Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-10-22

intrinsic difference between Blunt damn;ns
the poor and refusing them bread altogether
because Heaven 'scannot love the wretch 4
lstarVess and those charitable aristocrats
VINO found alns-houses, yet grind the poo,
wholesale by oppressive and monopollzinn
laws, In hbcrality of opinion, England. Il
speak II with bitter regret is far behind the
rest OF Europe. If exclusion be not las the
member Tor Newark lately said a fundamental
principle OF our political constitution, il is OF
our moral complex. There is little expansive
10 me thoughts, feelings, or habits, OF the
mass of Englishmen. IL i NOT only n ,el,-
gion that we are disposed to be dsmnatory.
we are continually splitting into tetrorics ana
lpredicamen;s. and shutting up ourselves IN
clubs and cofe,tes, ON all manner of pretences.
each OF which looks on the rest OF DE species
as knaFes and iools--if not as hcrctics and
uoiaters The prosecutions of fashion. II
somewhat milder in degree, are not less mar
TOW anu higofed than those of divinity. and
tue Lady -Patronesses OF Almack's hlack bean
uie aehetent IN hon-ton exactly on the same
principle as orator Irving sends our poets and
reviewers To the regions of wecpsnw and
gnasl1ing of teeth. In "a like spirit, the phy
sicians guard themselves against ungraduatsd
merit, and corporations protect their appren-
bees from rivalry, tho Chaplain housel,olders
VINO keep their carriages, refuse to iratcrnize
with those OF their neighbors who travel by
the stage; and Mrs. GrundY, who inbabifs
'he one-pair back room, maintains her supc-
rionty over Mrs Soapsnds, who lives in the
Two pair OF stairs forwards. So also an otii-
Ger OF cavalry looks down upon an officer OF
ioot and he OF the line exhibits ineiiable ssdain
OF the commander of militia-men. To the
same narrow spirit belongs the rigorous ex
nj
The announcement and Jealous terms on which
they are admitted. We trace il also in The
fees pad on visiting pubic buildings and col
iections OF pictures; and il reigns paramount
and lord Of the ascendant over sport grounds
OF country squires. 1t shines conspicuousIy
IN our pecuniary compcnsations for violated
hieciions, and the action sper quod servitim
amisit' Is there the slightest grain Of liber-
ahty IN the lnsolence, coldness. and paltrv
suspicion with which true John Bull treats
all foreigners but such as come over 10 sing
Tor his amusement or is the slayish syco-
pEancy and lavish profnsion he bestows upon
pretty priHm donna one whit nearer 10 real
generosity. Is there a spark Of hacraty in
the base envy and rcmorseless sarcasm with
which thorou5h-yoi home bred John
Bull regards the rising prosperity Of our
brethren IN the United StatesP in the lnalig-
nant langi. with which our theatres nightly
echoed during the run Of Mathews garcia
turc OF q genuine kentucky-mans speak
not oil the war against ihe liberties of France,
which was the immediate cause Of tue afro
cities OF the Revolution, nor of the iIl-nsare
of Napoleon at st. Helena, for these were
more the work of a faction u.an of the nation
at large, however much the credality and the
weakness Of the people contributed to it,
But the GOODNESS and indifference with which
Englishmen looked on at the treatment Of
Genoa, of paga, and vi the unhappy Sicillans
who took part IN the constitution we forced
upon their king, and the crawling alteration
bestowed bv a British public upon the Allied
Soyereigns who visited London in 1915. arc
any thing but proofs Of national liberality>--
But ] am again lapsing into gravity, the line
between the foolish and the deprayed is so
slight, and the connexlon between them so
intlnatei The muiatudes of uneducated per-
sons, who flocl<ed to the Continent after the
Peace, have betrayed our secret ia foreign
ers; and the nation has lost much OF the high
character it formerly held in Europe. The
imputed generosity OF the Englishman, which
caused the simplest gentleman to be esteem-
cd above the princes oil other nations, has
been elfaced from the imagination OF our
neighbours by petty higghng and chicanery
IN Tie Sttiilifg vi dducSiuGHs Dihss tie rear
of beng cheated has made our travellers little
better than cheats themselves; and the ridicue
they have thus brought on their country has
gone far TO abate the admiration which the
val1r, the resources, and the power OF the ma
ton had inspired by the successful ternlina-
ton Of a war unparalleled in history
Now do mol, my very dear reader, get into
furious paroxysm OF builIsm, and prove the
extent Of YOUR own lberalily by taxing r the
New Monthly Magazine with atheism, and
lacobinisIn, aud radlcalism, and all possible
lsms rheumatism ineludcd1 for thus lifting u
sli sht corner OF the veil of nationality, which
hides from your observation the little notes
in your own eye uor beams are quite out of
the question: The schoolrnaster, you know,
is abroad, and ii he sometimes creep into Min
isterial Journals and Troy Resiews, bow i, he
10 be kept out of our pages Al things la
ken into account, you are neither better nor
worse than your neighbors. Man is trall, aud
Englishmen, like others, must pay the penalty
OF their nature. Ii Is not our fault ii we are a
nation OF shop keepers, or il the aristocracy of
wealth in the constitution, and the spirlt oil
Iascendancy in the religion begueathed to US
] by generations less emil ghtened than our own,
have done our natural disposition some mis-
chief God forbid that should advise you
to reform these particulars or recommend you
to practice the virtues you profess; all | ask
lis, that you do not render your peccadilloes
too conspicuous by ill-timed boastng, and
that when you are inclined to laud the liberal
Iity of your dealings at home and abroad, you
win pour out the ovcrflowings Of your heart to
the family circle, or 10 some confident more
discreet than the reeds Of Midas.