Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 51, Vincennes, Knox County, 18 January 1823 — Page 4

I IM.'ll I!i M.-'IMM I IftV"i coiMV Liv v wint o to weep, To wci) , ;t .1 vul a! ) .r. The Ii v. Um. it, whu ,t ..iV;;-.- fhep, h:'u ut a;. I 1 1 I" 1 1 w'urh io k.rp, Tn.-vi co'.il.ri r.u do wli.it I have. tVv.c. IfYh .vi v il.WtknfAv what ;st vn"U To n inle, whit scorn' by e ery 'ne, T liiic bv in my an arUil wi'te, A heart llul knows more tariff than ;pU Thou v.-ouUlVtnotiU) vh'a I a uv d ;ue. Av.-l nh ! if thou couhW how lre:i! When fr.etuhurc i aaii-cclami he.iilh is The n-ori.l v:e.U to thh.n eyes appear ; ll Um, hU" '.kV V('1'Taea wouM'M uov tV v.aat I have tle-nc. kh r:ir. r.u.r. :i. c;:.ioxic!.e LINK-, j .;... ? , f,l( M.L! bu an Oil fiachc- ,' ,;:. ; ovv: : rad. Arre'Vv., vi.vi "ion: averted ofliiy r-ice, '! 'its' V.-wer;;, a li vely r-nblv'.n oi'iay face; U- a 1 1 1 i v V n-c' tV.int desire, 1 ihe is'ks'J '.v.' irrmer fve. T r V cv-t 'M-i.'l ureMnve.led up yoa A ,rc.;-M" l i-i 1 ueU .a.l mo ; OM ilar a A U I; f: t' Im a a Ana ui'r, .1' nr h is iroai . ie cueei; hh: ru.se !Kirr V- a. 1 1 vi r :ria aeam , -i i. ;s -f i-i'vr.-ii a u s, a . iiu :'a ':'al t'aen. i ;;!;'.'),( u-- riFrv. ii ::::: " Ml SO I'. III. ANY. Soiih-iuimf Wifh ')! Sr:rr. I a ;t t) or (in-i.iipv wrcti'K Co mod t tnirv a- lon as J liv. a:vl Hiviiii!' rnv life is too gUiir t i i nii nf stiff-iii-; enouli to .iti v tny oppfc-S'r-i. my sahh .r.ii.lrcn mit. wen I am oooe. ''iVfMvc a sim'Jar portion of dt,n id ii 'oa ptinixluni'nt hvcK -raii-0 IMev -Iff i1 C'fui.l i(s ol' unf)itnnao me. O-vnt g io 1 n.'- wh it h ive 1 d .ie i hot riblt4 in t5n -i,v"t. that me a'id mife s'n!d in t-uis trc.itfd? Did mr f n rr provnWc thcr. and havr I S"ffrini' mortal, to beat ttu'ir iniq itis and sofftT tor their trans sessions? li' this is the case hard fate how could I. who was mlMrn. hi Ip what mv father divl? Y iat laws, of justice, wotdd pun i me for the conduct of my iat hm ? My n is hlaelc my fiihor's w is of rhe same hue, and like hewers its like creation t in ur iv This is the war I hecame posses-e 1 of mv color. I did not make it, nor have I power to c i.meit. Now. ye sonof reason, vc ons of lihertv, In.w can he s-" ;.udtv fir mv colour as to forle t my ah? My mind and my d! an- not my own; thev are tai : f'vm nv hv another, who c oe I'm his own. and who c.i n x hito f!; world as helpless as n i i i. for ougn' I know, as r iv ; : V'-'t hk vivs am iis j : (?" :-" h.-ni: p-'-eed of t ' e s Mis a i v ant a ' v having n -k i nr'n' : ;ao nine. ' "U he c t o hv in Mr s:t i!" way he pre i s ;t - -'o m t ! I ,i't in v s. ; s j . t a; e t himself t -..:: if mv .iM.:r. aod lives I V . a '(Mi! Je-'enr wav ; -i. .tiies m" with dir t y : nut a'low me to eat vr-i inn. nu' of so h as he eats; h it eep me in the kitchen, and fcetls me on she refuse; where, af ter I have 1 thou red ha d all day ior nun I may -treieh my-e.t iefi.e the li e. on the iloor or on a se iff 1. sp'ea 1 oer with a little .... s' t-v and i few dnt v rag- here

