Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1846-02-27

the age Of miracles had ceased, and that ability
to teach must now be acquired by the slow but
necessary process of human learning. He begins
to have fmisgivings that he has mistaken his
call, and will probably discover, when too late
to rectif{ the error, that he has spent the best
half of MS life in trying to make auger holes
with a grnlet.
Amusing.
a new work has just been published in Eng
land, entitled, Z" Rambles in the United States and
Canada during the year l845, with a short &C
count Of Oregon" which is one Of the richest pre-
ductions WI have yet had. The low bred vulgari-
ty Of the writer, which this work exhibits, disgust
ingly apparent as it is throughout its pages, may,
nevertheless, be overlooked for the sake of the
amusement which the book will not fail to afford.
Americans can afford to treat this production as a
Joke OF the most amusing kind. a few specimens
| may excite a desire for more. vi the American
people he says
sIThe men are sallow, and the women tallow
the women are wanting in all that makes feminine
character beautiful, and their efforts to supply such
deficiency by art, are totally wanting in the great
artistic qualification, (celaTe artcm) in which the
French excel. The men are merely long, ianky
Yankees, lathy and uncouth, with narrow napes
10 their necks like women. They never have any
boyhood, and never live to grow old. They are
sour and gloomy, not from constitution, but from
habit; have no faith in the power of street music
to lull the senses and open the pocket, their whole
SOtGS bClll9 "luIfSA w ~ 1AC NASN'
dollar they have neither Imagination, nor fancy,
nor tlstc.
"They are truly n vulgar, ignorant, Dragging,
splitting. sickly, melancholy people. Passing their
lives in Il state of mental excitement, some Kill
themselves with drink and some with tobacco;
some are hurried to The cver-yawning gates OF
| their cemeteries by excuses i'll religion or eN-
ccsses in politics; excuses in commerce or eX-
Eesces III saec"Infion: o. tTse~iae;oas ct mind IN
duced by q complication OF these causes. But
1..- =. - - l.,- l;E, ~ d,,orioa Er tho
men are soon dead and soon forgotten. Dueis
and assassiuations also help to thin their ranks;
for, strange as it may appear, it can be proved
that, famous as Italy, Sicily and Spain are Tor the
s~tiletto, there are many more assassinatlons and
s~tabbings in the slave States of America, than in
all those countries put together. This lisa lnelan-
choly truth but as the minds of the masters in
the Southern States insensibly become degraded
BY the nero contact, not to say association.
with beings so degenerated as their slaves, the
moral sense becomes blunted, they care httle for
assassination or murder, and nothing forstabbing
and manning"
"Amcricans are generally vulgar but why
should they be hypocrites i'll the Northern States,
rogues in the middle and ruiiians i'll the South q
Governor Marcy, Secretary of War, says this
writer, with u horror which is exceedingly ludi,
cTous. s sports a g~inghan umbrella" Edward
\. Everett ne calls a Z" Unitarian minister Presi-
dent Polk is ga village lawyers" but to cap the
I climax, President Tyler, or " His Accidency,"
was seen scombiDg his hair with a filthy comb
tied by a piece Of string in steamboat, and WASH
ing himself with a jack-towei used in. common
with fifty dirty passengers.'-M Y. AZ. NerS.
4 Sign in the Paper.
"Neighbor Shoemaker! / see you have a fine
lot objects, bootees, and shoes OH hand all sorts,
sizes and qualities, cowhide, c~alfskin, superine
and extra superfine-for gentlemen, ladies. mis-
SEES, and children. You wish to sell them l sup
pose %
81 perceive you have got a shingle over the
door with the words, Boot and Shoe Store"
inscribed thereon. That I presume, is to inform
the public of your occupation, and to invite them
to give yon a call?s
/" Well, some few ofthose who pass along this
streetwin doubtless notice your sign, and perhaps
come in aud trade with you. But a great many
people will traverse the other streets ofthe town,
who will not see your sign, and they may be in
want of shoes too. You need another sign Mr..
Shoemaker
EThaes a fact, 1 did not think of it before
eco, the first thing and get an advertisement
in your newspaper. Tell the people where you
are, and what you are about, and what varieties
of boot and shoes you keep fol; sale and thatyou
would BE gladt to see them. Thus instead OF bare
1y notifying those who pass along your shop, you
will INFORM the people all around-not only those
who pass along the street, but the farmers andtheir
fa~miliesaway back on the hils-the ladies', me-
EcHanicsand workingmen OF other towns-andh hum
Idreds ofothers and my word for it, one such sign
in die 1ewspaper, will be worth a dozen over your
door,
Faith; Tiltry it before I am a day older.''
And yon, Messrs. Hatters, Cabinet-A1akers,
Tailors, Tinmen, and Saddlers, &c, you've all
got shingles over your doors, as thoueh that would
notify every body in creation. Had you hot better
try a sign in a newspaper, as well as neighbor
Shoemaker?
YouFH.-Youth is the time of enterprise and
hope having yet no occasions of comparing our
force withany opposing powerswe naturally9orm
prescriptions in our favour, and imagine th4t ob-
%struction and impediment viii giveway before us.
The first repnlses rather ~ipiarnes yehemence than
teach prudence. brave andgenernus mind is
long before it suspects its own Weakness, or sub
mits tosa P the difficulties whiclit expected to sub
due b~YYsstorln. Before disappointments have en-
forced the dictates of philosophy, we believe m
our powerto shpFtenthe lnterHathetween the first
cause andthe last effect; we laugh at the time
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