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Say, could we doubt his Jack-a-lantern light
Would guide at length our wandering steps aright
To where Dame Truth, afraid of being found,
In her dark hole lies skulking under ground;
Still as all Nature ere the earthquake stirs,
Hush as a mouse when near Grimalkin purrs;
If so, I think our brains have taken flight,
And bade for aye our foolish heads good night.
Had this event in those bright days been known,
When Greece with glory's blaze illumin'd shone,,
Then had we read, and wonder'd as we read

Where sense had gone, and where discretion fled.
What crime so base can with this crime compare?
What deed so dark but match'd with this is fair?
If ancient realms had witness'd this sad tale,
The sun had darken'd, and the skies grown pale;
For sun and sky, more modest in those places,
Were wont full oft in shame to veil their faces.
Some, with much happiness, I'm proud to say,
Did their great spirit wond'rously display ;—
While part, by swaggering looks, with force ex-
press'd,

The full grown feelings of the swelling breast:
Thus, first of birds, the Turkey-Cock so bold
Around the dunghill ranging uncontroll❜d,
With all the pride of self-importance big,
Struts, and looks stately at each passing pig,
While geese and hens around at distance stare,
And wonder who the devil marches there.
Others in words "sung out" their discontent,
Like new-made cider struggling for a vent;

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Or as when Sirius sheds his sultry ray,
And pours oppressive languor o'er the day,
While the shrunk stream scarce laves its pebbly bed,
And one brown hue is o'er the landscape spread,
In thund'ring prayers the bull-frogs call for rain,
And pond to pond repeats the solemn strain.
Not by such windy sounds, all noise and fume,
Can we our points to carry e'er presume;
Vain, vain the hope by empty blasts t'o'erwhelm
The firm, the mob-lov'd leader of this realm ;
This many knew who oft had tried before

With words of sense to still his clam'rous roar.
Sound arguments, like hail-stones, thick were show-

er'd,

And streams of eloquence on all sides pour'd;

But boys and men, with clamours vile and rude,
Shut up the mouth of that old man so good.
As when, high-soaring in the fields of air,
The guardian hen-hawk fill'd with tender care,
Eyes, with solicitude and keen regard,
The chickens feeding in the poultry yard-
Physician kind, with fondest love preparing
To give the little souls a pretty airing!
The congregation, filled with wild affright,
Hens, geese, and ducks in one shrill scream unite,
And loud to heaven with cries discordant pray
To keep the too-kind gentleman away.

My text thus prov'd-all that remains behind,

Is to apply the subject to the mind

By inference clear I'll make the truth go down,
And thus relume the honour of the town.

To ease the torments of the great man's ghost, Transplant th' inscription here from yonder post, And in the vacant niche, on glory's boards, In golden letters write the following words."To honour SAM this bright inscription's made ;""Twas hither brought with wonderful parade"Astonish'd meteors throng'd the realms of day "While SAM's pure honours streak'd along the way." Thus when sublime, by rapid whirlwinds driven, A kite majestic scales the vault of heaven, Bright through the air its tail in splendour flies. And paper glory blazes round the skies.

Long, O Philistia! shall thy sons revere
Their country's saviours and its Sampsons fear,
While thy fair records this occasion note,

That Wisdom disapprov'd the last town-meeting vote.
Thus shall our sons, and eke our daughters rise,
Stare at our length and wonder at our size:
Whilst we their sires, as time's long race we run,
Boast of the deeds of A. D. Ninety-One.
And should misrule in future times return,
And unborn Demaguoges with faction burn,
Should tar and feathers come again in vogue
And PATRIOT stand synonimous with rogue-
Perchance some second SAM may rise to day,
And o'er mob-meetings hold an equal sway.

ECHO.....NO. VI.

From the Connecticut Gazette, of October 20, 1791.

[Some time since a writer in the Connecticut Gazette attacked the Newtonian Philosophy with such astonishing force of argument, that many of its friends trembled for its fate. However, as he rested a considerable period, they fondly hoped it would survive the shock. A week or two since, he poured forth another volley, which has induced the Echo to speak in an audible voice, what he had before uttered in a whisper.]

"Messrs. Green,

"Your inserting the following in your useful paper will oblige one of your readers and perhaps make others reflect.

"THE Newtonian philosophy accounts for all the phenome

na of nature by one principle, which it supposes to pervade all material nature: and the principle is this, viz.—that matter attracts matter. But, that this principle never did, nor does now, nor never will exist, I thus prove.

“If matter attracts matter, either there must be an universal plenum, or matter must act where it is not. But, that there is not an universal plenum in material nature has been mathematically demonstrated by all Newtonians of any note: and that mat ter can act where it is not, is an impossibility, for it is an impossibility that matter should be where it is not-therefore a much greater impossibility that it should act where it is not, and therefore matter, never did-does not now-nor ever will attract mat

ter.

"Nay, farther, even upon the hypothesis of an universal plenum, in material nature, matter's attracting matter would be physically inconsistent with the essence of matter. For, though in

a plenum all the particles would be perfectly coherent or contiguous to each other, yet their coherency or contiguity would not be the effect of the attraction of the particles, but of something else, namely, immaterial impulse ab extra. The principal essential property of matter, which is to resist all change of its present state of rest or motion, is absolutely inconsistent with the idea of matter's attracting matter: for, since a particle of matter, from its vis inertia, cannot possibly change its own state of rest or motion, it must be absolutely impossible, that it should change the state of rest or motion of an extraneous particle.

"To go still farther, if matter should be supposed unresisting, that is, deprived of its vis inertiæ, that it would be still more unfavourable to the Newtonian principle, that matter attracts matter, may be easily demonstrated. Hence, let the Newtonians no more pretend to account for the various phenomena of nature by their favourite principle, till they refute these arguments and many more ready to be adduced. ANONYMOUS."

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