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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



. JWiscrU.inifs. 



ODE TO NEW ENGLAND. 



B1 PERCIVAL. 



Hail to the land whereon we tread ! 



Our fondest boast ; 

 The sepulchre of mighty dead, 

 The truest hearts that ever bled. 

 Who sleep on Glory's brightest bed, 



A fearless host : 

 No slave is here — our unchaia'd feet 

 Walk freely, ^.s the waves that beat 



Our coast. 



6ur fathers cross'd the ocean's wave 



To seek this shore ; 

 They left behind the coward slave 

 To welter in his living grave ; — 

 With hearts unbent, and spirits brave, 



They sternly bore 

 Such toils, as meaner souls had quell'd ; 

 But souls like these, such toils imjieird 



To soar. 



Hail to the morn, when first they stood 



On Blinker's height. 

 And, fearless, stt- mm'd th' invading flood, 

 And wrote our dearest rights in blood. 

 And mow'd in ranks the hireling brood, 



In desperate fight I 

 O ! 'twas a proud, exullirg day. 

 For even onr fallen fortunes lay 



In light. 



There is no other land like thee, 



No dearer shore ; 

 Thou art the shelter of the free ; 

 The home, the port of Liberty, 

 'J'hou hast been, and shalt ever be, 



Till time is o'er. 

 Kre I forget to think upon 

 My land, shall mother curse the son 



She bore. 



Thou art the firm, unshaken rock, 



On which we rest ; 

 And, rising from thy hardy stock, 

 Thy sons the tyrant's frown shall mock, 

 And Slavery's galling chairs unlock, 



And free th' oppressed : 

 All, who the wreath of Freedom twine, 

 Beneath the shadow of their vine 



Are blest. 



We love thy rude and rocky shore, 



And here we stand — 

 Let foreign navies hasten o'er, 

 And on our heads their fury pour. 

 And peal their cannon's loudest roar, 



And storm our land ; 

 They still shall find, our lives are given 

 To die for home ; — and leant on Heaven, 



Our hand. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ENGLAND FARjIEn. 



Dear Sir, — Having Intoly read in your t^.Tper 

 a very affectinof account of a ppr-;on lificrallv 

 educated, who (ell a victim to intemperance, i 

 send you an account of another person, the au- 

 tlitnticity of wliich may be stibslanlially relied 

 on. Permit me to introduce the person to whom 



1 request your attention, by the name of W . 



He formerly resided in a town in the western 

 part of this Slate. Here he marriod a young 

 lady who lived in the same town. Ho soon per- 

 ceived he made too free use of ardent spirits. 

 Believing lie could not succeed in his business, 

 which was that of a physician, unless he re- 

 linquiii«hed the practice, be removed into a 

 neii^liboiiring Slate, where he was a strana;er. 

 There he obtained binincss, and was so success- 

 ful, that, in the course of a few years, he was 

 iible to piiichase a faroi, and so much other 

 properly as placed him in easy circuiiistances.l 



.^bout fifteen years after his removal, he re- 

 turned to his cup with eagerness. Upon this, 

 his employers forsook hitn, one after another. 

 His property diminished — his debts increased — 

 one writ followed another, till at length he was 

 so reduced, as rendered him unable to provide 

 for his family, and to clothe them comfortably. 

 One day, sitting in his house, he looked at his 

 wife, and was deeply affected at her a|)pearance. 

 He said to himself, — What has bronght me to 

 this ? — I cannot bear it — It is rum — I'll never 

 take a drop again — But 1 have drank so long, if 

 I give it up immediately, 1 shall die. — Then 1 

 will die. 



From this time be relinquished the use of ar- 

 dent spirits. For a few days he experienced 

 pain in different parts cf bis body. Notwilh- 

 slanding, he adhered to his resolution. Alter a 

 short time, his appetite for food returned, and 

 gradually increased. His countenance cbanircd, 

 and he gave more and more evidence of a ref- 

 ormation. One and another of bis former pa- 

 tients employed him. His business increased, 

 'in the course of a few years he recovered a 

 part of his foriner property, and became a use- 

 ful and respecta'ile man. 



