1835.] 



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people by the highest authority, that "they should 

 not covet nor desire other men's goods?" Why 

 should we violate this plain honest command? 

 Are we less than the slaves of Egypt? What am 

 I to say of your much boasted modern schoolmas- 

 ter? Your great political institutions? Am I to 

 go back and say, as was said of the "beginning,'' 1 

 that "darkness dwelt upon the face of the deep?" 

 When I ask in the power and right of justice, 

 why mock me? Why give me a stone when 

 right and justice demand bread? 1 care not so 

 much for my own rights — but why, in the name 

 of heaven, should we make men familiar with the 

 violation of each other's rights? Why hang a 

 man for the violation of a strumpet, the stealing 

 of a horse, &c. &c, and yet solemnly say he may 

 drive ten thousand hogs upon me to root up and 

 destroy my young timber, grass or grounds? I am 

 not disposed to be disrespectful to the general as- 

 sembly. I bow to the majesty of the people; but as 

 a free man I shall dare to complain of injuries, 

 come from what quarter they may. 



We are professedly a christian people. It is 

 commanded that we should not covet, nor desire 

 other men's goods — yet many good men, who 

 would tremble at the thought of being daily vio- 

 lators of the law of God, are scrupulous and tena- 

 cious of carrying out their rights as derived from 

 the genera! assembly under the fence law. Who 

 will openly say that the principle is unsound which 

 gives to every man that which is his? Sir, I venture 

 to say, that you will not find one in a county: yet 

 I read in the newspapers that, many have lost 

 their elections for being suspected of partiality to 

 this command of their Saviour — in plain English, 

 for their love of upright law and exact justice. 

 Are men aware of the dangerous tendency of this 

 unrighteous law? Do they see that in breaking 

 down the strict principles of moral law and chris- 

 tian usage, they are slowly and insidiously giving 

 sanction to Agrarian distribution, and a diabolic 

 scramble for property? Let the moral aristocracy 

 sleep a little longer — let the rust of universal cor- 

 ruption enter a little deeper, and the devils them- 

 selves will weep over our fate. The holders of 

 Kroperty may then "sleep on," for their hour will 

 ave come. I am aware that politicians will 

 avoid this subject as they would a boa constrictor, 

 or a rattle snake. To whom then am I to appeal? 

 Sir, I make it to that portion of society who in my 

 youth I have so often derided — I mean the chris- 

 tians. They are, and must forever be the salt of 

 every civilized society — their pure morals and 

 straight upright rules operate like a cement, and 

 sustain the various and complicated machine of 

 government: and that holy principle of their mas- 

 ter that "ye render unto Ca;sar the things that are 

 Cssar's," they dare not reject. 



JEREMIAH. 



Translated for the Farmers' Register from the Jlnnales de I'Jlg- 

 riculture Francaise for February, 1835. 



LACTOLINE DESICCATED MILK. 



In the sitting of the 9th of this month, the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences has heard a communication from 

 M. Grimand, relating to a substance which he 

 names lactoline, which, mixed with nine-tenths 

 [nine times its quantity?] of water, reproduces 

 fresh milk. The substance is not injured by mois- 

 ture or heat. 



NEW DISEASE OF HOGS. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Cambridge, Md., May 16, 1835. 



* * * To fill up my sheet, allow 

 me to make an inquiry through your widely circu- 

 lating and invaluable journal, whether a certain 

 disease lately appearing among my hogs, and 

 here quite original and fatal, hasoeen known else- 

 where, and a remedy discovered for it. I had last 

 fall twenty-seven shotes, of a very large and valu- 

 able breed — six months old — running on clover, 

 and penned and fed every night and morning with 

 corn. In September, one was attacked with a 

 cough, and shortly after a large majority of them. 

 I then separated the diseased from the healthy — 

 the progress of the disease was not rapid, but very 

 fatal — in four or five weeks the animal continuing 

 fat, and with good appetite during that period, be- 

 gan to decline; the cough became violent and con- 

 vulsive, assuming the appearance of a most in- 

 veterate "pertussis." When seized with a par- 

 oxysm, the animal would stand contracted in 

 violent agony, coughing for several minutes; its 

 sides spasmodically working, as if it would not 

 survive it. In six or eight Aveeks from the com- 

 mencement, a diarrhoea with malignant odor of the 

 whole animal, supervened, and death- ensued. I 

 lost nine of these shotes with this disease. In 

 March last, every farrow of the sows remaining 

 on that farm where the disease had appeared, suf- 

 fered under the same symptoms, and many pigs 

 have died with it. The pigs of several sows re- 

 moved, previous to farrowing, to a distant farm, 

 were wholly exempt — and what is very mysteri- 

 ous, having sent off the diseased pigs, and brought 

 home to the first farm those sent to the distant 

 one, they began a lew days ago to manifest 

 symptoms of the same disease. Therefore, the 

 disease is not only very malignant, but obviously 

 contagious in the highest degree — the yard hav- 

 ing been well cleansed before they were introduced. 



From the Richmond Compiler. 

 IMPORTED SHEEP AND HOGS. 



Mr. Corbin Warwick, whose farm on James 

 River is stocked with some of the finest animals in 

 the state, has lately imported, from the stock of 

 Mr. Coke, of Holkham, the celebrated English 

 farmer, several sheep of the southdown breed, and 

 two hogs of an extraordinary size. These pigs 

 (which pass pretty well for "whole hogs,") are 

 but nine months old, and yet we should estimate 

 the weight of each at about 400 lbs. 



Those who feel an interest in an examination 

 of superior stock, can see these astonishing ani- 

 mals at the lot of Mr. Warwick, adjoining hia 

 new residence. 



From the Genesee Farmer. 

 TIME FOR PAINTING HOUSES. 



Repeated experiments show that paint put on 

 houses late in autumn, or in winter, will last far 

 longer than that put on in warm weather. In 

 cold weather the oil dries on the clapboards, and 

 with other ingredients forms a durable body 7 , but 

 in hot weather the boards absorb the oil, and 

 what remains on the surface has but little sub- 

 stance. 



