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rected one of the most perfect and fairest superstructure of civil jurisdiction ever presented to the view of mankind. The unnatural

distinctions of patrician and plebeian, of monarch and subject, were expunged and disowned and a

mancipation from the thraldom of such brave and noble deeds were bandage feelingly deplore the transmited unimpaired to their wretched fate of the subject of descendants, when Britain infatudespotic cruelty, and exert every ated Britain essayed to lay them in nerve to rend ass under the fetters chains,brandishing over their heads with which he is bound, and when the strong arm of despotism. the momentous period of his re- they fought and conquered,' they leasment arrives meet him on the burst the shackels prepared to enthreshold of Liberty's halcyon a- slave them, and averted the blow bode with joy and congratulations.destined for their humiliation. And Americans stand pre-eminent in on the ruins of an arbitary and the scale of endurance; was ty-heterogenous goverment was eranny that drove them from their native land to seek an assylum in this Western World;' 'twas tyranny that impelled them to throw off the iron yoke with which they were oppressed, to buffet a long seven years war and suffer all its horrid concomitants. Yes, so te-leveling system' of putting all nacious were the primitive settlers of America of their freedom that in consequence of the wanton encroachments made upon their invaluable rights, they forsook the place of their births, to encounter the perils of the wide boisterous ocean, to encounter the hardships and dangers ever attending on the settlements of a distant uninhabited country; and we are told that they deemed it their duty & experienccd a sublime pleasure therein, toly initiated in affliction and durinfuse into the glowing bosoms of their offspring the same liberal views, the same sentiments of liberty which animated and predom.inated in their own.

Thus it is said the magnanimous spirit and zeallous devotion to freedom which stimulated our forefathers to the performance of

ranks upon a equilib:ium was sub-
But in this transmuta-
stituted.
tion from darkness and oppression
to day-light and liberty, in this sea-
son of jubilee, when the affranchis-
ed Americans flushed with the
glow of freedom and they remem-
ber and appreciate the sorrows of
the woe-worn slave? Themselves
so lately emerged from the vale
of wretchedness, so lately escaped
from the fangs of tyranny, and ful-

ance. Did they extend the succouring hand of compassion and relief to their miserable bondmen, and thus act in conformity with the divine precept of doing unto thers as we would they should do unto us?' In gratitude for their own redemption, and when wrought upon to offer up their gratutious. orisons to the Almighty Throne,

conductive to their disinthralment. Much, much indeed could be advanced in deploration of the wrongs inflicted upon the subjugated affricans & in reprehension of the horrible barbarity, and dissimulation of their inflated masters ;-but thanks to the saraphic influence of heaven. born religion, thanks to the God

did they perform deeds and make sacrifices corresponding with the great events of their deliverance, by foregoing the consideration of their own emollient, and mitigated the shocking condition of the Negro Slaves? No! to their everlasting shame and ignomy they did not. When mounting upon their superior immunities and superla-dess of luminious science, thanks

to an enlightened Legislature; the hateful monster, Slavery, the offspring of blackest hell; received a stab which pierce his very vitals, and the debased negro em

captivity, is enabled to view the bright salubrious residence of the 'mountain nymph sweet liberty' and anxiously anticipates the period when he and the whole race shail joyously bound up the bank till they arrive at her glorious summit, and there take their 'rank among the nations of the earth.'

tive happiness and while enjoying every blessing that Peace, Plenty and Liberty can bestow, they were themselves Inhumanly trampling on a large section of the human 'race, and permiting and nourish-merged in the gloomy den of his ing within their own territory a system of tyranny and oppression the most cruel and flagrant that was ever designed for the disgrace of man. While possessing an atdent and unalienable attachment to equality and a general diffusion of knowledge; while surfieting the literary world with panegyrics on our; republicanism with innumerable discussions on our political li. berty & the 'rights of man,' & with maledictions on tyranny, it would appear that the very severity & crucky with which they treat their slaves gave to then the lie, & prov'd that all their specious professions were mere ostentation. Yes while basking in the warm sunshine of t anquility; rioting amidst overflowing profusion, and inhaling the

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For the Lady's Miscellany.

The LUCUBRATOR,

NUMBER III.

Among the great number of

bland invigorating breezes of liber-fashionable vices, I know of none ty more than twenty annual cir. cuits of the earth were permitted to revolve before they ceased to deal rigourously with their bondmen' and adopted any measures

more pernicious to the mind than the habit of speaking with indeli cacy in company. Of all habits, this is the most difficult to be erased; for we find, that they who

have addicted themselves to it in youth, by no means lay aside when the years of decay approach. It is a vice which accompanies incontinence and dissipation; and when practice becomes, from infirmity, no longer possible, this habit of recollecting sentiments of indelicacy continues to prevent the sobriety of old of old age, and that degree of reflection without which few men will ever end their days in happiness. Pleasure, incorporated with the animal wants of the body, continues to grow more desirable after nature has impaired

the faculties; and the conversation which in a young man was the effects of untempered juvenility. becomes in an old one disgusting and unprofitable,

Few vices are more prevalent in the companies of young men than this; and none can argue a worse heart or a more depraved understanding, I never knew a man addicted to it who was not either a fool or a profligate. They plead CUSTOM as an excuse, and indeed to such only would be a law. It is very strange, that of all the subjects of conversation in a refined age this should be selected, which of all others contributes the least to amusement for what is it at best but giving a language to guilt, and clothing vice in the pleasing, but now polluted. gard of social conversation? It is a recapitulation of those crimes for which we blushed in secret, but now can boast of as the feats of a noble mind. It

is a farther increase of that insensibility into which incontinence leads the vacant mind, and furnishes an additional argument. to the monitor of self-reproach, when the hours of sober sadness come.