From 'he above account, it appears it is not 

 an impossible thinu for an intem;)Krate person 

 to reform, — that the besl. if not on'ii mclhoil such 

 a person can adopt, is to relinijuish the use of 

 ardent spirits entirclij. Tlinugh some addicted 

 to intemperance, may suppose their repiftation 

 2;one, and that it is loo late to reform, — in this 

 they greatly err. He who abandons the prac- 

 tice of intemperance, honours himself; and, if 

 he conducts himself with propriety in other 

 respects, will enjoy the approbation and regard 

 of ibe wisest and most respectable part of the 

 community. Dec. 15, 1824. 



virtues are handed hown to posterity on taxed 

 marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers i 

 — to be taxed no more. — Edinburgh Review. 



Charles the second in a gay moment, asked 

 Rochester to write his Epitaph ; which he did 

 immediately, as follows ; 



Here lies the mutton-eating King, 

 Whose word no man relied on; 

 Who never said a foolish thing. 

 Nor ever did a wise one. 

 Charles, who could always relish a joke, on 

 being shewn this epitaph, wrote the following 

 comment upon it : 



If death ctnild speak, the King would say. 



In justice to his crown. 

 His acis they were the Minister's, 

 ♦ His words they were his own ! 



American' Propensity to Glonj. — We can in''orm 

 the American u lial are the inevitaide consequen- 

 ces of being too fond of glory : Ta\es upon every 

 article lliat enters into the mouth, or covers the 

 back or is placed under the foot: taxes upon 

 every thing which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, 

 smell or taste; taxes upon warmth, light or lo- 

 comotion; taxes on everything on the earth, 

 and the water under the earth, on every thino- 

 that comes trom abroad, or is grown at home ; 

 taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every frE«h 

 value that is added to it by the industry of man ; 

 taxes on the cause which pampers man's appe- 

 tite, and the drug that restores him to health ; 

 on the ermine which decor.ites the judge, and 

 the rope that hangs the criminal ; on the poor 

 man's salt, and the rich man's spice ; on the 

 lirass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the 

 bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we 

 must pay ; The school boy whips his faxed top, 

 the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, 

 with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and 

 the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine 

 which has paid 7 per cent into a spoon that has 

 paid 15 per cent, flings himself back u()on his 

 chintz-bed, which has paid '22 per cent, makes 

 his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in 

 the arms of an ajiothecary, who has paid a li- 

 cense of an hundred pounds for the privilege of 

 putting him to death. His whole property is 

 then immediately taxed from two to nineteen 

 per cent. IJesiJes the probate, large fees are 

 dcmiiiided for burying liiiii in tlie chancel; his 



A gentleman, well known for his pirsimoni- 

 ous habits, having billiled himself on his acquain- 

 tances in Edinburgh during the royal visit, vvaa 

 talking to a friend, on his return, of the great ex- 

 pense ol' living; " how much now do you sup- 

 pose I sipent in Edinbursh ?" I do not know, re- 

 plii d bis friend, I should siqiposc about 9. fort- 

 night. ^ 



T!ic Doubtful Frank. — Sometime ago a Mem- 

 ber nf Parliament, well known in the convivial 

 circle's, applied to the Post Office to know why 

 some of his (ranks had been charged. The 

 answer was, " We did not believe them to be 

 yours. the band writing is not the same." *' Why, 

 there is a litlle difference, 1 i(ranl, but the real 

 trull) IS, I had made rather/rce with the bottle, 

 when 1 wrote them !" "Then, Sir, will >ou 

 be SO good in future as to \\u{e drunk, when 

 yoa frank \n that stale." — London, Courier. 



A lady >vlio had just been three days married, 

 perceiving her husband enter, stole secretly be- 

 hind him and eave him a kiss. The husband 

 was angry, and said she had offended against de- 

 cency. Pardon me, exclaimed she, 1 did not 

 know it was vou ! 



FRUIT TREES, &c 



JAMES BLOODGOODtCO. 

 have for sale at their Nursery 

 at Flushing, on Long Island, near 

 New York, 



Fruit and Forest Trees, Flowering Fhrubs & Plants, 

 of the most approved sorts. 



The Proprietors of this Xursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and engraftin? of «(/ Ihtir Fruit Trees, 

 and purchasers may r< ly with confidence, that the 

 I'rec-s they order will prove genuine. 



Orders left with iMfZebedee Cook, jr. No. 44 State 

 Street, Boston, will be transmitted lo us, and receive 

 our prompt and particular attention. Catalogues will 

 1h' delivered, and any information imparled respecting 

 (he condition, kc. &c. that may be required, on appli- 

 cation to him. Sept. 4. 



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