The native American., 1837-08-19

We extract the following beautiful and striking pic
ure of the mutation Of human affairs and the gradual ad
vance of the republican principle, from the book of Mr.
Chevalier, a traveller in the United States.
.sThe revolutions Of ages which remodel religion,
customs and manners modify also the of social
powers Providence casts from their seat the powerful
when they persist in msconceivlng the new spirit OF
the people, and exas the humble whom this new spirit
animates. -Four thousand years ago the functions of
embalmng the sacred Birds preparing the litter Of
the bull Apis, must have been deemed highly impor
tant. In the empire of the East, the post of ropesf
ury was one of the chief dgnities of the state. And
without going far back, scarcely four years have
elapsed Since France the object Of the ambition of
great number was to become tgentihomme de la cham
bre; !; and now, among the grand dignitaries of
the English monarchy figures the groom Of the STOLE
ssNobody nowadays, embalms sacred birds; nobody
prepares the litter of the bull Apis. Intrigues
longer carried on for the posts of proueay or lord of
the bed chamber; and in the way in which matters
going in England don't believe they will be thought
Of much longer for that Of groom Of the stole. There
longer grand consta bles, great vassas,
preur chepaers, nor peers of France, in the former
sense of the word The French aristocracy, so bril-
liant even fifty years ago, has disappeared. The ma
of ancient heroes have become factores converts
are changed into weaving establishments; and have
Gothic cathedrals of the best style transformed
into workshops for storage. Our brave soldiers are
metamorphosed into pacific cantonners and open roads,
sAssemblages of small clerks whom the mobiles used
to employ to record the DEGREES of their sovereign JUS
tce, became rivals Of kings and guardians of the laws
| of the kingdom. Now the master of the forges of
Burgundy and Nvernais, the disers Of Montpelier,
the drapers of Sedon and Ebeu hav taken the place
!. of the paraments German princes with fifty quater-
ings wait in the ane-chambers of emperoIs kings, and
ministers, whilst their majesties or their excelencies
are conversing familiarly with some banker who has
parchments who has but designed to accept them
4 n iUe Tha Fact Ind;
a company of merchants if ever there was one, has
subjects than the emperors of Russia and Austra
put together If in the old world, where the ancient
interest had stamped every corner of earth with its seal
that interest," under all its forms, is thus obliged to
compromise with the interest Of industry with
the power of money, how is it possible that in the new
world, where the institutions of the past have
taken deep root where all thoughts turned to busi
ness, to money, this power should play its part
upon the political stage, in spite Of its adversaries and
. rivals!
"Ial, thin, and careless in his person. the American
seems formed expressly for material labor He has not
his equal for quckness in his operations Of business
NO one adopts more easily new practices he is al
ways ready to modify his proceedings his tools and
to change his occupation He is mechanician in his
soul. With US there is scarce pupil Of the hg,
schools who has not written his vaudeville his ro-
nance, or his monarchical republican constitution
There is not peasant Of Connecticut or Massachu
sets who has not invented his machine. There is moi
man OF any consideration who has not his project Of
railroad, his plan Of village city, or who does
not noursh IN peto some grand speculation upon the
lands inundated by the Red river, the grounds
Of Texas or the Yazoo country the cornfelds of IL
inos. coonizer par ercelnce, the model American
he who is neither more nor less Europeanzed the
pure Yankee, in word, is not only laborer-he is
perambulatoy aborer. He has in the soil; he
stranger to the cultivation of the natal soil and the
paernal domain. He is always in the humor to emf
CRATE, always ready to set off in the frs, steamboat
that passes from places where he has just estab-
lished himself. He is devoured with the love of loco
motion he cannot be still; he go and come, must
keep his limbs in motion, and his muscles in activity
When his feet not moving, he must twitch his fin
gers; with his nseparable knife piece of wood
scrape the back OF chair, nden table, employ
his teeth in chewing tobacco Either because the
Of competition has given him the habit or that
is beyond measure impressed with the value Of time
or that the mobility of every thing around him, well
as of his person, keep his system in per-
peual agitation, or that he is SO constituted by the
hand of nature, he has always something to do is al
ways in hurry. He is fit for all kinds of business
except such require elaborate sowness. These hor-
ry him; these his notion of the Internal regions