Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-11-30
From The London New Monthly for October
ANTI-INNOvATOR.

Plague take the world. why cannot it stand
still, and 90 OH as il used to do when was boy:
What do the people mean by the progress OF
events and the march of intellect What good
ever came by changess How is it possible that
any man can be wiser than his father! where can
a man get his wisdom from, but from his father!
and his father cannot give him more than he has
got to give. All dear! ali dear! remember the
time when the parish beadie was man OF some
consequence, when lord was a thing to he star
ed at and sight to be talked about--aDd the
Kins!-Why no man in his senses ever thought
of the King but with the prOfoundest respect.
Every day after dinner, as soon as my iather haa
said grace, he poured out bumper OF port and
drank "Church and King" 1t did ones heart
good to see and hear him; 1t was as good as a
Sermon. The wine itself seemed conscious Of
the glory of its destination to be swallowed not
unbiest, and it looked bright in the glass and
seemed to dance with eagerness to meet his lips:
But now O. days if l venture to toast Church and
King. am forccd to do it in hurried. irrell-
yious sort of way, with kind of sheer, as much
rs to saw. it's all in nv eve; or my boy Tom will
lauob at me and drunk the majesty OF the people.
The majesty Of the people indeed! l should
like to see il. There used to be some reverence
shown to lords in former times. but how are they
treated now Snubbed at by the newspapers,
eIbowed i'm the streets, qulZZed IN ep'Srams'
pepperea-with pamphlets, shown up IN novels,
robbed of their boroughs: and threatened win
appihilation. People call that the march oi in'
teIlect-I call it the march OF insolence. When
I was a bow, all the books we had IN the mouse
were the Bible and Prayer Book and the Court
Calendar: the first contained our rei'g'on' ana
the last our politics: as Tor literature "nat d'u
we want with it? 1t is only the means OF turn
nOt1O0S
into peopIe:s heads, that would never get there
without.
An the evils that are in the world came by inno'
va,ion; and there is no part ct the world Tree
from innovation, neither the heavens above nor
the earth beneath, nor the waters that are under
the earth. What business have men up IN the
air with balloonss What good can they get
Iherel What do they go there for, but merely
to come down and perhaps break their necks!-
They would be much safer on dry ground. Our
anccstors usetl to be content with the sun, and
'"osn' and stars, and four or FIVE planets; now
forsootA the impairment ones must De Pokins
.h.;- ,e,escopes I'D to the sky and discovering
new nlanets almost every night, as u we HAD not
got as many planets already as we could 40 wlth'
Steam En.iues-I do not think we should ever
have heard a word about Parliamentary heiorn''
IS had not been for steam engines. L nope
MIR. Coiburn will not have his magazine WIN 'hls
article printed with steam PRESS ior ne uoes'
shall not dare to read it for fear Of being blown
nm What did We want with steam enslness-
hid we not beat the French without steam en-
c;nes7 To be sure we did. hate innovations.
3.hould lust like to know what Is to become oil
ali the hackney coach horses, if we are to have
",..m carriages. TIE poor beasts looks halt
s,.ryed As il is; they will be ten times worse 1t
tSey are turned out to make roo" for steam en- ::
sao and what shalt we do for dogs meat IT
sshsrs ara no horses TO cut up? Then we must