Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-09
TO THE EDITORS.

and trust that the wise admonons they contain will be be-
nefcial the people, This subject easily exhausted
and will refer to few other "svs" you failed to notice.
ID must be evident any at all acquainted with the
history Of county that vast difference exists between
the people Of the present day and those Of sevenx We
dsgsnsrasingrspidly departing from the virtues Of
our ancestors Our Fathers Of the Revolution had noble
characters character which brsathed soul Of patriotism.
They knew from actual oppression the true value Of freedom
and in knowing this. they superior in practical
political wisdom No one knows the value Of object until
he has toiled 10 lis pursuit and suffered in its attainment
This be proved BY simple and natural illustration. One
who has been hungry and thirsty knows nothing of
the value Of food and drink who has suffered from
cold and exposure knows nothing Of the value Of clothing
and home who has never suffered from poverty knows
nothing Of the value Of prosperity and one who has su
ered the evils Of slavery and oppression knows nothing Of
the value Of freedom. And Il s the want Of this actual
knowledge Of the evils Of desposm that Is at future
period to be the grave of American liberty This is the
voice Of nature and TRUTH and the constitution Of This
the voice ages Of human experience, speaking from
the tombs Of whole nations gone to the dust.
Ii establishing all Governments, the virtues employed in
their formation will be required in their perpetuaton. The
Government Of the United Staes because founded by
the people, will decay and extinction whenever the
people to be vrtuous and patriotic. The estimated
value Of liberty will dsprecate in proportion to the time Of m
enjoyment does every thing else in this world Men
but grownup children, and always prize object more from
its novelty than s intrinsic value. Among the truly wise
liberty priced on account Of M real value, but with the
great it il rated a. mere oy-a thing be played
with. How many rate the true value Of their votes
elections How many in themselves the essential
spirit Of this Government How many, in giving their
votes calculate the necessity Of vrtuous and patriotic public
officers without which the Government s to be depsve and
liberty sacrificed How many Of us in voting for against
candidate, inquire Of his qualifications for office How
many inquire, this Of honor or dshonor; man Of
virtue and ntegys knave and hypoce And yet these
qualities and attributes Of character public officers are even
,ually to save Or destroy this Republic!
The very fertility Of the soil Of the United States adverse
to popular virtue and patriotism and hostile to national free
DOM The most vruous and free people in the world are
those the Republican canons Switzerland and they are
thus for several reasons Their country is barren and noun
famous, which 10 not The soil and productions Of
Switzerland Of such character that native citizen Of
that country make deness profession in other words
the Swiss like the people Of tho Highlands Of Scotland and
all other barren countries have not the leisure cultivate
ideness and vice profession They therefore
heahfu robust moss and virtuous than the people Of
fertile countries and consequently much difficult
to ensaye. Look the people Of this whole Union and
classesi Among tho wealthy and the learned only No
among the farmers the manufacturers, the mechanics the
labore Of the country who have leisure cu
vice, knavery and crime for living dleness is the
of individual and national degradation the
parent Of vice. crime, and slavery These the
why industry has always been considered virtue An g
noran brutal unsducaed man. who has neither religion
morality guide him 10 his through life s always
bad citizen and bad Ieness, leisure and Incidence,
to such man, to himself and bis country.
Look how moral, religious or weLeducaed man dsposes
Of his time II he has leisure, is it in vicious, depraved,
knavish pursuits Is in demagogsm in seeking public
Office account Of the salary, in preaching patriotism
the people for the purpose of deudng them Far from
The old adage that the devil finds employment for idle
hands, is universally The unbounded fertility Of
soil affords ample for deness and therefore there
who employed in every thing but moral pur
suits and where moral virtues not found among the
mass Of the people, liberty IL always endangered Who in
acounties are the macontsnts Why, the idle, the worth
less the ndulgsnt and the dspraved And does not then,
the exuberan fertility Of this country, in which the poorest
man can find time three days in the week. the devil
afford facilities for vice and depravy unknown to other
countries g
The best means Of preserving individual and national
liberty is to acquire an exact estimate Of its true value Ex
perience Of the actual sngs Of slavery with the American
people would be impossible essentially and prac
cay free and are therefore precuded from acquiring the
quisie political wisdom from that Here fathers
had the advantage Of But have other
except that Of becoming actually slaves by which may
learn patriotic virtue and political wisdom Let us profit by
the experience and sungs Of Others Let us remember
the wise lessons taught by fathers Of the Revolution
and let us indignantly own upon the first dawnng Of
every attempt ALLEVIATE any portion Of country from the
rest enfeebe the sacred ties which link together the
various par, History sbounds in examples, and will give
this profit Of ohein in slavery. If this be within
the reach Of the great popular mass the newspaper accounts
Of the susrngs Of the people Of Europe will furnish the
lessons Read the which those journals present Of
poverty, misery, and degradation entasd the people Of
Europe by the sxactng and grinding deposm Of its Govern
mens and compare them with condition. See the
farmer Of that couny instead Of enjoying the product Of his
own labor excluded from al ownership Of the SOIL See him
the defenceess victim Of apacious landlord who rolling
in his carriage and immersed in wealth and luxury, whilst he
and his family doomed to almost starvation. Compare
the taxes poor people Of Europe assessed without their
consent with the the people Of this country pay and
with their own consent The fact s that il 10 impossible to
describe the squad poverty, disease. suffering, and vation
Of these poor helpless, ragged, and ensaved peoples Even
the imagination of American citizen paint their
mseres and misfortunes Such Of and suffering
not to be found here The few mischances and sungs
we feel generally brought ourselves And we
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