The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West: Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and CharacterRobb, John S.
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The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West: Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character
Robb, John S.
Southwest, Old -- Social life and customs
Whereas, It has ben sed by the wise Solomon of old that the world must
be peopled, tharfore, we hold it to be the inviolate duty of every man
to git married, and, moreover, rear up citizens and future mothers to
our glorious republick; and,
Whereas, It is gratifyin' to human natur', the world in gineral, Missury
at large, and Liberty in partickler, that this seltlement has set an
example to the ancesters of future time; which will not only make the
wimen of this enlightened state a pattern for thur children, but a envy
to the royal wimen of Europe, not forgettin' the proud mother of the
Lions of Ingland, but will elevate and place in and among the furst
families, fur ever here-arter, the mother that has shed such lustre upon
the sex in gineral; and
Whereas, It is the melancholy lot of some to be deprived of doin'
thar duty in the great cause of human natur', because the young men is
back'ard about speak-in' out, it is time that some measures be taken
inimical to our general prosperity, and encouragin' to the risin'
generation of young fellars round town; tharfore,
Resolved, That, as married wimen, our sympathies, like the heavin' of
natur's bosom, yearns with admiration and respect fur that little womin,
Mrs. Allen, and as we see her three dear little babbys, reclinin' upon
thur mother's female maternal bosom, our beatin' hearts with one accord
wish we could say ditto.
Resolved, That in the case of Mrs. Allen we see an illustrious example
of the intarnal and extarnal progress of that spreadin' race, the Angel
Saxons; and time will come when the mothers of the west will plant thar
glorious shoots from one pinnacle of the Rocky Mountains to the tother,
and until thar cry of liberti will be hollered from one pint to the next
in a continooal skreech!
Resolved, That Mister Joseph Allen, the father of these three dear
little babbys, shall receive a monument at his deth, and while he is
livin', the wimen shall ony visit his shop once a week to look at him,
'cept the married wimen, who shall be permitted to see him twice a week
and no offener, pervided and exceptin' tha want to git measured fur a
par of shoes.
Resolved, Mister Joseph Allen shall hev the custom of the whole
settlement, for he is a glorious livin' example of a dotin' husbind.
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