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- CHRONICLES "
Of tit 'Tribe nf .V. Carolina, Chapter I V.
. I And when all these, things were known unto
thr- peoplo, certain of them, who fired God, and had
nt h jnlhlt d themselvt'! and received the ras, roin
tntiiH' i with the priests and rulers, saying, must things
needs be so ?
2 And the rulers said, yea, verily ; for in this there
b" no hardship nor sin. For thi imae made and
set up by leal device, and called the state or tribe,
is indeed the tribe itself, and all the people live, move
and breathe; and have a bcin therein. Whenever it
rcceiveth money, they receive money, and all its sub
stance is their substance ; and it abidetli with us con
tinually, dealing bountifully with us, accordingto our
desire, even unto the giving unto us all it hath, to
prevent our calling upon the people for the game,
I and rendering them a-feason. it is for the honor of
J the people that it siteth down with the bodycorpo
' rate, where it hath more dominion than any one of
the members thereof ; it is for the profit of the people,
that when the spoil is divided it recei veth jthe great
est of any one share ; and it Is for the tood of the
people that it giveth all thk. money uuto us. Lo !
the body corporate likewise esteem this intake as the
tribe and the people themselves, .and therefore give
unto it the name and honor of all their doings, and a
little share of the profits thereof. Wherefore, do ye
Dot see, that as the people are indeed this image,
they are rich, honorable, prosperous and happy ?
And why should th-y complain against things, which
are legal and for their own good and according to
their own desire f If the rag passethonly by weight
and measure abroad, was it not desired in the begin
ning that the people might stay at home and traific
only with their brethren, and not go abroad nor han
dle strange money f and as they cease to desire or
us gold and silver as money, is it marvellous tiiat it
should now be all carried olF? And wherein can the
people complain of being la wfull v despoiled of their
property, when it is written in the great covenant that
"no man shall be despoiled of his property, but byUhe
law of the land 'M I low foolishly do they complain
that (he rag is so abundant, wheu they cry. so loudly
at the g.itc for more, and there is not enough of it in
tric-fr keeping to pay the tribute but for a very little
time ! Behold, verily the rag is now as necessary to
the people, as the corn in the crib of 1'haroah was to
the Egyptians of old ! ! And it hath the same marvel
lous tendency to bring them quickly into a like state of
humility and subordination. See ye hot, therefore
the wisdom of our doi ngH ? Behold f the laws are
indeed the highways for the people to trayeU and we
have mad only such, as we caused them to desire
and they have travelled therein, and now they must
travel therein, and put their trust in our shadow, that
it may be well with them fprever.'f "TrT Tr :-vt:r
3 And the priests said, ye do well to commune,
with us in all matters. But wherefore are ye now
troubledat the things that be ? We see not. the evils,,
nor do wc feel the oppression and hardships whereof
ye complain. We only see that money changers have
built unto themselves temples, that when ye give unto
us mammon, insomuch that it cumbereth us, we may
put it theirin,and receive the usury, and that we ny
likewise put therein the charities ye give us, and some
times apply only the usury gotten therefrom to pros
per the cause of the Liurd : and be not such things
which so marvellously suit the convenience of the pi
ous and devout, well pleasing unto you?' Behold
ye not, thattho money changers herein labour for the
Lord ? and that they likewise labour for the people,
insomuch as the people he themselves that shadowy
thing called the tribe, whose money the rulers get
and keep ? All this i lawful and holy, and that the
labourer is worthy of his hire. Ye too much cumber
yourselves about earthly matters I " Ifyour riches take
unto themselves wings and fly away, ye are delivered
of a great temptation, an 1 receive a great blessing ;
for the law of God saith, blessed are the poor; and
your own law.hath respect unto this, when it saith that
when a man puritieth himself and calfeth upon God
to wjtaest'J!" 1 '8 Poor V "ball go out free among
ydflid thai in
doing this thing, he is indeed blessed, insomuch that
he putteth more horses to his chariot and fareth more
sumptuous, and no man dare lay hold on him and say,
pay rue what thou owest! Lo we have heard' your
murmurings, arid ye uie so stilfnecked and rebellious
as tQ say; that when the oppressor in times of old said
uuto all the tribes, make up for me among yourselves
a tribe of an hundred thousand shecklcs, that my ser
vants who keep yon, may have bread : your fathers
waxed wrath and resisted unto much blood and over
came the oppressor ; and that this hundred thousand
sheckles is but a very little thing to the tribute, which
ye of this tribe now nay to .these moneychangers,
who have gotten la wful dominion over you. In this
ye are exceedingly wicked and sinful ; for jt shows
that ye had rather Bit by the fleshpots in Egypt, and
eat bread to the full than enjoy tne salutary and bles
sed fastings and chastisement under Moses-and the
priesthood in the wilderness. Leave off your mur
inurings, therefore, and bring unto us tithes, and offer
ings abundantly, thatyour sins may be forgiven, and
mercy and peace he with you. .
