The Arkansas banner., 1844-02-20

siC"o, etuuo 'iolioiiS, dliu blind na the mullitude." And he then adls k this tendency is continued and eaa our whole intellectual world = come superficial and void, and am too feeble thing to be worth s ns This is a strong and by no means ing picture; butslet any candid ma round him, and answer, whether s4 {, faithful one; and if so, let him ,ba whether he will lend his voice to Y popular clamor, or singly, if 1t nav ' 1t to vindlcate, what he believes ,a right; for our own part, the ground :, assumed, we are now prepared to dsi But before entering into the prool, substantiate our charge, 1t may not |. to trace the connexion necessanlv Z between the tendency complained If :, want of a national literature; ereatins lation of cause and effect, the latter6s' : cause, the former the effect.
 It is admitted on all hands, thai t great requisite of a free people is the possession of an enlarged intelligence norant people cannot possibly long ea a free people, because, to ensure the n nance of rights, the intelligence to des fractions of them is required and th, pecially the case in country like oun everything being dependent on the m will, it is of vital importance that t. should be guided by the dictates of ans ed and liberal reason.
 The only certain mode of secun desirable end, is by extending to the people the advantages of education mn. by the more obvious means ofprimarys, and colleges, wherein the rudimens are required each mans education, pu lv speaking, only commencing at the of his terminating his collegiate cours by throwing open to the student m literature, wherein works adapted ''form and pressureo of the time and Cd in which he lives. may be found to him his rights and duties both as ms an American citizen. For inlormsl these points, he must turn over in classic pages of antiquity, or the proda of modern authors, living under forms enment totally adverse to our own. enlightened times and countries, this 1| of possessing a national literatnre hj regarded by sagacious statesmen as thing needful, to cement the jarring al| cordanl clements, which constitute ! by feeling which all could share-aA A of national pride in the productions own citizens, forming a kind of neutral g| on which conflicting sects and parties ing aside their differences, might mA friendship, as the tribes of Greece WIFE to assemble at their Olympia. Not valuable on this account, since il is h. enduring, as well as the most useful d' tion's possessions; for, embodying thet thoughts of her most gifted sons, Ii queathed to posteritv, as that nation'sr legacy; the umdying portion of her, vt 10 preserve her memory intact. ong her feats of war and state -craft have hs tered in the ssLimho of Vanities,n , other forgotten things. For does not land owe greater debt to her Snenz her Shakespeare, than to her long line gotten Kings Does not the aatqa even now, seek to trace the records early history on the vivid page of Cf rather shan in the musty tonnes of iheD day Boke, or other pondefous folios, slumber in the dusty hooks of old llb Well did :ha. statesman understand hos lv the character of a nation is tlnged literature. who asked ..to have the maS the songs of people, and he ca-ednf made their laws;" for he knew that tn were engraven only on their memorles the simple songs sunk deep into hear were transmitted to their childrens' ch
 Tried then by this test, whatis the col of our own country3 Does 1t not the strange anomanly of a thriving. ep( and resolute people, whose physical are all supplied by tseir own unaided who claim as their highest privilege, th of governing themselves; yet totally q ent on foreign nations for their intel food thankfully receiving the crumbs fall from the tables of their German, ! or English masters' Well might MT. exclaim, in that noble discoure dely Boston, that ss A nation, skilled in all that multiply physical comforts and c encs, but in which the imaginative lies paralyzed apd lifeless, disturbs us sense of something, incomplete and feet; itreminds us of world wlthol drent"--ratherletus say ofa glgantlcbos feet in all its parts, but moved by a co mechanism and not by living soul, strous Polyphemus, with but single 2. that turned only to the acquisition Of gold-blind to the priceless treasures tellect and heart, which constitute tht true wealth of nation.
 (To De Coniinued.)
 WHAT CONSTITUTES GENTLEMEN Washington correspondent of the New Sun says:
 The Colonization meeting at the | last evening was very interesting. One speakers, with view of knowing ln' fard of morality among the African rfl, their idea of what constitutes gem related the following anecdote y,
 A Missionary, at an interview WlIn the Princes, incidentally spoke oi gentlemen in the United States.
 The Prince said, !" An, I wish gentleman'
 The Missionary was surprised, anu u him if he had not great wealth and pit servants.
 l" Yes,'' said the Prince, "but 'na' not ,,,o1- n ..,o T. rra,,t1 D