“From the Natchez Gazette”
Date
1-20-1812
Newspaper
Louisiana Gazette
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
Serial Number
910
Abstract
Brief mention of earthquakes and other natural disasters in conjunction with poetic verse.
Transcript
From the Natchez Gazette, January 2. The Editor with a mind awfully impressed and presaging those dreadful calamities which seem impending over our devoted country, in humble prose, wishes that his readers and fellows citizens generally may enjoy a more happy and prosperous year than the events and prospects of its commencement can justify them in anticipating. He aspires not to inspiration from Helicon, Pindus or Parnassus; and had he a claim, the New-Year's muse might in such times, disregard his invocation. In vain, amidst war, rumours of war, thunder storms and earthquakes, might he look for the gay lady descending through the ponds, lakes and swamps of our great and muddy river: In white silk-hose and spangled slippers, When cold has laid up Gallenippers, To visit dozing Alligators, And crowds of sad, desponding debtors, Oppress'd by Government grown rotten, Who've taxed Planters half their cotton
Recommended Citation
"“From the Natchez Gazette”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 884.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/884
