Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 1, Vincennes, Knox County, 9 February 1828 — Page 4
PO KTICAL ASYLUM
THE DELUGE Z?y .ord 2?tron. Ecarth shall be ocean, i"lN CV11 no breath HySDx of the winds, be on the unbounded wave VVessels shall tire their winjjs, but find no pot: Not even a rock from out a liquid grave, Shall lift its point to save. Or show the place strong despair hath died After long looking o'er the ocean wide For the expectetdebb which Cometh not: All shall he void, Destroyed ! Another element shall be lore Of. life, and the abhor'd Children of the dust be quench'd and of each hue Of earth nought left but the unbroke blue ; And of the variegated mountain
Shall nought remain Uncharig'd, or of the level plain ; Cedar and pine shall lift their tops in vain, All merged within the universal fountain,
Man, earth, arid fire, shall die, And sea and sky Look vast and lifeless in the eternal eye. North-American Forest. We take the following wild and eloquent description of the autumnal chants in America, from an extract from Nealc's Brother Jonathan, published in an English work entit led
u Rejected Articles.' The London VP iter .perhaps, not knowing jSeale to be an American, pronounees him to be the most original writer of his dry and the most extraordinarily wgified, as far as mere natural faculties Vgo Baltimore Gazette. c The autumnal beauty of a NorthAmeriean forest cannot he exaggerated It is like nothing else on earth Many a time have we gone through slowly tilting over a pretty blue lake, there, among the hills ; our
birch canoe dipping with every motion of the paddle the waters beneath us all the mountain about all unknown to the world ; in soli tude a quiet profound as death & bright as heaven : the shores overbung with autumnal foliage, and a sky so wonderful so visionary that all ipi rlnmls and nil the rnniiii-
j ftains were of a piece, in the clear
fwater,&. our boat was like a balloon 44 Hay what you will, there is noth ing to be compared with a scene of this kind about an hour before sunset in the depth of a great NorthAmerican solitude a vast amphitheatre of wilderness, rock, and mountain after the trees are changed bv
the frost People may talk of their fine Italian skies ; of their hot. bright. East India skies : of the deep midnight blue, of the South-American skis. We have seen them all ; slept under them all ; slept under a sky like one great moon; worshipped them all ; seen them through all the changes of storm and sunshine dark ness and light ; and we saw that in
reality, they are dim, heavy unclouded, uninteresting, compared with
your North-Ameiuan skies, a little
belore and alter sunset.
" And so. too, of the garni; ure of a
North American wilderness, alter two or three clear frosty nights
There is nothing to compare with it under heaven The mountains, val
leys, woods all burst into ilowers: all at once. Other countries are in a
-"""better state of cultivation. Their
V tvft'G nr lrc nnniPMiiK thru wi!m
shrubbery less like a vegetable inuud ation over the land - covering every foot of the earth ; or the changes ot
every possible variety of broivn, light blue, vivid crimson or blood cold. Of all the trees, none but the ever green tribe will keep their integrity They will show along the battlements of the mountain darker than ever ; more cloudy than ever ; like so many architectural ruins, or surviving turiets, in the splendor of the surrounding landscape. " No. no ; it is not saying too much of all this beauty of all this great magnificence when the fresh, cold, biisk wind of the season, gets among
branches; alter such a night; and
blows up the snpei lluous leafing to the warm sunshine ; like a tenij.l'st
age over all the earth, and over all
the waters ; No, it is not saying too much merely to say that, under heaven throughout all the vegeta
himself realty independent and so must each man whdean use a spade or an axe will please himself with the mcie exertion of his free will. &, form a strong contrast to the hollowing, bawling, blustering rabble of a city, where a dram of liquor, or the money to buv a meal, is sure to nur chase the acclamation of thousands, whose situation in the scale of society is to) low to permit their thinking ot their political right, as a thing more valuable than, to he bartered a
in your hou?es, as Iring as you drink it yourselves, as long as it is polite & genteel to sip the intoxicating bowl, so long society will remain just what it is now, and so long, diunkards will wear your names to future generations. And there is no other way ; there is no oilier way given under heaven, wherebv man can be saved from the vice, of intemperance, but that of b tal abstinence And, if ardent sji:it a.e l he parent of all the
poverty and uisense. and crime, and
amonnr nrorhainti tlourr; ItPMiirYr
I" . r " - f and scattering the tulip eolooied loir
ble creation, there is no spectacle ol
gainst the degree of advantage they j madness that I have named, and, may procure, or licence w hich tht-y jthey produce no good, what rational may exercise, bv olaeing it at the dU- man will use them ? If he loves himposal of one candidate for another. self, he will not : if he loves his chil-
dien. he will not ; and as a Ilamilcar
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Above all. befo'te eonsid
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case oi America, as parallel wilhihat ; nrought iianr.mal, to the altar at of I'i anee. the iaiem'n of the latter I eight years of age. and made him country, should have observed one : s ear eternal hairt d to the Romans; great and radical difference. In A so every parent t-hould bring his chilmeriea. after the g: eat change in h.er ; d; en to the altar, and make them system h.ad been effvtrd by shaking ! swear eternal halted to ai dent spirits.
