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endeavoring to overturn the government which lie has sworn to support. 

 Did not Black Gabriel ^ run away from his master in the Southern 

 States? Did not Serjeant Editor basely desert his colours when he left 



the United Stat-js Army. Is not G.T if y of Delaware an old 



Blasphemer? And was he not pilloried and pelted with rotten 

 eggs for his blasphemy ? Did not B .... d ... . ll's father escape for his 

 crimes? Did not the American government set a price on his head? 

 And is not his son a chip of the old block? Did not the Radical Eng- 

 lishman of Yarmouth leave England for capital crime? Does not 

 Eyerson calumniate every denomination of Christians whilst he pretends 

 to preach the gospel? Has not his preaching altogether a political 

 tendency? Is it possible to find one among the faction who is not a 

 run-away, a hypocrite, a blasphemer, a calumniator, a rogue, a 

 corruptor of one's oWn offspring, or a murderer? Is it not evident, 

 f'»at they were compelled for fear of punishment to leave their respective 

 countries? Will the people of this colony submit to be influenced by 

 such base characters? Will the people of this settlement be 

 influenced by a publication conducted by Infidels and Blasphemers? 

 To convince you tliat it is conducted by such persons — Is not the 

 spectacled rogue an Atheist? Is not the man of rotten eggs notoriety 

 a blasphemer? Is not " Belial " a hypocrite? Is not the Quack a Deist? 

 Is not the old hoary Seamster an unbeliever? And is the Sergeant any 

 better ? What think ye of this, ye pious Methodists, Baptists, etc., who 

 give your support to the Liberal ? It is curious enough, my brethren to 

 see " the nast}^ fellows " when they pass by on our street ? They are 

 obliged to run the gauntlet from the first to the last lot in Yarmouth — 

 for we are so loyal that they will not venture to turn aside from the 

 time they leave the Post Office, Lot No. 1, till they arrive at Rebel 

 Robert L. 'S. The rogue ventures now and then to peep over his 

 spectacles as he sneaks along; but Corporal Skin, that is to say the Pill 

 Box man, cuts the most ludicrous figure. He scuds along through us 

 Cockles like greased lightning, as if he was afraid of catching the 

 cholera — poor wretch, he need not be afraid, we have too sovereign a 

 contempt for him, to do him any harm. Let us not employ him to kill 

 or cure — because were he called to visit any of our families he would 

 bring his pockets full of the " Liberal," to poison those whom he might 

 fail to kill. The Liberal is the chief drug he carries about with him, 

 but he will find that it is not the sort of bait to catch fish of my de- 

 scription. 



Bill Caughell. 



iGabriel Long, a well-known negro resident of St. Thomas. 



