Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1839-05-16
From The Pennsylvania Inquirer,
THE WORLD ABROAD,

Lord Durhans's report OIL the Canadas
was circulating far and wide, and appeared
To excite much attention. The London
Weekly Despatch gives an extract which
is particularly eloquent, and will he read
with pleasure on this side ofthe water. 1t
runs beautiful parallel of The effects of
Colonial and Republican Government. as
exhibited in the case of the United States,
and the British Provinces in America
The Despatch copies it. with a remark,
that "it is for the English people to decide
whether they like monarchy or republi-
canism, at least in The Colonies" The
passage will be found below.
'.On the American side all is activity
and hustle The forest has been widely
cleared; every year numerous settlements
are formed, and thousands of farms are
created out Of the waste; the country is
inlersected by common roads; canals and
rail roads are finished, or in the course OF
fornalion; the ways Of communication and
transport are crowded with people, aud en-
iivened by numerous carriages and large
steamboats,. The observer is surprised
at the number Of harbors on the lakes, and
the number of vessels they contain, while
bridges. artificial landing places, and COM
rnodious wharfs are formed in all direc-
tions as soon as required. Good houses,
warehouses, mills, inns. villages, towns,
anil even great cities, are almost seen to
spring up out of the desert. Every vii
lage has lis school house aud place of pub
lie worship. Every town has many of both,
with its township buildings, its book stores,
and probably one ortwo banks, aud news
papers, land the cities with their fine church
es, their great hotels, their exchanges,
court houses, and municipal halls, ofstoift
or marble, SD new and fresh as TO mark the
recent existence Of rhe forest where thew
now stand, would he admired in any part OF
the Old world. On The British side of the
line, with the exception Of few favored
spots, where some approach to American
prosperity is apparent. all seems waste
| and desoIate. There is but one rail road
in all British America, and that, running
between the ST. Lawrence andLak Cham
plain, is only Is miles long. The ancient
city Of Montreal which is naturally the
'obutCiCiui Copitoi WI lIc CdildudS. VIII
moi bear the least comparison in any res
pect with Buffalo, which is a creation OF
yesterday. But it is not in the difference
between The larger towns on the two sides
that we shall find The best evidence of our
own inferiority. That painful but unde-
niable truth is most manifest in the country
districts through which the line of nation
al separation passes for 1000 miles,
There. on the side Of both the Canadas,
and also of New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia. widely scattered population, poor,
and apparently unen,erprising though
hardy and industrious, separated from
each other by tracts Of intervening forests.
without towns or markets, almost withou,
roads, living in mean houses, drawing Ill
tie more than rnde subsistence from i'll
cultivated land and seemingly incapable
ofimproving their condition, present the
most instructive contrast TO their enterpri-
sing and thriving neishbors on the Ameri-
can side"