Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-11-21

this, and then say, go and do thou likewise
Tor thou canst.' They taught him to sit down
Told his arms IN replning, querulous istlessness
ana 'ndoIence--to hate all business bat politics,
and to look upon the Commonwealth as his spoil
Ito revolt against his destiny without making
one effort to better his condtion--to blaspheme
the God who had cast his lot in this most bles-
sod otaIl lands--to curse his brother, whose
crime was that he had set him an example of
successful lndustry-to find fault, and virtually
to rebel against the institutions Of his country,
which had protected him in eyely right, and
offered him inducements to the exercise orevery
talent AMI capacity. Instead of putting into
his hands the plough or the spade, the axe or
the plane, instead Of putting him 10 the ship or
the counting house, they armed him with tho
torch Of the ihcendary, and if not with the
dagger of the assassin. yet with the far more
unsparng sword of revolutionary Vengeance !;
and, when they had thus completely corrupted
and debauched him, perverted his understan-
IdIng with the sophiStry of he'll, filled his heart
with the gall Of bitterness, darkened and per-
picked all his views of his own condition and
the condition of society; when they had driven
him TO phrenzy and desperation, and made him
fit only for the cell Of the maniac or the Gelon,
they capped the climax oftheir offences against
society by still greater crme-by tina! mex
plabIe crime Of which the Jacobins Of France
had been said to be gulty-the crime Of rem
doring liberty itse(odious. They blasphemcd
and prostituted the very namer-the sacred
name-ol popular government, and they called
the desper ado, the dupe and the victim Of their
wickedness--'a DEMoCRArn"
National Eanity.--'rhe following are the
remarks Of Mr. Murray, in relation to the ma
tonaI vanity Of Americans:
"There remains one more American char
actorlstic frequently noticed by travellers, on
which wish, in conclusion, to offer an ebserva-
ton. lalude 10 the national vanity with which
the Americans are charged by English writer's.
Its existence and prevalence | admit; but am
very far from vewingit as henous offence,
or deserving the anmadversion which have
been so generally bestowed upon it. Ia truth,
| know notany nation that has ever been dis
tlngulshed in history, where this has not been
a national characteristic; and certainly it has
never been carried to creator height than in
Britain. There is not popular poem, or bal
led, or provcrb, III which our unequaled supc-
rlorlty over other people is not set forth; nei-
Their is there sailor in our feet who does not
believe that one Englishman is equal to three
IFrenchmen, as certainly as three and one
make four. Look again at the gallant nation
last named, and see in their drama, in their bal
leds, in their proclamations, whether it is no,
assumed as an indisputable fact, that Of the
habitabe earth France is the mistress, Paris
the capital.
"No reader who is even slightly acquainted
with the literature of Germany and Spain or OF
ancient Rome and Greece, can have failed to
observe the prevalence Of the same character
istic in all those countries, especially in that
lust mentioned. The Athenaus, not content
with asserting their superiority in arts and
arms over all the nations which they designa-
ted as ."barbarous," would not even admit Of
with tho rival community Of Lace
demon. The phosophic Thucyddes prefaces
an eloquent speech which he records of Brasil
das, the Spartan commander, with this paren-
thesis, 'lor he was not bad speaker, so far as
a LacedHmonian can speaks
Son the above grounds, | am disposed to
view in more favorable light that national
vanity with which Americans are charged by
most travellers. Sometimes vanity will adopt
inc motto ESSe guam CtdeTt, ana then IL oe-
comes one Of the MODEST impulses that can an
innate the breast If were an American,
confess | should be proud ofmy country-proud
Of its commercial enterprizes-of its gigantic
resources-of its magnificent rivers, and for
ests, and scenery-stlI more proud should | be
Of its widely dif'used education and indepen-
dence, and Of the imperishabIe memory of its
heroic father and iounder"
*No English words can give the epigram-
matte and contemptuous force Of the original
expression.