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1 >V ; l. li^ e • a r r. i . t K RECKONER iSo. 4 ^- m ■Bury .',.' - toinrff hectare gam* necfcliide capeucs, SIR—I find that many of your ..— ••J: would hive been better ^leafed with your eorreipondent ! . burial places had he created the matter ieis leriouiJy, though I can¬ not lav that Iain of the number. What, lays a wit, is the ufe of bo¬ dies after they are dead?*- lag them in the fields i.; not fobad an expedient—It laves much ex- pence.—When the father of a fa¬ mily dies, they can trundle him into the ground in a moment, & by planting him at the foot of an apple tree, he may do move good when dead, than ever he did while living* But if it be granted that too much indifference prevails in conuenmg our rn i friends and rela¬ tions to their kindred duft, the con¬ ciliating moraliil may difeover ma¬ ny caulcs which extenuate the crime, and which render thofe v/ho are guilt v, rather objects ol pity than of fevers reorehcniiom The greater number of thofj who have lot tied in this country have been hitherto deftitute of all good opportunities of religious improve¬ ment ; how then are we to expect anions iuch. pure morals and high minded principles ? .Indifference t.o religion breeds indifference to (liaractar, for he v/ho i5 careful a- bout his reputation from mtercit, makes it a matter of tralii: winch he i> willing to difpofc of as icon as he can procure the price. That liaracter is not much rcgaiuod in the neighboring States, and among many of our own inhabitants is too well * known, and noi 11ing 3.1'- tilii^ i (Iranker moiv, in coin¬ ing to tins country than the little xoxee that is taken of the correct- ;iels or laxity cf a mans general conduct. Among a people fo care- n .;cis or moral character, we are not to look for many proofs of affec¬ tion in death, for aitho nature may dp much, nature is not provident, and unlefs fupported by virtue her emotions foon evaporate. Where there are no morals, the ties or blood take but a (lender hold, the mind always preferring its own itercft and gratifications to thole n of others, makes this the rule of action, and likes and diflik.es ac¬ cording to this principle. From biterefted motives, therefore, fam¬ uli ; are divided and eftranged from one another ; the father is turned againft the fon, and thefon again tt the father. Their apparent intcr- cfts are at variance, and am id ft the many advantages which Dr.Frank- in mentions as belonging to early marriages, he has overlooked an inconvenience which in many in- ilances counterbalances them all. The children grow up before the parents are able to provide for them in a {hi-table manner, and the fons inftead of continuing humble and iubmiilive at home no fooner come of age than they murmur at their utuation ; they are eager to have farms of their own, their father Hands in their way—Jcaloufy creeps in and eats up all the re¬ mains of filial & parental affection. And it muit be confeffed that if a- jiy thing could cxcufcthc want of love for their parents, fo frequent¬ ly exhibited by children in this their fiww, and endeavoring, by their ■ :vamnle and inivruefcion, lo inipiie ihem ukh virtuous princi- »-" •-* war. tune enough \ 1"» ■' ^ and to n*ake home pleafant, they drive them to work like Saves-, and force them to labor at a Lime when neither their bodies nor their minds enable them with*- out the m-catelt injury to bear the audi d there At length |aek infilled upon going tofchool,andat twenty he was lent to a drunken teacher in the neighborhood, but before he palled the°table of two fyllables, his father tsght a fever, and he was obliged home to look after the tons before his fa- neis oi heart There will always be t hue \ ■« hen he may be melted__ moment*; of foftnefs when fympa- i ' 1 ■ tnv *«&« Prc 4 x ca~0 to return firm. It was FUOMTiiE UNITED STATES. From ll nfiin^fon^ Dec. io. fatigue.—You in th 0._. .„ ... boys fields working at the ir.oit lahon- ouspafts of agriculture^ v?ka fiiould either beat ichot/l or only employ¬ ed in the lighter and more caly ta.