4 And when they had heard these things, they
were sore dismayed and in irreat trouble, and left olf
if.. ,.o . r . .
communing: with the priests and rulers any more-
5; And when all the people saw that these, sons of
Uelie) were lawfully established over them, and they
had no remedy and no friend, and poverty was fast
creeping on them.thev crave only this mercy: that
L 'J . .
when they had given
a nd fasting in tntr p rrsoirr before they -were- -permitted
to call upon God and go oiit free ; and the rulers were
constrained to grant them this kindness, because the
orisons could not be made to contain-all- who went
thither to be purified ; and with this they were fain
to be content.
G And they sat themselves down in marvellous
meekness and patience, and lest they miht peak e
vil of dignities or blaspheme against the powers that
he, each man laid all the sore evils and calamities
that hefel him to the brother and friend whom he had
loved and trusted ; and . hecause of - this charity, he
was at variance with every other person under the
sure if ye do this thing. Therefore the people have
upall their substance, they might no remedy, but must ever suffer on,-. for their own
"g&'tne'' twjn'fy dy
sun ; ami the sons of Beliel
spared
him not, and he
received no pity in his distresses.
7 And the people saw thev laboured far nought ;
no man rared to pUnt his field or "build up the wall or
the hed'e thereof, or to repair his dwelling ; for he
saw that the field and the dwelling must soon go to
tlioe whom he hated, and he himself be thrust out,
not having whither to go.
8 And lie loathed and hatrd his brethren, and the
land in. which he was. born ;.. .ayd his heart was in o
ther lands afar olf, whither he desired to go, believing
that no hange. could be to his. hurt. . k
'9 Whcieforc the walls and the. hedges became
broken down, and the fields desolate and overrun with
briars and gullies; and if a man perchansc tilled any of
them, he lid it carlessly, showing that he had no in
terest thcreiii
10 And there wns a continual famine in the land,
and the men nf other tribes afar oiriirouglit abundance
of meat, and bread, and raiment, and horses, and the
people gladly bought them saving, by this means we
caii liveyet a little while, and bestow some of our sub
stance out of the hands of these sons of Belial.
, II And the sons nf Belial, and even 'the rulers,
made great marvel that the people did so foolishly ;
and they made each ma i take his spade, his , mattock
and his axe, and d;g ditches and build road, to carry
otfand sell great quantities, of meat and bread and
goodly stulls, when, lo! they larked all these things !
12 And the sons of Belial sent forth their usurers,
note shavers, negrotradcrs and extortioners 'to vex and
oppress the people yet the more ; and they themselves
and even those who have rule in the temples, became
usurers, note shavers, cotton traders and extortioners
above the rest, because they were hardened in sin,
andeither. feared God nor had respect unto the good
people of this tribe ; and the land stank because of
them, and all the words spoken by the prophet and
much more abundantly, were fulhllcd, as is . seen at
this day.
