The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-03-21
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From The, Ne4v fsrk american, March IS.
The following is another specimen o,
| the trash which is administered to the
credulous and ignorant of our mother
land, as nauseating dose 10 dull the APP
petite which the mass OF English farmers
would naturally feel to change their resi-
dence, did they correctly appreciate the
| comparative advantages which this coun-
| try possesses over England in its exist
! ing state. For part of the falsehood
however, which is told of us, we have to
answer ourselves. The $4,000 poor of
New York and Philadelphia were crea.
| ted by the reports of our own societies,
| to prevent pauperism and the mass of
| unemployed industry, and the migration
from Philsdelphis TO till the interior we
think we're invented by some of the warm
friends OF the tariff as arguments Tor its
passage. The writer of the edifyine
comments which we copy !. q Mr.. Pear
son.
/ wen,to.the navy yard ,and stepped on
board the North Carolina she is a no.
bio vessel rated at "a, but will mount ia
guns and swivels,; she is as largo, it not
larger than any three decker in the British
navy. The impolicy of building such
large ships as these, is now acknowledg.
ed BY nearly the whole union, and am
fully convinced, what with the Earrings of
the lcderaiists and Democrats, the Grip.
pied state of their commerce, an empty
treasury, and a sickly country, So Far
from their manning navy, they are
plunged into such difficulties as vii! take
them century and half a, least to ex-
tricate themselves, admitting they were
carriers TO the rest Of the H. tions during
that period and as for their trade to Chi.
ma and the East Indies, that is a losing
concern every one knows, that is acquain.
ted with American affair.".
| have often heard it said that Ameri-
ca has cheap government, and indeed
! believed tito be so myself, until rubb-
ed little eye salve of American expe-
Renee over my poor blind eyes, and |
\ lay THAI american government is not a
cheap government by any means, but a
very dear one there is neither an assem-
n,yman nor congressman, iederalist or
democrat, that will go fathom to serve
the people, unless they receive their FIVE
dollnrs for the ONT, and eight dollars for
the other, for each days work, aud all
other travelling expenses paid and we
have already seen man with farm OF
$50 acres OF land, with large family OF
twelve, working from Monday morning
TO Saturday night, ready to burst thei. We
~ heart strings TO keep body and soul
together, not tasting morsel Of mea, for
IS days, living upon apples, apple dump
lipgs, sour Rilk, mush, Indian corn, me-
Ions, and other trash, which makes them
as weak as water, and as slim as a rush.
light candle, not dollar ia the world to
buy bushei OF salt with YET these peo.
| pie must find cash for their representa-
tives, ifnot the sheriff will soon let the
| pubic know when there will be veDdus;
and can make it appear from their own
writing in D1mberless other instances of
poverty and misery not yet known ia Eng.
land, and consequently | maintain il is
not cheap but dear government
There are $4,000 paupers in New York,
and nearly as many in Philadelphia, 1888
people thrown out of employment at
Pittsburgh, and 7,lS8 in the city (Pbila.
delphla,) and $4,000 have gone back 10
cultivate the woods in the west
Nor is there less pride, vanity, and
lazIness IN house in this city, than was
IN those of Spain after the Peruvian
slaughter more coxcombs are to be
seen IN the streets, than ever trod Bond
street with not one tenth Of the cash o
support II, while their domestic clothing
is locked upon by them as a polluted
garments purple and fine linen, to the
exclusion oftheir own, and often to lie
ruin of the English manufacturer, with
Italian tiddlers, French dancing masters,
English and Irish actors, and sharpers
with paints and perfumes tor their wives
and wenches, and gold watches for back
woodsmen, while the Dutch boor is suf-
Tered TO seize upon the best plantations
yet all this might have been pardonabie
1t they had been carriers 10 the nations
two Centuries longer, but they not only
seem 10 have forgotten a state Of muta.
oIlity arising from war, but they seem
also TO have forgotten the CIDER Of nature,
they tsought their sun would never set,
that the clouds would never gather over
their heads, that the thunder would never
roll, and that the rain would never de-
sceDd upon them but like some un.
thinking traveller, who had not made am,
pie provision to cross a dangerous desert,
or an improvideDt mariner, who steers
his bark among breakers at MONDAY, so
II IS with this infant nation, Dotwi,hsiand.
ing all the false gloss Of hired writers