Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-07-16

iS"V"ns1 and powerful reduced
" '"'seiao'e ruins,-snd crowded provinces
'sto ueserts. While these latter OBJ
Jeets are thought sufFiciAa, 10 rav,sI 49,. -, 80
weller for distant pilgrimage "a ,,r.;. s's
tries he may well be pardeasa for f.el,a. go,
sen attracted as The opposite .DsctaoIs q l,rb
- presented to him al home a scera ~, -
decay, but OF teeming lie Of irporoysmet.t !,
most too rapid TO Ssem the result of amman
means. " sums"
~ remark often quoted of a celehrated
'ore'sn statesman 8 laleyrand . that Amer,
ca presents IS you travel westward IN min, a,
space, the same succession Of annesran.es
WINCH may be traced 10 Europe, IS We 20 bsck
m point OF time that as You movs .r,,, 10
coast toward the interior on this contin-n,
you pass through those stages Of c,y.izs,ion
Waiea sse found IN Europe as voa fotlow its
history es@s ~ si,e primitive ages five
me Soo'i nal tFfo>s OF oar conttnen, iote ia,
survey, taefs IS SOME f@aBd4t On far tha rernark
oo' "pr1isa 10 our owa population, IL il g4lher
"'ss"Vus uaaa s1hd- The scene presented
y suf "sssSrn coun'ry, il IS nol that ola or
oarous race crossing up ike the prinuiy.
tribes Of Europe, into eivii;zst, nat i,ns ~,
IS .he iaF more interesting, because the more
rapid sni intelligent progress of riy,tized
people extending itself through a rude v lder
ness, anu transplaHting the mature arts OF l,te
mo the hidden recesses OF the forest The
l.afeher woo PeHe,rates Thousand or two
s"ousshu mites from tbe coast the interior may
nna, II IS true the log hui Of the first settlers.
as ne may Ind within the limits OF Philade lphia
and sew York, say ofParis or London. many
wretched hovel far less commodious bat he
VIII also ina here substantial d yelinss-spa
cious and even magnificent mansious-tle a
oodes OF competence ana Of abundance, sur
rounded sy ii his indications OF the Improved
afts Vf NE have iearned, TO nv sston,sh
sient thst within twenty years the city OF Nssh
sihe mas grows up. ircm not exceeding four or
h's ofic9 houses TO its present eonGitlo1. as
large, populous, and thriving capitol The mart
OF ge~a, aud increasing commerce exhibit
ing Tor the number of its inhabitants. as many
costly edllices as any city 10 the Union The
ios hsuasa have disappeared na in the lapse
% "o thousand, or even two hundred years,
uus ~ tue lapse OF twenty year, - he prai.
i've forts OF the old hunters are gone, nor by
TIVE oecay OF age but in progress o. the socie.
y TOT single generation Far we are from,
TIE coasl, We walk abroad and Fl I'd ourselves
not'sthe rude infancy of socie,y, but in the
midst OF its artists retaemens --and ia e.e
esncles.---the produc, not of centuries but OF
tie I+e OF man.-We are told that
"a thousand years scarce serge 10 form state
" IN Hldf may lay IL Ia the DUST
Inc reverse seems almost true. while we
contemplate in Europe The fate OF kingdoms
that have been offering Tor ages on the hflok
oi decay. slowly dying for thousand wears
we behold our own republics rising into .la.
iuFty, within she experiences of q generation.
Were theI not our cauntrymen, our fathers,
dad not the grey hairs Of few surviving veto
rams carrysconvictIcns to our mnJs. we could
scarce credit the narrative of The pioneers of
the western settismaHts. II was not till 1854
thar even naaiel Booze, whose flight from wal
uefhess 10 wilderness forms sorl of liegjra ~
the "esi made ms appearance IN East renaes
see, The first session of land obtained by
treaty OF tue Indians ia this stats is of no older
dare than April l77j. momeotous month ss
4 the great order CT events IN the cnuptry's
progress required that sinuitaneo usly as the
blow was struck, which gave Independence to
America the portals OF the western mountains
saon'd be thrown open to her soas, who had
hitherto been forbidden; by an hor'ty irom the
Crown, TO extend their settlements beyond the
ono. lCheers. All those high spirited adj
ventureFs caanot have passed off he stage
who moved forward at tue head of the column
at hrst enigpants 1t is related that 10 the year
100 Eo's white man was found settled on the
tennessee or the Cumberland, BY party who
~ that year descended these river. TIE pop.
uiation OF The State, at the present period, csD-
not be less than 100000
but 4 is not merely the rapid growth of the
western settlements iato populous states that
surprises the traveller from the ses coast. For
this growth he must be prepared, aud because
ne hrds il set down 10 tie statistical tables of
the country, and because q mere mater OF Fl
cures he cannot but comorehend IT, That
which strikes him with establishment is the al
vanced State OF the community The social i'm
provement which be Witnesses lie fluids Ills
great region sbpuading not merely with fertile
isnus but With highly Cultivated farms, hiiee,
nor WITH Wild hunters, but with subs antsi
yeomssry. There are forests iaterspersed. ike
The regions he has left, with villagers active
with all the acts of life He descends the
mighty rivers in one of those fioatieg castles
hait warehouse and half pa ace. which the ge-
MUS OF Fulton has launched on all our waters;
built here in greater numbers than in the East
and with at least equal msgni6cence and on
these rivers he finds from Pittsburg down TO
New oriesns, succession of large towns sur
passed only by few Of the Atlantic cities /;
growing fast into rivalry with so.ne OF them
and alresdy rich not merely in wealth, bat IN
all the rsfinemeEts of life, and in all the instr
tpfte"s that adern The nature of social, intsliee
tuai, neral and religious man.
Such a spectacle Cannot be oonie mplsted
without mingled feelings of asionlshment and
gfatilcaiioa. am sure you will pardon ne Tor
adding, nat il enhanced the pleasure with which
son OF New England contemplAtes it TO had
that among those, who have swelled the nun
bers OF this great fanny who have come not
merely to share your prosperity, but ia former
days TO partske ths more doubtful fortunes OF
the early settlements, are net iew OF the chill
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