The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-07-25
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relative traveller in tho Unjtet States -
As yet have given you 10 information
relative TO America, having been deferred
by the magnitude Of the subject, and from
the wish to put it into a respectable shape
but find that, i'll wait until then, the task
will never be performed. In the first place,
set it down as an axle u, that, as a people,
! they are the first in the world, and essen
italy differing in certain points from the
British. What is pIac ticable and easy,
therefore, with them, could not be safely
engraited upon us. In political improve
ments we must follow at humble distance.
If they are destitute of % Cosinthian CAPT
tals," they have positively no commonality
or mob. In the towns, as labosers, some
thing like it may be found in appearance /;
but the country is covered by yeonanry of
the first description, who own the soil they
cultivate; and education is disseminated
70 degree so universal as to be surpris-
ing. Emigrants, however ignorant, are
changed IN the next generation. A dense
population must ultimately. produce, fear,
"A worse state of affairs but as the com
mencement and foundation of this people
are superior to any thing that has vet pre-
viously existed in the world, the results,
we may reasonably hope, will be superior
to what we see in the old world. From
The earliest times they have been accus-
toned to f-goVernment-thei depend
cnce upon Great Britain was chiefly polit-
lcal-the navigation acts they always evad-
Gland against any attempts of their gov
errors to invade their privileges, they pass
ed resolutions containing as free principles
as any preached during the war of indie
pendence. Our histories do not contain
these matters; they are to be found onlv
IN the histories of the different States, Of
which they have many published in the
style of chronicles. The English Cabinet,
even in the time Of Charles H., were alarm
ed at this tone of independence, but were
always deferred from coercing them lest
they should join the French; and it was
only after the conquest of Canada the En-
glish yentured upon steps which led imme-
diately to revolution. When independence
arrived, they had only to frame the fedora
ton; the State Governments had long been
previously in practical existence; the only
change was in driving out Governor ap-
pointed by the King, and electing one for
themselves with an elective council. The
inhabitants of the Southern States. such as
met with, do not differ from those of the
north; they are the same people-shrewd,
clever, plain, but Astounding in common
sense. The nature, not only of their con-
situations and laws, but customs and man
ners, is totally averse from the acquisition
of overgrown fortunes in particular fami-
lies; entails are not allowed; and, in de-
fault Of wills, property is equally divided
amongst all the children. From the effect
of this, properties which were once consid-
cradle in Carolina, Virginia, and the South
ern States, are now frittering away every
day. Added to this, from the freedom Of
their manners, general society, &c. no ia
Their can ever pretend to arrange a match
for his children in marriage, as respects
either family or fortune. To object to the
want of the latter, where the sutton had a
good education and the means of maintain
ing family, would be both absurd and
useless. You will frequently hear large
fortunes made by commercial individuals,
but the second or third generation they are
divided out to the level of the general
mass. Men of wealth seem more to be en-
We'd than liked. 1t is irnpolitic to make
too great show if you wish to rise or be
popular. The members of the Govern
ment, even the Secretary of State, live in
the plaineSt manner possible. The state
of London merchant, of secondary class,
| living in Gullford-street, or Ely-place, is
equal to that of Mr.. -, or Mr.. -.
saw no establishment, even amongst the
merchants of New York, which could have
exceeded e2,500 per annum. The Presi-
dent, in travelling, lives at a boarding
house; and, in travelling in steam boat,
he draws ticket with tailor or haber-
dasher, to know which is to have the bed
or the bench to sleep upon. Parade and
show are contrary to the genius of the pco-
pie; they will not brook that one man
should exhibit any eXtravagant superiority
over the rest of the citizens.
Truth is not considered a libel. You
may say or write what you please of any
individual, provided you can prove the
truth, and that your motives i'll publishing
were not malicious, but for the public good
This, | think, may be twisted in various
ways, but it is intended to give latitude to
public criticism, while it guards against
private scandal.
As to living in America, if restricted to
the wants of the laboring classes, it is de-
cidedly cheap. Beet, in New York, 3D.. to
Id. per lb. mutton, ID. to 24d common
pieces much cheaper. Bread, us you may
suppose, cheap. Wages, | to II dollar
per day for common laborers. 1t is Gecid-
eddy the paradise of the lower classes on
this terrestrial globe. House rent is high
in the towns servants wages extrava-
giant, and they do nothing; furniture and
clothes exoriitnnt. You would live about
as well for $1,000 per annum in London as
in New York, with this difference, that in
the latter with that expenditure you would
be somebody, in the former nobody. You
may go as far as $4,000 per annum in
America, and get some comfort for the out
lay in country houses, carriage and hors-
es; beyond that, it would be folly to spend
, it if you had millions; for you can get ne
servants, and the larger your establish
me1t the greater your individual slavery
The people admire-their spirit, their in
/, stitutions, and their growing power (fol