13 And the marvellous patience and long sufTer
ingsbf the people were at length exhausted and a
great cry was heard. Then behold ! a man sitting a
mong the rulers in thessembly of. the people had
compassion on them, because he loved them, and be
cause of their distress and great cry. And he stood
up and cursed these sons of Belial, wkh an exceeding
great and bitter curse, even the curee of truth ; and
hij Avralh waxed hot against them, and tie dragged
forth their big and mighty ones from their strong holds,
whence they sought to hide themselves ; and lo ! they
were men of fair, seeming and goodly appearance,
even as Belial, when he sheweth himself as an angel
of light I But he covered them with confusion, and
made them testify against themsojves, even to the un
covering of their own nakedness and shame. And
behold, they were defiled with all manner of tilth and
uncleanness, even as a leprous blotch ! And he as
sayed hard to cast them out and make them even as A
chan, and give back their substance to the people,
from whom it had been unrighteously gotten, that
they might rejoice, and the land might prosper.
14 And ninny of the rulers, who feared God and
lovedthc people, also were with him, helping him.
1 5 . But certain others, who weie great men and
mighty, and withal, some of them the sons of Belial
also, seeing that the craft was in danger, stood up and
said, wherefore seek ye to do this great evil? Al
though these men, in some little things, which they
were constrained to do for their own profit, and for
the good of the people, peradventure have not done
that'wbich ivasr
ertlieless this is but a small matter, and excusable, as,
in all other things, they have acted legally, and done
no more than we manifestly intended they should do
when we made laws for them, and bid them go on and
prosper. For, thus and thus, saith the law, and thus
and thus the precedents of judges ; and these sanctify
and uphold all thejin whereof ye complain ; and as
those men are therefore fenced round about with law
and precedents, if ye seek to get at them to their hurt,
the judge must cause you to be disobeyed and laughed
to scorn ; for the judge is ever hailed as fast to the
law as the thief is to the cross; and lest feelings of
humanity make him restive and break loose, his pred
ecessors ever bequeath him abundance of precedents,
which, like thongs, tie and secure him safely to that
position in which he ought to hang.
16 ".Wherefore if ye be wise, ye will not seek to
cast these men out, and if ye can be moved by human c
infirmity, lo, peradventure some of them have died,! ti
and left widows and orphans, and ye would distress
these ! And likewise you would act against this shad
bwy image called the State or tribe, which we have
made for our benefit, and which has received more
profit from these doings than any one of tliem, and
given it all unto as. Shall this thereore be given
back or we hereafter need this good supply ? And
would ye hurt those who have the rag irt thefr keep
ing? for.it will cease to pass even by weight and mea
perhaps, even more disagreeable than a male, because
we are almost to concede the claims of a lady to at
tention, without this unnecessary and ungraceful en
forcement. The motions of a vain person are gener
ally ungraceful. The attention of such persons to
themselves, to the ditferent parts of thetr dress, their
obvious consciousness of looking well, their, own nx
iety to appear to the best advantage, their slf glances
to discover whether any body is admiring them, Lc.
must give rise to constrained and awakened move
ments, destroying all that ease (not to mention digni
ty) which is essential to grace. But let it not be sup
posed that we are so ungallant or so unjust as to tax
the fair sex exclusively with faults like these. They
are, we believe, still more frequent among ourselves.
Many a night have we contemplated with pity a voung
coxcomb in company, adjusting his hair or his cravat ;
taking an occasional peep at his own sweet person in
a mirror ; casting the most irresistible glances, as he
conceived, at the ladies; smiling with the most de
lectable affection, and fancying all the while, that he
was the most exquisite fellow in the univeise, and
most vehemently anxious to impress all odiers with
the same opinion. English Magazine,
INQUISITION.
The following discriptioii of of the Inquisition, formerly
situated at Coimbra, in Portugal, is given by a Jute L'tt'lon
i paper. 1 he model was constructed en Mr. Ytiung, a IJrtt;,
outr
17 ""And they stood up and resisted, and were mrjjh'
prsonerofDon Miguel.
