Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-10-18
REwARD1NG EDITORS.

Out plidiItl Ill ally Utll6l SUuutlys NiOu W wv
,ost powerful minds, and 81 the ighest respecta-
bi!ity, are to be f'.nd n the fraternity Of Edi-
tors, and think it service equal to their noblest
efort,, to eniighleu and control the public sent-
ment. The history Of the late Revolution, proves
that their estimate of the Importance Of this pro-
fession was not too high,--since to the influence
Of the press may be traced the sublime results
which have emancpated thirty millions Of people.
.'I was above all things the Liberty of the Press"
remarks Paris Journal, s.by Which and for
which the people have achieved such an astcund-
ing victory" And it's the conductors OF the Press
we may add, who have shared most largely. so
far as Offices are concerned, in the rewards OF
the triumph. We have before US a list OF iwe'hy
seren Editors, who have been called to the man
agement Of public affairs, from the corps OF the
Journal DIES Debats. LIE Temps, LIE National,
Journal de Paris, Courier Francois, Revue
Franchise, Revue Brit,anique, Gazette des Ecoles,
and Constitutional. I'm this lottery" to use
the language of London paper, "the greatest
number of prizes has been gained by the contri-
butors Of the Revue Franchise; two Of whom. NJ.
de Guizot and the Duke de Broglio, are Minis
tiers; three, Protects: and another, NJ. Benjamin
Constant, is President of the Committee of Le-
gislation in the Council Of State. Six great phi
zes, though not equal to the fornerin value, have
also fallen to the share of lie National; and the
lowest on the list is the Journal DIES Debats,
which has gained only one prize, that OF Presi-
dent of the Council Of Public Instruction for NJ
Vlllemain, who is likewise member Of the Coun
Gil of State
We cannot but express our doubts as to the po-
hey which has called to public Offices so many
gentlemen of the editorial profession; and these
doubts are rather confirmed by what we see, from
time to time, IN the Paris journals As we said
before, many of them are gentlemen of the high
est responsibility, talents and wealth, and for
aught we know, may have been appointed to the
station which they occupy from pure regard to
their superior qualifications. But admitting this
to be true, still ii must be regarded as unfurtu-
nate, that the course of appointments should be
SO coincident with the line of single profession,
and assume so much the appearance of reward.
II France initiates at all, we would wish her to
initiate our virtues. and not our faults. A day
of glory has risen upon her, and the world itself
is Interested III the wisdom of her example.
Journal Of Commerce
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From the New York Herald, we copy the fol-.
lowing extract Of an Grafton delivered at New
Haven, on the eth ult. by THOMAS S. GRIMKE,
Esq. OF Charleston. before the Connecticut AL
pha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The title
of the Grafton is ION the advantages to be de-
rived from tie introduction Of the bible and of
sacred Literature as essential parts Of all educa-
ton in litery point of view, merely from the pri-
nary school to the University" The following eX-
tract on the necessity ofpreserving the integrity of
our Federal Union, is the conclusion of the Ora
ton:
''Nor, gentlemen, while we remember our
fellowship. and our common parentage; let US
forget our common inheritance-our country
We cannot honor our country with too deep
reverence; we cannot love her with an affer ton
too pure and fervent; we cannot serve her with
an energy Of purpose or a fathtulness of zeal too
steadfast and ardent. And what is our country?
Ii is not the East, with her hills and her vallies
with her countless sails, and tAe rocky ram
parts Of her shores Ii is not the North, with
her thousand villages, and her harvest home
with her frontiers the lake and the ocean. 1t
isuot the West with her forest sea and her inland
isles-with her luxurant expanses, clothed in the
yerdant corn-with her beautiful Ohio, and her
majestic Missouri. Nor is il vet the South, OPP
nient in the mimic snow of the cotton. in the rich
p!anta ions of the rust!ing grain, and in the gold
en- robes of the rice field. IPhdf are these bit the
sister janlitieY Of ne ereo'er. better. hoHer fam
III, OUR COUNTRY? | come not here to speak
the dialect, VI to i've the cOunsels OF the patriot
statesman. But come, a patriot scholar. to
vndcate the rights. and to plead for the interests
Of 4 acrlcan Literature. And be assured. Gen.
tle'ner, that we cannot, aS patriot scholars, think
100 highly Of that country, or sacrifice too much
Tor her. And let us never forget let us rather re-
member with religious awe, that he Union of
these States is indispensable TO oar literature. as
it is to our national independence and civil liber-
ties: to our prosperity. happiness and improve
ment
lfindeed We desire to behold Literature
like that which has sculptured. with such cner-
gy of xpression-which has painted so faithfully
and wildly the crimes, the vices, the foties of
ancient and modern Europe: If we desire that
our land should furnish for the orator and the
novelist, for the painter and the poet, age after
age, the wild romantic scenery OF war; the gilt
tering march of armies and the revel of the camp;
the shrieks and blasphemies, and all the horrors
Of the battle field; the desolation of the harvest,
and the burning cottage; the storm, the sack. and
the ruin of cities: If we desire to unchan the fu.
rious passions Of jealousy and selhshness, of ha-
tired. revenge and ambition, those lions which