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1 niv s.eep tard and cold as well gl. omy aspect which my wretehi tv; .vhi;( in-is i s r lie g-vai ' ed condition must every day ho.e oil a a ell fm iu-he 1 featnei! bring into view frit alas, of lvd.clrio x u v:u Thus day j wlvit a short date are the grea;P ' das . I mat serve Iiim while j tet comforts of poor negra slave.

am ah o m go. except Sundays; v ien I max make bro ms "rhas-k'i-. and U them to somebody, if 1 cao and nave he profits mv W oen I get M not able to worti, tiien 1 may iu in the

' kitchen and suffer for want of at

Mention and proper nourishment, because I am a poor old worn out ncro, then no douht. he will wish me dead. Ilarrasscd in youUi and desolate in aiR I have heard much said about libertywhat a tine thing it is for white people white men will fight and kill them who would make slaves of them then thev are called good brave fellows, because they will never be made sktves no, they will die fust. O that they would be consistent; then I think they would not make slaves of others. I do not know why liberty should not be as good for the sable race, as for white people. If poor negro could be free, and work for himself, truly. I think it would. But no chance, for when poor negro undertake to light for liberty, he is taken and hung, his head cut off and stuck on a pole; and he is called a rascal not lit to live, because he loves that which the white people love -5o well, and fight so hard for. PdY master white man. please to tell me if you can, how it comes to be a good thing for white men light fir liberty light Unions hard an 1 kill many, and at the same time, it poor unhappy negro do but think he ought'to be ' - . bee, he is a d ingcrnus roiuc Hut ah ' me, I am a poor woolly head, a slave, and have not liberty to speak to white men. or plead my own cause or I would say much of justice, liberty, and the religion of Jesus, all which, thev profess to own Hut truly poo; slave has so little right to believe that they are sincere, that he is left to talk to the winds, and expect justice in heaven where he expects to meet no slave holder. Then ye friendly gates attend to my complaints will ye be so good to a friendless wretch, as to waft these accents of woe to some printer's press, and let them go abroad; perhaps they may find a spark of tenderness in some good white min's breast, and help a lit tie. to arouse him to a sense of our condition, and cause him to open his mouth for us, who are dumb and plead our cause amongst his fellows. C Yc . v.v cffn'rdQ?ny equalize yourlazi's lie u!l cr.r.si:ft':itt :!.' ?; .v ?!rgrct,9a cauxr J perhaps they will hear him. because he is white, understands g'ammer, and can svak well Though I am a poor h!a-d: Tom the slave. have a wife, and she a slave :i miserable as rnv-elf, yet we love each oiiie: well; we had two lovely babes pledges of our love when they were Ihtle they were a eomiort ro us, lor ( ; we-e weak enough to hope our master would not part us. When ... i i . 1. r . j I wowsu eouie uome iroiu me . tiehl kuigued wit'n labor to eat my coarse morsai in the kitchen, ! the iinle innocents would prattle ! amuod me. climb upon my knees.1, j and with a smile on their faces.' j !:Us their unhappy father. The i . . . ii .... i . very snort time i was auowcu to ! he with them, siothed my woe a ' fu tie, because my mind would be ; (liverteu trom metling on the Mv master got m debt we heard the melancholly whisper, some of us were to oe soiu. a uismat cloud of woe now increased our sorrows and drove a wav the little 1 11 A I I ' happiness we hud. A trader in

human llesh came from the west, and cave our master his price, for

i our prattlers and lie, regardless of our affections, took tnem some hundred? of miles in order to sell some hundreds of miles in order to sell them again to whom, we do not know. O hard hearted white man to tear children thus from their parents our In lie ones used to lodge with us on our scaffold t night, and divert us at meal time with their pi attle. are gone ami we never expect to see them more they went crying we wept, but dare nt complain. O. day of horrors, on whi:h we lost our babes, and with them, all the comfort we had. we s!all never forget while we live. Whenever we look on each other, we rea I each other's hear t felt sorrow tor the loss of our infants And now what hall 1 sav unto you. ) winds! and von, (). heaven1 to which I talk and make my complaint. White man. ami he is called good white man too, lives on my labor; and that no enoieh, hut sold my children; and when he pieaes. will sell mv wife too uch i- mv fae. ano such fh, fif; of all th sable i ace in AnuTKa the great laud id liberty. Liberty. in their delih ration of independeoee. and on thir money; and I often walk under the lar-;

ing motto m their high p!a es. though poor Tom is unlettered, Tf A con:''rV parish in Xevr the letters are so hi; I know them ' " '-T-hire proposed to their naswhen 1 eethern: Now. e rad M '-i,?ie his salary from ling whites, what good d.esthis ! to:?00iol,'lrs l)er aiinum "Spa.e about liberty do poor n-gm ? frit m.v -nstisn inends," replied

