The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-08-27
Saratoga Corresp0ndence-No. o.
U. 8. HorxL, SARATOGA. oath August, 1874
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The Americans resemble in their general char
acters the remainder OF the human family. Other
People there are, of the same language,
blood and lineage, of the same religion,
laws and habitudes. They are given by their
Maker the same "hands, organs, dimensions, pas
sions-fed with the same food, hunt with the same
weapons, subject TO the same diseases, heated by
the same means; warmed and cooled by the same
winter and summer. If you prick them, do they
not bleed? II you tickle them, do they not laugh!
II you poison them, do they not die? And It you
wrong them, do they not revenge r. In all these
points and many others they agree, but they differ
in this that of all the jewellers the vast convex-
ty of this terraqueous globe they, indisputably a
shrewd race, are the most extensively humbugged
and most thoroughly quackndden people. Quack-
cry overspreads the land like pestence City,
town and village are rife with it. The blue waters
of lake and river bear il on their bosom, and the
iron road is conscious of its weight. The Charla-
tan is abroad! In the Senate, he ouibawls the pa
triot and the statesman! He invades the profess
sional chair and parches up the sources of public
instruction He mounts the pulpit and poutes
the fountains of Divine Truth, turning their pure
waters into the strong wine of Fanatcism This
multiform Demon is omnipresent. No age escapes
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he ushers into life the citizen-infant Assuming
the sacred arb of the schoomaster he takes charge
of the citizen-boy. In protean variety Of shapes
he fleeces the citizen-youth into that experience
which, costly as it is, scarcely enables the citizen
man to escape his wiles Present at the last scene
of all the bedside Of the departing citizen, he adj
ministers the potion which dispatches his victim
TO the only place where the Charlatan will trouble
no more.
Quaclery is rampant in the land. Elsewhere
the charlatan pursues his future calling in secret.
He shuns the light, and, like certain reptiles, only
issues forth under the cloak of night. He dwells
in dark holes and hidden places and wells his pro-
ceedings under cunningy devised DISCUSSES He
pays that tribute to real genius which vice does to
virtue, by trying to his utmost to assume at least
Its name and external appearance. But here he
takes no such trouble. He filings off the cloak, and
with unblushing efrontery, walks forth in the high
ways in broad noontide. His livery is seen in
every street-his sign hangs at every corner, and
he appeals in colossal characters from every wall
Far from Disgusting, he glories in his calling
With Snake, in the comedy, he demonstrates
against good reputation,
"Ah sir consider live by the badness Of my charac
ter; l have nothing but my infamy to depend on !"
The moral habitude is reversed here. Instead Of
the pretender trying to copy the accidents genius
genius often in its own defence compelled to resort
to the instruments, and to adopt some of the less
odious measures OF the rank swarm with which he
is surrounded and overpowered. He is not equally
expert, however, in their use, and yields them
to comparatively small profit. A system of me-
chansm of consummate art is wrought by the char.
latan by which the whole national press is reduced
to subserviency to his ends No journal, however
honest, can avoid the predicament of forwarding
his ends and the venal participate literally in the
odious gains, the amount of which they are instru-
mental in swelling. The effects are commensurate
to such unwearied activity. He rises to an emf
hence compared with which the brightest hopes of
legitimate professional genus are mere beggary
lie rolls in his chariot, dwels in palace and dies
millionaire "The charlatan is abroad!''
AN EUROPEAN TRAVELLER.
CANADA RIoTs.-H reports be true, the Cana
dams, without question, must be possessed Of most
pugnacious dispositions, for every paper which ar
rives from those regions, north Of As, bring word
Of riots outrages-insurectlo in miniature-not
to speak of the bitter and despicably abusive alter
cations of those men of the quill, between them
selves, who take such pains to publish and para
phrase the contentious of others. If, in the mid
die Of the four five months which that rigorous
and frozen climate allots to the uses of industry
if, in the very meridian of business--of hay-ma-
king and the harvest, and with current Of specie
flowing in from the Golfers of the truly aectionate
g. mother country" for the purpose of carrying on
public works for the especial benefits of these
spoiled pets-if, 1t may be asked, they cannot be-
have quietly, decently, discreetly, thus brbed by
the seasons and John Bull, Cloth alike volage and
whimsical,) what will be their conduct when those
sedatives are about or exhausted? What will be
the demeanor of those promising Provincial youths
in state of social maturity, if in:this their years
Of adolescence, they are kicking and tearing each
others eyes out, for no other apparent reason, than
that they are in the somewhat ludicrous condition
of the tailor who proclaimed himself blue-moulded
for want of beating
These thoughts are suggested by reading in the
Canada papers narratives Of attacks by the Orange
men on the Catholics-retaliation on the part Of
the latter, and the turbulent conduct OF the Irish
aborers on the canals, who, by last accounts, seem
to have turned out for higher wages. Judging from
the style OF these narratives one is inclined to sup
pose that they were written in spirit not very
friendly to the workmen. We are disposed to
think so for another reason, and that is, that we
have had about year end a half ago, an opportu-
nifty Of knowing, by personal observation, the true
state Of the case, andh caring great deal not only
OF the cause Of these violent demonstrations of the
canal men, and also the hostile disposition evinced
towards them by a majority of the papers OF Mon.
treal especially. We have it from UNREASONABLE
authority that the origin of these strikes arose
out of the paltry and dishonest attempts of pet.
tyfogging contractors to pay the men in pro.
visions at an exhorbitant price instead Of money. =
Oher causes afterwards contributed, but they were
only Of a secondary nature that for instance sup
piled by the foolish rivalry between Cork and Con
naught. These occurring at time Of political ex
element, were expertly made the subject of ex
travagant and inflated Misrepresentation by the