The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-05-31

| SSAhNoh iOiSo'S ttC nAtIu dDh
temperature of the air, the delightful
azore Of the sky Of this country, lh'
fine bottom on the one hand, and tn,
romantic bluff on the other, the broat
and smooth stream rolling calmly dow
the forest, and floating he boat gent,
forward-all these circumstances har
moniZe in the excited youthful magma
ton. The boatmen are dancing TO The
violin on the deck of their boat. The
scatter their wit among the girls GA tn,
shore, who come down to the wateri
edge to see the pageant pass. TIE
boat glides on until it disappears bebisd
a point of wood. At this moment, per.
haps, the bugle. with which all the
boats are provided, strikes up lis note
in the distance oyer the water These
scenes and these notes, echoitg from
The bluffs Of the beautiful Ohio, shave a
charm for the imagination, which. al
though | have heard it a thousand times
repeated, and at all hours, and in ell
positions, is even to me alwa,s new and
always delightful.
"No wonder that the yong, who
are reared in these remote regAns, with
that restless curiosity which is fostered
by solitude and silence, who witness
scenes like this SO frequently, nc won
der that the severe and nremitthg la
bors of agriculture, performed directly
in the view of such scenes, should te-
come tasteless and irksome. No wa
der that the young along the banks of
the great streams, should detest the a.
boTs of the field, and embrace every b.
portunity, either openly, or, il minds,
covertly, TO escape and devote ihen-
selves TO the pernicious employment of
boating. And in this view we may C.
count for the detestation Of the inhsi.
tants along these great streams towahs
steamboats,, which are every day BIZ
mlnishing the number Of small bats
and boatmen, and which have aIrehy
withdrawn from the western waters, no.
baby, ten thousand from that empty
ment. And yet, with all these seductins
for the eye and imagination, no life isso
slavish, none so precarious and dangr-
Gus. In no employment do the hatls
SO wear out. After the lapse ofso
very short a period since these watGs
have been navigated in this way, at a.
cry bend, and every high point of tie
river, you are almost sure to see, |:
you stop for moment, indications d
the &c narrow house - the rnde monU
ment, the coarse memorial, carved OF
an adjoining tree by brother boat
man, which marks that an exhausted
'boatman there yielded his breath, AMI
was buried.'
OHIo.-This great State, which wa,
within my memory, an unbroken wi.
derness, is now, at farthest, only lie
fourth State in the Union in point il
members. There are NOT, probable
on the earth seven hundred Thousand
human beings, who in the mass are
more comfortably fed and clothed, thai
the population Of this State. l locke
upon this fresh and hourishing Cit
Cincinnati, outstretched under M
eye, and compared in thought its pro
gress with that of the imperial Peters
buTg-where great and intelligent
despot said, Let there be city, and
city arose upon Golgotha, upon piles o
human bones and skulls, that gave con
sistency TO morass. The awe of
numberIess soldiery, the concentere,
resources of thirty millions of slaves
the will of the sovereign, who mad
the same use of men that the masor
does of bricks and mortar, must all con
spire to form city in that place
Droves of peasants are trausplan,et
from the extremities of Asia 10 peopl,
it. Imperial treasures are lavished I,
furnish inducements TO entice the no
blesse TO build and reside there. A des
potic court display there Asialic mag
nificence, and squanders the means o
ministering TO its caprices and it's pleas
ures. The result of all these concur
ring causes is the erection of one splend
id city in the midst of desert; an
more human beings, probably, perishe
iTI this uuuUtur,-I f~-~;-s vf city, lna
inhabi! it at this day.
How different is the fostering effort
Of liberty. Sixteen hundred miles tror
the sea, in half an age, this fourishin
and beautiful town has emerged from tn
woods, and when as old as Petersburg
now is, will probably, in wealth an
population, emulate the imperial city
No troops are stationed, no public mon
ey lavished here. 1t is not even tn
State metropolis. The people bull
and multiply imperceptibly and in 81
lence. Nothing is forced. This mag
nifcent result is only the deVelope
ment of our free and noble institutions
upon fertile soil. Nor is this plac,
the solitary point, where the geniu
of our institutions is working this result
Numerous cities and towns, over a
| extent of two Thousand of miles, ar