Litchfield enquirer., 1860-08-23

We give tls lowing conical notice Of the MEMoIKs OF sl)E. FRANgLIss which We find in 4 Nsv zhxk sal1sk q GesS V aa. hsbed wit eaiael afibli ana intsrrde lion markssd indigslation as ail extraoE from anlE English paper Of that year: ; z tis too late ; day, and decidedly too warm weather just HOW, for us to wax either very in- dignant or very melancholy over the. English mans conceit; md his ludicrous prophecies. It reminds us of these croakings of the certain failure of our government before it had attained even the age when this scribbler wrote and it reminds us too of the venerable story of the maternal crab, who wondered why her growing offspring should continually travel backwards; ; to whom that juvenile somewhat disrespectiully replied, that when she had first shown him it an example of proceeding forwa'ds, he would iol-. low in her footsteps. 4,., .s.,i <. ;ts..4s1 .,3
 But we may simply say this ln 5belialf oi the departed writer, that he could lookout ot the windows of ades just lnowa andnotice the past few {. statesmen who have filled the Presidents Chair, and who are at present with eyes and as pirations turned thitlerward, he mig take some comfort that bis predictions have not been all together unfulflled! But here is the extract t:: s From dw Eyitsh papsr, printed i's Aafch lt'se ss5 E xxxotns or TIE sIirs AND wHIfincs
 2 lH2 t.s os BENJAMIN raAsKLrs. gss s.s 4gs Y sg5ss .tsts lii & 4 g.sh'
 x cUar slrr This is the first volume of . scs r,ss inlendsd tho works of this cole brated poljtieisnepd philosopher, and ttl.e same lime to contain great proportion of original and highly interesting matter from his pen. It would be a waste of our readers timea to occupy d mo- ment of it in lauding the first authentic publica- tion of the works of Franklin. He was an Eng lishinan in every respect but the accidental place of his birth His Immediate prosenitr was Eng, fish and his education his intellectual organ:za ton, and even his physiogn character, were entirely so How little amidst such circumstan7 ces must bc the influence of mere place of birth when affecting single individual, or a single generation, every naturalist knows. With regar.l, therefore, to Franklin, and the few other great men whom America could once boast, we unhesi.
 atingly say that she owes their greatness to Eng fish organization and English blood. With amore extended population, she can. now boast of fewer illustrious men the further hcrinhabitants de scend from their British origin, the less will they retain of the British, and the more will they ac auirc of that Indian character which the all pow crflil influence of climate is unceasingly impress
 ing on them God has, by the gentle and insen sible influence of climate, given to the African, amidst his burning sands, that dark surface which modern chymistry has taught us. most rapidly rad,cs heat; and He has,, by the sumo adnriira dr ble influence, maintained, among all the tubes {" mankind, life and health and happiness, Hence the complexion of the skin dcepeas as we atlHanct 1 from northern regions to equatorial osies--sab I ject only to tritlng exceptions from elevation
 land, contiguity tp the sea, the course of winds
 and similar great yet subordinate causes. Witt
 this increase of colour increase the degrees of sen
 Abiity, subtilty and artiiice, and decrease mus
 cular power. energy of action, openness of chai
 acter. Sc. The red man of America, though (
 modified colour in tllis respect obviously al
 proaches the African and to him are the Brit
 5 :, on his soil every day approxmatins
 asne1e e R.owerful. yet gentio inscnsbe, and sal, iln- that IanK IIIr, lT cnl[lariity of feature that 'austrum quasi SD
 rans yultus,, (which in olil,ren of European pa
 ents born in equatorial regions we call Creee) an
 that vanity and suhtilty of character which d
 tinsuish the Indian, and which must increase i
 every successive generation till no trace of dis
 tinction is left between them. Tho United State
 may, therefore, produce their great men-mcl
 relatively great but they will bo men rather o
 Indian than of British genius. She win as vainly look for her Franklins and hor Washingtons, a
 she does for those prodg.cs of ancient days who's, bones are turned up in her soil The same req sons, politically viewed, will satisfy the inquirer
 that America can never be the rival of Britain a. some people vainly suppose. The more populou. she bccomcs-the more remote her people are from European origin, organization, and mind the more will they te feeble and colonial race, and less formidable in every political relation. Thesc views seem to us to possess no common in terest; but we must. pause in our disquisiticns.
 sea~ We have now in press and propose to publish about the first of September, reprint Tn pamphlet form, of the interesting sketches of Judge David s. Boardman, on "Tho Early Lights of the Ltchfeld Bar," which. have ap- peared in these columns. In doing so, we take It TOT granted that we shall receive the thanks 2! the the members of the present Bar, and of all 2! these interested in the early times and early biographies of Litchfield, t.-.'.-,.,I s,I~ '.