From tie Farmcr's Ca6inet.
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 "wE ARE AN UNDoNE PEOPLE," SAID MY UN- GLE THOMAS.

 About thirty years after the first set- dement's in *#****, and when there were probably more than one hundred fami- lies in the town, and about sixty years ago, the first barrel of Rum was brought into the town for the use of the tavern. The news soon spread through the town, and excited very different feelings. A con- siderable number were pleased. A time was soon appointed to meet and bleed the Bull and taste his Blood, as it was then termed. Not so with Uncle Thomas, Up- on hearing the news, and seeing how the people were affected. he fetched deep sigh and exclaimed, # tt has come to this, ve ure an undone people :! |! But strange ,as it may seem at the present day, this barrel of rum lasted a full year.

 My Uncle Thomas lived to be above %, and it is about , years since his death. Whether the old gentleman was endued with spirit of prophecy, I will not say but verily believe that if the fathers of New -Englaud, who were on the stage Go or 100 years ago, could have looked for ward to the present time and been assur- ed that the quantity of ardent spirits would now have been expended that actually is, and of all the pernicious consequences att tending the same, emulttudes would with uncle Thomas have exclaimed, Ne,o- Eng- land is an undone People! Could the ac- tuai expense for ardent spirits needleslv used, be accurately ascertained, it is be- lieved the sum would, in many of our towns amount to more than which is expended for taxes and for charitable purposes ofev- cry description. This, to many .mav seem incredible but if in one of our towns. which in public estimation stands pretty high in a moral point of view, ninety hops- heads of new Rum are annually sold a,monp a population of less than fifteen houndred souls, who will doubt that the whole a. mount for ardent spirits more than is need- inl, exceeds sum greater than is expended m such towns for taxes and for charity ? And what is the use !? Are we wiser than were our fathers 2 Are we more healthy [ Are we longer-lived generally? Is not the tact otherwise? It is true the conseouence oi the temperance, the industry, the vir- 'ue' and the patriotism of our venerable ancestors. our, situation and our prospects are'or might be, vastly preferable to theirs,

 nu! what would probably have been our sit- uauon al me presentlmoment, had our pro- gen!.ofs. instead of practising their regular haDits' 1ndu'ged in intemperencesa and aD- nually expended ninety hogshead of Ne,, Rum for every Jtesn Hundred inhab;tan,s, And alas what is to be the consoquencs as it respects our posterity, unless we re. form and leave them better examnle.