Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-08-25
From the Constitutional Whig.


ate the price OF public lands," under the
head " dcpopulation Of the old States"
Mr.. Benton thus introduces "Old Vir-
ginia," and gives Us rather ah humorous
caricaturc OF the tide water country:
81 say then, tina, i, is an offence against
God and Nature, to compel people to
remain in country, where, instead oil
increasing, they are decreasing instead
OF multiplying they are subtracting; in
stead OF replenishing the earth, they are
diminishing and disappearing from its
face; but that decrease, subtraction and
di,ninution, besides being breach OF
the divine c>mmand IMPLIES STINT Of
food, with ell its consequent; train OF bo-
Oily suffering and disease, Intellectual
and moral degradation, loss OF physical
strength. animal courage, and the spirit
of independence. This l affirm to be
the case Of the tide water region of the
Atlantic States; commercial cities, and
particular districts Of course excepted.
know it to be the fact that, in this re-
gion, the human animal is scarcer, and
the beasts Of the forest more plenty, than
their respective species were before the
war Of the revolution. know it from
books, from conversation with aged men,
and from personal observation. Through
out this extensive region, the progress
Of man upon earth is reversed Every
thing is going backwards and dawn
wards. Houses dilapidatsd and desert
ed; fences gone; fields grown up in
broom grass and pine saplings; people
grown scarce wild animals more plen-
y; and tho cultivator Of the earth re-
duced, / would say to the minimum and
the hassimum of human subsistence, if
I had not heard the description, or ra-
Their, il l had not seen the picture which
the Senator from Virginia, Mr.. Ran
dolph, has drawn you Of the misery and
A-s-aA.s;rn nf ..- South Of Ireland.
Hopeless and deplsrablc, indeed, is the
condition Of the tenan, and cultivator in
this region Of pine and sand. In vain
does he solicit grit and gravel, the heart
less clay, to send up corn and oats which
man and beast demand for the support of
life. Even vegetable manure is no, to
be bad. The watery element is resort
ed to for substitute, and, at certain sea
sons, affords it, have Just witnessed
an example Of the fact. In short ex-
cursion which made into the country,
few weeks ago, became an eye-wit-
ness Of the fact, of which l had before
heard, but, until then, had not seen an
instance. l, was no, twenty miles from
this city-,he metropolis Of four and
twenty s'ates--it was not very far from
Mount Vernon, the renowned seat of
Washington. was travelling the high
road between this city and Fredericks.
burg, when heard clinking among the
stones on the side Of hill, stopped my
horse, locked up, and saw laborers en-.
gsged, apparently burying something in
the ground at regular Intervals. l in
quired what they were doing and a
voice replied that they were planting
corn. asked what ere you burying
with it p" Herring heads VIVA, for |?
" To make the corn come uh."-How
many heads do you pu. to a grain
4" THO, SIR" How high does your corn
grow ?-"se high" measuring upon the
ieg.) How do you gather it? ain 5as.
kefs'"-l stopped the dialogue, and con.
tinued my journey. Illuminating upon the
scene which l had witnessed, and grow.
ing stronger 10 my conviction that the
country truly rich, truly independent,
truly fitted fer the production Of repub.
licsns, is the country in which provisions
are produced in the greatest abundance,
Q country in which, Is in the vast and
magnificent valley Of tho Mississippi,
there is neither count nor weight, nor
measure, for any thing thar is given to
man or beast to cat. In such . country
the animal spirits run high. Master,
slavs and beast live At their case. Each
knows the virtue Of cribs and smoke.
houses, crammed to bursting,
"Each feels his rights,
+" And feeling, dsres maintain them"
Instead Of preventing people from
going 10 such = country, by putting
lands out Of their reach, it is certainly
the duty OF wise and paterusl govern
ment to cid their removal to it,"
From the (Pennsylvania) Upland Union.
Imhsrsant discovery Mr.. Aaron
Hannum has accidentally discovered an
sfticscious remedy for the expulsion Of
worms from children. Some Of his
children going out Tor a walk, ate seine
cedar spples or cedar knots, when one
Of 'hern. who had Tor several years been
affl ctsd with worms to 4 prea; degree,