Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-07-09

hOrtieS that
ssThe popuious North
Poured ever from her frozen IONS 20 pass
Rheneor the Danaw."
Yet the darkness OF the middle ages
were cheouered with ray OF christianity,
which operating on the teudal spirit, SO
purified the heart and softeued the man
ners, that the descendant Of the Gothic q
Vandal,c plunderer became the generous
defender of the weak, and the gallant pro-
tec,or of the tair. A priesthood whose
sway was boundless as that of those Cea-
sass in whose places II fixed its throne, pre-
served in the dismal cells of Its supersu-
lion, among the erisley portraits OF mar
tyrs. and the lumber OF moDKlsn ieseuu,
the happiest specimens OF ancient ar; auu
the immortal productions oil ciassicd' &c
Mus. The sacred wars revived Coinhiraee
and the flower of European cnNaiy'
which persisted on the plains Of faiesthe,
were happily replaced by the fruiiui ouos
of modern liberty. The discovery OF Tue
properties of the magnet gave an enlarge
rnent to commercial enterprise Wnlch
could never have before; and the inVeh-
rion OF the art OF printing produced ge-
neral diffusion of knowledge. The Tesor-
nation gave new impulse and happy OIL,
recton to learning, unfettered reason ana
taught man to re assert the dignity OF his
nature Then science, the great glory o.
modern Europe, began to flourish, ana SOON
to endue with luminous arrangement aho
beautiful symetry, the confused aad shape-
less observations every age ard cline
1t ieduced cbymistTy from the dark re,
searches of the trsnsmuteIs OF metals ana
assisted astronomy with the brighter lsbors
at those who mysterioasly connected human
fortune. with planetary juactions, and read
mans turbulent and varying tate IN Inc
serene and cbangeless stars. 1t IS no"
continually VARYING the combinations OF
mechanical powers for our convenience,
and pressing into our service the strong
material asents-It has taught US how the
rainbow is spread on the ClouG,-how
tightening is enforced lroM its oosom-has
robbed the SUMS eclipse Of IFS. portentous
ferror-informed US OF all things IN ex-
'ternal nature
<CGkuu &C terras composque hquentes
!, Lucentensgue ,gIO6um luna 1itanaaque d'tra. =
has weighed the masses of the planets and
their clustering satellites-described their
courses and measured their rapidity and
extended its gaze TO such an luminosity oil
distance, as to have discerned burning
sun in every particle of the brilliant dust
that styews the milky way. Is itnot then
the glory of Europe? Is it not the sub
finest monument of the power OF mans
understanding
Hence, in Europe, men are awakened 10
too just sense of the dignity OF their ma
ture, to remain chained down forever 10 the
delicious banquet of the senses, the admlra>
ton of splendour, or the worship OF power.
There taste. learning, genius. receive vene-
ration; and incense IS iaylshed on the lm-
p.rfect altar OF freedom. Yetstil false es.
timation of what is excellent in human des'
Siny is too prevalent there. Wealth, rank,
fashion, celebrity, power, are raled 100
highly. Social Institutions are still much
allowed with oriental prejudices, and cor
rupted with abuses, introduced by pro-
consuls and imperial iisutenanIs, Even
that country, which enjoys the most OF
transatlantic freedom, whose jury trial is
so efficacious in protecting the single OBJ
iects of royal or ministerial vengeance
and whose philanthropy, eloquence, TO.
nance and poetry, is enlightenlng and
6elighting the world-eyen that cOuntry
IS infested with the doctrines OF intole-
rance, of divine rights, of inherent prlvi-
leges, of the inadequacy OF the people at
large TO their own government; and trem-
bles at any correction OF abuses, lest
the slightest restraints being removed
from the passions of the multitude, they
should burst out at once into riotous tu-
w. destroy all order, confound every rank,
exhibit TO the a.tonished world the mon
sirous phenomenon of catholic subjects re
lieyei from degrading disabilities under a
nrotestent sovereign, or even perhaps 20
10 that violent length of injustice winch
would place legislation in the power Of
those. who are most affected by the laws.
Strange indeed
The people of America, though resem-
bling in many, nay in too many respects
their European ancestors, are, Dotwlih-
standing, marked with very distinguish
inr characteristics. That free aud en-
terprising spirit. which | said was given
TO the first settlers of Europe by the tolls
and dangers ct emigration, was impaired
in a double proportion to those who braved
the Atlantic in search of new dwellings.
BESIDES. the express object for which ma
nv of the colonists trayersed ocean, and
6yad their dreary habitations in what
thew describe as "howlng wilderness"
WAS to secure religious and political free
dom. When therefore generations were
multiplied, poured along the banks of the
rivers, spread into the forest, and were
clustering their pastoral settlements IN Inc
yail;es of the mountains-when they were
no Ionper startled from their slumbers by
the indian war-whoop, and the scalpiing
kn;fe and tomahawk were driven to dis
- ron6ar thof then thew