Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-08-20

We sometimes think it makes fool of man
to transfer him from the freshness and the free.
dom of the country, to the pcnt.up walls and
crowded streets of a large city. where men are
Nosng each other like flock of sheep;
Not knowing and not caring whence nor whittier
They come or go, so that they fool together"
Certain it is that great many country-born
people that get themselves translated to city
life, take all their verdure and rrcenness with
them, and improve upon it. They get to look
upon their Country Cousins" as people of
abridged privileges and Strengthened capacities,
who are only Ton proud and happy when they
can be patroniied by one who enjoys the "spe-
cial providence " of being accustomed to pave.
ments and the artificial luxury of "Croton wa
ter" 1t is always easy to distinguish these
hansPfdnted citizens from those who are native
and to the manner born" The latter ai,cays
take fewer " airs " upon themselves, because.
perhaps, they do not look upon the Country as
thing they have forSaken, and therefore are
bound to hold in diminished estimation.
Perhaps our readers do not readily perceive
the connection between these observations and
the heading of this article. There is connec-
ton, nevertheless, because we believe all the
dnaoyaaces tina: Country Editors are subjected
to by those City people who desire to patronise
them, come from that class of Immigrants into
the City who take their ,ruck-and-dicker pro-.
pensities with them, and find it diiiic ult to
"trade " without following them. Born-and-
bred City Merchants are very apt to transact
their business, abroad as well as at home, on
the Currency basis-taking cash as the repre-
sentative of value and the instrument of ex-
change while our Country City Traders retain
practical fondness for " cattle payments and
rye and calico barter, besides acquiring the
strange delusion that we "outside barbarians "
are ready to jump at the chance of accepting
their own terms, simply for the credit and honor
of the thing
We doubt not our Country contemporaries
appreciate what we say Others besides our
selves havo been invited and erpecied to publish
City Daguorreotyper's puifs of himself and
take their pay in HdeaesSes, or quack medicine
and take their pay in pills or strengthening pas
terS! We have uniformly, dixie the " sa sage
buyer when he found dogs scarce in the neigh
borhood of the sellers shop,) declined the he.
| collation. The sun takes as good likenesses
in the Country strange as it may appear as he
does in the City, and pills" thank Providence,
are not "a cash article" in our establishment.
We have recently received hco elaborate
printed "Circulars" from the propretors of a
Print Warehouse" in New York, making pro-
positions to us that are, in our simple way OF
thinking, of unequalcd impertinence. They
ask us to print their advertisement for year
or more, and propose to pay us therefor by cir.
ing as per- cent. on all safes mute to such
Country Merchants as nee may send to them ,cih
a letter Of introduction! That is: these mag.
unanimous and astute gentry will condescend &c
make us their runners, to whip in customers fol
them, and pay us the ordinary price for the ser
vices of that class Of agents, if we will ius
print their advertisements for nothing, The
FIRST circular" that they honorcd us with, we
threw under the table; and had about forgotten
that the magnificent Print Warehouse" wa.
in existence, when we got another, as q ''subs
tuteH for the first Doubtless these smart gen
tlemen suppose us to he absolutely overcome BY
Our gratitude for their patronage, and that on
delay in publishing their Mercantile Advertise
ment" arises from our desire 10 take breath be
fore entering upon the lucrative "truck-and
decker" They may dismiss all such visions il
pect TO Us, and need not trouble Themselves
to send Us any more "Circulars." They vii
ret from US no = letters Of introduction. 0DcR o.
seated" When we desire to practice any tlck.
of this kind, to swell their trade in Print,
Only" we will give them timely notice and i
they happen to have any friends in the Cit,
Trade who propose to follow their admirable
plan fer advertising in the Country papers, they
may save them unnecessary trouble by letting
them know that the Burlington Free Press, a
least, is impractcable."
The New Steamer United States.