Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-03-12
OUR OWN COUNTRY.


We make the following extract from
all article entitled "Our orn Couni,y,"
IN the knick eibocker of January 1t is
written AS finely as any thing We have
cad for u season. The writer wields a
ready pen, and is alive to the impulses
of generous humanity. We would put
the ISLANDERS aud sarcasms Of the whole
host Of transatlantic delamers in one
scale, and the noble article from whi h
the following extract is made in the 9TH
er, and demand favorable decision be-
fore any respectable tribunal in any ma
lion Oh ealth. And yet there is not a
word in it OF that lawyer like logic which
seeks to establish the worth Of one man
or one country, by the worthlessncss OF
another. 1t is AN eloquent expose Of the
growing greatness of our own country.
If we do not greatly err, il is from the
pen Of Edward Everett. 1t is evidently
the production of man who has seen
"many cities and many men," who has
travelled from Mexico to Maine, and
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi; and
who knows, more especially, to clolhe
his thoughts Gin words that burn, -
We regret that we are not able to give
the whole article: I.NoyoM Beacon.
81 never shall forget the rapture Of a
traveller, who left the green parks of
New Orleans cally in March-that land
Of the orange and the olive, then teem-
ing with verdure and the freshness Of
life, aud, as it were mocking him with
the mid Summer of his own Northern
home. He journeyed leisurely toward
the region of ice and snow, TO watch the
building Of the young flowers, and to
catch the breeZes of the spring. lie
crossed the Lakes Pontchartrain and
Bergu; he ascended the big Tombeck-
bee in comfortable stcam-boat. From
Tuscaloosa, he shot athwart the wilds OF
Alabama, over Indian grounds. that
bloody battles have rendered ever me
morable. lie traverscd Georgia, the
Carolinas, ranged along the base ofthe
mountains Of Virginia-and for three
months and more, he enjoyed one per-
petual, one unvarying, overcoming
sprng-that most delicious season OF the
year-tilI by the middle of June, he
found himself in the forge Of the Passa-
maquoddv, where tardy Summer was
even then hesitating whether it was time
to come. And yet he had not been off
the soil of his own country! The flag
that he saw OH the summit of the fortress,
on the Lakes near New Orleans, was
the like of that which hoated from the
staff on the hills of Fort Sullivan, in the
eastermost extremity Of Maine ) and the
morning gun that startled his slumbers,
among the rocky batllements that defy
the wid-tides of the Bay Of Fundy was
not answered till many minutes alter, on
the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. The
swamps, the entertainments, the cane
breaks, of the Father of waters, on whose
muddy banks, the croaking Alligator
displayed his ponderous jaws--the cot
ton fields, the rice grounds Of the low
southern countrv-and the vast field OF
wheat and corn in The reg ion Of the
mountains, were far, far behind him.
and he was now in IA lIyperborean land 4,
where nature wore a rough and surly as
pect, and cold soil, and cold cline,
drove man to launch his bark upon the
Ocean, to dare wind and wave, and to
seek from the deep, in fisheries and
from freights, the treasures his own
home will not give him. Indeed, such
Journey as this, in ones own country,
TO an inquisitive mind, is worth all 'the
tours of Europe" If young Ameri-
can, then, wishes to feel the full impor-
tance of an American Congress, let him
make such journey. Let him stand on
the levee at New Orleans, and count
the number and the tiers of American
vessels that there lie, four, five and six
thick, on its long embOnkment Let
him hear the puff, puff, puff, Of the high
pressure steam boats, that come sweep
ing in almost every hour, perhaps from
port two thousand miles off'--irom the
then frozen winter Of the North, to the
still burning summer Of the South-all
inland naviga cation, fleets Of them under
his eye-splendid boats too, many ol
them as the world can show, with ele-
CANT rooms, neat berths, spacious sa-
looms, and costly piano, it may be
50 that travellers of both sexes, car
dance or sing their way to Louisville, as
if they were on party Of pleasure
Let him survey all these as they come
in with products from the Red River
twelve hundred miles in one direction
or from Pittsburg, Pennsylvanla, tive
Thousand miles i'm another direction