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OF THE CARRIER OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Once morR his annual compliments 

 The Farmer's Carrier presents; 

 With all due deference lays betore ye 

 That metrical salutatory, 

 Which custom's arbitrary sway, 

 Imposes every New 1? ear's day 

 On us newspaper proveditors, 

 The representatives of editors. 



But could your rustic rhymer climb 



To top-notch of the true subhme, 



And cap the climax of mvention, 



Above all human comprehension, 



His Irish heroics would be vain 



As horn-pipe harp'd to hurricane ; 



O-' hush my dear,'; when tempessnse, 



And blend the ocean with the skies.- 



For nothing can attention hx, 



'Mid the dire din of politics. 



Save ranting rigmaroles and rigs 



Of torv partisans and whigs, 



And stuff so hissing-hot with slander, 



A fire-king, or a salamander, 



Or fiery d?agon scarce could swallow it, 



And not annihilation follow it. 



We can't exactly see the use 



Of all this terrible abuse. 



Which threats all character to sweep 



To one vast ignominious deep. 



Thoucrh formerly, we must conless. 



We dealt in that line, more or less. 



Now older grown, and, we hope wiser. 



We're chang'd from satirist to adviser ,- 



Rarely attack a knave or noddy 



But quite the friend of every body , 



We would, and would have every man do 



To all men all the good he can do. 



Our politicians might contrive 

 To skin each other, all alive. 

 And not exhibit such atrocity. 

 Such catamountain-like ferocity. 

 As that which darkens some displays 

 Of party rancor, now-a-days. 



Suppose old daddy John Bull's minions 



Should publish strictures and opinions 



About Americans, like those 



Our own belligerent prints disclose ; 



The universal Yankee nation 



Would raise a shout of execration ; 



All our newspapers and reviews 



Would in their turn old Bull abuse, 



And call this just retaliation 



Of villainous vitupoiation. 



Thus eitlicr party would acquire 



An ugly knack at spiltmg hre 



Like fighting dr.i^rous at '■^<=1' "l''":;' , „ 



When ?ach Ihould find in each a^brother. 



Whom nature meant and still intends 



Should be pre-eminently frienas. 



Amendment, if you would produce, 



Do not attempt it by abuse. 



Mankind are like tlic quadruped, 



Wliich won't be driven, but may be led; 



And that way wili'uUy will wend 



He knows his diiver don't intend. 



Just pull him, by the tail, of course. 



He goes ahead witli all his lorce. 



Sucli is the most expedient plan 



Of managing the biped man ; 



What .lohnson phvascs objurgation. 



Rarely etitxts liis reformation, 



And il' his passions once take fire 



He overacts the swine entire; • ' 



The wrong way if you stroke h.s bristles, 



They're sharper than tlie pricks of thistles,- 



Accost liim as you would a beauty. 



And pride will lure him to his duty. 



Though we abominate the tricks 

 Of partisans in politics, 



EW ENGLANDFARMER, 



We wish all men, in all conditions 

 Were well informed as politicians ; 

 All men of minds and morals good, 

 Their rights and duties understood. 

 If national affairs go wrong. 

 Our liberty will be a song, 

 A reminiscence of past times. 

 Known but in records and in rhymes, 

 A mirror, shewing us what we 

 Have been, are not, but ought to be. 



We therefore ask, this new year's day, 

 A syllable or two to say 

 About our politics, but then 

 Will speak of principles, not men:— 

 Will not pretend to say who s right, 

 Whig, Anti-mason, Jacksonite, 

 Nor who would turn the nation up- 

 Side down, to put themselves a-top, — 

 But would a word ^ hira impart, 

 Who has the people's good at heart, 

 The upright, conscientious man, 

 Who scorns to be a partisan. 



Tliat man will mostly miss his mark, 

 Who lets ids gun off"in the dark. 

 And he will often do the same. 

 Who fires without first taking aim ; 

 The freeman, therefore, who does not 

 Know who is who, and what is what. 

 From ignorance or laziness, ^^ 



In public matters goes " by guess, 

 Is no more fit to cast a vote 

 Than if he were an ass or goat. 

