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Tt tl editors of the Fayetteville Gazette, YOUR friend MENTOR feels him fclf in a hobble. He finds by your w paper, that tie flood gate are let looi:, and the whole elements of criiicifm are poured out upon hiiM like a torrent. The fkrewdnefs of your cor respondent's remarks upon his efly on drefs furpafs all undtritanding ; and to file his original and emphatical words, 4 thty Jirike tajte my Jilcr.t pen !' I beg ycu vrill mak? him my mo;t rcfpectful compliments, and alls, him when he did iame denvn ? :ind at the lame time allure him it was not for geniufes fubiime as his that I condefcended to write my remarks were only meant for people of s:K.non fn,e. " His genius mounted on the wing, His fancy has fuch flights, That like a hammer it does lting, And like an anril bites. Had I the tongue of oyilcr wench, So clever and fo high, His name fliould lalt like lightwood bench, To perpetuity. SternhotfSc Hopkins." From the GENERAL" ADVETTSER. Printed at Philadelphia. Mr. Bachi, X HAPPENED lately to be in the -company of feveral young ladies, where the following curious converfatioxt took place : L Sophia. Mercy our poor congrefs I I re lily think thai fome of them will return ho rat crack-brained or hyrteric. Our body poli.ic is lb very fore, that it cannot Lear to be handled, though ever fo gent ly ; every part crit- t9uch me not : don't . puihrn hs.ir, Sirrah, hallos one you tread cr: r toes,itA ano'hYr : ycur contund e tlbonu Licks fi.jnacky roars a tliir ! : V It pay yzu fir pulling a gentUmmrfs nofe thunders -he lourth. If cor.gief, at tempt!; a duty on rum and whitkv. they ,air i-nTel, as if they woull tax he milk iff fucking babes. If eon ef will teach cur young mm ro d fend thrir mothers ii.id feahearts, they are called pkk pj kttaand cut-th'oa s. C'asrUit Iniee i I fincerely pitv our rational guardians Their p'pili are in- re hrnlical :han pn girls, and f.me ci rhcrn as ir-.ward as naughty boys Vhi uiiliia aA feems to cifpVtfe cvt.yor.e. Th; great b d; wi 4..krs dilLke it : the ta I peopiwas: cx mp l(,. fr thrir ap :icn:ices : rh? AuJentx lz.CI ' i : '-: ; the vo jn.i farcin- , rrVA that we young women raul learn mi'ir'a duty, and turn out with both muiqucc' and bayonet. Thalejlris- Upon my word, I lng for thiv happychange of affairs VVe (hall then expunge the odious etey f rom the marriage ceremony. Should I ever be umlucky enough to get ahufband, favage as an 1 dian, and ftrong as Goliath, I'll keep quiet as a moufe, by flalhing my gun in his face. Then, my girls, we fhall firlt be mitlrelfes of our houfes, and then in a very fhort time govern the fiate alfo VVe fiiall in this weitef a hemifphere let up a female empire, ihat (hall laugh at all the male governments in the world. Rvxana. My dear girl, let me kifs ycu for tha. greatnefs of foul. Oh, may the glorious day foon dawn, when our fex (hall be delivered from an ignominious flavery ct 6coo years : a flavery founded upon the ilory of our Hrft mother's eatin a forbidden apple, a flavery exercifed by pedants, fophitfs, blockheads, drones drunkards, fops, gamelters, bloods,' bi gots, ra!:es, voluptuaries over the far more virtuous, fcnfible, lovely part of the human fpecies In fifty quarto vo lumes of ancient and modern hiitory, you will not find fifty illutfriou female names ; heroes, flatefmen, divines, philofophersl artiih, are all of the mafculine jender. And pray what have they done "during this long period of nmrpation ? bufy they have been with a witneft z rhey have writ ten ten