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Give no body more than you can pay at any warning:
and making a competency, live honestly upright
ly and independently. Thus steering straight thr
ough life depending on the soil, or circustances
in corn, man, and on the will of Heaven being
under the pecuniary obligation to any one more gra
teful to your God than to man or mammon, being
kind and obliging at the same time; you will always have
friends and never have cause to complain of one.
This kind of life is truly compatible with noble, high
minded at lofty feeling. This I applied to myself.
The fact is my determination is, I will never be [b--] brow
beaten, by and truckle to any man, regardless
of consequences.
A man to be respectable and useful and part share
the common happiness allotted to man, must
in the first place be independent, and to sustain
in this noble quality he must be honest, ind
ustrious and must have property, say a good
liver: this last requires economy. A manly cour-
age and decision of character are vast advanta-
ges. The virtue of courage or bravery, call it
what you will, the world has ever respected
and will ever respect. It is a good safeguard to
a man's reputation.
A man without property in this country and at
this time, is not looked upon as prosperous any
of those qualities necessary to the useful man,
but is looked upon as worthless even of counsel.
In this great republic a man acquires distin
ction by extraordinary talents or extraordinary
riches. But to keep or be kept in debt is a bar
to both.
May Court week followed the Association
week. At this court of Hertford, little or no bu-
ssiness was done— court sat only two days.
I open not my mouth to this court and enjoyed
myself less than usual on account of ill health.
th—] At this time, it is much to be regretted
that the harmony of our neighborhood is bro
ken up. An account of a young lady being
nearly abducted and married. What will be the result
time will show