 Should demagogues or tyrants reign. 

 He has no business to complain ; 

 No, let him try to be content 

 With what he tried not to prevent. 



Freedom's a science, has its rules, 



Which should be taught in all our schools. 



Knowledge alone can guarantee 



A peopled rights and liberty, 



As indispensable as hght, 



To exercise the sense of sight. 



There is a maxim, such as this. 



To wit, that ignorance is bliss. 



But then the adage ought to be 



That ignorance is misery,— 



Pain, poverty, atrocious crimes, 



Which stain the annals of the times ; 



And is itself a crime, I trow. 



When, what you know you ought to know , 



You won't concern yourself about. 



Nor take the trouble to find out ; 



You shut your eyes, lest you should see, so - 



If thou art ruin'd mote it be so. 



Let Freedom's votaries apply 



A watchful, scrutinizing eye 



To all and each, in every station 



Of trust and profit in the nation.— 



Teach dealers in dishonest tricks 



There's rectitude in politics ; 



That roo-ues in public life are worse 



TIjan one who takes his neighbor s purse, 



Or stabs, or poisons, now and then 



A man, or half a dozen men.— 



For when a crime's of public nature 



The extent of injury is greater, 



Thouo-h oft committed with impunity 



Is lelt°throu<vhout a whole community; 



Sometimes involves in its relations 



The peace and happiness of nations 



Lrt candidates for public station, 



To honesty add information. 



But deal as little as you can 



Willi what is call'd a cumung man, 



Cunning, (a poet said) supplies. 



In fools, tlie place of being wise ; 



And true, the would-be subtle elves 



Always at last out-wit tlicmselves. 



Let this be then a general rule- 

 That every cunning man s a tool. 

 Not fit to iiold, a single hour. 

 The lowest pliice of trust or power. 

 Make honesty your indispensable, 

 Hold all intriguing indefensiWe, 

 Your fiivor will present a real 

 And mobi effectual ordeal. 



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DECEMBER 31, 1834. 



And merit find in your regard 

 Us most appropriate reward. 



We wish the sovereign people may 

 Most sedulous attention pay 

 To each and every servant, sent 

 Our majesty to represent. 

 Men wise, and otherwise in station, 

 In the grand council of the nation. 

 We wish it could be made a crime 

 To talk forever, at a time,— 

 Eke out, as Sternhold us'd to say, 

 A speech forever and for aye,— 

 Drive every body from the Hall, 

 And say just nothing, after all. 



All this, your Honors may opine 



Is not exactly in our line,— 



That this long, prosing dissertation 



■Is foreign to our occupation— 



A Farmer's boy is not a statesman, ^ 



Yet dares admonish our first-rates men . 



As if Columbian sage's were 



Children, entrusted to his care. 



And that we show ourself, in fact 



Not only minus as to tact. 



But something somewhat smart and tunny 



Would win more favor and more money. 



But since our farming population 

 Composes nine-tenths of the nation, 

 If ruling powers abuse their trust. 

 We Farmers suffer most and first ; 

 Your Carrier for years has been 

 Devoted to their cause, why then 

 Who has a belter right than I, bir, 

 To act the part of their adviser. 

 A weighty office to be sure, 

 Though sine cash, no siiiecure. 

 But with remarkable civility 

 We take its great responsibility. 

 And this Address we mean in fact 

 To be our first ofiicial act 

 In this our high important station 

 Of Counsellor throughout the nation. 

 To all employ d with head or hand 

 i'o till Columbia's happy land. 



And now, may't please your Honors, judging «, 



or what we have perfiirm'd, in trudging ^ 



To brino- vou more than fifty limes 



Our Farmer, since last New Year s rhymes, 



Y^our bounty surely must forbid 



You not to grant a little guid 



Pro quo to settle the amount 



Of this our running small account : 



We'll wish you tlien all happiness 



That man can possibly possess. 



The best allotment ever given 



To mortals by indulgent Heaven. 

 Boston, January 1, 1835 



THE NEW ENGI.AND FARMER 



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