by gratifying rather than the angry feelings that were then against england and here let me acknowledge my warm my thankful feelings at the effect produced by one of my trivial i allude to the essay in the sketch book on the subject of the literary between england and america i cannot express the delight i have experienced at the unexpected sympathy and approbation with which those remarks have been received on both sides of the atlantic i speak this not from any paltry feelings of gratified vanity for i attribute the effect to no merit of my pen the paper in question was brief and casual and the ideas it conveyed were simple and obvious it was the cause it was the cause alone there was a on the part of my readers to be affected my countrymen responded in heart to the filial feelings i had in their the author s farewell name towards the parent country and there was a generous sympathy in every english bosom towards a solitary individual lifting up his voice in a strange land to the injured character of his nation there are some causes so sacred as to carry with them an irresistible appeal to every virtuous bosom and he needs but little power of eloquence who the honour of his wife his mother or his country i hail therefore the success of that brief paper as showing how much good may be done by a kind word however feeble when spoken in season � as showing how much good feeling actually exists in each country towards the other which only wants the slightest spark to it into a genial flame � as showing in fact what i have all believed and asserted that the two nations would grow together in esteem and if and malignant spirits would but throw by their mischievous pens and s the author s farewell leave kindred hearts to the kindly impulses of nature i once more assert and i assert it with increased conviction of its truth that there exists among the great majority of my countrymen a favourable feeling towards england i repeat this assertion because i think it a truth that cannot too often be and because it has met with some contradiction among all the liberal and enlightened minds of my countrymen among all those which eventually give a tone to national opinion there exists a cordial desire to be on terms of courtesy and friendship but at the same time there exists in those very minds a distrust of good will on the part of england they have been rendered sensitive by the attacks made upon their country by the english press and their occasional on this subject has been into a settled and unnatural hostility for my part i consider this jealous the author s farewell as belonging to generous natures i should look upon my countrymen as fallen indeed from that independence of spirit which is their birth gift as fallen indeed from that pride of character which they inherit from the proud nation from which they sprung could they sit down under the of and insult indeed the very impatience which they show as to the of the press proves their respect for english opinion and their desire for english for there is never jealousy where there is not strong regard it is easy to say that these attacks are all the of worthless and treated with silent contempt by the nation but alas the of the travel abroad and the silent contempt of the nation is only known at home with england then it remains as i have formerly asserted to promote a mutual spirit of she has but to hold the language of friendship and respect and she the author s farewell is secure of the good will of every american bosom in expressing these sentiments i would utter nothing that should commit the proper spirit of my countrymen we seek no boon at england s hands we ask nothing as a favour her friendship is not necessary nor would her hostility be dangerous to our well being we ask nothing from abroad that we cannot but with respect to england we have a warm feeling of the heart the glow of that still in our blood interest apart � past differences forgotten � we extend the hand of old relationship we merely ask do not us from you do not destroy the ancient tie of blood do not let and drive a kindred nation from your side we would fain be friends do not compel us to be enemies there needs no better ground for than that furnished by an eminent english writer there is says he the author s farewell a sacred bond between us of blood and of language which no circumstances can break our literature must always be theirs and though their laws are no longer the same as ours we have the same bible and we address our common father in the same prayer nations are too ready to admit that they have natural enemies why should they be less willing to believe that they have natural friends to the spirits of both countries must we trust to carry such a natural alliance of affection into full effect to pens more powerful than mine i leave the noble task of the cause of national to the intelligent and enlightened of my own country i address my parting voice them to show themselves superior to the petty attacks of the ignorant and the worthless and still to look with and philosophic eye to the moral character of england as the � from an article said to be by robert esq published in the review it is to be lamented that that publication should so often forget the generous text here given vol ii d d the author s farewell intellectual source pf our rising greatness while i appeal to every generous minded englishman 