Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-08-07

lcry or the InlaEtry the cavalry or The
eng inccrs n broad. sword or pistol,
kings-arm or n spade, are equally !anil-
lar to his hand There is Johnson, the
gallant colonel; the lndian-killcr. lie
has fine head and a good countcnance.
lie is writing kind things to his conslii-
ucnts. lie has half dozen messenger
boys at his side, troiling at wink, sand
ing his letters, folding them, OF burrying |
away TO stamp them with the "U. $"
seal. There is Edward Everett, the ac-
complished scholar, the fine writer In
decd, you might as well throw the muse
of history into a caravan, or put him on n
"broad horn" on the Mississippi, with
huge pine for rudder, and c'nc-brake
for bundle Of quilts. Crockett, there,
is better Neptune, and holds s,eadi-
or trident And when a man can grin,
and Gght--nog n steamboat, or whip his
weight in wild cats, what is the use Of
reading or writing There ia Wayne,
an accomplished man and Wilde, fine
scholar, poet, and as civil Georgian,
too. Binncy is there, n gravc-looking
man mighty logc-chopper. But l
must pause for what a mass Of repre-
sentatives there arc here What sin
guar samples Of our vast country -
Here sits II Tcnnesseean, and there a
+ NIissourian, educated among bufialoes, !,
and nurturcd in the forest; as intimate
, with the passes Of the rocky mountains,
as the cit with Broadway; who lives
where hunters and trappers have vexed
every hill, and who cares no more for
$ pawnee. than a proiessed beau Tor
= bright plumcd belle. Here is man
c from the prairics; and there another from
J., the swamps and morasses, whose blood
: the musketocs have utterly stolen away
: There is a sallow face from the rice
d grounds, and here the flushed cheek
$ from the mountains; and by his side a
: man from the pine grounds; the land OF
= tar and turpentine.
h What u people we are! what coun-
q try is this Of ours! How wide in extent
5; how rich in productions; how various II
, beauty! have asked in my travels, 70
G. the west, in the streets of the queen q
g :; thc west: fairy city, which but os yes
ps tcrday was a wilderness. They smiled
l. at my inquiry, and said it was among
n, the "stoosiers'' Of ofIndana, or "thc suck
* crs" of Illinois. Yhen ] journeyed long
- crossed great rivers, and broad pral
of rics, and again asked for the west
n They said it was in Missouri l arrived
:" at its capitol. They complained tha
s. they were "ioo far down cast" Bu
90, thev said, you would sec the west
of days and days, and hundreds and hun
tn dreds of miles up the Missouri, farthe
r. than from us to New-England, and be
s, yond the rocky mountains, and amon
he the Snake Indians, of the Oregon, an
~ you may Gad it there. 1t was the wor
lrs of dozen years TO find the west, and
or turned about in despair. Indeed, ! hav
a found no bounds to my country. l hav
- searched for them for months, IN almo'
X. every cline; under the torrid sun
nd Louisiana, the land Of the orange an
on the olive, and beneath the cold SKY
> Maine. ! have seen the rice plantt
20 gathering rich treasures from bountli
,p- soil, and the fisherman anchorlng his Ii
nv tie bark on the rocky island, droppiI
l his hook as carefully as if the ocei
,ut were full of pearls, and not ot--mac
Ire erel. have seen the mill man, sawir
at wood in all variety of forms, on the ia
ut thest of New-Eng gland; and have b
ne held the same wood floating down Il
his Savannah, or the beautiful Alabama,
len the strangest metamorphoses; it may b
yer in a clock, regularly ticking oil the tim
cr- or in pail: pcrchance, in button; al
il for aught ] know, in tastcless ham,
la an unfragrnnt nutmeg! l have new
al .a;l Of, cpnntry.
oct yet have seen the sun go down, OF
in offre, without moments twilight, flrn
,irit ing over rich, alluvial lands, bloom'l
ius, with magnolias and orange trees
of robe Of gold; and again, have stood Il
, I on the bare rocks of colder climcs, al
no. when the trees were pnched by the ca
$ 10 ly frost, ! have marked the same vans
i'm. inc rays reflected from the leaves, rs
1t is n thousand birds of paradise were resti
ne. . in the branches; and when the clou'
hen streaming with rcd and purple, and BIZ
, is tingcd and tipped with the pencil
ical beauty, were floating alar, like ralnbo
cry in motion, as if broken from their CO
ct fincmcnt, now mingling and lnlerlaci
the their dyes, and glitcring arches, ana
- non sprinklcd over, and mcllowlng !
of, whole heaven; then ] have fancled IL
IIo- was indeed in fairy land, where
axe very forests danced in golden robes,
his spending to the setting sun, as The 81
ont uc oC the tabled Memnon gave forth
Nc welcoming notes, as the rays OF the mo
nan ING played upon its summit. hD
the been where the dog-star RACES, scatt
man ing pestlencc IN lis train; where
rn NJ Long ,nnss hnnus from the trees; VIII