(ksj Their growth is impeded, K J » _ t hpii* iti ; n i K ^ \*t * **• ' r\>^r ' rm( [ *' Mf ( t h PV grow up with external and inter- O i nal deformity. Treated with gre-a- ter fevcrity than hired i'ervants,can we be much furprifed, if at the le- rai age, they fiiould leave the houle oi bondage and labor, iince to la¬ bor is their only portion, lor fome advantage to themfelves. Even when the profpeel is brighter, and the ion may look forward to the inheritance of the farm on which lie toils, no gratitude towards his father rifcs in his breait—He thinks that he has purchased it at the deareft rate—The inheritance he confiders hardly equal to the price of his labor, he is therefore under no particular obligation, and the moment that the parent loies his right:; by death- thefon rcmem- bcrs him ro more, or only to mur¬ mur at the treatment which he had received. It is true many fa nulies are placed in lituations where no iiiftructions can be obtained, $& it is better to keep children bufy than allow them to be idle, but it lchlom h ippens that the parents cannot, in inch cafes, give fome in- itrucfhms themfelves, and it never can be beyc^nd their ability to make their offspring pica-fed with their ficur.tiqn, and lenKble that thev are not urged to labor with t r- * unnecefi^ry feveiitj oi"nvincvhad five dausbteiM and v5 only one ion. Being in good cir- cumllances, h° '—- °* <c>*«« to rxt the •-irAs inftrucced. pains Ill'JV we i •z taught to read, write and can. common accounts ; they were indeed left ignorant of Divine things., but they knew nearly as mudi as their parent 5, :•: religion is thought a funerfiuous part of education in a new country like this. The poor boy had a muc It harder lot—His father would boaft to his neighbors how well Jack could drive a team at fix years of age—how ouickly he dropped the potatoes and corn in planting, ec gathered them in harveft. He was fo careful that lie might be iafelv trailed to fodder the cattle, to clean the ftablcs and keep the Inr- nefe in good order. It was icon difeovered that lack could do all the work that a fcrvant at ten dol¬ lars a month would perform. The fcFvanc was difcharged, the boy had now his Rated employ¬ ment ; he was taught the mvfiv- ries of ploughing when every root and flone threw him on his note ten feet from the plough—but what of that ? there was nobody elfe to do it, and the work mult be done. Poor Jack would often return from the field fo fatigued that he could fearcely lift a leg, k fo difpiritcd that he would have ra¬ ther chofen to lie down where he had been laboring than to encoun- ter the toil of returning home h;id he not been afraid of his fa; her. er parfimony, tlier recovered, and other events happening which prevented him from going back to Ichool, he found himiHJf of age totally ignor¬ ant of the common branches of knowledge. Having more liberty he went more abroad than ufual, k perceived, by degrees, the great- r.cfs of his lofs. This made him difcontented & difobedient to his father, whom he blamed for keep* ing him in ignorance. The old man was the more enraged at his ions reproaches as he felt that they were true, arid in a moment of ir¬ ritation drove him from the houle. Jack engaged as a raftf-man, went to Quebec, and entered on board the frigate. His father, who is exceedingly wealthy for a man in his fituation, now curies his form- and his confidence continually upbraids him with the ruin of Ins fon. But had Jack re¬ mained, Mr. Reckoner, with Ins father, it could not be expected that, treated as he had been, he would have paid great reipeci ti his memory. If, then, parents are often abandoned by their children in the decline of life, and left to ilruggle with the great eft difficul- tics at a period when they are the leaft able to funrxnmt them, thev are, in moft cafes, to blame them- fclvcs—sthcy have not acted the parts of good parents, and their mucontluct recoils upon their o\tn heads. You wjllfty that tlkfe remarks do not arpcar to have much con¬ nexion with my introduction, but im'anclion, not the arts of con¬ nexion, is the primary object of waiting. And if you would de- f:end a l:L;ie more to common life than you feem inclined to do, it would not leilen the ufefulnefs of your papers. He that is ambitious of literary fame, Mr. Reckoner, need not expect to acquire it in the woods of Canada ; if that be his object he mull refort ter a more promiling field. Here he will find few to praifc, many to cenfurc^ & what is more mortifying, the