beauty, or show of richness or gran-j off the sov ereignt y of the mother j Me should teach them by precept and deur, to be compared with it. Ima country, the :ale arranged their new i example Me should instil into his gine we do not mind appearing agve: mr.eot. so as to make the hat ! childivn a hatred of ardent spirits, as little absurd, if. thereby, we may give j possible alteration in the habits of, much a h.e d e of falsehood and of the stranger a true h.iea of this ap -.j their people They left to tuime & theft, lie should no more suffer his pearancc imagine, therefore, a great j more convenient oj pot -tunny, what children to chin' a !hi!e. than he does wilderness of poppies, or tulips out j further innovations thi great change ; to lie a litt e, and to teal a little
ea:c. No longer use that,
spreading Uselt on every side ; a j might render necessary ; being mvie Tnen
chmg quite away to tne horizoiK;. i desirous to ix fhegeueral outline of; which i the source of infinite mis-
vcr l ill. and over valle or a wood i a firm and ordeilv !M)v-; nnie:it. al i chief. v "rhoiit or rev'er.irMr hm,.fit -
literally encumbered; iieavy uii! thoug!', eontainiiur borne anomalies. ! which lias en tailed iin.n von imnn
for-
great, gorgeous, live butteiHies ever in mot'mn
than to eat. all hi
in ivhieh Wv. r-eojfie ba'd grown up. i it tiever b fots.id to
pollute
upon
ex'e.v log aninti i-! your cniiurcn. ann i.potjs(ciety. w oes
lies loose, m order lb.it t'.ev might ! unnuinbried an.d unutu;rab!e. Tinn-
We have been a traveller ; we produce, a coo-utution in.. re regular ! ish it from your luu?es. It can be
have looked upon the dark Xorwe in theory, but far less likely to be put j done You have only to wiil. and it gian woods their dull evergteens : mi ) eeeui:on than those old foi ins ; is effected -H'se it not at home. Let
tow ering up into theky eoverir.g
whole provinces ; woods, too, of stu
pendous oah each tree, if the sot!
were divided, overshadowing a man's
inheritance; flourishing bravely
through whole territories; more than one quiet solitary place entii ely shut in by the hills; ilowering ail over, all the year round. Iur. we
never met with ntvei
your
arlil in wlfich they were accustomed j dwelling Giv e it not to your friends, to render regular obedience. They j or to your workmen. Touch it not
a-ooiisheu no nohiiUy, lor th.ev Jiad y ouieI ves. and suiler not your chil
li n c m
the colonies to anoViMi : but jdien to tucb it ; and let. it be a part ill. i . i i i -
in li.Ntng the bais uf their eonstituti
on. they balanced tin force and im
f-. . n ... . i. i
ri your morn'mg and evening prayer,
(that you and your ehildicn, may be
)use ol the representative body oi saved irom intemperance, as much as the sta;e?, by a senate, de;gj'ui to ; from famine, sickness, and death.
have never met with m.ver bearuj serve the purposes ansu ered by the of never looked upon, elscwhei c. lioie ol lords in the l itish const;. Printer Pay. A man recently that profusion of glorious vegctablej tm.inn. The governors of the diiiW- o(icvc( to take the Iedviderc Apofto, beauty, which is to be seen evety i ent states a!o. in w ho:-e power the and pay for it in fiddling a batgaih liill," in the woods of North-Ame-j execmive government of each was was struck Another editor adver-
riea ; heaped up, on a'l th.e banks of ail the rivers up to the very skies on tiie great mountains; or arcu mulated over the low countriesand weileiing there, all the d:v thro' in the light, or shadow or v ind, or sunshine, of the season.''
