Show DONT GIVE UP THE SHIP Maj Benjamin Russell Made Lawrence Law-rence Utter the Words The office of the iconoclast IB on tho whole a rather undesirable one and the ID tho question whjthcr faith or truth 11 moro valuable possession to tho human soul IB still opoti for discussion These the thoughts occurred to me while reading article In tho Courant for Saturday De comber ICth entitled Famous Battlo Suylngs But lliophraf6 Dont give up tho Hlilp therein attributed to tho dying Imbedded In Siiwroncc Ib now ao llrrnly which our ilani l history that the propu 1 hIMloI tlut kuocIWMl be support Its truth can probably Icocu1 away without any fear of Hcrioufl Injury LWIY In There Is to tho fluperstructuro ot faith fupcrstrctr and WLS spoxon no doubt that the phrate wll whether Klictliyy by Lawrehcp or another oil the deck olf H nhip or In the room of an I editor perhaps nro I not when proporly I f serious moment considered matters pf s venture therefore on 3 rcmlnlsccmcc Sjmelhat moro than llfty > cara ago It tan house of meet at the ned to nib to happened ft daughter of the late a mutual friend a dlghwr SHU Benjiunln 1rltnd Russell to many years She was Centlnel editor of tho Bonton Ccntlnc edlol IntorcHlIng womun and u brilliant bril-liant raconuur and she told me a number llnl inecdotofl of nor father who was 3 strongly LCc Individualized and notable char trolSIY Indllullz In lioaton iirtrr 101 a good many ears EOtOI them WAB Hie following Among folowing I The battle between the Chesapeake and tho Shannon look place just oft coast and a sailor In thu ilasaachuyottb saior soino thl way ochl got ashore and hurried to Boston Bos-ton with the hews It wa in tho night the I of and he wont straight to the Centlnel lice where he found MiJ Ruscll to whom he told the story Including tho death of Lawrencv What were his last vords said the Major Don know I said tho man Didnt ho say Dont give mll tho hlp1 Dont know aid the up leow main Oh he did sold the Major ill Jun l didso much make him say itand he Ildso for history lost our proofreader phoutd cor Nov your prootreler 1e1t rect my spelling of Centlnel I will clvo anecdotes one more ot Miss liussclls anecdolcl The Centlnel l woo started at 3 time when and the party politics were very tense feeling loltcl hostile parties exceedingly feelng bitter No words wore snared and blows were not uncommon The editor and printer wore very solicitous about the appearance ap-pearance of their Iirat Issue Thoy scanned pcarncc Jn every column and ovary word lest there should bo u law of which the unscrupu 1mm nemy would not hesitate to lake od vuntuir Curiously enough nobody had thought to look at tile title Tho edition was half In circulation when suddenly tho tlllo struck tho foremnns eye He rushed Cc to MiJ Den What was to bo done There were some prelIminary expletives which It la I not necessary to print but tho result was Stick to It Htlcl to It Its Just a good a way to spoil Centlnel n any So Ocntlnel remained Its name g long a tho paper lived Even so strong n Federalist an Noah Webster however never adopted the spelling P J Kpnsbury of Water I Courant bury Conn In a Letter to tbe Hartford |