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G^verament,) to tho Judges, anT"^ leading 

 characters-all of whom vied with each other 

 in assisting and supporting i'- Th^ P.«"' ^; 

 circumstances of the times combined witli otii- 

 er causes; and from their united operation and 

 the rate of improvement at which we were now 

 advancing, he was satisfied that the day was not 

 far distant when our independence in bread 

 corn would be accomplished. 



He concluded bv declaring that he yet hoped 

 to see Mr. Young occupy a seat m the Legisla- 

 ture—when he had no doubt he would mani- 

 fest an equal anxiety in behalf of the comtnerce 

 and fisheries of the province, which had distm- 

 ffuished him in promoting its agriculture. 



Mr Starr finished his address amidst loud 

 applause :— when Mr. Young followed, and be- 

 gan under the oppression of much feeling. He 

 represented the cup as the first of the kind ev- 

 er bestowed in this province from political 

 views ; and he was gratified that his conduct 

 had appeared to the subscribers in so favorable 

 a light, as to be honored with this splendid 

 mark of their respect. Such a present, under 

 such circumstances, was new in the history of 

 mankind. Other bodies of men had conferred 

 rewards on the successful— they on the unsuc- 

 cessful. Receiving, therefore, so valuable a 

 testimony of their esteem he considered him- 

 self as bound to explain the causes which had 

 led him to offer for the county of Sidney ;— 

 when so many of his adherents expected that 

 he would have reserved himself for the first 

 vacancy in Halifax. He said that the loss ot 

 his election for this township in September last, 

 was scarcely known to Sidney, before he re. 

 ceived application from three leading charac- 

 ters ; and that two posts had not gone by wheo 

 he received other and new letters from differ- 

 ent quarters, requesting him to propose himself 

 for that district of the province, in consequence 

 of which he had finally agreed, as far back as 

 November last, to come forward. The gene- 

 rosity of these various applications must, there- 

 fore, under his peculiar circumstances attach 

 him\o the freeholders of that county, and he 

 would consider it his primary duly to serve 

 them— although at the same time he trusted 

 that he would never be forgetful of the many 

 obligations he owed to his' friends who now 

 formed this very full and respectable meeting. 

 He then took occasion to animadvert on the 

 conduct of his opponents at (he late eiCPlion, 

 and censured, with much severity, the unlair 

 and violent practices to which they had re- 

 course. At . the same time he cautioned his 

 friends against entertaining any sentiments of 

 political hostility, luid exhorted them to unite 

 in promoting the best interests of the province. 

 Men may differ in their views as to the repre- 

 sentative they would prefer ; but they should 

 never carry their rancour so far as to try to 

 defeat any public measure, merely to wreak 

 -their resentment on the opposite party. There 

 ■was a code of political morality as well as a 

 system of moral rectitude, and the rules ofeach 

 were given for the regulation of our public and 

 of our private conduct. 



He concluded by observing, that the presen- 

 tation of this cup from so large a portion ot his 

 jtllow citizens, not composed, as was falsely 

 represented, of foreigners against natives, nor 

 of Scotch against Irish, would weigh with him 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



their agricultural prosperity. He had the hon- 

 or of ranking among his friends not merely 

 Scotchmen, but the English, the Irish, the 

 French, Germans, and the Dutch, along with 

 the natives of the Province. The list of sub- 

 scribers to the cup comprehended all classes, 

 and in it would be found men of all the peo- 

 ple who had settled in Nova Scotia. His sup- 

 porters, therefore, were no national faction, 

 but had been drawn together by the wrongs 

 they had suffered. He requested them to bury 

 past offences, to oppose systematically any ca- 

 bal, which might be formed for the purpose of 

 controUiitg and unduly influencing their votes ; 

 because in the free and unbiassed choice of the 

 people lay the best security for the faithful 

 discharge of the legislative duties. He then 

 closed a speech of about forty minutes by tak- 

 ing the cup in his hand, and pronouncing with 

 some emotion, that he accepted it with the 

 highest pleasure, and would esteem it the fullest 

 reward and the proudest ornament of his pub- 

 lic life. 



BALTIMORE VACCINE CATECHISM. 



BY DR. JAMES SMITH. 



Question. What is the vaccine matter ? 



Answer. The genuine vaccine matter may 

 properly be said to be the true seed of the variola 

 vaccina, or kine pock. When taken out of the 

 pock on the eighth day of its growth, it is found 

 in the state of a perfectly clear and transparent 

 fluid. But when taken from the crust or mature 

 pock (in which it is lodged in numerous small 

 cells) it is slightly opake ; and if examined in 

 this state with a. good microscope, the perfect 

 seed of the vaccina may be as plainly discerned, 

 as the grains of any small seed can be seen by 

 naked eye. 