As being the language of the meanest vulgar, it is unbecoming the gentleman, or the man of the world; as being the language of the vicious, it is destructive to the young, and eversive of their truest interests; and as being found chiefly among the illiterate and selfish, it must appear pernicious to the understanding & the health, and unfriendly to the generous principles which distinguish the happiest period of youth. It is cruelty towards our sex, because it, more firmly roots in us the most lasting habits of criminality; and it is much more barbarity to the other sex, by instilling a contempt for those, whom by the laws of nature, the ties of friendship, and the spirit of a MAN, we are bound to protect, to love, and make happy. Many have thought wit very nearly allied to indecency, but there is no such connection, unless in the writings or conversation of men who would rather address themselves to the vices of their age than, by a disinterested opposition endeavour to end them. Indecency has no greater connection with wit than unlawful pleasure has with true happiness; and when the influence of fashion and the eye of company are from us, each will appear a distinct property

the one a degrading vice, the other a pleasing and valuable pos session.

city be the topic of discourse; but no sooner does an indelicate story creep in than his countenance brightens, his reserve goes off, and he takes an unceasing part in the favourite conversation. I have seen him sit for two hours com. pletely without opening his lips, then all on a sudden burst out with a request that an indecent toast be drank, and if that is not follow. ed by suitable observations, relapse into his former nothingness. It was but last week I happened to go into a company in which he was. The conversation turned

AVARUS is a man very much given to the absurdity I am mentioning. He received a good education in his youth, but the traces of it which are discoverable now are faint indeed. His parents added piety to other endowments,— but it is only by his repeated expressions of contempt for the laws of piety that we can learn he ever heard of them. Of polite learning it is the less wonder that no part remains, as his profession (a merchant) is in general though to de-partly on politics and partly on li

terary subjects. All this while he said nothing, and indeed appeared so uneasy that I began to be afraid he was not well, or that some acci

dent had happened to him. I soon broke in upon his silence by tak ing up a Morning Paper, in which

mand little. Reading he is wholly a stranger to, and thinking, when it comes, will tell him so. But his chief pleasure consists in those conversations which tend to give the wit and language of profligacy, and that fulsome repetition of foily which a man of sense (though vicious) would blush at. Vice in others may be a passion, but in him it would be a habit, were not the practice of it opposed by another principle in his constitution, viz.loud to the whole company, and af Avarice. Having been in his early amours a sufferer, he contents himself with reviewing the days of his folly, of bragging of his ma

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there was an infamous advertisement from an equally infamous strumpet. I had scarcely read 6 lines when he looked up, smiled, and, before I had done, laughed a

ter proposing his favourite toast, gave the conversation a turn more agreeable to himself than it had hitherto taken. He continued very eloquent on a variety of topics, which I left him in the midst of first, because I had heard them from him over and over again; secondly, because they were too absurd to bear repetition; and lastly, because listening patiently to conversation of this kind, ti

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By inserting the following Enigmatical list of Lawyers in your much esteemed Miscellany, you will oblige the Author.

1 Two fourths of an esculent gain, three sixths of the stone of any fruit.

2 Three fourths of a young horse, three sixths of a French brass coin.

3 Two sevenths of a green prc. cious stone, three sevenths of a sea woman changing a letter.

4 Four sixths of a specimen, and a male child.

5 The font line of an army,and the cotton of a candle changing a letter.

6 Four sixths of a divine song and the latter, four sixths of one of the four horses of the Sun.

7 Sorrow of heart rejecting a letter and the wing of a fish.

8 One of the sons of Noah, 3 sevenths of a monarch changing a letter.

9 Two sixths of the north wind one fourth of a starting post, three ninths of Queen of Caria.

10 Three sixths of an order of Knights instituted by Edward III, two fifths of an evil spirit, 2 fifths of the Son of Belus, two fifths of the muse of love-poetry.

11 Four sevenths of the priestess of Apollo and Latin of snow

12 Three fourths of a bird of prey changing a letter.

LEANDER.
Solution Requested.

For the Lady's Miscellany.

An Enigmatical list of Young Ladies residing at Huntington,

(L. I.)

1 Three fourths of a volume of civil law, half the word resembling the ringing of bells, and three fifths of an instrument to hold fire.

2 A braid, and one third of an eastern plant used as a common beverage by every commercial people.

3 Three fourths of a shell fish, one third of a term in music, and one half of a small singing bird.

4 Three fourths of a revolving motion and the middle third of the third son of Noah,

5 Three fifths of a knave, two sevenths of a hermit and a conso

nant.

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