The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-04
CORRESPONDENCE.
SPRING FOREST, Oct. l,

! SPRING FOREST, Oct. l, lIO9.
| Dear B,aletn-Your last letter to me
dated early in May, and this of mine, as yo
! see. on the 1st of October. Just one vacatlo
of the General Court has interviewed since 20
wrote, though, by the way, I never receive
your letter till sometime in August. Ihl
has suggested to me resolution of writing t
you. if not ottener. at least every Genera
Court for it is then only that can have sue
q conveyance as l would choose to trust to-
especially letter, my BULLETIN, to you, il
which am wont to open the Utmost recesse
of my bosom. Let US, therefore, bury toma
hawks for the past, and adopt this plan for tn
future. Those great events which l mos
surely believe are in the womb Of Time, and
which you prophecy a few centuries will pro
duce excite variety Of emotions in N.
mind.
/ am deeply concerned to think that tn
sacred flame OF liberty is expiring in Grea
Britain--that the noblest constitution OF gov
eminent that ever was invented by the wit O
mantle labors OF our Alfreds, our Edwards
our Henrys. The work of ages-the admira
ton and envy of the worlds about to fall .
sacrifice to the villainous Vaccinations of (
few worthless individuals, aided by the un
bounded venality and corruption of the PEG
pie in general Over such funeral, We@
would not drop tear? On the other hand,
rejoice to think that when this glorious form
of government exists in Europe no Longer
supporting and supported by true politica
freedom, it will be established and flourish il
our native country in its fullest vigor, produc
tive of every happy consequence with Which
imagination can feast itself
Yes, my friend, We will have our legislators
our patriots, our orators our poets, rivals in
fame of ancient Greece and Rome. And shall
we not have Our Sternes? Alas with you, l
fear We shall not Oh, my inimitably witty
and facetious Tristan Shandy, my eloquent
and truly pathetic Yorick, my sentimental
Stetne; or, by whatever name distinguished,
Oh, that thou couldst sent down among us
some portion of thy spirit which like Elijah's
mantle, might inspire some future writer to
communicate thy powers and animate him to
write Ike thee! l had rather have written thy
tory of lie Fever, have drawn the picture of
thy Toby and Trim, or have been the authors
of even single sentence OF Sentimental
Journey, than to have composed cart loads of
volumes that have had applause in the world
am infinitely delighted to have met with a
person OF my best friend, too, who admires
this author as do. Langhorne, a late writer,
some Of whose works I have Just imported in
the benevolent cast of his writings and in the
exquisite sensibilities of his heart, approaches
the nearest, IN my opinion, to our tavorite
Sterne, OF any author | remember to have met
with. AS a specimen, for perhaps they may
be new to You, l send you inclosed two or
three detached pieces of his, and shall be glad
to know whether your judgment OF them
comedies with mine. 1t may be, perhaps,
centuries before the arts and sciences. those
happy children Of liberty shall have perfected
t!lelr empire is America, but l am far from
thinking the principal revolution, and of
which the rest are but consequences. mean
the absolute independence OF the Colonies
lpon Great Britain, so far removed
lay it down as a position that we shall soon
cease to be dependent, asosoon as Great Bril-
ain shall cease to be free. or which amounts
With me, to the same thing shall make any
essential alteration in their present constitu-
ION Of government. This event, think, ap-
,roaches fast. The people Of England are
low tottering upon the brink of ruin, and ap-
Dear to me precisely in the corrupt and venal
tate in which Jugurtha left Rome, and Justly
ubject to his bitter reflection upon that Latin
Republic: ur6em eenale,a, and cello pereturan
enptorem IN rener;t' What further evidence
# the gross venality of the people IF England
an be required than this PLAN fact, that in
he first session Of the Parliament, the Minis
ry had determined majority of fifty or sixty
aembers ready to execute the worst purposes
+ ambition and tyranny. An instance unpar-
lleled in the English history.
Former Ministers have corrupted Parlia-
aent but this is the first Ministry that ever
orrupted the bulk Of the nation In such
ltuatlon of affairs it is not change of Min
'ters OF measures that will so to TIE root of
ne evil. If the people cannot be restored to !
lelr pristine virtue and INDEPENDENCE the |
constitution will be lost and they will be |
ives Tor 1t they do not find a tyrant, they |
i'll make one. The Romans were slaves |
hen Julius Caesar was assassinated The |
eople of England were free with their second
ames upon the throne. Again, my friend,
N sorry to foresee that this liberty shall
oArish in America after its extinction in
urope that yet the time will come when it
Ill take its flight from hence to some distant
,glon-perhaps revive in Asia or Europe.
hat this will be the case, the history of
'ery empire that ever has existed in the
orld convinces me.
animal bodies, have their several periods
growth, maturity and declensions. Was not
lis the fate of all the Eastern Empires? was
not the case with the Romans, and NAV we
1t fairly conclude that it will be the case
18th the future Empire of America? In this
ew consider Great Britain as past her three
ore and ten, and already upon crutches-
merica as hardly out Of her cradle. As a
rther argument OF the probability, that
mpire will one day be transferred to Ameri-
!, think it may be considered that it began
the East, has thence travelled westward.
I'd as it is manifesuy declining in Europe.
III make its next remove to America. OBJ
rye, by the way, this is but q conjecture .
aich | communicate to my friend
AS | have reason to think that YOU will not ,
I'D yourself quite disinterested in whatever !.
ncerns your humble servant, will venture .
decend from observing upon the fates OF :
ajesty, States and Empires, to myself and !!
y own affairs. Happiness is said to consist :
opinion. If SO am as happy as any man |
S right to expect to be in this world OF l
res and troubles. My fortune. compared
tn my real wants is abundant compared I
tn what people in general think the guam 1
"a sufficient, extremely inconsderable But I
is estimate of the world with regard to the c
plness to be expected from fortune is GER a
My erroneous. For if a mans wants and @
sires rise in proportion to his acquisitions T