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MISCELLANY.
A Brigand Story.
We give another little story from
■ Dumas in his Curricle,” as we find it
m Blackwood. They serve to show the
style of the writer, and as agreeable effu
sions from the mind of enlarged observa
tions, dashed with a little good humor,
will be read with interest. What fol
lows is one of his serious sketches. It
relates to the Vardarelli, a band of out
laws which for some time infested Cala-
Iria and the Capitaimto.
Gaetano Vardarelli was a native of Ca
mbria, and one of the earliest members of
Khe revolutionary society of the Carbona
ri When Murat, after some time favor
ing that society, began to persecute it,
Vardarelli fled to Sicily, and took service
under King Ferdinand. He was then
26 years of age. possessing the muscles
nnd coufage of a lion, the agility of a
chamois, the eye of an eagle. Such a
recruit Was not to be despised, and he
was made sergeant in the Sicilian guards.
0a Ferdinand’s restoration iri 1815, he
fallowed him to Naples ; but finding that
he was not likely evet to rise above a ve
ry subordinate grade he befcame disgust
ed with the service, deserted and took
refuge in the mountains of Calabria.—
There two of his brothers, and some
thirty brigands and outlaws, assembled
[around him and elected him their chief,
[with right of life and death over them.—
[He had been a slave in the town ; he
Bound himself a king in the mountains.
[ Proceeding according to the old fOr-
Cfiula observed by banditti chiefs, both in
■Calabria and in Melodramas, Vardarelli
proclaimed himself redresser general of
[wrongs and grievances, and acted up to
pis profession by robbing the rich and
Insisting the poor. The consequence
P'as, that he soon became exceedingly
Popular among the latter class; and at
pst his exploits reached the ears of King
Ferdinand himself, who was highly in-
Ignant at such goings on, and gave cr
iers that the bandit should immediately
p hung. But there are three things ne
cessary to hang a man—a rope, a gal
lows, and the man himself. In this in
lance, the first two were easily found,
lit the third was unfortunately wanting,
gendarmes and soldiers were sent after
lardarelli, but the latter was too cun-
Ing for them all, and slipped through
■eir fingers at every turn. His success
I eluding pursuit increased his reputa
lon, and recruits flocked to his standard,
■is band soon doubled its numbers, and
■5 leader became a formidable and im
portant person, which of course was an
■ditional reason for the authorities to
Wish to capture him. A price was set
p his head ; large bodies of troops sent
P search of him ; but all in vain.
■ One day the Prince of Leperano, Col.
plcedonio, Major Delponte, with a do-
Rti other officers, and a score of attend
Fp, were hunting in a forest a few
■kgues from Bari, when the cry of “ Vnr-
Prelli!” was suddenly heard. The par
■ took to flight with the utmost preeipi
■ion, and all escaped except Major Del
•nte, who was one of the bravest, but at
V same time, one of the poorest of the
B’ole army. When he was told that he
pust pay a tlxHrsand ducats for his ran
r° . he only laughed, and asked where
v was to get such a sum. Vardarelli
■en threatened to shoot him, if it was
Pi forthcoming by a certain day. The
pjor replied that it was losing time to
■ a| t; and that, if he had a piece of ad
■-c to give his captor, it was to shoot
M once The bandit at first felt half
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inclined to do so j but he reflected that
the less Delponte cared about his life,
the more ought Ferdinand to value it.—
He was right in his calculation ; for no
sooner did the King learn that his brave
mnjor was in the hands of the banditti,
than he ordered the ransom to be paid
out of his privy purse, and the major re
covered his freedom.
But Ferdinand had sworn the extermi
nation of the banditti, with whom he
was thus obliged to treat as from one po
tentate to another. A certain colonel,
whose name I forget, and who heard this
vow, pledged himself, if a battalion were
put under his command, to bring in Var
darelli, his two brothers, and the sixty
men composing his troop, bound hand
and foot, and to place them in the dun
geons of the Vicaria. The offer was too
good to be refused; the minister of war
put five hundred men at the disposal of
the colonel, who staried with them at
once in pursuit of the outlaw. The lat
ter was soon informed by his spies of
this fresh expedition, and he also made
a vow, to the effect that he would cure
his pursuer, once and for all, of any dis
position to interfere with the Vardarelli.
He began by leading the poor colonel
such a dance over hill and dale, that the
unfortunate officer and his men were
worn out with fatigue;—then when he
saw them in the slate that he wished, he
caused some false intelligence to be car
ried to them at two o’clock one morning.
