The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-11-29

antnGuite difference oG knowledge and IgnOr-
nnce, Of wealth the most exuberant, and In
diEeuce the most horrible. No man In Anne
RIGA need be poor, if he has Ratchet and
arms TO use Il. The wilderness 20 him is the
same retreat as the world afforded to our first
parents. His family, il he has one, is wealth;
IL he is unencumbered withswife or children,
he is the more easily provided for. A man
who wishes to make large fortune, may be
disappointed in y erica but he who seeks
with a moderate degree of industry, but the
wants which nature demands, is certain to
find them. An immense proportion of the
population of the United States consists IF
agricuturalists, who live upon their own pro-
perty, which is generally of moderate extent.
aud cultivate it by their own labor. Such
situation is peculiarly favorable to republican
habits. The rnan who feels himself really in
dependent-and so must each man who can
use spade or an axe--will please himself
with the mere rxer'ion Of his free will, and
form a strong contrast to the following, bavl-
, ing, clustering rabble Of city, where dram
Of liquor or the money to buy a meal, is sure
to purchase the acclamation of thousands.
whose situation in the scale Of sorety is too
low, to permit their thinking Of their poIltic-
al right, as thing more valuable than to be
! bartered against the degree Of advantage they
may procure, or of license which they NAV
| exercise. by placing it at the disposal of one
| candidate or another.
Above ALL before considering the cause
Of America as parallel with that of France.
the statesmen of the latter country should
have observed one great and radical differ
ence. In America after the great change in
her system had been effected, by shaking off
the sovereignty of her mother country. the
States arranged their new government so IA
to make the least alteration in the habits Of
their people. They left to future and more
convenient opportunity, what father nova
tons their great change might render neces-
sary being more DESTROYS to fix the general
outlines of firm and orderly government, al
though containing some anomalies, than to
cast all existing authorities loose, in order that
they might produce constitution more reg
ular in theory, hut far less likely TO be put in
to efectual execution, than those old fnrms
under which the people had grown up, and to
which they were accustomed to render regu
lar obedience.-They abolished no nohility
for they had none in the colonies to abolish
but in fixing the basis of their constitution
they balanced the force and impulse of the
representative body of the States by a sem
ate. designed to serve the purposes answer
ed by the House of Lords in the British com
stitution. The governors of the different
States also, in whose power the executive
government Of each was reposed, continue to
exercise the same duties as before. without
much other change. than that they were ma
med by their fellow citizens, instead of being
appointed by the sovereign of their mother
country Inc congress exercised the rights
which success had given them over the loyal
| lists, with as much temperance as could be
expected after the rage of civil war.
Above alI,the mass of American population
was IN sound, healthy state, and we'll fitted
to bear their share in the exercises of polite
al rights. They were Independent as we have
noticed. and had comparatively few instances
among them OF great wealth, Contrasted with
the most degrading indulgence. They were
deeply imbued with sense of religion, and
the morality which is its fruit. They had
been brought up under free government,and
in the exercise of the rights Of freemen, and
their fancies were not liable to be excited, or
their understanding made giddy, with sud
den elevation to privileges, the nature of
which IS unknown to them. The Republic
OF America, moreover, did not consist of one
huge and populous country, with an over
6AO"" SoPtadAs WHERE the leglSlaCve BODY.
cooped up in its precincts, like prisoners,
were liable to be acted upon by the applauses
or threats of desperate rabble. Each State
OF America carries on its own immediate gov
eminent. and enjoyes unmolested the privi-
lege Of adopting such plans, as are best suited
to their own peculiar situation, without en-
barrassing themselves with ideal uniformity,
that universal equality of rights, which was
the vain object Of the French Constituent AS
sembly to establish. The Americans know
that the advantage of constitution, like that
OF garment, consists neither in the peculiar
lty OF the fashsiOn, nor in the fineness of its
texture, but in its being well adapted to the
! person who receives protection from it. In
short the sagacity of Washington was not
more apparent in his military exploits, than
in the manly and wise pause he made in the
march OF the revolution, so soon as peace
gave an opportunity to interrupt its impulse.
TO replace law and social order upon an es-
tablshed basis, was as much the object Of
TINS great General, as it seems to have been
tnat OF the statesmen of Paris, civilians as they
were,to protract period of instruction. muir
der, and revolutionary tyranny"
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