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 mestic opinion, ill the United sta,a,.
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 son ;-that the verdict of British .ua absolutely necessary before we can I d to our hearts, and acknowledge w;s the intellectual achievements of ns,ia s.e Alison, in his recent History of s Fa.s work in which 1t is difficult to ess
 the ignorance, or the malignitv of ;b. in all that concerns the United Statps
 est,-adds his testimony to the sam sam He says, "Literature and intelleehsl of the highest class meet with littlo agement in America, the names of S Charming and Washington Irvine. .inds, ply demonstrate that the American sos wanting in genius of the most elpv,' fascinating character, but their work most all published in London-a proof that European habas and a..I necessary 10 their due deuelopmemm the same writers, and thousand mo,. not also published in America Butths ton, and not its correctness, is wbatw to deal with. That 1t is not wholly "j we know-that 1t is sufficiently so baI to prove the servility of an inaueni1 among us, and to justify our comu,,| unhappily, beyond all question. SueI,| dition of dependence must always m, difficult, but not, trust, an impassibpl CT to the moral progress of any nation ,| has not gone through an infancy oijtl It's feelings, tone and character, hove,| ferent may be its necessities, its obie,] climate and condition, will still be imn] and determined, in the absence of al pendent native Literature, by all the a,| which marked it as a colony. Thl severance of that public interest whchll it to the maternal nation, by no mean| stitutes mental, or even political ind, ence; and the enfranchised people, n| most respects, be as thoroughly, if not ! plicitly, the subject people still, as at tt initiating period when their pr6udestd ton was to prove their loyalty unders| and to add the tribute of free gifts, to sparing exactions of power of whn felt little but the weight. It was the of the Mother Country then, as it is hI now, which sought to keep down the al intellect, to suppress thinking, to | every impeachment in the way of knou| and to perpetuate her tyranny over can industry, by paralyzing, to the ! extent of her power, the original ensj American genius. The declaration \ printing presses and newspapers, so \ made by one of the Colonial Gova] Berlley, of Virginia-was the insidl unavowed, principle of the powers VI represented, in all that related to the cd of America. That the colonies shouHl ficered from abroad-that the provicid| neither preside in the cabinet, nor cod in the field, was one of the admirableI by which she contrived for so longs| to maintain this policy. It was thKA of her scheme, however, more than al i ther-more than tea-aets or stampa butcher acts-that led to the final thH off of her authority. It was the natvi of America beginning to assert its cla self-goverment-beginning then, to as politics that which. the same native within the last twenty years, has, ford time, begun nobly to assert for itself ters and the arts. It is still the pol Great Britain that we should not sud this assertion-that we should still subject province, in one respect, ifnd Her thought, on this subject, is yeF the offspring of her wish !
 A native Literature is the means, only means, of our perfect independd Of the importance of this agent to a1 and to the American people in part1 may be necessary that we should ford own views, by reference to those ofaA edly great authority. We are the mol ious to do this, as it appears to us people have really but very impet1 preciation of the subject, and regard strange indifference, as if the matter in any way concern them, the great \ gular struggle, now in progress, betT1 native and the foreign genius ,-the| loci now, for the first time, struggla birth and claiming to be heard and ternal mind, throned in the empire and thought, and upheld by the m masters of art that ever made natlon1 from which we proudly claim to haa| ed all the qualities which should ac'1 the progress of time, a like cmlnenc| genius of our country!
 The ability to create, should be, we thl'| facie evidence of an equal ability to jat1| thing created. The country which prols s| genius cannot be incapable of determining ls One faculty seems inevitably to involve p| The reflection of single moment would N absurdity which denies it; and, if it eanIS the malignant sheer of our enemies, should cient to overcome the doubts and cavils oiOa] OuIAown people, al least, may learn from ul satisfactory lesson of confidence in themse'ss| should tend very much to free them from ls| pations of foreign judgment. But the s!a,1 MT. Alison, quoted above, goes one strioe absurdity. That the writings of the AIae'1 thors are published in London, "is deflNaI Hat European habits and ideas are aeeaSspy | due development" It is impossible to s Il that law of logic is found, which leads 70 s| conclusion. As well may we say that l1' IS,| ings of Walter Scott and Bulwer are Pa".1 New York, it is 60 decisire proef ha z" habits and ideas are necessary to hen a@
 meH." The fact is, that this view ol tas '1 sents an additional argument in Its ia'es from the greater diffusion of their booS Tsa a ~than Is nrahahly the ease ill England. r% of copies in an American edition ol d.
 novel writer is very far greater usaal9 ,' English editions-a fact arising not ron .a I5 rior appreciation of the merits of the sl