The colonel fell into the snare, and
start' and immediately to surprise Vardarel
li, whom he was assured was in a little
village at the further extremity of a nar
row pass through which only four men
could pass abreast. He made such haste
that he marched four leagues in two
hours, and at day break found himself
at the entrance of the pass, which, how
ever, seemed so peculiarly well adapted
for an ambuscade, that he halted his bat
talion, and sent on twenty men to re
connoitre. In a quarter of an hour the
twenty men returned. They had not
met a single living thing. The colonel
hesitated no longer, and entered the de
file; but, on reaching a spot about half
way through it, where the road widen
ed out into a sort of platform, surround
ed by high rocks and steep precipices, a
shout was suddenly heard, proceeding
apparently from the clouds, and the poor
colonel looking up, saw the summits of
the rocks covered with brigands, who
levelled their riflas at him and his sol
diers. Nevertheless, he began forming
up his men as well as the nature of the
ground would permit, when Vardarelli
himself appeared upon a projecting crag.
“Down with your arms, or you are dead
men !” he shouted in a voice of thunder.
The bandits repeated his summons, and
the echos repeated their vocies, so that i
the troops, who had not made the same !
vow as their colonel, and who thought i
themselves surrounded by greatly supe- 1
rior numbers, cried out for quarter, in '
spite of the entreties and menaces of their
unfortunate commander. Then Varda
relli, without leaving 1 ] his position, or
dered them to pile their arms, and to
march to two different places which he
pointed out to them. They obeyed, and
Vardarelli, leaving twenty of his men in
their ambush, came down with the re
mainder, who immediately proceeded to
render the Neapolitan muskets useless
[for the moment at least] by the same
process which Gulliver employed to ex
tinguish the conflagration of the palace
at Lilliput.
The news of the affair put the King
in very bad humor for the first twenty
four hours; after which time, however,
the love of a joke overcoming his anger,
he laughed heartily, and told the story
to eveiy one he saw; and as there are
always lots of listeners when a king nar
rates, three years elapsed before the co
lonel ventured to show nis face at Na
ples and encounter the ridicule of the
court.
The general commanding in Calabria
takes the matter rather more seriously,
and vows the destruction of the baditti.
By offers of large pay and privileges,
they are induced to enter the Neapolitan
service, and prove highly efficient as a
troop of gen darms. But the general
cannot forget his old grudge against
them ; although, for lack of opportuni
ty, and on account of the desperate cha
racter of his men, he is obliged to defer
his revenge for some time. At last he
succeeds in having their leaders assassi
nated, and by pretending great indigna
tion, and imprisoning the perpetrators of
the deed, he lulls the suspicions of the
remaining bandits, who elect new offi
cers, and, on an appointed day, proceed
to the town of Foggia to have their elec
tion confirmed. Only eight of them, ap
prehensive of treachery, refuse to ac
company their comrades. The remain
ing thirty-one, and a woman who would
not leave her husband, obey the gener
al’s summons.
It was a Sunday, the review had been
publicly announced, and the square was
thronged with spectators. The Varda
relli entered the town in perfect order,
and armed to tho very teeth, but giving
no sign of hostility pr mistrust. On
reaching the square they raised their sa
bres, and with one voice exclaimed,
“Viva ii Re'” The general appeared
on his balcony to acknowledge their sa
MACON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1844.
lute. The aid-de-camp on duty came
down to receive them, and after compli
menting them on the beauty of their hor
ses and good state of their arms, desired
them to file past under the general’s win*
dow, which they did with a precision
worthy of regular troops. They then
formed up again in the middle of the
square and dismounted.
The aid-de-camp went into the house
again with the list of the three new offi
cers; the Vardarelli were standing by
their horses; when suddenly there was
a great confusion and movement in the
crowd, which opened in various places,
and down every street leading to the
square, a column of Neapolitan troops
was seen advancing.
The Vardarelli were surrounded on
all sides. Perceiving at once that they
were betrayed, they sprang upon their
horses and drew their sabres; but at the
same moment the general took off his hat,
which was the signal agreed upon; the
command, “Faccia in terra,” was heard,
and the spectators throwing themselves
on their faces, the soldiers fired over
them, and nine of the brigands fell to the
ground, dead or mortally wounded.—
Those who were unhurt, seeing that
they had no quarter to expect, dismoun
ed, and forming a compact body, fought
their way to an old castle, in which they
took refuge. Two only, trusting to the
speed of their horses, charged the group
of soldiers that appeared the least nume
rous, shot down two of them, and suc
ceeded in breaking through the others
and escaping. The woman owed her
life to a similar piece of daring, effected,
however, on another point of the ene
my’s line. She broke through, and
galloped off, after having discharged
both of hea pistols with fatal effect.
