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VOLUME I.
GKEKNSBOROUGII, N. C. S.VTUUD VY, AUGUST 5, t829.
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Mr. Editor: I have just returned from a long
journey, bringing with mc all the fatigue incident to the
like performances. You may have a little itching to
ktmw the reason of my troubling your honour with
my riding rheumatism. But harkee, honey, that is
not all; I have a bit of a story to tell to yourself, (don't
let the old women get hold of it, they would blow a
body sky high ; they arc a very magazine of buck
wood and gunpowder,) by way of old friendship, I
can assure you, sir, you may feel yourself mignlly
obliged, for I ive not so much as named the thing to
my mother, fl ugh she may have guessed as much ;
for, when I came home, 1 took her hand so gently,
and gave it none of your pump-handle shakes, but
a right, pretty minister-shake, with a modest squeeze,
while a sweet smile played upon my lips. Oh ! if
had onlv been there I wa going to say, I went
right to my room, and set down, and looked right at
one place all the while, and I kept thinking; and for
the soul o me I can't now tell what 1 thought, per
haps I thought every thing, and mav be nothiiy but
mhv wavvthev m-Atip. mi mi to mv sunner. and there
lative to the paper, must be ros. -paid, or they will tint be , get ft and k . c,b()W M t,w u.
ittlMwlfri t(. 1 ' - . 1
ble, holding a cup ol hot tea, tiped up so as to run
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Hut null rememhrr, if wju mean to please ,
To press your point with m'tdritty und-eueJ
For tic Grtenxborough Patriot.
No. V .
In the preceding number, we have taken a
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View ol the evil cuccis accruing io mose huo-c ioi ii
is, to be made a prey to pi judice or an unfavoura
ble or ill-founded hia a misshapen guest ot our
thoughts the hyena ot human happiness that doc-,
on some occasions, even infest the dormitories ot the
gently down on my pantaloons, i can tell you, sir,
tbt-KMMi nvademjump.Jtim
a little, but I think it was about what we call a cold
scald ; so I finished" tiiy "supper 'ti& went straight to'
bed, I had almost forgot to tell you that I did not go
sl-tp. I felt o well, I thought I never jlMXild
W'irit to sleep any more ; and so I got riijht up ; for I
wauled to tell coihebody something, mightily. But I
ton iid no one there, so I went right about this letter,
and I h:td not got it half doiu before I sealed it up,
in three places, with the writing all on the outside, so
that you mibt read it right off, and not have the trou
ble and dc-lav of breaking it open. I then Ktarted a
brief
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a I IHIIIKIIIIIHI III 111L- MIMMI I1MP. .IIIU Llllllll ltd-. I i . 11 I . r I I V
, . , - r v , , j, ' ooy wun u to you, ana ioui nun to run, lor ms me.
der ot the ignorant. In this d.,cou,e we wd see; nevcr de1ett ri ht olriUU,
how it atlects the happiness of those, who aduut this: ... f , . ' f
body won Id. How good a person feels whn they
feel well. J low like an a vg el she looked ! Grace
was in her step ; Heaven in her eye ; in every gesture
dignity and love.
Oh ! may I by indulgent fate's decree,
With thee lead all my life, and die with thee.
You won't, .Mr. Editor, my old friend, you won't
say -any thmg about it.' I could not help ft. Any
dim-sighted creature of ignorance and ruiscoiiccptioi
to sway their opinions ot others, rrejintice, like a
hero, makes violent attacks on the mind of him who
is addicted to it, and blasts the happy repose he might
otherwise enjoy. It comes on like a storm in the
night, and raises furious winds, and roaring billows.
