are report- - ed to have had familiars who inspired ing example! Can we wonder, that amid these agonizing moments, the tender} them with knowledge. Roger Bacon chords of violated affection should snap a- sunder? that the scorned and deserted wife should confess, \ there is no killing like that which kills the heart?\ that tho' taught him mathematics. it would have been hard for her to kiss for the last time the cold lips of her dead husband, and lay his body forever in the dust, it is harder to behold him so debas- ing life, that even his death would be greeted in mercy? Had he died in the light of his goodness, bequeathed to his family the inheritance ofan untarnished name, the examples of virtues that should blossom for his sous and daughters from the tomb-though she would have wept Our ancestors had so regan an opin- ion of the human mind that they deem- ed it incapable of producing any this without the aid of the Dévil. John Faust, one of the inventors of prin- ting, was suspected of holding open communication with the Prince of Darkness. In Switzerland the com- mon people entertain so high a notion of the Devil's talents, that they attri« bute to him the construction of sev- eral masterpieces of architecturei- Denisle Chartreux says that the devil not have been also the tears of shame.- But to behold him, fallen away from the his dwelling to darkness, and its holy en- ‘deurments to mockery-abroad, thrust {from the companionship of the worthy, a , self-branded outlaw-this is tlhe wo that 'the wife feels is more dreadful than death -that she mourns over as worse than widowhood. . i 'There is yet another picture behind, 'from the exhibition of which I would wil- ffingly be spared. I have ventured to es; and Tertullian informs us that th that he can carry a sieve full of water without spilling a drop. - Church in Bremen.--A lext‘iér from was- imprisoned because the Devil '%\ . The Tem- {3 - plars and Joan of Arc were accused of ; holding communication with demons. | is a great geometrican: Milton asserts § that he excels in the building of bridg- | Devil is so good natural philosopher} {° the Rev. Mr. Kurtz, a Lutheran min- # ister now in Europe, published in the £- New York Christian Adrocate, states $- n ~ Tap ) + 10 1 19 0 \ {pa ' ; . to. 18 . Texhausted in assembling to hear admoni- tory addresses, too often only criticised \\that seem to pass off like a thick flight and forgotten-in showering abroad tracts | generate over a friendly cup, another friendly cup must drown. Foolish wag- ers are laid, to be adjusted in foolish drinking--the rich cilizen stakes a dozen, | things. of snbw, leaving no trace of their pas-. the poor one a dram. \ The brisk mi- sage, and disappearing where they fall;\ nor panting for twenty -one,\ baptizes his -these things, certainly, are not to be new born manhoced in the strong drink to left undone, but if we would have them' which he intends training it up,. Births, of any avail. something more must beimarriagesmnd burials, are all hallowed done also.--Least ofall, can we rely on' by strong drink. Anniversaries, civic the unassisted arin off'mthority. We may festivities, military displays, municipal invoke the laws, but 'we may as well in- f elections, and even religious cgremom‘nls voke the dead. | Laws can only operate are nothing without strong drink. The when the mischief is done. - Prevention: political ephemera of a litle noisy day, is what we want--remedy utterly loses: and the colossus whose footsteps millions its character. - Indeed, though we very wait upon, must.alike be apothesiced in properly punish the thief and the murder- liquor. _ A roughhewn statesman is toast- er, for crimes against which we all set our' ed at, and drank At, to his face in one faces, with what consistency can we pun- place, whi'e his boist@rous adversary sits ish the drunkard, for an offence to which through the same mummery in another. our own daily practices naturally lead] Here, in their brimming glasses, the ad- him? We do all but the deed, ourselves, herents of some successful candidate min- --we tread on the borders of the forbid.! gle their congratulations, and there in den ground, and then angrily cry out for | like manner, the partisans of hzs‘defeated iustice on him who goes one step further. rival forget their chagrin. Even the ** Enforce the laws!\ exclaims some vir-' great day of national emancipation is, with tuously indignant citizen, as he beholds too many, only a great day of drinking, the low-born druckard shaming the fair' and the proud song of deliverance is trou- e of day--'* enforce the laws\\ and bled from the lips of those, who are bend- th these words on his lips, he coolly ar- , ing body and soul to a viler thraldom than d xwtte evening club, from the carous-| that from which their fathers rescued vhich, if he retires unexposed, it] them. f % # + % * cause the shades of night do more * *) 0 * * | fo¥ him than his own prudence,. © Sup-} | But deplorably as the fmvyolous usages pvess drinking -h ouses and Soda establish-; of wociety show, in their effects upon the ments'-cries the anxious father, who; young, the prospect is doubly terrine, shudders lest his son may drink there .of when we behold l‘helr ravages among the thé waters of death which however he is | more mature. The common cAalam‘nvlfis not af all afraid to press upon his friends ! of life may be endured. Poverty, wk. t at home. - \ Why does not government im- | ness and even death may be mel- run po‘rse a tax on domestic spirits?\ is the in- | there is, that vyhlcb, while It} bimgs ta quiry of one who sits at his loaded table, } these with it, is worse (handall tile?