The attention of all was now turned
to the remaing twenty Vardarelli, who
had taken refuge in the ruined castle.—
The soldiers advanced against them, en
couraging one another, and expecting to
encounter an obstinate resistance; but
to their surprise, they reached the gate
of the castle without a shot being fired
at them. The gate was soon beaten in,
and tha soldiers spread themselves thro’
the halls and galleries of the old build
ing. But all was silence and solitude;
the bandits had disappeared.
After an hour passed in rummaging
every corner of the placa, the assailants
were going away in despair, convinced
that their prey had escaped them; when
a soldier, who was stooping down to
look through the air-hole of a cclar, feel,
shot through the body.
The Vardarelli were discovered ; but
still it was no easy matter to get at them.
Instead of losing men by a direct at
tack, the soldiers blocked up the air-hole
with stones, set guard over it, and then
going round to the door of the cellar,
which was barricadoed on the inner side,
they heaped lighted fagots and combusti
bles against it, so that the staircase was
soon one immense furnace. After a
time the door gave way, and the fire
poured a torrent into the retreat of the
unfortunate bandits. Still a profound si
lence reigned in the vault. Presently
two carbine shots were fired ; two bro
thers, determined not to fall alive into
the hands of their enemies, had shot
each other in death. A moment after
wards .an explosion was heard ; a bandit
had thrown himself into the flames, and
his cartridge-box had blown up. At last
the remainder of the unfortunate men
being nearly suffocated, and seeing that
escape was* impossible, surrendered at
discretion, were dragged through the
air-hole, and immediately bound hand
and foot, and conveyed to prison.
As to the eight who had refused to
come to Foggia) and the two who had
escaped, the were hunted down like
wild beasts, tracked from cavern to cav
ern, and from forest to forest. Some
were shot, others betrayed by the pea
santry, some gave themselves up, so
that, before the year wasott! all the Var
darelli were dead or prisoners. The wo
man who had displayed much masculine
courage, was the only one who finally
escaped. She never was heard of after
wards.
An Extract.
Christianity, like a child, goes Wand
ering over the word. Fearless in its in
nocence, it is not abashed before princes,
nor confounded by the wisdom of synods.
Before it, the blood stained warrior
sheaths his sword and plucks the laurel
from his brow; the midnight murderer
turns from his purpose, and like the
heartsmitten disciple, goesout and weeps
bitterly.
It brings liberty to the capitive, joy to
the mourner, freedom to the slave, repen
tance and forgivess to the sinnner, hope
to the fainthearted, and assurance to the
dying.
It enters the hut of the poor man ana
sits down with them and their children;
it makes them contented in the midst oi
privations, and leaves behind an ever
lasting blessing. .
It walk* through great cities amid aL
their potnp and splendor, their imagina
i ble pride and their unutterable misery, a
purifying, ennobling, correcting, and re
deeming angel. It is alike the beautiful
companion of childhood, the comfortable
associate of age
It ennobles the noble, gives wisdom to
the wise, and new grace to the lovely.—
The patriot, the priest, the poet, arid the
eloquent men, all derive their sublime
power from its influence.
Mary HowiU.
Pram the Philadelphia Saturday CtrurUr.
The Arcana of Nature.