It keeps his thoughts in a constant state of el!' rv;
iceuce, and his mind is seldom at ease In t'-yi.ig to
oui'mify the faults of others, or diminish the lustre of
their true merits, the person who is subject to bhnd, man may nuiiDte into a pit by surprise, you know,
capricious prejudice, i3 much like a cat in a hot oven, What a lovely Venn. Rafitures ! Kaplurc?! 13ut
i onstantly turning and making dreadful contortion, j don't let the old women get hold of it. Don't let
If lifs'of anger should supervene, as is frequently the f 'them- keep dark, li you ever get in love, my old
case in this almost incurable dtsease, its symptoms
will become abundantly more alarming; and the poor
soul that is thus bulleted about on the tempestuous
ocean of evil surmises, false conjectures and wrong
conclusions, and falls a prey to the violent storm
which these are apt to occasion, will be very liable
to be swallowed up in the whirlpool of discontent,
and melancholy; from which it will be almost im
possible for him to return.
In a person of a splenetic, melancholy disposition,
the machinations of : this artful deceiver commonly
transmutes the five senses into one, that is, iiito the
' sense of feeling, and he, who is thus transmogrified,
feels as though he was constantly walking among
thorns, or on a bed of nettles. Nothing goes right
with him nobody pleases him : and, therefore, he
exhibits a variety of ridiculous figures. He is mad at
the woild, and he thinks the world in return is mad
at him. Thus his life is a continued series of misap
prehensions, misconstructions and furious sensurcs,
and none can have much satisfaction with him, or
place much confidence in his professions of friend
ship, if he should happen to make any.
Having in the preceding observations on this sub
ject, endeavoured briefly to point some of the dis
tressing ctlects, and considerable inconveniences of
prejudice, when it influences us to an unfavourable
bias ; it seems proper, I should make a few sugges
tions on the cure of this dreadful malady.
1. In tbe first place, I would recommend an ar
batement of self-love. This passion very strongly
ii.twines unfavourable sentiments of others around the
heart ; and fixes them there with impressions not ea
sily erased. A teacup-full of self-abasement, taken
every morning, upon an empty stomach, would be of
admirable service to convalescents of this kind.
1. I would next recommend to patients atliicted
with this malady, to a strict regard to truth in judging
of others; and be sure they do, not allow an inflexi
ble belief of ill to settle in their minds, till they have
weighed the evidence, on both sides, in the hallance
of candor and impartiality, and obtained a mathe
natical demonstration of its existence.
Lastlv, I most solemnly admonish my readers, to
a .scrupulous observance of the apostolic injunction,
for us to cultivate an e steem lor others, even above
that for ourselves ; taking care that it does not degen
erate into flattery; and endeavour to prefer others
before ourselves, where propriety will admit. This
wi II greatly tend to lessen oui prejudice, and act as a
preventative of the disease. In fine, if we would be
clear of this fatal consumption of our own and others'
happiness, wq must neither be a tale-bearer, nor a
receiver of their ill-savoured booty; for this tends
much to generate aird strengthen our prejudice against
;'k others ; but, endeavour to practice the lessen taught'
"by a celebrated physician, and a wise man, to his
'children, ' If they could spcalf'no good ofothcrs, lo
be sure to speak no evil." He careful, , readers, and
not let ,this foul' destroyer of. place, an tranquility'
(have any ascendency over your .minds,
friend, I'll never tell of it. OhLlove, where dwellest
thou ? Oh ! my old friend, I believe it is all over
me, mind, Iwnly, and extremities. . ly the wav, Mi
Ldilor, I have ju.-d room and time enough to tell you,
that 1 have sit and trotted one foot, my head awry
upon one shoulder, and my tongue hanging out of the
lower corner of my mouth, till I am fast asleep. I
and the judges being of our own brotherhood, 1 shall
come otf clear and go unpunished! ;and I will at all
times yield unto thee all due fellowship and obedi
ence, and not wax proud, haughty nor dishonest.
60 And all of these things being done by thy pu
issance and greatness, thou -wilt ever- receive the
prayers of thy servant, Obediah.
Gl When I had recorded these (things in the
Chronicles of mine own tribe, I lifted up my eyes and
said :
62 0, my Fattier and my God ! Thou hast com
manded us to pray for these sons of Belial ; and why
not for Satan ?.