(^. How are these seeds put up or furnished 

 to those who want them ? 



Jl. The vaccine matter is put up sometimes 

 in the crust or scab, enveloped in a little fine 

 wool or cotton, or set in wax ; and sometimes it 

 is put up on small plates of glass, to which it 

 adheres, when applied in a fluid state. 



When the vaccine matter is properly put up 

 in any of these ways, it can be sent in a letter 

 to any place ; even to the remotest corners of 

 tiie world. 



Q. How is the vaccine matter to be used ? 



Jl. When used, a very small quantity of it is 

 to be conveyed on the point of a needle or lan- 

 cet, and inserted into a small puncture or inci 

 sion made in the arm to receive it ; midway 

 between the shoulder and elbow. 



Q. Hovv is it known when the operation suc- 

 ceeds? 



A. At the end of the third day after the p/arai- 

 i„g of the seed., a small pimple, or " rising in the 

 skin," will be observable. This pimple, if the 

 operation succeeds, will increase daily in size, 

 until the eighth or ninth day, when it is usual to 

 find a beautiful pock, the perfect vaccina growing 

 pn the arm, as large as the half of a common 

 garden pea 



Q. Is it necessary to use medicines of any 

 kind in vaccination, or what particular atten- 

 tion is necessary to be paid to the vaccine pro- 

 cess just described ? 



A. It may be truly said, that in vaccination 

 medicines of all kinds are not only useless, but 



at all times to seek their general, no less than 1 they are injurious ; and none are wanted. A 



state of good health in the patient is essential ; 

 and no other preparation is required. 



The vaccina should not be allowed to be bro- 

 ken or injured in any way; but it should be 

 " let alone" until it comes to maturity ; when 

 t will invariably, terminate in a clean, smooth 

 regularly formed scab or perfectly organized crust, 

 which is the true kine pock itself. i 



The vaccine crusts most commonly fall off 

 between the fifteenth and twentieth days after 

 the insertion of the matter; but it is more pro- 

 per Ihey should be taken off as soon as they be- 

 come loose, or when the roots, by which they' 

 adhere to the arm, decay. 



R. Of what value is the kine pock to those 

 who use it ? i 



fi. Vaccination is sometimes resorted to for'-, 

 ihtcure of various diseases, such as scrofula, ' 

 catjcer, certain cutaneous affections, whooping 

 cough, &c. But the particular use for which 

 thip remedy has been given to mankind, is to 

 prevent their being injured by the small pox.' 

 And there is no doubt of the fact that any per- 

 son who ha^ been once properly vaccinated, is, 

 rendered for ever thereafter perfectly secure 

 from this loathsome disease. 



Q. But many persons who have been vacci- 

 nated, and declared by their physicians to be 

 secure from the small pox, have neverthekssr 

 been known to take it ; and some have lost 

 their lives by this plague, when they considered 

 themselves entirely exempt from all danger. 

 Are not these facts subversive of the declaration 

 just made ? 



A. No. It may be confessed that many un-, 

 expected difficulties have arisen, in the use that 

 has been made of the kine pock, and these diffi- 

 culties have been often followed by the nvpst 

 fatal consequences ; but there is no natural de- 

 fect in the true kine pock. It has power t* 

 save all, who use it as they should, from the 

 small pox. 



Q. To what causes chiefly are the difliculties 

 that have occurred in vaccination attributable? 



A. We may refer the mistakes that are gener- 

 ally made in vaccination, to one or other of the 

 following accidental causes. 1st, Wtjie the kine. 

 pock isgrowingonthe armof apropersubject for 

 it, it is ol'ten scratched, rubbed, and bru'.sed, and 

 sometimes physicians themselves destroy it, by 

 taking matter from it ; leaving the person con- 

 cerned liable, in consequence of the indiscretion, 

 to suffer, whenever they may be exposed to (he 

 small pox. 2nd, Persons who are not in that 

 good state of health they ahould enjoy, to have 

 the kine pock in perfection, are often vaccinated 

 unseasonably. 3rd, But the most common cause 

 of failure in vaccination, and consequent disap- 

 pointment, arises from the use that is frequently 

 made of spurious matter or imperfect seed, by, 

 practitioners who do no know how to select it. 



No certain evidence, notwithstanding, has 

 been ever yet given to the world, that any in- 

 dividual once properly vaccinated has been ever ' 

 thereafter injured by his exposure to the natu- 

 ral small pox. 



Q. Mankind should indeed be thankful for sp ' 

 great a blessing. But how can those who are 

 concerned, know with certainty whether their 

 vaccination has been perfect or imperfect, genu- 

 ine or spurious ? 



A. There is no criterion of vaccination, or 

 method of judging of this process, so certain, 

 perhaps, as that which is founded upon the or- 