To him who is accustomed to trace in
the order, the beauty and variety of Na
ture’s work the evidence of a designing
mind, and to investigate with philosoph
ic minuteness, the phenomena daily oc
curing wilhin the narrow circle of his
observation, the Arcana of Nature pre
sent an inviting field for laborious re
search, abtruse speculation, and bold ex
periment. The veil of mystery, which
hangs over this untrodden region, serves
to awaken curiosity and fan into aflame,
the zeal of those indomitable spirits who
are striving each in his appropriate sphere
to extend the domain of Science and
“bring to light the hidden things of dark
ness.” With cautious tread the chemist
seeks to enter that vast laboratory w’here
Nature’s agents are actively employed in
decomposing and reorganizing the vari
ed forms of matter, animate and inanimate
—giving to each imperishable atom its
shape arid coloring, and breathing into
the inert mass that vitality which will
prepare it for the several stages of pro
gress and decay. He gazes in mute sur
prise upon the exhibitions of that inimita
ble Power, which confers with such ra
pidity and ease upon all its fair creations,
their distinctive properties and varied
combinations. Nature’s hand hath given
to the diamond its brilliancy, moulded the
crystal in its unrivalled form, and unaid
ed by the alembick, of the alcbymest, she
is daily transmuting into purest gold, the
base alloy of her impenetrable mines.—
Deep in the secluded gloomy cavern she
hides the dashing torrents, the pendant
spar, and the unhewn pillar; yet will the
geologist thither bend his footseps in quest
of some faint memorial rescued from the
oblivion of an antediluvian a.e. No
fruitless search is his, for there embeded
in the primeval rock, are concealed the
images of those living forms that have
long since passed away and been forgot
ten. Nature hath consigned to the coral
caves of Ocean’s bed a countless store of
her choicest treasures. There in rich
profusion, nre scattered the pearls of price
untold—the shells of rainbow hue and
matchless form, and the sea-girt halls,
where the fabled mermaid spread her
couch. From those unfathomed depths
comes up the confused hoarse murmur
that is caught by the listening ear, and
interpreted in the language so eloquent
and impressive of universal Nature.—
There too the raging whirpoo!, not inapt
ly styied the hell of waters !
“Where they howl and hiss,
And boll in encibas lortures,”
yawns ready to engulph the presumptu
ous wretch who dares venture within its
circling eddies. Well may the terror
stricken mariner tremble in view of that
maddened Maelstrom in whose dark abyss
his fraii bark would find its last—long
resting place. Safely guided o’er the
“bounding billows” by his compass and
chart, he vainly asks why turns the
needle to the Pole ? nor will nature re
veal to him the causes of that perpetual
ebb and flow, which speed wave after
wave in quick succession, over the wide
waste of waters. From Ocean’s broad
expanse rise the mists and exhalations
that are to gather about the mountain
tops and form their cloud}' canopy.—
What viewless messenger draws them
Upwards, and conveys them thither?—
What unseen hands congeal the icebound
glacier upon those lofty summits, where
the eagle spreads not his pinions and the
startled chamois fears to climb ? Whose
is the strength to hurl the thundering
avalanche from the Alpine heights, and
crush beneath its weight the devoted in
habitants of the lowly vale? Where do
the winds of Heaven find a prison house,
and who heapeth up the treasures of,
sleet and hail, to be scattered in Winter’s '
pathway? We ask, and the echoes die
away unheeded. We know not where
the storm spirit makes his dwelling place,
nor when he will ride forth cm his whirl- :
wind car, rolling his hoarse thunder, and '
darting his forked lightning athwart the j
sky, shutting out the sunlight from the ;
darkened horizon, and wrapping the de
solated earth in the snowy mantle his lie- j
numbed fingers have woven. Upon
many a consecrated altar hath Nature j
lighted up those volcanic fires which are |
to burn unquenched unquenchable:
through the lapse of revolving ages.
Their mingled smoke and flame curl
upward like an incense eioud to seek an
serial resting place, while the burning
lava wraps its lurid folds about the habi
tations of men, and sends forth its desola
ting streams over the smiling village and
verdant plain. ' We gaze and tremble, for
who knoweth the might of the volcano ?
The earthquake causes consternation and
dismay—man fears to question a power
which shakes the foundations of “the
everlasting hills,” overthrows the city of
his habitations, and rings out its mourn
ful death-note over the affrighted sea.—
In the dim aislesof the forest nature walks
unseen, spreading a leafy coveripg over
the rtfge*d oak or th* 5 majestic elm, con
veying to each fibrous root its appropriate
nourishment, and distilling from the
morning dew a fragrance for each simple
flower that springs up in her pathway.—
At her bidding the refreshing shower and
the genial sunshine expand the leaf-bud
on its slender stalk, and
“The store of rainbow color which the sceJs conceal,
Sheds out its tints from its dim treasury,
To flash and circle in tt.e flewir.”