63 Is he more unclean and abominable in his do
ing". G.4 This man was of a worthy and honorable fam
ily, and such as should compose the sinews and
strength of a virtuous and upright people. He had
had a goodly heritage, honestly gotten, and is one of
the many thousand simple hearted and well meaning
people, whom the purity of the laws and the counsels
ol the wise and mighty should have led on prosper
ously to lieaven ! And by following them he is made
to steal for bread ; and infamy and shame have fell
upon his house and it is undone forever.
65 Was it for this, his father fouht and bled and
left MlJM.f j?!.!1 J' ;1r , tlVhe 'fWght
himself ? iv fiat more TollTd the opi
66 This is indeed (lie end of the i'a ! Accursed
be the sons of Belial for thus spreading their wicked
and. lawful net Aruund the innocent and weary and
gathering tliem unlo destruction ! .c, Verily, unci
unless they speedily repent they' shall W accused of
God, and thi -4m w ill hang ai ou.ul their neck like
tons of lexd to sink thorn to the hot tot depth of the
biirniriir Ahvss.
himself for the sake of doing the greater good, and
should do nothing, save only, as he was taught. And
I said :
80 How much worth towards righteousness and
unto God hast thou repented ? Not one mite. Your
house is indeed swept and garnished ; and take heed
lest your last end be worse than the first.
61 And I spake unto the priests, saving: Doth
not your dissiple belie your doctrines? Speak unto
him that he do otherwise. And as for yourselves,
restore the money he has given you ; for it is in your
hands, the unjust pledge, and he, from whom
it was fraudulently taken, Jiath great need.
82 And after counselling among themselves, they
said, he hath stated our doctrines truly and we shall
not bid him do otherwise ; and as for the money he
hath given unto us, we have placed it in the temple of
money changers with the ;ifts and charities of the
pious and devout ; and if the law of the land will take
it from us, be it even so.
83 And I rebuked them and said, it were better
that a millstone be tied about your necks and ye be
cast headlong Into the sea, than teach such doctrine.
81 He is required to make restitution of his goods
unto him, he haih injured or defrauded, to the very
uttermost.
85 God hath said, he shall restore double, he
resloi evn foluVhe jsljtaJl 'givjeuall the 'ufou&
of his house. '
86 Have his words been taken back 'and thrrhea-'
vens and the earth not passed away? Even among
ourselves, vvhen a mail has si tilted against his neigh- "
bor and maketh restitution uido tlie uttermost, it is
then onlv , that the judge' li tth compassion on hiifi.
87 Would vc have him clinir to what he has un-
i j istly gotten, and part only wilh a pittance to the
I I'ldiie's pretended servant, and then go before the up
j riiiht jinle himself, for impunity and reward, not only
67 Uut it is said by our great and mighty ones,
i V , ' "aiusmp nor iiu : i (ur ,nvi otrelMkll l,ut likewise for having attempt
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can't say when I shall awake again.
Bache,lqrO(
SELECTED.
"And 'tu the and cumilumt, and ulmont true,
What e'er we write, we bring forth nothing new.
K.vQvinviv,
CHUON1CLF.S.
Of the Tribe of X Carolina, Ciajder VII.
Concluded.)
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.uu as mese uiiiiirs are always uone, and e-
ven printed in the law books, and sent forth altogeth
er at the expense and for the edification of the peo
ple, 1 have counted that the sons of Belial will es
teem just the bidding of t so to be, as nothing in my
favor, and therefore intreat that I may be received, as
one among them, and be appointed unto some office,
which will giv e me dignity and bread.
iti And as 1 have understood, that thou art to be
made a great judge, in which case thy seat will be
vacant, I supplicate thy good word and interest in
my behalf, as thy successor, aud doubt not my mer
its and capacity to fill this office as worthily as any
other person thyself only excepted.
o7 And I will do as thou biddest me, even when
thou servest thy brethren, the better to uphold their
cause, in the lesser ollice of great judge of this tribe.
