The people's press, and Addison County Democrat. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1838-1841, 1841-05-11

60 further, affirm that there is no well
governed nation in Europe where the public
interests of the great mass of the people have
been so entirely neglected, on the one hand, or
sacrificed on the otherto the spirit of party am
biton and party immortality, 10 such degree
as they have been in this self clarifying, but
! i'll governed and ill.used nation.
| For the last three years Congress have been
| in session about eighteen months, and they
| have had under consideration many ques.
| tons Of great importance to the welfare of the
nation, which might have been brought to a
conclusion, and if settled on just principles
to which there were, in truth, no other obstacles
than the existence of a criminal degree of party
spirit-would have prevented many ofihe evils
we now labor under, and remedied, in adegree,
others, whose existence they could not entirely
have prevented.
But what have they done during the debates
be required by body of honest, industrious
and intelligent men, TO administer the affairs Of
| 10O,00o,000 Of peoplel What have been the
results Of those acres, miles, and leagues of
speeches, reports, and orations, which have
cost the nation so many millions of dollars-and
which, instead of diffusing useful knowledge Of
public affairs among the people, served rather
to stir up party feelings, by appeals 10 the worst
passions ofthe most ignorant and unprincipled
portion of the nationl There has been no result
of useful nature, none other, indeed, than what
were deemed necessary for the promotion Of the
| personal and party views of large majority of
| the individuals composing that once dignihed
and useful assembly, but now mere "political
caucus" for the originating and promoting of
party feuds and private and political schemes,
| which for the most part have no reference TO
the welfare ofthe nation. They could agree in
nothing but in the passage of acts appropriating
the public money. and on these occasions there
was no want of zeal or neutrality-suspicious.
| Courier.
A national BANK.-The business com.
munity, and in fact all practical men feel
and acknowledge that N. Bank is the on.
| ly panacea for diseases which have eaten
into the very vitals of our national prosper.
ity. The Richmond Compiler in discussing
the propriety of such an institution says,
The arguments which its original advo.
Gates adduced to prove it constitutional,
are now approved by men who never be.
fore admitted their force, and from Maine
to Georgia new converts are daily declar.
ing that they believe National Bank essen.
tial to carry out the powers delegatedunder
the Constitution. We feel satisfied that
this revolution in popular sentiments rev.
olution which is the inevitable consequence
of the events of a few years past-wlll
ensure in a few months the incorporation
of a National Bank, and that calm will
| f1Il 81,
ural channel; and our country resume the
quiet and even tenor Gifts prosperity" IN
| Y. Times.
Moses AND ANTIQUITY CONSISTENT. In
the last century, the books of Moses were
often attacked and their authenticity i'm
pugned, because they mention the existence
Of vineyards, grapes. and consequently of
wine, in Egypt; for Herodotus expressly
declares there were no vineyards in Egypt,
and Plutarch AYERS that the natives OF that
country abhorrcd wine as being the blood
of those who rebelled against the GODS
This authority appeared conclusive, not
merely to the sceptlcs who impugned the
veraci!y of the Pentateuch, but even to the
learned Mch9lis, who concluded that the
use OF wine was enjoined in the sacrifice for
the purpose of making broad distinction
between the religious usages of the Israel
its and the Egyptians. The monuments
opened by modern research have decided
the controversy in favor Of the Jewish Le-
gislator. In the subterranean vaults at Ell
litnyia every part of the processes connec-
ted with the dressing and tending of the
vine are faithfully delineated, the trellices
on which the vines are trained, The care
with which they were watered, the collec-
ton of the fruit, the treading of the wine
press, and the wine in an,phorg. or vases,
are there painted to the life; and additional
processes of extracting the JUICE from the
grape are represented, which seem to have
been peculiar to the Egyptian people. Mr.
Jomard adds, that the remains of amphorn
or wine vessels have been found in the ru-
ins of old Egyptian cities, which are still
encrusied by the tartar deposited by the
VINE. 1t is necessary to account for the
error in which Herodotus has fallen,-he
wrote long after Egypt had been distracted
by civil wars and then subdued by the Per-
slams; calamities quite sufficient to account
for the disappearance of such highly artif-
cial cultivation as that of the vine must have
been in Egypt. His statement is most
probably correct. if it be limited TO the Pc
Rod when Herodotus wrote, land thus view
ed, it becomes important evidence for the
superior antiquity both of the Bible and the
Egyptian monuments.-Tdylor's Natural
History Of Society.
REPEAL OF THE UB-TREAsURY. The
House of representatives of Pennsylvania
had passed a resolution, which had been
nreuiousl,r acted On In the Senafn instruct