The Arkansas advocate., 1830-05-26
MR. JisF EissoiS 5 WORK v6Isfss5.--is ssa
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 addressed to a gentleman in this City; and shows the impression which Mr. Jeiierson's Works sarc producing abroad: We observe that extracts from the Me moirs and Correspondence are in course of publication in the Liverpool Times.
 EXTRACTS.
 ~ A circumstance has arisen, which has revived my determination to write to several of my American friends, and this letter to you shall be first; inasmueh as it was through your suggestion, that l had the honor of a personal introdae- ton to the Great Man, whose cores pondence, finished reading last even ing at midnight caused this determina- ton. The high estimation in which l had long held tic late Mir. Jefferson, rendered il difficult fer 3 Perusal of his correspondence to enhance his worth much in my estimation. Still had no adequate conception previously of his vast assiduity, or of the difficulties he had to surmount in the discharge Of those duties, which were through his in- strumentality destined to solve the great question that Man is "capable of self government. , l267 letters in one year to be read, digested, and answered by a Man of 78 years of age! and such let tcrs too, as he had writteni! Hic La5or hoe opus ea!L The extreme and un- usual severity of the cold, keeps us all just now at our firesides; so that I have not yet had much opportunity of iudg- ing of the effect that will be produced on the public mind in England. I can, however, venture to say that it will be great and truly beneficial to the cause of suffering humanity. The financial difficulties of the country, and the feel ing which is at length beginning to be excited towards investigating their eau ses in quarters where l never expected to see such subjects mooted, induce q general belief that some great change is approaching. Whati will be, Heaven only knows! Happy would it be for the nation, if a majority of its influential menpossessed tae talents, the sentiments, the energy and above ali, the virtuous, unbending integrity of the sage of Aion- ticcllo!l This is too much to be expect | ed. Nevertheless, the perusal at such Q crisis of such a work, cannot be with- out its influence on thinking men. I wish that one deficiency had been sup piled by the Editor. admire the re- publican plainfess Of thesuperscriptiens, but then much of the interest of many of the letters is lost for want Of knowing the local residence and official charac- ter of the person towhom MT. Jefferson was writing. 1 feel this very sensibiy, and fancy there are not many English men better acquainted with the United States, than myself. An attachment to its institutions was easily instilled into my mind, and the day has not, during the forty years that have since elapsed, yet arrived that my desire for an in- fcreasing acquaintance with the country has abated. Ny four years tour through 1 the United States, carried me over near 1 ly lS,000 miles of your States and Ter ritories, during which, l visited every one of the former, and two of the latter and am not without hopes, that may still be able to add to the quantity of my personal knowledge of this rising country, which is, ] hope, destined to be blessing to the world. Onreading these valuable letters, a thought struck me, that 1t was truly fortunate event for your country that Gen. Washing ton prevented the return of Mir. Jeffer- son to France in the year l790. His attachment to the great leaders of French liberiy-his frmness, and decid- cd hatred of tyranny, whether under a Republican disguise, or in a Monarchi- cal 6ress--the esteem in which he was held by Lafayette, and his distinguished compeers-and the circumstance oftheir being so much in the habit of consult ing him-would have certainly marked him out for the vengeance of Jaeobins.
 His destruction would have been quite as necessary to the scheme of Robes piere as was that of Bailey, and other virtuous men of France"
 "l did think, from the leading fea- lures of Capt. Basil Hail's Work or South America, that his Travels would have been an impartial statement, but in this respect, ] am grieyously disap. pointed. He went out with the feel. ings of an Aristocrat, and determined panegyrist of an Established Religion and his work is, as it is well said by a