68 But should this great and high office not seem
good unto thee to bestow on thy servant, behold ! I
have read thy great speech, wherein thou hast set
forth, that thy brethren lack honest and faithful serv
ants to rule over and direct them ; and now thy great
ness may be assured, that as I have ever served them
faithfully and truly, without flinching where it was to
my,own loss and damage, not only of substance, but
ol things more precious, and even unto bonds and
stripes, that this is a good earnest that I will serve
them equally well in' a more eminent and profitable
otlice, and it is nieie that I be preferred among the
choice few of honest and faithful servants thou may
est i hoose out, and that I be placed according to my
merits peradventuic not far from the goodly treasurer
of this tribe.
b'.i And I' have made up my mind, in case I get
this office, that I will ever well and truly keep and
practice all the usury, extortion, uncleanncss, witch
craft, sorcery and sin, required of such exalted digni
fied officers ; and I will not tell tales, as others have
done : and 1 vvill pay over, fairly ,ud .honestly, the
wages and profits of my doings as Others haye not
dhne, and observe such an outward appearance of
purity and honor that no person shall dare to suspect j
myjntegrityaridjuprjigliLuess nd even: jJiou Id a ny
thing be proved against rne, they; will not behove it,
( ,.fc4i-. $.p,jj.wff'tJ:,.,ri'
house, fearing
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their own good ; and those of them, who are, as this
man was at first, must be made even as ho is now ;
for neither their wisdom nor the law can provide a
remedy. But w hy do they not act upon their doc
trine, and butcher the people by thousands, since it
would be chanty and tender conipasaion for them to
do it ?
68 Behold Obediah now goeth in his simplicity
unto the 'greater sons of Belial, seeking favor and
kindnes.il 'i'ive sinner might as well go unto Satan.
They are ovei buithened with hangers on already,
and ha vp bit! the rulers make a law to shake them off.
6'.) He hath nothing more to give them ; a. id vvill
the sons of Belial bid the rulers make laws in his fa
vor, without pay ? Yea verily, they may do it, from
pure lov e of mischief and sin, to increase the taxes of
the peopb' by tilling their yearlv law hooks with such
aboniihktion that a prudent husband and father might
not suffer one ot them to come in . Ins
lest it inight be read.
70 But unless some such wickedness should be
in their heads, Obediah will be as harshly and unwel-
rornely received by their high and mighty ones, as if
lie were a prophet sent from God to rebuke them of
sin, and. his petition as filth; heeded, as if it wt re a
Chapter of the Bible.
71 But how long must these sinful and filthy sons
of Belial continue to atlhct this sullering land 1
72 Behold, their great and mighty high priest has
already devised two laws to give unto them greater
power and longer duration and set them forth from
his great eminence that the people might tremble
and the rulers take heed and know what to do !
73 And must our complaisant rulers make these
laws, and then make this selfsame high priest a great
judge to sit in judgement on them 1 And if they do
tin., thing, will not God rai-e up a strong and mighty
One to thresh their sculls with a flail of iron aud
break them in pieces, like empty potter's vessels ?
74 Verily they will deserve- it.
75 But peradventure this son of Belial, who has
thus dealt with my brother after the usual way, find
ing himself under the rag, and seeing the plumage of
his sin returned on the shaft, which pierces his bosoe
and brings him low,, hath repented indeed, and can
make Obediah some little restitution, which might
benefit him somewhat, until the law should take it a
way. . 76 Verily, as God hath cheered and blessed me,
it behoveth me to do good unto my neighbor. And I
put a crust of bread and a bottle of water in my wal
let and took my stall and went unto this son of Belial.
77 And lo! he was sitting at (he feet of a certain
tribe of priests of the very kidney of that priest, vho
wrote the carnal book to persuade the people to build
a great rail road to carry oil and sell all the things
they lacked, and he was learning to be like unto
them. And 1 took him unto myself and shewed him
this petition and spake unto him m lov ing kindness
and said J
78 Make restitution of thy goods unto the utter
most, my brother, that thou may est lind peace and
lest unto thy soul, and, that God may forgive thee in
the world to come.
79 But he said, he had 'been taught hytiis mas
ters, that God did not require restitution from the
sinner unto the person he had injured or defrauded
unless the law of the land could., excite it, but miy
required repentence of sin unto him, and that he
9hould go and profess a good profession unto his ser
vants, the priests, and give unto them freely of his
substance to prosper the go d cause :' All of which
he had done and had been n ceived into their church.
which in meekness and huMiilty they stvled the kih''-
il.un of heaven, anefwas about . to become a pricu
ed to bribe him ami inakeliim partaker in the oflencc?
