Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-06-19

Look you, Master ohiP, tee u oo VI
SHEpHEnD's best blue, l charge you-tor
no other is worth the wearing" So OF
shoes-so Of hats, our manufacture OF
which is cxceliept-so Of cheese, for
which its being excellent, nay its being
made by English farmers, is an insult
Gent recom'sendation-" Why DIN II,
It is but double the price, or very little
nore-and who would not pay that triile
extra for the difference between English
ard American cheese"
In the article Of books too-lhe same
aimsiness is observation-disclosures buster
ing citizens cannot hold their patriotism
firmly to 'the sticking place. An &C
quain ance # mine once offered to an
eminent bookseller in the United States
a novel tor sale. The BOOKSELLER knew
that one Of his composition had gone thro'
nine edit;ons-one at least Of which was
printed in this country and sold we'll
but be refused; declaring that it would
not take, If it had not the previous re-
commentator of being printed in Eng
land.-' What!' replied the other mo.
if you state in the title page that it is BY
Il e author of viii had at
the time been popular work.--'No, sir
was the reply-'I would not take it for
nothing, unless it were first printed in
Great Britaiu.'
In all these cases, however, some rea
sonable motive might perhaps, he assign
ed for the preference. He who preferred
the EngIi n cloth might plead economyas
justi6ca.ion-ard his emily fault was in
cajolins his fe!lew citizens for the pur-
pose Of gaining popu!arity-another might
like the iavcr Of the English cheese best,
or perhaps desire, las is much the fashion
with us) to show OF his grandeur, by
buying the deares; thing. But there is
one way in which the appetite For every
thing foreign carries US quite out Of the
course of national pride. patriotism, rea-
son and sound sense, and this point / am
led to by an accident that occurred to IRE,
in my closet. yesterday.
I was looking over file Of the Ma
tiopal lntellisencer which l have been
collecting for the last two years, and !
was delighted and astonished at some Of
the speeches In congress, reported in that
paper,-.reported too as we'll as ever
speeches were in our language. The
speeches Of BurRc aud Fox ard Pitt, and
Wiudbam ard Sheridan, 10 the British
parliament, stand apart from all other
eloquence, aud therefore | will not en-
danger my opinion BY comparing with
them those Of nur orators-but, | will say
that with the exception Of these, the CO
!umns Of the paper speak Of, present
many specimens Of senatorial eloquence
fit to be put in competition with the best
on English record. Nothing, with the ex-
ception already made, can surpass Gros-
venor's and Calhoun's speeches on the
compensation law And in the last ses-
sion, SIR. Lowndes's on internal improve
ment, in answer to Mr.. Clay's about S.
America, and MIR. Forsyth's on the same
subject, need net shrink from a compa-
rison With any in the British parliament.
What mass Of eloquence then must be
contained in the reports Of preceding
sessions, when to those were supcradded
tie weishty. vigorous eloquence Of Web
ster, and the classical accomplished ora.
tory Of CASTOR aud some others. Yet,
wonderful to think, not newspaper over
the union copies them. This is not Tor
want Of rOom-no; for the editors a'e
often at loss for matter, and are fain
TO lave recourse to CID volumes Of me-
gaines for matter to Gil up their CO.
lumns. But see how taste aud appetite
lead--Mr Canning's speech and MIR.
Canning's huff.bluff letter, and Mr.. Phil
lips's siilted fustian, are circu ated about
like wild6,e, while specimens Of our ma
tional eloqucuce which would elevate US
in the opinion Of nations, are left for the
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