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“ Sol et Aquilo certunt uter sit fortior,”
And Justices and pious hypocrites set themselves in array against respectability, innocence,
and virtue, and all their amusements. X. Y. Z.
At the play of forty thieves the other even- | Isay there is a vast difference between getting
ing a boy who could not pay for a ticket went in j drunk accidentally or even designedly, and being
gratis and marched round as one of them. It was j a drunkard. Is it a crime to get drunk, or merry,
found out by a pious father, whose ideas bound a
little on bigotry and superstition, and in a violent
pious tremour he insulted the whole audience in
front of the stage by demanding his son. How
this genteel society received him I know not, as
on our Natal Day, the birth day of Columbia-1 —
No, it is no more a crime than going to church
to hear a good sermon ; and in proof of it I will
quote Scripture, though the passage does not ex¬
actly conform to the ideas of most young persons
I was absent, hut he aught to have been hissed out; J and some old ones; Stl Paul says, “ He that mar
and if forcible means were necessary they aught \ ries does well, he that does not does better.” I sa’
without hesitation to have been resorted to ; sup*
say
that he, in celebrating the 4th of July gets drunk
pose I the writer should in service time enter the~| does harm, but he that remains sober does better,
old Tabernacle and ask this head of the church j Had I translated St. Paul’s saying, I should have
why. he sit and heard a dangerous doctrine 5 rendered it thus — He. who marries not may do well,
promulgated, I mean violent calvanism, where it I but he who marries does good ; else, we must
is taught that none but the elect are to be saved, $ contradict nature and nature’s God ; for if woman
How should I have been received ; why a writ ^ was made for man, man certainly wants her as
would have been issued on Monday-morning, and | much as a dove wants his mate. We cannot
the whole phalanx of superstition mustered as j however always compare a wife to an innocent
witnesses to condemn me as an infidel and com- ’ dove ; for Socrates wife, Zantippe, was a devil
mon disturber, and very properly too, because J incarnate ; and there are many in my humble
Mr. Jefferson (who it was said by these same f opinion no better now in these refined times. But
sort of folks) was to destroy all the Bibles has $ to the point, gentlemen, as Judge Parsons said to.
liHertv of non- . the lawyers, granting these taverns to be decently
told us that every one shall with liberty of con¬
science worship in his own way.— -Now for my !
own part I go to church with the same pleasure as
a theatre and vice verssa. — The one affords as
much amusement and genuine information as the,
other, and enlightens and keeps society together.
Witness the town of Boston, and where is there
a more polished place — where Truckmen, Hack-
men, Mechanics and Sailors are quoting Shake¬
speare— Making their genteel bows and receiving
gentlemen with the politeness of dancing masters.
and respectably kept, is it a crime for a young man
to go into them and get a glass of grog, punch, or
sangeree — I answer no.— And who makes it so ?
why hypocrites, the very men (some of them) who
own these taverns, and yet must have their rent.
And can the landlord pay his rent without any
custom ? Yes he may — the keeper of the Sun Tav¬
ern can pay his rent because he is rich ; as the old
woman who bought milk at six cents a quart and
sold it at four cents ; but she could not have lived
Who are the first to complain if government un¬
dertakes tu make a law regulating commerce ?
Mfhy merchants — and who but them should com¬
plain. Now who ought to complain at merchants
and Justices interfering with licences and pointing
Now is the little brief authority which a justicaris 1 had not she done a deal of business,
pacis carries with it, where also bigotry may be |
nearly allied, is I say a character like this to dis¬
turb the amusement of ladies and gentlemen, far
superior in talents and property to himself. No,
it ought not so to be. it however reminds me of
the conduct of this man last winter ; he attempted £ at and discountenancing young men who visit tav-
to take away half the( licences of taverns, £s?c. be- i ernsr — why who ought? Taverri’keepers themselves
cause his ideas of moral refinement and improve- ; to be sure.
ment appeared in his selfish important imagination S ’Tis not every young man who can purchase
to differ from others far more respectable. We ; shares in an Insurance office or Bank, and become
must not have a market tavern, because there was j a director, or a visitor ; and if he could do it, and
no stable for horses. Why very few country tra- t visited some of ’em, no information would be ob-
ders or butchers ever want a stable in town, be- j tained other than knowing how to make a pudding,
cause to save expence — they bring the fodder with > stevr a haddock, or that a rich man in town
them. — As well might it be said that we must not j had saved a fortune by depriving himself of the
have a Justice of the Peace unless he had been 5 luxury of mustard and pickles. Away then with
liberally educated. ' If this were the case lam \ superstitious nonsense.
sure that a Shoemaker could never obtain this ? Let commerce regulate itself. Let the commerce
office. f of the sexes be regulated by reason, common sense
Now Mr. Justice because,you are ignorant is it f and love. The carpenter who finishes a dancing
any reason why our Mechanics, Truckmen, Sail- \ hall, must live ; the one who builds billiard tables
ors, Hackmen and some of our ignorant Merchants j and ninepin alleys must live. Card manufacturers
shouldn’t be refined a little ? to sum up the whole, < must live, and the tavern keeper must live as well
Sir, you are no more like a Boston Justice than my i as the merchant, and damme, if I dont live gen-
foot is
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your head, which differs in this respect 5 tlemen. So for the present, good bye ’t ye, with
that my foot is hardest and your head softest, you j one word of advice— Mind your own business, and
are no more like a genteel Dancing Master than | let your neighbours alone, and the young men let
Dr. Howe is. j them alone, for your dissipation at their age was
As this may be my last communication during i far worse than theirs. Your minds were small,
my absence of 6 or 8 months from my native k theirs are large and generous. They have educa-
town, and as I have some relatives and fiiends, j t,ion, you have little or none. Their hearts expand
who depend on Licenses or Tavern keeping, with- ^ at the sufferings and sorrows of
out which license a tavern is contrary to law, I . X. Y. Z. himself,
must candidly appenl to his worship, the Justice,
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P. S. More good advice. If at any time you
and to all the respectable merchants, and the in-
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meet with an old mau, or a young, whose feelings
habitants of the town of Salem, whether there is a f are tortured by domestic infelicity, loss of property,
town on the continent, generally speaking, or partic- j and other misfortunes, which so rack his mind as
ularly in this state, where Tavern keepers behave, | almost to deprive him of reason, endeavour to
with more propriety and decency than they do in * soothe and comfort him, pour into his wounded
Salem, good and obliging landlords, attentive bar- { bosom the sweet sympathetic balm of consolation,
keepers, servants always on the alert, good lan- ^ pity him, converse with him calmly, and tears of
guage to strangers, and every attention given to
their food, drink and lodgings. Is there ever any
rioting and noise more than a number of travellers
gratitude will repay you ; and in his moments of
reason, he’ll call you his friend and comforter, the
soother of his sorrows and woes, and should for-
m stages must necessarily make. Do you see j tune frown se hard as to deprive him of support
drunken landlords or bar-keepers? Do you see ^ and maintenance, open your purse, and' remember
abusive stage-drivers, or saucy ostlers ? I answer,
No — contawise, all is accommodation. It is true,
I grant, that there is no general rule without some
exceptions, and in answer thereto in plain language
that he who gives to the poor, lendeth to the Lord
— and shall eventually receive four fold, which is
better tban two per cent a month usury.
X. Y. Z. again.
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