The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1821-07-30

"hiCn IS uiohI Liable 6fenSurc-"S "hS IA
the midst of our rottcress, hare tori, 9G The
nidnacies Of slares alt os tie seorsd, or they
who with their idle puy, and useless pertec-
ton, have remained fn,i, apd careless, While
groans echoed, and villa clanls'd round the
very walls of their Specs congress ihe
existence Of slavery in ,nerica IS al, 0sToe'ous
crime, with which no Hsyures can be Kept
for trhieh her -situafionaGords no apology
which makes liberty hertz distracted, and the
boast Of 1t disgusting" SO much for the Edin-
burgh reviewers.
Let us now see what 4 Quarterly reviewers
say: "Living in semi Svage state, the gredter
part of the Americana re so accustomed 10
dispense with the comfdss. Of life which they
cannot obtain, that they hive learned to neglect
even those decencies which are within ther
reach" "Their manners ARP boorish or rather
brutal" ono such charactsj as a Respectable
country gentleman g known in America"
"FrankHa, in grinding hiI electrical machine
and flying his kite, did certainly elicit some
useful discoveries in a branch OF science that
had not much engaged the attention of the phi
losophers of Europe. But the foundation OF
Franklin's knowledge was laid, not in America,
but in London. Besides, half Of what he wrote
was stolen from others, and the greater part of
the other not worth preserving"
"The supreme felicity of a true horn Ameri-
can is inaction ofbody, and inanity of mind -
"The founders OF American society brought
to the composition Of their nation no rubin ents
of liberal science" ssAmericai is oil a parody
mmicry of her parents; it is however the
mimicry Of child, ,etchy and hayward in its
infancy, abandoned TO bad nurses, and educa-
ted in low habits" ga people without wit or
fancy
. 'They will find in that neighborhood (Colum.
bia river) different race from the unfortunate
Indians, ,chon, u IS the system of their govern.
ment 10 treat with uniform hGrstfaess." The fol-
lowing is from the British ReUie,o tsThe states
of America can never have native literature,
any more than they can have native cha
racter." "They may become the Cloths of the
mesterr, continent, but they can never bee ONE
the Greeks. The mass OF the North Americans
are too proud to learn, and too ignorant to
teach"
Let us again turn to the Edingburg Review
ers, who, are believed 10 be the least hostile TO
us of any OF their trade in, that county. I:
AS late asthe year 1870 they have said othevp
(the Americans,) ''hoye hitherto given no inaica-
tio,,s or genius, and made no approaches 10 the
heroic, either in their morality, or character.
They are but receat ofse, indeed from Eng.
land; and should make il their chief boast, for
many generations to come, that they are sprung
from the same race with Bacon and Shakespeare
and Newton. Considering their numbers in.
deed, and the favorable circumstances in which
they have been placed, they have yet done mar.
vellously little to assert .he honor of such a de-
scent, or 70 show that the English blood has
been exalted or refined by their republican train
ing and institutions. Their Franklins and
and all the other sages and heroes
oil their revolution were born and bred subjects
Of the king of Engiand--und not among The
frsest or most raiued Of has subjects +; and Since
the period of their separation far greater pro-
portion oftheir statesmen and artists and politi-
cal writer's have been foreigners, than ever oc-
Cured before in the history of any civilized and
people. During the thirty, or forty
years Of their independence they hare done ALSO
LuTELY NOTHING for The sciences, for The arts, for
literature, or eUen for the staie3man-Hke studies
Of politics, or political economy. Combining our
selves to our own country, and to the period
that has elapsed since they had an independent
we would ask, where are their Foxes,
their Burkes, their Sheridsns, their Windhams,
their Horners, their WiIborforces Where their
Arkwrtghts, their Watts, their Days ?-their
Rohertsons, Blairs, Smiths, Stewards, Paleys and
NIaithuses ?--.heir Persons, PARIS, Burnevs
or Bloomfelds ?-their SCOTS, Campbells, BU.
rons, .Mooros, OF Crabbes l-ther Sitldonses.
kembles, Keans, o. O'Neils their Wilkes,
Laurences, Chantry, 3-or their Parallels to the
hundred other names that have spread them
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