The native American., 1837-09-23
FOUNDERS OF THE REPUBLIC.
From hnapp's Lectures on anerican Literat,


gorged from the mother country to keep the remaining
population sound and pnre; they weie not surplus
mass throWn on TO prevent national apoplexy or po-
litcai .spaams; such population sometimes went
from Atilca to take possession Of the islands in the
numerous seas about them or TO The more distant
shores Of Africa; nor were thew sent by the parent
country to extend her commerce, or to gain footing
on or near the territories Of other nations.
They did not come to this country as the Spanish
and French colonists TO the !. summer isles" aured
the golden dreams OF avarce, by the glowing de-
scrptions OF the luxnraAce Of the soil Astounding in
perpetual fruits and flowers; an earthly paradise,
teemIng with all that could satisfy the appetite or re-
gale the senses; which for centuries have been the
abodes OF luxury, superstition profigacy, and cme.
NO. the sober calculation of forming thrifty settle
nen', Wnicn would make good home for themselves
and their descendants, operated upon some of the
early colonsts Of this country spirit Of enterprise
natural to enlightened men, induced others come and
see, and in doing this, they became attached and fixed
70 these shores which their posterity now inhabt.
Others mad different motives for emigraton love Of
freedom IN thought and speech. They fully sen
slbie OF their situation They could not anticipate all
the occurrences which might happen in their destnes
but they were determined TO commence upon the broad
prhclpls that knowledge and virtues are the pillars OF
power and security In every national code. They
physical means about them for an ain ost nterminable
increase Of population. The sea was on ne side. and
boundess forests en- the other. Navgable rivers
were moving into the oceans. Nothing but thinly
scattered race OF rude men stood in their way to the
founding OF an empire larger than the world had
seen. Nature seemed to have waited from her birth
until this hour for their coming, to give them possess
sion OF her bounies. This was place for contem-
Plaon, and to originate course Of thoughts upon
political and civil liberty. There were, in these re-
treats no shouts Of the conqueror, Of the
conquered; the time resembled the cool Of the eve
nng and the place ths abode of innocence, when and
where other beings were arrest, and God walked with
man IN his prmeval state. Every thing, in America
was TO be begun, and every thing seemed to depend
upon themselves; with this happy difference however,
between US and those in Paradise for safety and
happiness were to depend upon eating freely Of
the tree OF knowledge, which was forbidden to him
who first sprang from the dust Of the earth. Here
offered the opportunity to cultivate the mind without
the trammels and feiiers which embarrass those born
10 aged and decaying communities. Here, plains, and
wales, and hills, offered opportunities for all the ex-
periments Of agriculture. No Agragan law was need.
Cd to give men an equality; there was passed al
ready by nature without stint. The sites for cities
we're unoc:upied; and they exercised their judgments
upon this sub1ecto proper place to build them with
out statutes or restraints. The political compact was
TO be formed and altered as the covenan,ers could
agree; for there other lawgver than their
understandngs-no Solons bnt their own wisdom--n
Lycurguses, but the severe discussions Of their
Judgments. There was syren to allure Their, from
their duties to the rocks which they might sleep
I'll ter locks Of strength were shorn There were no
fashion might glide TO wound their naked feet with
sharp stings. Incidence to them would have been
death; and labor, that supposed man, a
blessing. Thus stripped Of every shacke. they be-
gan their work of founding empire By the lights
emitted from their minds shall trace the path they
pursued, and the deeds they performed The light Of
The sun passes away it'll the going down Of the same
but the accumulated light Of successive ages Of intel
ect, like the precious stones which adorn the city of
God, chases away all darkness, and beams in eternal
splendor.
The introduction of bill in the Senate Of the Unit
ed States to forfeit the charters Of such Of the Banks
in the district Of Columbia as do moi resume specie
payments within thirty days after the passage Of the
bill is calculated to do great injury those insiitu-
tons, and through them the nhabianta Of the Dis
srict-although the bill may not, probable it
will not, be passed.
1t is not and cannot be practicable for the District
banks TO resume specie payments, until the banks
generally, north and south Of them, shall simutane-
ously resume The introduction Of The bill has already
had the injurious effect Of preventing free circula
tion of their notes in this city, as before its introduce
tion.-BaAimore Gazette.
EXTRAORDINARY AsCENsIoN.-Whi Mr..
q. Milchell was about to enter his balloon at Fair
mount, Baltimore, on Thursday afternoon, lady by
the name Of Warren, stepped up to the car from out
Of the crowd and politely insisted taking Mr.. and
Ms place The spectators seemed disposed to second
sened. The balloon let off; but the lady was too
heavy, and il came DOWN Nothing daunted, she threw
out The sand bags and wentup rapidly great ele.
vation The current OF wind foaed the eral voyagress
over the city, where she was sscalm summers
morning." waving her white handkerchief to those be-
low, and from time to time throwing out ballast. AT
sunset she had reached north Of the city, but still
up at great hight.-Neu York Star.
THE NEW STEAM SHlP.-Tt is known 10 the
most Of our readers that Capt Cobb Of New York has
lately built steamboat 10 aeross the Atlantic -
The following is description or the boilers which are
peculiar.
There two cylinders. one within the other; the
outer forming The boiler and the inner one the
furnace Across the bottom Of the inner cylinder. is
gate; and this inner cylinder is supplied from with.
out, at the lower end with atmospheric air, and at the
upper with fuel The supply Of atmospheric air comes
from bellows pipe or blowing cylinder below, aud
enters the furnace in two streams. one underneath the
gate to act upon the fuel and above, 10 act upon
the smoke. The cylinder containing the fire, being
thus surrounded by the cylinder containing the water
The heat is communicated TO the boiler from within
upon the primitive principle by which barbarians heat
cold water with hot stones, and the temperance
people make fpp with red hot pocker Thus the
necessary loss Of heat, when communicated from the
outside is entirely avoided.
Across The pipe for dropping down the fuel in the
l.