grea¬ ter number difdaining to read what he has io laboriouily written. But, fir, tho' you can acquire no i ime where there are fo few capa¬ ble of praiimg or blaming with judgment or tafte, you may do good by examining many topics rntcrcfting to us all. Let not the general indifference to religion ef- cape your notice—large and flour- ifhiag fctticments without a Cler- yman—the grofi inattention of parents to the character and attain¬ ments of thofe whom theyentruft with the education of their chil¬ dren, &c. Nor is the iubiect of ding------a cr 3 f oiiXiOK Relations. The houfe refmned the unfin- ifliedbufineis of yefterday, regar- foreign relation.;. i'vlr. Randolph oblerved----"It was highly inconflftent in men to advocate a Handing army now, who in '98 and '99, were opposed to inch eilablimmcnts, although at that time the army was command¬ ed by the father of our country. Would those The afked) who re- fused to raise an army when we had a Waihington, a Hamilton, a Pinknev, and other revolutionary heroes of approved valor and pat- riotifm, now conient to put the youth of our country under the command of an acquitted fellon ? ( hear him ) And no one would pretend that we had not at th time referred to, abundant cause of complaint against France. Mr. R. referred to the conduct purfued by the government in relation to the aggrefllons of Spain in 3 805-6. He read an extract from a report made at that time by a felect com¬ mittee of the house, which recom¬ mended the raising of a small num- bcr of troops to defend our fron¬ tiers against the inroads of the Spaniards. This report, was deem¬ ed of too warlike a tone by the republicans oft hit day ; and it was fupercccded by a propolition from a gentleman who had fine* ako taken a great fancy to Canada. —lie laid the infmuation, that the iurmise of the Indian attack on Governor Harrifon hw ing !?££« brought aboutbv Britilh influence, mult be totally groundiefs, or else the executive had been extremely rcmifs in not riving the alarm. On the contrary he had heard, that very flrong fufpicJons were enter- tamed of the Indians having been excited to acts' of hoftility even by France. But he believed the true caufe was to be found in the well- known charactereftie ferocitv of our lavage neighbours.—He repel- ied the idea of the unrounded iufi- He next adverted to the talk of taking Canada, by firfl fe- ducing the inhabitants from their loyalty to their own govenment, in order that they might become TT t • citizens to ours. He had known indeed one or two firft-rate patriots manufactured out of trai¬ tors ; [a loud cry of " hear him,,] but he never expected to fee the principal a.cted upon in the grofs, Ithough it might at times anfwer in detail. And when he reflected upon the horrible retort that an en¬ emy might make upon us in the fouth, he hoped to hear no mor on that iubject. If we were to con¬ quer Canada, let us do it by valour and not by intrigue. - As to the general policy of war, he contcn- picions-. good 1 <l C burials, with which 1 began this letter, cxhauited. Tell your rea- nf fouthern produce in any one re¬ ded that it would not raifc the price Province, the conduct of many fa- At feventecn Jack Infilled upon ih.i, goes far to excufc it. In- learning to read, but his father promilcd to fend him a whole year to ichool before he came of age, V itead of exerting themfelves in evj.ur'ng a good education for dcrs of the veneration which even the molt barbarous nations paid to their dead, their anxiery to honor them, & the melancholy joy which they experienced in performing for them, the hit folemn rites. To mourn the death of thofe we love evinces an amiable heart, and is becoming human nature, lie who indulges inch endearing feelings can never be a wicked man—he will never be diftiyguifhed for t'e- libeiMte c rue!: v or h\c;corabic hurd- fpect whatever,but would decreaib tbeif value, if poflible, as the hiito- ry of our revolutionary war prov¬ ed. He agreed with the gentle- r man from Tenncfiee, that the non- importation law was demoralizing the nation, and ought to he got rid of, but he thought it strange that it. could not be. aecornpKfiiv\l in any other way than by joiivii ;; our good friend the EiKpvror til" France, he insisted, we had noth¬ ing to ejepnrr. It appeared io