Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-04-09

His enemies pay the highest tribute to
his integrity. in seeking his services
and counting his forgiveness by their
concentrations; and though he may
we'll doubt their sincerity, he cannot
doubt that Of his friends, who have been
familiar with his secret hours, his pri.
vate converse; who know the habits Of
his life, the bent of his disposition, the
honesty of his principles, the frmness
of his character, and knowing they ad.
mire and approve. Let this be his prop
and consolation in the shades of his re-
tirement; and that the disinteres,ed
part of those friends will remain true to
themselves and their principles whilst
others may sing hosannas to the "pow.
ers that be"
In late number of the London New
Monthly Magazine, there are contain.
ed series of letters from a British
Traveller in Canada, who also visited
the United States.
The comparative view he gives Of
the intellectual condition of the inha-
bitants of our own country, and those
of Canada, furnishes practical com.
ment upon the superior advantages Of
free government, and will no doubt
inspire our readers with thankfulness
to Providence, that under the happy
influence of republican institutions
every facility is afforded to develope
the intellectual resources of the mind
Baltimore Morn. Chron.
"Those who have come from the
American side of the Lakes (who form
the most industrious, enterprising, and
successful of the settlers) possess all
the equality Of freemen, but none Of
the insolence Of emancipated slaves -
This difference Of manners arises from
a very obvious cause, though the ex-
tent Of its effects is little credited III
Europe,-I mean the universal diflu-
sion Of Education. 1t is this, more
than any advantages Of climate, Of soil,
or of political institutions, that gives
the American an unreasonable supe-
riority over the unenterprising Cana
dian. Intelligent ard well educated
men will, doubtless, be found in Cana
da, but the great mass Of the inhabit-
ants is evidently below the people of
the Western Country. With the lat.
ter, no sooner is a settlement formed,
even the remotest districts, than the
intelligent enterprise Of the New Eng
landers is awaked, and schools, acade.
mics, churches, courts Of justice, arise
as if by enchantment. Wherever land
is cleared, or villages founded, as teach.
ers, clergymen, lawyers,and merchants,
they regularly follow, and mould the
rude settlers into an organized COM
munity. In the most distant countries
on the Wabash, the Illinois, and the
Missouri, whenever came to a settle
mcnt, even to a village Of the smallest
dimensions, uniformly found the in
te.ligence, arts, and civilization Of Eu-
rope. II l called on the clergyman or
lawyer (and there is little ceremony in
tie Western woods l generally found
a number Of the Edinburgh Review,
or of the New Monthly Magazine,
within two months after its publica-
ton in Europe. When nine hundred
miles from Philadelphia, met with
an American edition Of Anastasius,
not more than three months after its
first publication, l need scarcely add
how much l was delighted with that
inimitable work in such situation,
with the beautiful cxpanse of the Ohio
and the majestic forest around me-
But in Upper Canada the benefits OF
literature enter most tardily and i'm
perfectly. While libraries were form
ing in almost every village on the Anne
rican side Of Lake Erie, the Canadian
shore presented no symptoms Of know
ledge, no marks Of improvement. On
landing at solitary log-hut on the
banks of the Ohio Gin one of my wan
derings) l was surprised to find in the
window All American edition Of Richie
rand's Physiology. The house was as
as the inmates seemed mise.
rably poor, yet lame sickly looking
lad had nevertheless found the means
of obtaining small but select medi-
cal library. In Carada, the poor boy
would have possessed neither the OPP
portunity, nor the inclination to sur
mount natural defects by mental cul-
tivation."
We copy from northern paper an
account of the execution of woman,
which makes us shudder, and which
we present 20 our readers only because
it may excite in them horror for this
mode of punishment. The public hang
ing Of female would suit barbarous
age and nation:-it becomes not our
times and country; it is either too re-
Voting or affecting to operate upon Ell
Their sex as an example in the spirit Of
the law. This instance illustrates its
for society, in all res
poets except the destruction of the cul-