thoufand unin'elligible books :. they have laboured 1600 years to eabiifli erroneous fy items, and worked h ird again for another tcco years to puil them down : hey have been cutting ech others throa's all over the globe, and murde;ed at lealt one hundred millions in quarrels about idols, title, gold lace, nutmeg and ium : they hare difj utedfor many cen turies abrui the belt ibrm of government, without producing one good pattern I boldly affi.m, not ; one not even in his country ; kecaufe the fierat conjlit m 'ion ha the great Jefitl of being too fiM ;hatl-, pf lup ling r.ore vinu in :he people han they really have ; of f ippofmg th m v ifefc generous, brave when hv cannot lee. their trueintereft, vhen ?he love pelf and hate mar tial exercifes. Thalejiris I am exceedingly pleaief R y Jear, wi:h your congenial frnrimentsj and hope hat 'e have idu.bco fillers.' , in the .United Stales. I amiripaf- the . glorious day vhen America la ihs (hall be CmmandeT-, Pr, liJen s of Conrefs, ArBafTtfoTs Giernrv, Secte ariei, of S ate, P-.frflVs J.wlr,., Poacher: ; when rhe golden air . r he Pnt-A Iho miVcM jam h C.ni lums. lhall be men, ar leatt-'in iUboroinaie partsl rfarh. 'YIel, yes, wc will maketh-m hewers 01 wand a: drawers" of wai 'ri they fh ill co' kfoi us m;ik? our iuet knit ltockins, walk our lin n, &c VVe ih dl pc hups; emp:oy lome (1ffllcm pioneers and f.ujersin our campS merd qmlltdtiversin the petty clHccs, dcor keeprs, meiTnge.rs, fexrons, andfo forth. . . ftct'. ,Ba: will they fubimt' to this. inftiibiir ? Roxana. Inferior mins Vill be fitted ior mlenor Uati. ns. We lhall keep; the liic puna in our own hands. We .thali moreover keep them ignorant, and from infancy bend their mind tofer. - ; r - A l ;Z Amelia But. afer all, is not weinaft-f made for man ? and would," von V-SV wiieo fuch a pufilammous creature t jtM not, now would you preierve this noble 1 - - ,.1 - - T b 1 race of females, and tli or Thalefrh. I conffs you puzzle me' H vveyer we mull pick rU. the kait deV fbaire males, or elfe import from Europe i fome ci their beft men, coit what it I will. dwelt a. rhis woulc Itil be a partial lupply nine ait .of ten of the wnica 1 raua die old maids. ! fetli Roxana.. It is fo. . We mud make thai 'f uie 01; rne men wrncn nature intended, i I hope lib, that thincceuary evil will Apt y fprtilMthp oiipring ; becaufe the great ' Einnseai has pioveci thai we deri-veibe mental part frowi our mothers. Admit tingtha the bouits of out children ftuld ;" be thej wprfefor theimbecility of thcitfa t ers, we canharden them by cold brath$ exercifei&c.i ; . . 4?'''; Makid, My dear friends, youifehemeV are Utttan. hejawsf oC;ptoviiTerce are immutable: mai) mur do the rough work of ! jlbcietv : w inan, mines in the tender jcjrires- and elegant aVts ofdorreftic life- Let us'carry ajcounter-petiiion to congreiVjifigned by ten thoufand jair sime- ricans i Jet us boldhj declare, that we vill mver ?ram a man vho earn er, lip cafe of rieed, prottcl us and our chil dren: . ' ; Trtc lady proceeded1 in flcrtchirr 1 hi pe:-tiin;j ft was Hirarg?d within at h nr9 and is njow circularinti o rr the f,ui i !r tit fublcjrjiptk.h ; 1 fhk l flicrily ch c )uX i r a copy ci it ' 2'eur rirnf c. re;?1'-' Am rfiAcw. I v. Uuiss, j on maft in the ez 4 dfi& Ext raft from an aft of Con g r, pf r Ju- gujl l4i IS 790, etitttieli, en-aft ;.khg Jut tl er ptcvifen Jir the payment cj-ikt ; dettsojixe Unit t States." 1 j I E i. entacVd.bv, h eratr and 1 cwfe j J of li'ecicL'iitath! vi' the Uniud
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