The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1852-12-01

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considerations have been discovered by the
telescopes of Americans? What have
they done in the mathematics? Who
drinks out Of American glasses2 or eats
from American plates! or wears American
coats or gowns, or sleeps in American
blankets?"
"When these questions are fairly and
iavorably answered, their laudatory cpl.
thets may be allowed; but till that can be
done we would seriously advise them to
keep clear OF superlaiives."
"The Americans are brave industri.
Gus and acute people; but they have hth-
erto given no indications OF genius, and
made no approaches 10 the heroic either
in their morality or character. They are
but recent offset indeed from England;
and should make it their chief boast for
many generations to come that they are
sprung from the same race with Bacon
and Shakespeare and Newton. Considering
their numbers indeed and the favorable
circumstances in which they have been
placed, they have yet done marvellously
little to assert the honor OF such descent,
or to show that their English blood has
been exalted or refined by their republican
training and institutions. Their Frank.
Inns and Washingtons and all the other
lsages and heroes Of their revolution were
born and bred subjects of the King Of
England-and not among the freest or
most valued Of his subjects. And since
the period OF their separation a far greater
proportion OF their statesmen and artists and
political writer's have been foreigners than
ever occurred before in the history OF any
civilized and educated people. During
tho thirty or forty years Of their indepen-
dence they have done absolutely nothing
for the sciences, for the arts, for literature.
or even ior the statesmanlike studies Of
politics or political economy. Confning
ourselves to our own country and to the
period that has elapsed since they had an
independent existence; we would ask,
where are their Foxes. their Burkes, their
Sheridans. their Windhams, their Horners.
their Wilberforces! Where their Ark.
wrights, their Watts. their Davys!-their
Robertsons. Blairs. Smiths. Stewarts. Pa.
leys and Malthuses?-their Persons. PARIS.
Burneys or Bloomfelds? their Scots,
Rogers's, Campbrlls, Bvrons, Moores or
Crabbesl-tleir Siddons Kembles. Moores
or O'Neils?-thelr Wilkes, Lawrences,
Chantreys or their parallels TO the hundred
other names that have spread themselves
over the world from our little Island in the
course Of the last thirty years, and blsst or
delighted mankind by their works, inven.
tons or examples? In so far as we know
there is no such parallel to be produced
from the whole annals of this sell adulat.
ing race"
A most learned and ingenious modern
writer is so fully convinced of the savage
manners, and down-hill propensities Of the
dwellers in the ONO VALLEY that hs tells
US in very plain, but very classical and
elegant English, that but for the all pre-,
vading force of the civilization, which eve
rywhers meets and everywhere surrounds
US. we should one and all relapse into ab.
solute barbarism. Hear him, how inge.
niously he con,rives TO rescue US from the
fate Of other Nomadic tribes:
"The settler and the wanderer; the rest.
less and the tranquil; the Scyihian and
the Egyptian have always co.existed.
As far as history ascends, the world has
been agitaied and benefited by both. This
fact confirms the idea, that the Nomadic
were originally but branches Of the civil.
lied. as The migratory settlers on the Ono
and Missouri in our days, are the effu.
sions of other States more advanced and
improved. And but that these men can
not now 90 where civilization from its
commanding extent and with its trans.
forming effects, will not soon pursue them,
their posteri.y would become the Scythians
and Go,hs Of modern times and exhibit
an example Of the formation Of NEW BAR
BARIc Tribes Sharon Turner's Anglo
Sarons, DOL. page So.
This voice comes from the cottage at
Winchmore Hill at least as late as the
4th Of July, 1885. We shall not even al.
Iuds to the outrageous abuse poured upon
the inhabitants Of the whole State by Bsv.
erly Tucker in the Nashville Convention.
His language, disgraceful to none SO much
as to himself, is too foul, too obscene for
reference or allusion.
But enough. The reader is, perhaps,
ready to exclaim that all these caluimnies
and aspersions are the offspring Of preju-
dice. Of stupid, undiscerning, malignant
prejudice. Grant il gentle reader we
have no disposition 10 endorse any thing
that these writer's have said to the disad.
vantage Of our beloved State and country.
These writer's, though eminsntly able and
well informed on some subjects, seem to
be deplorably illipformed concerning our
country. its men and its institutions. But