83 And how would the pretended servant fare,
who has become equally an oflfcnder, at the price of
slandering the integrity oflhc judge? Is not the
great judge of all the earth more just than man T This
is blasphemous. And when a man cousecrateth his
gift, ought he not to he cartful that his neighbor hath
no odence against him, tint all restitution is made,
his, debts paid, and the ift his own and honestly got
ten, lest he only mock God and become worthy of
greater damnation L ... , .
8'3 . And ought not the holy man, who rec. ives
the gift,. to be likewise cart ful that tilings be-so, and
that the gift be so bestowed, as to bless the giver,
lest his skirts be not clean ?
90 But what are ye ? cry and whine through
out all this goodly land for gifts and 'charities unto
yourselves as unto God, as if the Most High, maker
and rnler of heaven and e arth, had waxed poor ;i;id
needed such hirei ling as y e, and was slack, in pay iug
them.
91 And ye greedily re-reive these gifts earing not
how nor whence they come ; and when ye get them,
ye keep them if ye ean and are only" carelul to be
stow them in the temple to be multiplied unto your
selves with usury and extortion and to curse the giv
ers and the people with all the sore plagues of the
tribute and the rag !
t2 Fear y e not that hy these doings ye are upre, cl
ing vour beds in a deeper and hotter hell, than a iv of
your brothtfrlv sons of Belial ? And let y e mi;hi v
cape punishment even in this world, tear ye not that.
God will send forth a serv ant, whose coinMe.uc'-e.
will be to vourevp like the sun, vlio will ik to
you in a voice of thunder, ami gath
r i'i toil
lash you (
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lightning in hi hand, as a si on rage to
93 Verily, God rt buke you.
91 And they railed at me, but I shook e.ti'hr
dust from my Icet, as a testimony against th in .nd
coming untot my cahhin, weary aud faint, I uiotc
these things in the Chronicles of wi..: iii a id s.ii I :
9.r Behold the liolv chanties, on which a p ire
and upright people should lean as tijiun and conso
ling' support arc thus cou ei ted not only info a bar -e l
spear to pierce their sides, but likewise become a
mi j lib nf ii i liivin,' ' ili-'illv i iiii ii i I 1 1:1 mil I ln-i r ( i I '
..v, .
9C Ol" all the sins against light nnd knowledge
this is the worst, and of all Hie dilfereut sui ts of the
sons of Belial, these self same priests, who do, this
thing are the most stupid, wicked and had.
97 But who will envy these high arid mighty sons
of Belial, in all their greatness aud pride, of whatso
ever sort they be. The day of fearful retribution is
at hand; and even now the poor upright victim of
their power, whom they have driven out to wonder,
not having whither logo, when he Mtteth down by the
way side and portions out to his stu v log childreo tiie
scanty morsel of bread the least reuiiieiit of Ins honest
labor, and t rvelh unto God for more, that he may hve,
has that bahny consolation to his heart which all their
wealth and greatness cannot purchase.
J I ILi ill 1 ft IV A 1 i4l "M i,
Professor Eaton, in a late niuwhpr 'oiL-!V
mericun Journal of Science, hafjuown ttiWTie
most favorite number of nature, "lleaysat least half
of all known plants have the parts ol luictiticntion in
lives, or in a nuni'lier whic h is the product oiee.
The radiated division of animals, such as the sea star,
Medusa's, head, and every spt cto of -oral rock,iuve
their rays in lives. or in. a number produced i i'iic
product of liv. v Throughout th whole t it ial
division of Cuvier, five is the leading nu;oler. 'A e
have live lingers to the hand, and live toef to flir fruit,
in 'common" with next aremcd- which are piovild
w ith organs lor.siioking their yo'iui- We have live
C i)c,"i- .cciii", he, i ling, Min'lini.:. Htingand let' ling '
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