! cannot intrf at vou for v on ill not let me speak to you Hot I pray the girat one above to come in the clouds, and in the v ii iris, and tell you poor negro can see well as veu. and mav he mercifully turn your heaM to do ns justier and let us have ourselves our wives and children, that when we work we may have ihe profits of our labour and we shad toigive vou all the injury you . i c , r'i have done to us. & to our lathers and mav the merciful Gd for- ; k 4- ,, . . give vou loo O. my toll heart, i Vi! ; i should I give it venr, the night in ... ,, . . would he trone. and the sun would be up, shining on the earth, and my kitchen door not open, then mv master would beat me after all this 14 0 never, never rshiht I I've, Can mi heart, a rfdisfi cense ; Corn'' fri'iull i (! rf ) !h t.iaudatc give And lei m.' b'' vi f'ruce." The Grand Jury d Uiehm nd district . G have lately made a presentment, as a gieat grievances that grand jurors a?e not allow ed tiie same compensation as petit jurors ! Col fradv, of the U S. armv. has arrived at acketts Jlarhor having left the Falls of St. Marv's on tiie 1st Nov. at which time the troons at that place were in good health. Smu-.v had lallen to the j.X .ilr:5 v v 1 ' The tra-iition ol the Devil and Faiistus was derived from the odd circumstances in which Bibles of Faust, who was the first printer, appeared to the world When lie had printed off a considerable number of copies he undertook the saie ol them at Paris. The copies were printed m imitation of manuscript, anil it was his interest to pass them as such; but as ne was enabled to sell his Bibles at sixty crown's, wtiiie scribes demanded five hundred, universal astonishment was excited, and pai jtieularly when he produced copies

as fast as they were vcnled. and cam lowered his pi ice. The uniformity of the copies too increased the wonder. Informations were consequently given to the magistrate against him as a magician his lodgings were searched, and a great number of copies being iouihl, they were seized, Faubf s red ink. which was pecu harly brilliant, was said to be his blood and it wa. solemnly adjudged, "that he was in league witli the Devil;' when to Jave himself from a honeiire. Faust disclosed his art to the Parliament of Paris, who of course immediately discharged him horn ail further prosecution. Bait. Ame:

A gentleman from Indh as sures us that he has seen clenhants employed to pile wrmd and which have, after adding heap to heap, drawn back and placed themselves in a situation to see if tney had kept a perpendicular hue and preserved a just level in their wo; k, and have then corrected any preceptihle defect in one or the oth.r.The same person has ?ecn two elephants employed to roll barrels to a distance; or.e has kept them in motion, while the other has been prepared with a stone in trunk to ston their progress at the required spot j 4 I . 1 . a weary burden to collect the 2.30 dollars 1 -ho.uld he worn to death by trying to scramble together the O'J dollars." Strong Tcs!::i:;?f A innur... tehank, expatiating on the virtues of bis drawing s:dve. and recitingmany instance. of its success, was interrupted by an old woman, who asserted rather ironically. i, "V that she had ren it rrair ; , . , v r i.i . i ' c '1 ; that delied the united efioit o two ru . i i -,i the strongest blacksmiths in the , -7, , , country with, their hammers and JmilCls Philadelphia, "Nov. 27. "Last night the audience at the city theatre were exceedingly amused by the n nre c:.tation of i -Modern Honor.' The laughter was loud, hmg and oft repeated ; nay .sometimes shouts of applause were heard. The use ol colonge water to soften the hands, uf oak hark to make the skin bullet proof and the lusetrir.g dress to render the person invulnerable, were all duly served up with appropriate dialogue and action. The squatting and dodging was performed by Sambo Puffy and Oeesar Huffy, valats to Col. B unbastes Puffy and the Hon. Mr Huffy the song of -cruel am the bullet ball " was encored : the whole piece was well received and was given out for a second repiesentaiion amidst shouts of applause. Pres.?!. FELUIY. "!M11E su')j liber !-.ai;v; aain taken ! the FK1UIY ol Ch.!5' Smith. (!ecC where he has a !ar;;c r.c'.v brut, v.iih s.nd !ai;i::.;. 1; r the cave nra! sjlcty of c.im:j:; s ia! stock. I ie tlaiu; s h:mselt bv strict LttcniiLH, to sha: e a ia:I : ue public t'a 4 r DAVID CII NDLm. A Complete assortment of 3daglst taics Blanks for sale at tills office alto jilank Deeds.