Washington sentinel., 1854-01-10

sJ- Englishmen are not very often liberal to
this country. They come here, and after being
fed and fattered-after being dogged by fools
and worshipped by toadies, they 60 back home
to abuse and satyrise u.s. our institutions, our
laws, our society, and our manners. 1t would
have been well for the popularity of some Of
England's most eminent authors, if they had
never set their feet on American soil. Before
they came here, their books were read with
pleasure and their genius appreciated, But
they came here predetermined to find fault with
every thing American, and wrote books always
more witty than true, often basely scurrious
and abusive. Indeed, some of them had some
reason to be severe. Beset by toadies, fools,
and fatterers, who besieged them in public and
in private, they had no opportunity Of cultiva.
ting the best portion Of our population. De
cent men, cultivated men, men of substance
and character, were driven off by their indispo-
sition to engage in competition with the snobs,
parvenues, and blockheads by whom they were
surrounded.
There is, however, growing disposition in
all the countries Of Europe to do us justice.
Vanity cannot be imputed to US, when we say,
that our merit, rather than their liberality,
is the cause Of it. IF they have eyes to
see and ears to hear" they cannot but perceive
that it is idle and absurd to persevere in their
injustice towards us.
As compliment, more. to the author than
to the United States, we insert the following:
CIVILIAN CHAMBERS on THE UNITED STATES.
Mr.. William Chambers, the celebrated Edin-
burgh publisher, before sailing for Europe, wrote
letter for publication, in which he SAYS:
u leave the United States with much regret.
| carry with me the conviction that great and
splendid future is before them. Contrary to
the opinion OF most travellers from England,
see here young nut rapidly growing nation.
offering an example to the Oldest nations Of
Europe. 1t is far from my wish to fatter; but
what do not feel vast delight in seeing?
am overcome with the stupendous proportions
and capacity of the country-its far-stretching
fields for human subsistence and happiness;
of the American people, SO little understood
and often misrepresented, candidly own that
their remarkable love of order, their energy
and perseverance, the love of independence,
the selfrespect Of even the humbest class
among them, their striking sobriety, their ad-
mirabe educational system, their many excel
lent Libraries and universal fondness for read
ing, their press free from fiscal exactions, their
fourishing religious institutions unhampered
by civil polity, the economically and spiritedly.
got up railways now pushed halfway to the
Pacific, the neatness of their dwellings, their
wonderful-and to an Englshman alarming
progress in the mechanical arts, the marvellous
growth Of their cities, and ] will add their
civilty to strangers--I say all this gives me
unqualified pleasure; and when ] contrast their
cities, free from pauperism and vice in its most
loathsome forms, with what meets the eve in
London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other large
cities in Britain, feel that travellers from the
old country have little reason to speak disdain.
fully Of America, and to exaggerate faults
which at most are only partial and Of no sort
Of account.
"Such being my Impressions, it will be my
duty to represent, in my own poor way at home,
things as they deserve to be spoken of. Nor
shall ! fail to speak Of the advantages to be
derived by an emigration Of the laboring classes
generally to this country, fleeing as they will
do from perishing and unimprovable condi-
ton to state of comfort and boundless pros.
poets Of well doing"