Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-06-19

woodsmen) beat them hollow, IN all sPe
| cies of crimes' .sIn this country children
| from the age of six are taught to resent a
blow with a stab, and are seldom seen
here without knife for the purpose"
g Here children of six and seven years
old set their parents at defiance, and are
supported in their rebellion by their
neighbors. This state presents melan-
choly picture of human depravity parents
| encouraging their children in vice, and
children threatening their parents, like
dogs" &c.
MIR. Hewitt does not lag behind his sac
quaintance" of the backwoods. He has
been but few days in New York, where
he landed, when he writes" The emil
grant will find, when he goes to make his
purchases for his journey, that the Yam
KEGS are prepared to take every advan-
tage of his ignorance or haste. An Eng
lishman is recognized n moment The
want of the real Yankee slang or tone is
sufficient but their appearance is still
prior informant. You Immediately dis
tinguish English from Americans, who
are generally dressed in light clothes,
trowers down to their heels, and broad
brimmed chip hats mostly tall, thin, GEL
ton looking men, who have stood the test
ola parching climate" Our traveller, as
he proceeds from New Y ork to Susque-
hannah county, in Pennsylvania, fares
still worse than in the city, and goes
through the most perilous and fearful ad
ventures Bears, wolves, panthers and
| snakes abound on his route. On one oc-
casion, {" some wild animal, which the ex-
IRENE darknefs of the night prevented us
seeing, came trotting into the barn where
brother and slept, and to our bed side"
Happily the savage unknown conceived
some alarm and made his retreat, upon
which the tourist makes truly sage re-
mark" Sleep, broken in this manner af-
fords but little refreshments He met
with an old American hunter, shortly af-
forwards, who could have defended him
from all such mysterious invaders. This
parsonage related that he had killed, the
preceding fall, upwards of two hundred
deer, and in his time had encountered and
slain more than one thousand bears In
the new settlements which Mr.. Hewitt
traversed on this excursion, Z" the women
and children were real objects of pity,
with looks as wild as the wilderness, and
unsightly as the lizard that crawls into
their houses" And as for the men, s'some
are democrats, some are federalists but
all are kings and nobles-every man ru-
Ter, and yet nothing pleases.-Such is the
happiness of this country"
MIR. Hewitt generalizes about us in
fine vein of compliment, as the following
extracts shall testify
"Such is the pride of Americans, all
things originate with them prosperity
or distress, wherever it is found, flow
from the influence OF their all potent coun-
try. The same conceit which teaches
Chinese to make map of the world, by
delineating their country at large, and |
sketching few outlines for few of the |
rest, causes the American to give his the
same portion on the political chart"
"The American farmers are composed |
of men, or the descendants of them, who |
came over the water, artificers ofall kinds,
and commenced husbandmen. They fol-
low the practice of the first settlers,
which was bad enough, implicitly, and in
spite of reason and the efforts of the most
enlightened Of their countrymen, who
perceive the evil, and have established
Agricultural Societies to counteract it,
but hitherto without effect. They follow
them with that self pride and consequent
and opiniatrete obstinacy, which charac
terizes the vulgar of America, and few
are the minds, which surrounded by them,
can long resist the universal laugh and
gibe, that attends a dissent from their
notions 'Ah! you'll teach us something,
| guess Let him alone we shall see
he'll do something dreadful clever in
awhile Such is the language farmer
bears on all sides, who presumes to act
different from the sagacious, omniscient
American. Besides nobody will assist
such an hereto, the ban is upon him, and
he is as effectually under the interdict of
his neighbors' fire and water, as the pro
scribed Roman, till he condescends to
amalgamate with the mass"
'sThe real Yankee deems himself au-
thorised to indulge his own will, and to
break the slavish bonds of decorum and
respect Like the Swiss peasant, who, at
the point of death, avowing his enmity to
his murderer, and being asked by the
priest if he meant to 60 to HELM pas
sion which extinguished life, exclaimed,
am free Switzer, and can go where
l. please" the confirmed American is
without bounds to his license and his
pride"
ssTheir love of freedom shows itself in |
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