The Arkansas advocate., 1831-08-24

idlo iS quoted pNs tllt &uarteflY IS sneerlne al his cos.s.aa.,-
 men; asneer, says the reviewer. .against a popular vanity of the most conceited people, perhaps that ever existed, tho saPtain Halls friends across the At- iantle are still atfve na .R0vashi,ag. "-
 The elegance of this phraseology is or 1 q ? par with Is justice. but much may be forgiven, at this moment, to this ar- istocratic organ, whose whole tone and manner betray diseo.aiiturc. s,t,nre- hension and fretfumess; and which. in the agony of its fear ofretorm. wonders. seolds, begs, explains, abuses, promises and threatens by turns. It's hatred of popular institutions follows il even into its critical laeubations, for this sneerat America. occurs iA dissertation on the Greek drama. The reviewer elevaies AfistophaposiDto poltiealphilosopher. and, in his fi4gry impatienee, says that t'fss sniaii Pofiioiroi ilim that tlas come down to us, is Of more importance to-the world ''than half the Writings of the Fathers;n because, without his deiinea- lions ot the Atheniah popuiace, De mocraey might have played her widest freaks unquestioned, or, zeifh habifual f5sIsehoed, have even challenged the voice of antiquity in. her fayor.n The descendants of Aristophanes, who may probably be found in tic writer for the John Bull, the "Weokl} Messenger, or the "Qnartefly," ought 10 have the star and garter, ald be made peers of the realm, for these Anti Jacobifi strains of their ancestors. The likeness is re- markable; the scurrilous, though per haps less witty followers, accuse Lord Brougham of feonspitang for the educa- tionof the vorkingsclasses.
 But to come back to the point oi our national conceit, il mas De iattered by. what the reviewer says of these tirbu, lent and demoralized Athepians that he compares us to-. ..ll eyer,n he says ca nation so P1veigitfeiieetual shall ever be found again. that straiHs like these, (those of theewitty dramatist1 which, Tor their complete success. must have relied op the understood ocutcaess and 1 previous habits fthe audience, can be saddTessed even to the lowest classes of ] society, auotheH Aristopl1anes may pos slbly arise. We almost thought ihe writcf was going 10 say--among the
 mefieaHs. Bat what is really and emp'faticaily 10 be gathered from this passage, .issa dogma equally impudent, foolish and wicked, put forth on mary other oceasioHs, ard IT many ways, ce- vert or direct,a and which the minions of power assert with more violence IS their' 'desperatepess increase; II is, that the intciiectual deuteness, the educatio% qf the people, is no security for their Egood order; and, by iasiHuaton. that their ignorance k their bliss, and the less they can be presumed capable to know when they are wronged, the more likely they arc to be secured in their rights.
 | The following is an extract from the late number of the. Christian Examiner 1t has allusior4 to our own happy country. Let it be read and talked of l
 s"hiere is q community, we arc aceos. toned 10 say, free, iiourishing and pros porous, beyond all example there never was a country in which all men, iron the highest to the lowest, from the rich est to the poorest, could be more inde pendent. And yet, If we were to trave over this same favored lard, and wer, to inquire into it's real condition, if no
 satisfied with fine landscapes and four
 ishing fields, and goodly dwellings, ane the appearance of well-elad citizens, ,yt
 were to inquire into f..e state of pro perty, and the degree of realindepen 1 dence andcomfortthat prcvaii, we should be astonshed at the appalling amount and distressing burden of pecuniary ob ligaiion. We should find an almost in credible proportion of the communit, laborng under this load and pressure
 Debt, universal debt, would meet us
 whenever we turned our eyes. Tn, farmer owes the trader, the mechafi, owes for the raw material, the trade
 owes the importer. in many districts the country traders will testify that considerable proportion of the debts con 1 tracted for what are considered the ne cessaries of life, lie unpaid for two O
 three years-yes, and they lie in th' shape of mortgages upon real estate
 We have been in some of the most beau
 tiful townships in New-EngIand, an,
 have been amazed, on inquiry, to fin,
 that half Of the farms in them were un