The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1824-03-22

1 - ""' hohon's even PARRY nearly
ex'ingulshed, in prevailing feeling of
national pride and satisfaction Where,
but in America Immense APPLAUSE. ]
America, that laid the foundation OF her
republican constitution in violent, rsdi>
call sanguinary revolutioh-America
with her fundamental democracy, made
more unmanageable, and apparently
more hazardeus,by being broken up into
do moi know how many coHfederated
and independent Observation-Disclosures.
with universal suffrage, and monthly or
weekly electiops-a free and unlicensed
press, without an established priesthood,
and hereditary nobility, or a permanent
executive--with all that is combustible,
in short, and pregnant with danger. on
the hypothesis of,yranny, & without one of
the checks or safe guards by which alone
they contend the benefits or the very be-
ing OF society can be maintained? (Peals
OF ahfifanse. There is something at
once audacious and ridiculous in MAIN
tanning such doctrines in the face ofsuch
experience. Nor can any thing be foun-
ded on the novelty of these institutions,
or the pretence that they have not yet
been put fairly on the trial. America
has gone on prospecting under them for
forty years-and has exhibited picture of
uninterrupted, rapid, and uaprecedent ed
advances in wealth, population, intelli
gence,and concord, while all the arbitrary
governments Of the old world have been
overrun with bankruptcies, conspiracies.
rebellions, and revolutions, and are at this
moment trembling in the consciousness
OF their insecurity, and vainly endeavor-
ing TO repress irrepressible discontepts,
by coniederated violence and terror
{ .dfhtduse.) If any thing more were
required to show the superior securi;y,ss
well as energy and happiness of free gov
eminent, beg merely to contrast the
condition Of South America, as il was
III very lately--with that Of the happy
country to which have been referring.
These southern settlements had the adj
vantage Of being earlier established, and
followed from the first by the fostering
care of the parent state. They were
placed in more fertile soil and more
propllous climate, but they were 60.
yerned by nonresident despots, and ei
ven over to bigotted priests and courtiy
'avorites, and wanting freedom, all the
blessings of nature were turned to curses
Their treasures were exhausted-the
population withered and sunk under theia
both races were degraded by Their
mixture-and they became at last among
the governing classes degenerated and
corrupted mass, which mouldered away,
and dissolved its own rottenness-tilI i;
fertilized the soil over which it was scat
tered, for that rising and glorious harvest
| of liberty which now covered it with the
beauty of its promise In the north the
lot ofour emigrant countrymen were cast
IN more uDgenial regions-and their first
struggles either totally neglected or but
coldy supported by the mother country
but carrying with them that innate love
| of freedom, which trust will run for ever
in the blood Of all Britons, they surmoun.
ted all difficulties-and even under the
colonial and not always equitable govern
ment OF England, they made very csnsid
cradle advances in wealth and civilization.
and ever since they have been left to
build for themselves on this firm foupda.
ton, have so multiplied and increased in
the land,and advanced with such miracu.
lous rapidity in wealth, population, indus,
try and power,as not only to put to shame
the stationary communities Of Europe but
even to make her statists and political
economists revise and remode their sys.
TENS, to correspond with their unnatural
and excessive prosperity Such my
lord, are the services which / conceive
America to have rendered to the cause
of liberty--and though they are, as APP
preheDd, truly incalculable in value and
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