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" ever, and those that do not like her let them leave 

 " her." Let them renew this swaggering toast, and 1 

 would very willingly for my part, give another to the 

 same effect for the United States of America. But, 

 no, no ! they know better now. They know that they 

 would be taken at their word ; and, like the tyrants of 

 Egypt, having got their slaves fast, will (if they can) 

 keep them so. Let them beware, lest something worse 

 than the Red Sea overwhelm them ! Like Pharaoh 

 and his Boroughmongers they will not yield to the voice 

 of the people, and, surely, something like, or worse 

 than, their fate shall befall themi 



556. They are building a steam-boat at Wheeling, 

 which is to go, they say, 1800 miles up the Missouri 

 river. The wheels ai^e made to worli in the stem of 

 the boat, so as not to come in contact with the floating 

 trees, snaggs, planters,* &c., obstructions most likely- 

 very numerous in that river. But, the placing the 

 wheels behind only saves them; it is no protection 

 against the boat's sinking in case of being pierced by 

 a planter or sawyer. f Observing this, I will suggest 

 a plan which has occurred to me, and which, 1 think, 

 would provide against siiiking, effccUmllj , bui, ot miy 



rate, it is one which can be tried very easily and with 

 very little expense. — I would make a partition of strong 

 plank; put ii in the broadest fore-part of the boat, 

 right across, and put good iron bolts under the bottom 

 of the boat, through these planks, and screw them on 

 the top of the deok. Then put an upright post in the 

 inside of the boat against the middle of the ])]ank par- 

 tition, and put a spur to the upright post. The parti- 

 tion should be water-tight. 1 would then load the 

 Ibrepart of the boat, thus ])artitioned off with lumber 

 or such loading as is least liable to injury, and best 

 calculated to stop the progress of a sawyer after it has 

 gone through the boat. — By thus appropriating the 

 fore-part of the boat to the reception of planters and 

 sawyers, it appears to me that the other part would be 

 secured ajfainst all intrusion. 



* Trees tumbled head-long and fixed in the river, 

 t The same as the planter, only waving up and down. 