When we visited the model, Mr. Young was in at-
tMirtanrf anil iimn toft
m n.iii. ri-i:i, Lt i 1 " - -1
0 11,11 "1C ? ;w f" "xrcniDiea. exceea.ngty, 0f the building. The model is on th scale of
and were sore afraid, and said unto one another, be- h llf an iC,, t0 a foot and Wu- takpr, ( if f CJ
hold ! the people have seen our nakedt.ess and sin, exhibils UlJ imnowt ()f thc placc fwm (hp
and they are stronger than we, if they did but know tema, roof down lo thc sbterranean dungeons. The
their strength ! And lest we escape them not hereaf- ill!(triiments of torture, and the mode of using them, are
ter.let us look out amanexceedinglyw.se and cun- glao di ...la.edb yveryi ngenious devices. Five varieties
n.ng and one whom the people delight to honor, and , of tnaimmU varieties m torture were mildlv terred
irti'0 nun irrPli mammnn if c Kn ho will ruct lkioti .
..v ...... H. mv, " hV ine lio v umce.areexhibited.Wlhe water treat.
ment, whereby the patient whose refractory disposi
tion would not ralIow him to couftss all he knew to
11 ..r ml i.n.t ma;
mantle over us that we may live aud prosper under
his shadow.
19 And they did so : 'and lo ! the vine, yea the ol-
iva lair ri t hoi Adtnliiijd fiiwl ha.Miif wK.K thl...ak.l i .... 1
... v.v w . t,..,v.. t,Knu ;and obliged to swallow several gallons of water, ad
God and honored man, and went and was promoted
over the trees ! yea, over the gall bushes and bram
bles of iniquity.
20 Wherefore it is thatthe sons of Delial contin
ue unto this day, and the people have found no deliv
erance. ....
F KM ALE ELEGANCE.
Good sense" alone is in.MiUicieuf . for life ""'acquire
ment of elegance. Unfortunately, we see many la
dies of the m-t excelieut lindiirMttodjhg, not onlv neg
ativclv without eleirance, but posativeh iingracr ful.--There
are other requisites Lo elegance, of the most
essential kind.
An amiable temper, and a habitual disposition to
please, are of the first consequence. The expression
of all violent passions is destructive ofgrae- The
expivs-ion of all feelings unpleasant toothers is equal
ly so. So is thc expression of selfishness, in all its
forms. The grac eful female must, in appearance at
least, be devo'd of selfishness ; aud the best mode, of
achieving this is t divest herself, as far as she can, of
the reality at all events, as far as it is offensive to
others. t ' t-.:rJiz-::
That violent passions are destructive of grace tnay
be easily illustrated. A lady in a violent rage is, pro
bably, as ungraceful an object as any to be found in
nature. Why? Because she is of necessity destitute,
at such a time, of all propriety, dignity and ease. A
tiger tearing his prey 18 no disgraceful being, although
this animal, like all the 'rest of his tribe, is from 4ns
natural conformation, highly susceptible of the exhi
bition of graceful emotion.
But the expression of all feelings offensive to others,
even though not so violent in th,eir character, is equal I
ungracefuL r.lt is proper to remark here an error
into which majiy young ladies, and English ladies too,
we must say, beyond all other- females are apt to fall.
They think that the expression of pride, of disdain, of
contempt, is graceful and becoming: but there never
was a more fatal and absurd mistake. The strong
expression of pride is so far from being graceful, that
it is the antipodes of all grace. To sayjiothing of it
in a moral point of vicw-r-of its incompatibility xvith
good sense of its utter absurdity in human beings,
however exalted of its general variety among per
jonsof real superiority, whether of rank ur nature
we shall simply observe that it communicates to the
manners, tq the movements, to the looks, and to every
action ofits possessor, a'consfraint and stillness at va
riance with all the principles of grace, - and not less
ridiculous than repulsive and disagreeable- Disdain
and contempt, which arc only more active exertions
of this quality, mingled perhaps with resentment, are
still inore oifensive, and even hateful. Those young
ladies who indulge habitually in the expression of such
feeling, would do well to inquire whether any body
ever cares about their pride, their disdain or their
contempt whether opposite qualities are not infi
nitely more graceful and feminine and whether they
might not much better obtain their object, which, af
ter all, is an influence over others, and over our sex
in particular, by the adoption of different means"? We
cannot help thinking thatthe result of such an inqui
ry must be favorable in all cases of incurable folly.