prom JValier Scoffs Xapoleon picture of a:ui:u!oa. America must certainly he accounted a successful attempt to establish a republic on a much larger scale than those we have mentioned lint that great and flouring empire consists, h must he remembered, in a federate union of many states, which though extensive in territory, are ooinpara lively thin in occupants. There do not exist in America in the same de give, those circumstances of a dense and degraded population, which occasion in the old nations of Europe, such, an infinite difference of know ledge and ignorance of wealthhV most exubei ant, and indigence the most horrible. Vo man in America
need be poor, if he has a hatchet, and
arms to use it. The wilderness is to
reposed, continued to excrete the j Uses tor wood in pay but adds,
same unties as beloie. without much other alteration, than that they were oam'id by their fellow citizens, instead ol being appointed by the sovereign of their mother c-untry. The
congress exercised the lights which
-r suece-s had given them over the loyaiist, with as much tempeiance as
their color, from season to season, an: i hmi the same retreat which the world
slow atid gradual. 44 I? is not so in Ametica; "NorthAmerica. Tnere, the transformation is universal instantaneous A single
iight will do it In the evening ol a
afforded to our first parents. His family, if he has one. is wealth ; if he is unencumbered with wife or ehil dren, he is the more easily provided for A man who wishes to make a
fine day. perhaps all toe gieat w oodsj large fortune, may be disappointed in NW'ill be green : with hardly a red or j America; but he who seeks with a
a hron or a elh'W leaf A sharp j moderate degiee of industry, but the
frost will set in. at night. Before the
sun rises again, the boundless verdure of the whole province; a whole empire in truth, will he changed. In the morning, there will be hardly a green leaf to be found. Before the week is over, go where vou may, through the superb wilderness, you v ill meet with nothing but gay bril Hant scarlet purple orange ; with
wants which nature demands, is cei
tain to find them. An immense, proportion of the po pulation of the United States consists of agriculturalists, who live up on their o n n proper ty, which is generally of moderate extent, and cmti vate it by their own labor. Such a situation is peculiarly favorable to republican habits. The man who icels
Don't bring logs I hat 1 he devil can't split." Another offers to take even such logs, adding "that if the Devil can't split them, he'll try it himsejf." B ut Mrs Colvin had the queerest offer A Dentist offered to take he 'Messenger' if she would let him
as' diaw her teeth by way of eomnensa-
eould be expected from the tage of a tion. The offer was declined, civ il war. Above all. the. mass of A meriean population w is in a sound, Several Itishmen were lately inhealthy state, and well fitted to bear dieted in London for riorous eon-
thcir share in the exercise of political ! ict, aimed with clubs, &c. Oneof
rights 1 hey are independent as we have noticed, and had comparatively lew instances among them of great wealth, contracted with most degrading indigence. They weie deeply imbued w itli a sense of religion, and ol the morali'v which is i;s fruit. Tuey had been brought up under a
free government, and in the exerci-e mate made recently in London, that
ot the rights of freemen, & their fan- j no wcr than fitteen thousand boys, cies were not liable to be excited, or h'tvern the ages of eight and fifteen, their understandings made giddy live by theft, in that capital, with a sudden elevation to privileges the nature of which was unknown to . Strange. Practice. It is stated by them The republic of America fir John Malcolm, in his -4 Sketches moreover, did not consist of one huge n lM'sia " that ' It is a frequent and populous country, with an over- Practice in crossing the desertxs, grown capital, where the legislative vvdiere no water is to be found, to obody, cooped up in its precincts, like! Pcn a vem ln the shoulder of the, prisoners, were liable to be acted up- j horse, and to drink a little blood, ... . I. il-.. 4 I f ' tlllll"l 1 ir r rrl r re !.
on uy me inreais or applause, ol a;",lv'7 uuiu"s incir opinion
them svo:e th.at at the time, he wis
alone by himself, and had a witness that could prove it ; that I e had nothing it) his hand but his fist, and that w as in hs pocket He sdd he was
knocked down, and was dead for a
fortnight he was so sadly kilt.
It appears, by an authentic esti-
desperate rabble. Each state of A
meriea carries on its own immediate government, and enjoys unmolested, the privilege of adopting such plans, as are be.U suited to their own peculiar situation, without embarrassing themselves with that ideal uniformity, that universal equality of rights, which it was the vain object of the Fiench constituent assembly to establish. Considerations fur the Temperate. As long as you keep ardent spirits
benefits, rather than injure the animal, while it refreshes the rider. On my appearing to doubt this fact. Rahman Beg shewed mc several old horses, on which there weie numerous marks of their havinjFfecn bled; So he assured me that they never had recourse to phlemotomy but on such occasions as we have mentioned." An Irish gentle man lately fought a duel with his intimate friend, because he jocosely asserted, 44 that he was born without a shirt to his back.
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