The Arkansas advocate., 1835-10-16
Extract from letter to the Editor of the Advocate, dated
BosToN. Anenst 29. lsa5.

an not easy until i have made some ac- Acknowledgements for the favour your letters have conferred on me.
 This Is going 10 be a very rambling let ter-like a drunken sailor hccuping his compass at random. Though this Is the metropolis of the land of church yards and steady habits, its crooked ways are very far from being straight. Boston Is a great cir cumbendibus.-I would as soon be cast adrift in dense forest, without compass, on cloudy day, as to lose sight of my boarding house. The only advantage Is that one Is certain 10 wind round to the old stamping ground. The streets were eYi- dently built without any general design It's founders little thought that ShaW-aaut would be what Boston is. But the appear ance of the city and its enYirons are not the less picturesque in my view, because they have been built according 10 the nature of the ground-and is capabilities" i.gsfrev- ed. Certainly its ever changing variety is more pleasing than the quaker city, laid out at right aDgles-like modern kitchen gar- den in bad taste, with square beds and straight gravel walks.
 There Is so much to interest me-so naa- ny objects of attraction that I have already seen, and so many yet to see, that 1 hardly know winch to speak of. l have visited 1 Faneuil Hall; the Post OfIiee-better con- ducted than any in the Union; the Custom l House-not so much the Custom House, as it's officers and the routine of duty; the Atheneum, the Gallery of Paintings attach- ed to 1t, and the Reading Rooms; to say nothing of Museums and all other gins to ensnare the unwary; and yet, as the nurse- ry rhyme goes of the big bellied hen. who ate "a church and the steeple, and all the i good people" have not half done. I ex- pect to remain here few days longer.-If so, shall endeavor to visit the Navy Yard; the heights around Boston; ihs .ssttifsst7 ] House; the Hospitals; the Asylums and the Churches; tie various Manulactories, and the Schools-for which Boston, above the world, is so deseryedly famous. l am very much disposed at present to study for a few months at Cambridge, after the expi- ration of a year in the law school at New l Haven. For this reason-aud as you are well acquainted with Boston, and all the historical associations of your native State connected with It, 1 shall only state to you 2 few general impressions about New En- gland But even this is difficult; for first impressions, with me, are too apt to assume the form of sweeping conclusions; and though at one moment vivid, when huddled 1 together in my minds wallet as promiscu- 1 ousiy as the contents of a gourmand's s sto- mach, 1t Is difficult to recall them distinctly, in chewing the eud of reflection. Yoaneed not suppose that have been weighing my food, or reading works on gastrodynia.-I sometimes borrow similies from where there's none to lend.
 When first came to the East, New En- gland seemed a strange land--its people a distinct people, agreeing with the far West in nothing but different dialects of the same language, and a few reques Of the common law. Do not look upon this as the passing and forgotten remark of an incousiderate splutterer. There may be other points of resemblance-as there is between the Ame- ricans and their Anglo-Saxon ancestors but they are lost in the wide dissimiafity of climate, of education, and of habit--in the conflicting interests of a manufacturing and an agricultural country. They are con- eealed behind the great landmarks which the god of boundaries has set up through out cur Union, to mark the dividing lines of nations.
 To lover of good order, in distinction from the glorious excitement of stirring and revolutionary times-to one who is trained up from infancy upon the principle of mpli- cit obedience and unqualified submission to the powers that be, whether spiritual or tenn poral-to such as choose to live a little while, to marry and give in marriage--to spend their lives in the same unyarying round of mechanical abors, and be gather ed to their fathers--to them New England ! is the favored spot of Heaven; and it's insti- i tulons bid far to remain unchanged, while succeeding generations come and go like seed time and harvest. If the trade of ''buying cheap and selling dear," has not infected the people of New England with the Carthagenian love of gain, and extin. guished the nobler virtues of self deniaI-- winch more often accompany poverty than wealth-then they are great commercial people. If the manufacturing system-es- pecially when 1t IS fostered at the expense of the agricultural community-be not di- rectly calculated in it's tendency to swell the fortunes of purse-proud aristocracy, while the great mass of operatives are made more than slaves by the gnawings of hunger, and their children the interiors of parental want, of parental infirmities and mental iTn- becility-then the manufactures of New | IT l. .l -I L