“ o- boasting of the agesof hiJs_foreign'l|quors, | gethér. Whenflthc husban dailyhtddlil) and recounting the various voyages that forgets the duties he once be ighte me have rendered them so exquisite. | Tru-) fulfil, and by slow degrees lecomest rt ly there is a little absurdigy in these | creature of mtomperanc'e,‘ t new? «(in fhs Besides, we may fing and impri- int'o.h|s house the sorrow ixaflru‘; Sth-i son a pour wretch, now and then, for in- smut-\that cannot be alleviated, tha toxication , but it will go only alittle way will tiot be comforted. to.reduce the evil--it will not-teach him| - Itis here above all, wh o sh We may lessen the wum-] has ventured every thing, feels that Eye- «shops that pour forth their' ry thing is lost. Womar‘r, guest-en, ler- steams of Abomination from every hole | ing, devoted woman, 11443239, en {Shmr 1‘51' and corner-but we all know that many | direst afthiction. The msftsgredq (3 Ink-J a man becomes a'drunkard before he sets | is, in trutg, full, “gt“;o‘sc uslqum 15,5}:1 £th his foot within one- it will not teach him! kard. - Who Mm!l protect her, p iv in temperance. We may cal} upon our ru- is her zqsglter-fl xler opfiresshm: lis a lers to lay heavy duties on imported and shall delight her, when she shrinks H a c 20 c tox - . ‘» » ,+ 2 Cf wien e o ip eee cui copa imens c la dat uae ale iffy nanBags cone point to those who daily force themselves before the world, but there is one whom ithe world does not know of--who hides 'herself from prying eyes, even in the in- nermost sanctuary of the domestic tem- ple. Shall { dare to read the veil that hangs between, and draw her forth?-the priestess dying amid her unholy rites, 'the sacrificer and the sacrifice! O, we :compass sea and land, we brave danger anu death, to snatch the poor victim of heathen superstition from the burning pile--and it is well--but shall we not al- so save the lovely ones of our own house- hold. from immolating on this foul altar, {not alone the perishing body, but all the worshipped graces of her sex-the glo- altributes of hattowed womanhood! ._ Imagination's gloomiest reverie never \conceived ofa more revolting object, \than that of a wife and mother, defiling in ber own person the. fairest work of her God, and setting at nought the ho- ly engagements for which he created her. Her husband who shall heighten his joys, and dissipate his cares. alleviate his sor- 'rows? She who robbed him of all joy, who 'is the source of his deepest care, who lives his sharpest sorrow? These are in- deed the wife's delights but they are not her's. - Her children--who shall watch over théir budding virtues, and pluck up the young weeds of passion and vice? she in whose own bosom every thing beauti- ful has withered, every thing vile grows {rank? Who shall teach them to bend . their little knees in devotion, and repeat ' their Saviour's prayer against \ tempta- 'tion'\ She who is herself temptation's 'fettered slave? 'These are truly the imother's labours--but they are not her's. Connubial love and maternal tenderness | bloom no longer for her. A. worm has gnawed into her heart that dies only with 'its prey--the worm, Intemperance! | U a that there is a Lutheran Church at% Bremen in Germany, 300 feet long of y.. a proportionable width, with a steeple g. seven st ries high, exclusive of theif spire. The congregation embraces! - 28,000 souls, and has four clergymen] ' and one assistant. Under the build-4=. ing is a cellar in which are s number@ of dead bodies in a state of preserva-. tion, although they have been deposit=f ed there 200 years. \ With my eyes,\ says Mr. K. \ I saw the bodie 3?“ in full as they-were conluries aga. -f The entrails are dried away, but thea‘f', ‘ external parts are yet complete; andfir even the caps with which they were ma}; terred 200 years ago, and other parts:, of the grave clothes, are in 'a state of } & perfect preservation.\ These i are not mummies, but are preserved» by the peculiar nature of the atmos<i> phere. f M Mr. K. says there is a wine in Bremen containing some wing that? is several centuries old. H TLO make excellent bread without Yeast ¢ -~. -Scald about a double handful of IndianX, . 4 meal, isto which put a little salt. and adj, | much cold water as will make it ratherf', warmer than new milk; then stirin wheat: # flour, till itis as thick as a family pud« J ding, and set it down by the fire to risgfié In about half an bour, itj:nemlly gvrowfizli thin; you may sprinkle a little fresh flows; -- on the top, and mind to turh the pot § that it may not bake to the side dfit, Ix} | three or four hours. if you mind. the 33 ee bove directions, it will rise and fermen f as if you had set it with top yeast; wher - it does, make it up in a soft ° a pan, putin your bread, set it beforé? the fire, covered up, turn it round t&5 make it equally warm, and in about half} e % * ; % 0 # 0 *% t country injustice. | I glory in my ci- PY « ? ® With the exception of the ravages far and wide, we may proudly | challenge a comparison with the domin-| witty reply to one who asserted that he} The present, bow- did not believe there was a truly honest a time for the sitken phrases | man in the whole world: * Sit,\ said The gross and /' it is quite impossible that??? oné man - dti ions of the earth. \ever is not 1 iof self- commendation. | besetting sin, the parent of so many oth- should kmow all the world, 'ers, is a national blot; and if it shows the poqsxblf‘: that some one man may kn: from'! darker on our scutcheon, that it pollutes , himself.\ i . I would not, even 'in anticipation, 40 'f} suits best to bake at home in a Dute joven, . Tow : 01 UC) goon as it is light. where she, who one bateful vice, which is spreading its} an hour it will be light enough to balke as it should be pit into the oven a I once heard a gentleman make a ver tis qui hon arouse medie able evan coc bev duke So 14