Selfishness in all its outward forms of egotism, van
ity, and ar-pa rent eagerness aftccself gratification, is
totally inconsitent with graceful manners ; indeed wt
might say, with the observation of the commonest
forms of polite society; gtism mid vanity re high
ly and justly olicnsive to others. A fginale egotist is,
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miiiistared through a funnel, till, on the point of suffo
cation, he was humanely released by being placed
heels uppermost, so that the superfluous liquid might,
run out through his mouth and nose the fire treat
ment, whereby an untoward temper was warned of
the deference due to the Inquisition, bv being fixed on
an iron cradle, with the soles of his feet exposed to a
brisk fire, without the power ofwithdrawir.g them a
ingle inch from. its scorching influence, a reattnent
which may be regarded as somewhat an approach to
the MahommedanYhell, pictured as a ( lace where
men are shod with boots of red hot iron, maki'u; iheir
brains- boil like a cauldron. There an- three species of
the violent treatment by which men we re repeatedly
hauled up by ropes to the ceiling of a huh room, and
suddenly let drop, so as frequently to dislocate and
break their limbs.. ;By another device a man was tied
down to a horse : manger, ViMi his bauds' fastened be
hind him, so as to. be, obliged to eat his food likea pig
or an ox. This, how ever, as Mr. Young explained it,
was not -deemed a punishment, but only a aAi;o;i
The holes through which the Monks were enabled to y
see what every prisoner was about, the knowledge of
which was often used by the Grand Inquisitors to im
press their victims with the belief of their possessing
supernatural powers the secret places where the"
hones of those who were murdered, or reduced U
death by the lingering pangs of confinement were de
posited, until the celebration of an Auto Ja V, when
they were burnt; and many other "secrets of the prion
house" equally interesting and instructive, will be
found fully and intelligibly displayed in Mr. Young's
Model.
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GENERAL WASHINGTON.
The following letter was written by General George
Washington to his wife, on Uk occasion f his accepting tW
Coumuuid-iu-Chicf of the American Armies. It will be read
with interest.
Philadelphia, June 18th 1775.
Dearest :
I am now sit clown to write to you on a subject
which fills me with inexpressible concern; and this
concern is greatly aggravated and iucreas d, when I
rcllect upon, the uneasiness I know it will jriv e you.
It has been determined, that the whole armv raided
for the defence of the American cause shall be put
under my, care, and that it is necessary for me to pro
ceed immediately to Boston to take, upon me the com
mand of it. You may believe rue, my dear. Patsy,
when I assure vou in the most solemn manner, that,
so far from seeking this appointment, I have used ev
ery endeavour in my power to avoid -vit: not only
from my unwillingness to part with you and the fam
ily, but from a consciousness ofits being a trust too
great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more
real happiness in one month with you at home, than 1
have the most distant prospect-of huding abroad, if my
.stay was to be seven limes seven years. But as it has
been a kind of des'tiny that has thrown m ;n this
service, I shall hope that my undertaking . Is de
signed to answer some good purpose. Yourwgrff, and
I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of ui) letters,
that 1 was apprehensive 1 could not avoid lh;saj
pointrnent, asl did not pretendto intimate when I
diould tettrrn. That was tlui cat ww utterly
out of my power to refuse this appointment without
exposing my character to such censures as would have
ifjlef ted dishonour npwt myselff and : girtrrri pnia to
m'v friends. This, 1 .Am tuie, could not, and ouht
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