W r hen morn’s rosy light faintly gleams
in the eastern sky, unaided and unper
ceived, wakeful nature opens the gates of
day, and bids the flaming chariot of the
sun roll its-nppointed round; and “when
eve is purpling cliff and cave,” she draws
the curtains of night round the worn 6nd
weary earth. "With azure and vermillion
she paints the fleecy clouds, and on the
brow of the eternal cataract she traces the
brilliant hue of the o’erarching Iris which
breathes the spirit of the beautiful unop
proached by mortal passion or mortal
care. Nature alone stands on the verge
of the awful precipice, heedless of the ele
mental war, “measuring the roaring tor
rent in the hollow of her hand,” and
“weighing the mountains in scales und
the hills in a balance,” and saying to the
mighty deep : “hitherto shalt thou come,
and here shall thy proud waves be stay
ed.” When we turn our eyes upward
to explore the fields of ether, who shall
tell us the number of the stars of Heaven,
teach us their choral symphonies, orcon
jecture the date of their existence ! Will
the Astronomer stay the meteor in its
flight, or can he summon with potent
voice those brilliant coruscations, whose
roseate hues so often tinge a northern
sky? lint nature hath mysteries still
more inscrutable. They are linked with
the nature and the destiny of man In
the words of another it may be said—
“ That mystery and marvel bind that lof
ty thing, the human mind.” Who hath
fathomed the depth of the human heart,
or unfolded the mysteries of that more
“startling thing, the human soul ?” The
God ol Nature hath enshrined it in a
temple of unrivalled symmetry and beau
ty, given it capacities for suffering and
enjoying, and will hereafter unveil to its
astonished vision the mysteries that have
been kept secret from the foundation of
the world.
N>> Bride for the Wedding.
A case of painful and singular inter
est recently occurred on the island of
Arran,having a considerable resemblance
in its details of some of the tragic border
ballads of the olden time. Recently, the
daughter of a respectable farmer in Auch
incairn, a village three miles south of
L.t ml ash,'(says the Glasgow Courier)
was about to be married to a yomig man
of her own rank in life. The mafriage
day arrived, and as the custom is, a cav
alcade of friends were invited to assemble
at her father’s house at an early hour to
proceed from thence to meet the bride
groom, who resided at the north end of
the island, some fifteen miles distant.—
The morning was very stormy; so that
from that and other causes, only three
appeared to proceed on the journey.—
The bride felt the circumstance as a con
temptuous injury done to her feelings
and character, and could not brook the
thought oi her intended husband wit
nessing such a small number approach
ing to meet him on the road, especially
as she knew his company would be num
erous. So intense did her mental suffer
ings become, that ere mid-day, reason
was unhinged, and the young and bloom
ing bride became a wild and fearleS3
maniac. The anxious bridegroom and
his party reached her father’s house, but
she resisted all his entreaties, and refused
all consolation. The fearful malady in
creased till nature was exhausted and
vitality expired, and on Friday follow
ing her bridal bed was made in the cold
grave of Kilmorrio church yard
Arkansas*
Colossal Remains. —ln Randolph Li
near Mt. Recluse, the remains of some
great Behemoth have been lately discov
ered by J. B. Anthony, which will no
doubt be interesting matter of speculation
to naturalists. The shoulder blade, or
scapula, is six feet in width by eight in
length; distance from head of the animal
to socket of the thigh bone about forty
nine feet: a tusk projecting from the
head 29 inches in diameter at its lower
extremity and eight feet in length, and
weighing nearly three hundred pounds:
incisor or cutting teeth forteen inches
long and nine wide : cuspidati or dog
teeth thirty inches clear of the jaw, in
length : anterior and posterior molares or
grinding teeth, twelve by eighteen inch
es across thecrown surface : teeth weigh
ing from 7 to 18 pounds. From the
position and character of the teeth, the
animal is supposed to have been of tha
carnivorous order. We Ure indebted for
these facts to the Arkansas Banner. The
prodigious stature of the animal is one of
the most singular and astonishing ol ali
past discoveries. The remains were ex
humed at a distance of twenty feet below
the surface of the earth, and beneath an
almost impenitrable stratum of cement.
Southern Reformer.
Volt*ire says: “The punishment of criminals
should be of some use ; '«ht»n «an is h»ne*d ho
i.- §ro-d fpr nothing ”
jNO. 50.
FOIiXTZgilli,
1 lie Ohio Bear Killed.
