Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-11
From the Chicago Journal.
A Home.Pfcture Painted Abroad.

Twelve or fifteen years ago, there appeared
in Frazer's Magazine vigorous article unmis-
takably English, that with some strong blum
dering, tells great many truths about Yam
kee-land, that whole decade has not made
inapplicable.
We must 60 abroad for a great many
things, but for nothing more than pictures of
ourselves, which shall be in the main faithful.
They do not hatter, and John Bull pinrit is
generally written in the corners.
The painter has caught the American
on the wing in this mo American can sit
comfortably in his chair. Every man is per-
petually striving to better himself There is
a universal rush from the useful to what
are called the liberal professions. With an
inward conviction, analogous to Sancho Pan
za's, that, being born man he is fit to be a
president men are martyrs to a vague covet
BUSINESS and ambition.
"Fretting, wrestling, elbowing each other,
with wrathful emulation, most apt, no
doubt, to give the social order rapid onward
impulse, but no less tending to drive all
peace of mind from the face of the earth"
Hereis sentiment worthy to be written
in letters of gold
Till men learn to love knowledge as we'll
as virtue, for its own sake, for its soothing,
cheering, humanizing influence-till truly
religious education tempers and modifies the
ambitious tendencies of mems minds, by teach
ing that our efforts should be turned, not so
much to overstep the barriers that divide us
from the upper classes as to fill with credit
and dignity our own station in life,-till, in
one word, the world adopts as a social device
the precept of the poet
AT rf oil <ho
les the ins tuition of schools can have no
better effect than to add thousand artificial
wants to the real miseries human nature is
already heir to-
Frankly admitting that he is no enthusias-
tic admirer of America, of her government,
of her great experiment. the writer says of
us what would hardly find place anywhere
among us, except in Fourth of July ora
ton
The United States display all the vigor,
earnestness, and sanguineness of youth, and
that is and object of never-failing interest to-
thinking observer. No great achievement
can be for any length of time impracticable in
America. No country can sooner recover
| from the most awful crises and most tremen-
| dous reverses. No people can rely on more
immediate and inexhaustible resources. 1t is
impossible to look upon America, to read its
200 years history, and not feel that the coun-
try is intended for high destinies."
| The writer finds consolation as he contem-
plates the possible decline of England IN the
thought that she will still live lin our llfe,' here
across the water.
"Once, in the palmy days of the Republic
of Sparta, the people repaired to the public
game in a trpartite procession. First ap-
peared the veterans, bowed down by age
and infirmity, and they sang, we have been
brayer Next come the armed youth, the nerve
of the land, and they shouted in all the exul-
tation of manly vigor, we are brave A
swarm of children closed the rear, and their
anthem was, we shall be brave
I'm the same manner in the history of hu-
man families, the past belong to Greece, to
Italy, to Spain England rejoices in her
sway over the present. The future is in the
hands of God. But were it ever to declare
in favor of the colonies beyond the ocean,
happy England, who never dies,-whose as
tendency, even if ever sinking at home rises
with renewed vigor among nations which
sprung from her own bosom, which inherit
her name, her language, her laws, her ilnper-
ishable lessons of wisdom and va;or T.