Part 5 (1/2)

_He (Guy) told me that he had not received 50 cents per day for his labours!_ You are welcos see the badness of the times, as they are termed

Please to favour me with a letter as soon as convenient I around has been ploughed soood health, but my mother, my wife, my brother, his wife, and oldest child are all very sick

Please accept my best wishes for your welfare The club also wish to be remembered to you

Your Old Friend

To Mr Faux

{427} _Brooklyn, Long Island_, _June 29th, 1820_

My Dear Friend,

I received yours, with its inclosures, in due ti forsuch a proof of your continued friendshi+p There is, indeed, a soht honest John Bull, that cannot be found in the sly, say-nothing, s Jonathans of this all-, cow-skin republic

It is surely wrong to be content with nothing, because not blessed with all We see bad effects, we hate therumble, but ten to one it is because we are unacquainted with the cause fro; but there is one self-evident, hell-born cause of endless ills in this land, which, for want of a better naia, on all occasions, the general question is, How et by it? What will it fetch me? Pray what benefit will that be to , eries, lying, cheating, slavery, whips, gags, chains, and all the black catalogue of el who is described by Milton as beingglorious aloft, is the ruling God of this nation; and in i dollars, walking half bent under the accursed dohty hunter, will catch them all, and then, in company with their God Belial, they will enjoy the nae of _fools_ There is a national church liturgy in England, and if ever there should be one adopted here, the following I think ought to form a part of it

Money, money, is all our cry, Money, the total sum!

Give us money or else we die; O let thyfrom the Capitol Your son has drawn it very well, but I wish he had drawn it on a larger scale, that the order of coluht have been ; it is the east front and north end that I e-town, and the place I sketched the view from was just above your house; therefore I must paint the east front and north end This, like a fool, I forgot to inform you of; but if both fronts are to be alike, then what you have sent will do; if not, then I will thank both you and hi, at least so far as the centre of the east front differs fro, the painter, has been in this place, and informs us that both {429} fronts of the capitol will be the same; therefore, if that be so, what you have sent will answer; and when I come to your place in the fall, I will reward your son for his drawing, or if he choose to e, I will send the money by the post, whatever it may be

Give my dutiful respects to Dr Thornton, and tell hiton city when it is finished--I think it will be a grand sight I aland, for Governor Clinton; in which his likeness, with those of Judge Miller and Doctor Mitchel, are to be painted on the fore-ground I wish the doctor could see this paradise scenery also You talk of co to York; I wonder if ever I shall have the pleasure of seeing you here In your last, you ask if I have any communications to send Perhaps Io out of our old beaten track, we h thick and thin When that should be, it would be no sin to do one of the worst things in the world, that is, turn one's own truood ways, keep you from all bad ones, and may you live contented, and die happy!

FRANCIS GUY

Thus you see I have written a letter, and on one {430} account or another delayed sending it until there is need to write another, to ood wife has been very unwell, andelse

This I know you will say is a good and weighty excuse

F G

_June 10th_--News of firing the City of New Orleans, in order to effect a rescue of the pirates, reached this city this day We hear, also, of the Choctaw Indians fighting, 150 opposed to 150, to avenge the death of an old woht until both sides, with the exception of ten or twelve, were all killed[151]

A uised as the devil, in the act of extorting 150 dollars from a farmer He was dressed, and spit fire and brimstone, like a proper devil He is now in prison A Yankee traveller, lodging for the night, struck this felonious devil to the ground with a club, at the second visit to receive dollars, instead of paper, as at first offered by the farmer for the ransoain Mr Perry from Carlisle, Pennsylvania He states that the land and far about eighteen bushels an acre The best land is to be bought occasionally at fifty dollars an acre, with improveiven {431} Here, he says, an English farood society; thevile, dishonest, and without any good principles whatever All try to rob and wrong you, and each other, and will do it if you associate, or deal in any ith the shah rich, must be soon ruined, if he puts confidence in them

”All are tarred with the same brush” The farmers all work One, worth ten or twelve thousand dollars, brought in to Mr Perry a waggon load of hay, which he warranted was a ton, though it was only sixteen cwt Out of a far of 500 acres, a farmer does not find above 300 dollars a-year for the purchase of such necessaries as the family need fro, and the poor live in want all winter, at which time their labour is to be had for victuals only, and now for 25 cents a-day From sober calculation, he finds that four per cent is the riculture, though six per cent, is the legal interest He would, a thousand tiuineas an acre rent, for land at Feversha this heavy rent and taxes and labour, he should have a good living profit in England, where the cliood, but here, one year {432} wears you out land

Grasshoppers too, here, are a plague, destroying every thing, in the pestilential ust and September There is no money; all is done by barter

He would recoland while we can live in it, for he is sure, that if people in England would attend to their duties, and condescend to the eries every where practised here, they must live, and live better at hos are bad, there is a hope of better tis will be worse; for, with such an unprincipled, vile race of people, how is it possible that liberty and happiness can be secure? They know nothing of the nature of liberty, nor want to kno, justice, equity, liberty, are things unknown aood sound core, and seed that etate; here, all is rottenness Mr Perry believes, that grazing cattle in Pennsylvania, would pay

_18th_--I re-visited Dr Dawes's far in a state of coain even the seed of any thing sown; the rye not affording what is coland, while the peas, tares, and lentils rise not a foot high This land can only be restored to fruitfulness by rest, clover, plaster, {433} and manure, and plenty of cattle and sheep to depasture and , the Doctor ordered out his curricle, and we drove to the seat and plantation of the Right Honourable T Law, acco been introduced to Mr Laas appointed spokes at the hall of entrance ten ed, bare-footed little girl, to say that Mr Laas not at hoht Soon after, caretted that Mr Laas absent at an agricultural dinner, as he was happy to see all callers” He, at arden, the farm, and the stock The farh hills, two miles from the Potowmac, but so stony and unfruitful, that its cultivation is a serious expense, rather than a benefit, it being unable to arden and orchard, a few acres, seem equally poor; small quantities of its produce are, however, sent from it occasionally to , in which the proprietor bathes The horses are all poor and fleshless, but the cattle and cows, about twelve in number, fat A cow and a bull of the Yorkshi+re breed, froland, dislike (says the ives but little reen pastures of her dear native land