I hasteti to lav before your readers
short account of tho death of the Ohio
Bear, which, I fear, v.’ill be truly mortify
ing to the Feds of Virginia. That vile
animal had the impudence to make his
appearance at Goochland Court House,
on Monday, the 18th inst. and actually
attempted io prove to the intelligent far
mers of that good old Democratic coun
ty, that they were yet in their horn-book,
end could not distinguish between the
long ears of a Jack Ass and the true prin
ciples of old Virginia Politics. For my
part, I was surprised to see the attention
that Was paid to so uncouth a beast, and
I Cannot better express my astonishment,
than by the relation of an anecdote told
to me on that day by a gentlemen of that
comity. He said an uncle of his had
just repaired his mill, when one of his
negroes, whom he called Jes, came info
house one night in great wrath, to inform
his master that a neighbor of his was
about to put up a mill in opposition, about
a mile off. “And what of that?” said
his master. “Has he not a right to build
a mill on his owr. land ?” “I don’t know,
mass, (said Jes,) so well about dat; lut I
am sartain of this much, that it is a great
piece of presumption in him to put a mill
so near to you r’s.” Sol thinkof the Ohio
Bear, even if he had a right to address
the people of Goochland, it was a great
piece of presumption in him to undertake
to enlighten people who have forgotten
forty times more than he ever knew; for,
they are, with very few exceptions, peo
ple of uncommon intelligence, and too
well versed in the political historyoftheir
country, to be trapped l y those who have
no oilier recommendation, than a com
mission from Harry Clay to preach Fed
eralism, through the length and breadth
of this Republic, with a promise, that he
will not muzzle the ox that treadeth out
the corn. What, Messrs, editors, would
be the condition of our country, if this
be a sample of the Ministers who will be
selected by Mr. Clay, in case he should
unfortunately reach the Presidential
Chair? * ,
The first tale the Ohio Bear told the
people of Goochland was, that he, as they
are, as hesupposes, ineffably stupid, came
to inform them what were Whig princi
ples, for, (says he,) the Democrats have
no principles, or, at least, they change
their principles every two weeks, not
thinking the Whigs of Virginia hadbten
so stupid ns to publish to the world a set
of principles for 1844, diametrically op
posed to those which they sent forth from
their Convention of 1840, and that they
met in the called session of Congress in
May, ’4l, and pursued a course, opposed
to all their professions three months be
fore. He would first tell them what sort
of a Taiiff the Whigs wanted. They
wanted a Tariff with such a protection
as would enable the manufacturer to sell
goods cheap, and that was what the far
mer wanted. “How (says he,) can this
be done ?” Why, by laying a duty on
English goods, and protecting our manu
facturers. Thus, you will have a home
market for all you can make, and a bet
ter market, and, of course, more money
to buy goods ! He undertook to prove
this, by saying, “it was easier to travel
from the head of his cane to the middle,
than to the end; therefore, ifwewantcheap
goods, we must have manufactories at
our doors, and save the expense of carry
ing them to Europe.” This is fine logic,
and seemed to tickle the cubs around
him very much.
Mr I<eake, who rose under loud and
numerous calls, spoke with more than
ordinary feeling and eloquence. He
took the Bear by the ears, and shook h:m
to pieces in an instant. He showed, con
stitutional and impolitic—that if we had
manufactories at our doors, that could
not make goods cheaper, or cur products
higher, for, said he, it is often the case,
that the farmer in the county of Fluvan
na gets more for his tobacco (ban those
that live about Richmond. “Why was
this?” It might be, (said he,) because
the soil was too Whiggish to bring to
bacco about that city. It certainly was
not because the county of Fluvanna was
nearer to market than Kenrico, and, ns to
the Tariff s making goods sell cheap, the
idea was utterly preposterous. No one
could believe that the Yankees were so
extremely modest, that they could not
sell their goods cheap without asking
Congress for a Tariff to make them do it.
“How can this be done,” when the Yan
kee asks more for his goods with a Tariff,
than without one, and the merchant lays
on the duty, in addition, before they a.e
purchased by the farmers ? Ke said it
was unjust and unconstitutional to tax
the farmer for the benefit of the manu
facturer, and he appealed to the farmer
to know how he could be benefitted by a
Tariff, the object of which was to con -
pel him to pay a duty on the necessarus
ot life, (the poor man’s sugar, and salt,
and shim,) 'to make the rich one still
richer. He could never believe that fte
people of Goochland were so “ineffably.”
The Ohio Rear referred to the correspon
dence of Mr. Jefferson to prove that he.
was in favor of the same kind of a Tariff
which the Feds wanted, and to Gen
lockin’? nK-rsige tn strengthen his as-