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THE ADVOCATE.
TOO MUCH LEGISLATION.
The following article although lengthy, will j
be read with interest It is well written and ;
contains much sound reasoning and practical
good sense on a subject of vital importance.— ■
It is copied from the Georgia (Columbus) Argus:
Too Much Legislation. —This is
one of the great evils of our country, j
Every thing must be done by legislation, i
Undertakings that ought to be left free
to individual enterprise, must have legis
lative action upon them. Evils that can
be remedied by public opinion alone,
must be acted upon by the Legislature.
If an individual, or a dozen of them, de
sire some advantage over their neighbors,!
they manage to slip a bill through the |
Legislature, under some pretext of public ]
good. Hence the time of the Legislature
is taken up in passing laws, the most of]
of which, to say the least of them, are of
no public utility, and many of which are
absolutely mischievous.
We have been led to these remarks
from haring observed in the presentments
of some of the grand juries a disposition
to get up legislation upon the sale of ar
dent spirits, by way of putting a stop to
drunkenness.
It is to be always a matter of regret to
see efforts making to legislate upon those
things which belong exclusively to the
morality of the country. We regret to
see it, because it argues the existence in
that community of a wofully corrupt state
of morals in the mass, and a want of firm
ness and moral courage in those who pre
tend to he the friends and advocates of
morality and virtue. We have often said,
and now say again, that the legitimate and
the only legitimate sphere of legislative
action is to he found in the protection
of the rights of the people. The morali
ty and religion of the country must take
care of themselves, and when they are
too weak to do it, the attempt to do it by
legislation is a farce and a mockery. If
laws could execute themselves, then it
might he of some use to engage in this
sort of legislation; but it requires men to
do it, and when any vice not affecting
the rights of individuals is so prevalent
in the country as to induce people to ask
legislation for its suppression, it is con
clusive evidence that legislation will be
of no service. If public opinion will not
put it down, that same public opinion will
not permit the law to be enforced. Com
mon sense teaches the truth of this, and
experience proves it. You may talk a
bout the use of ardent spirits as much as
you please, and abuse the sale of it; but as
long as a large portion of the respectable
part of the community drink it, and for
that purpose visit the places where it is
sold, nobody will indict those who drink
or those who sell. Look at the laws against
gambling—see how they are executed.
Two or three years ago the grand jury
of this county were about to present the
gamblers, and as soon as they found it
out they made out a list of those citizens
who had gambled with them, and present
ed or were about to present them, and
the grand jury dropped the whole matter.
The law against gambling are fine things
so long as they operate only on the poor
vagabond of a gambler, w ho has no wealth
or friends or influence: but if they should
happen to touch the wealth and respecta
bility and the blood of the country —who,
by their influence and example, do more
injury in a day than the gamblers would do
in a year—it is better that the law should
not he enforced!
A great deal is said about drunkenness
and gambling, and all these sorts of things,
but people are not as much opposed to
them as they want to persuade themselves
they are. It is true, if a man gets drunk
and spends all his property, or if he gam
bles and is too dull or too honest to swin
dle any body out of their money, every
body’s face is against him: but let a young
man get drunk and gamble and make
plenty of money and keep it, and it may
sometimes be said, "’tis pity he drinks
and gambles,” but you treat him with a
great deal more attention when you meet
him in the streets, you would invite him
to your house much sooner, and be more
willing to see him marry your daughter
than a poor young man of the same in
telligence, who was pursuing some hon
est avocation for a support. These ef
forts to get up legislation for the suppres
sion of these vices are only contemptible
pretences, to make a show of regard for
virtue and morality where there is none.
When the laws are passed they are never
executed. If people want these things
I put down, let them mark the men who
are guilty of them. In the first place,
neither drink nor gamble yourselves; give
employment nor countenance to no man
who does; instead of giving your sons fine
clothes and fine horses and a pocket
full of money to go out to play the gen
i tleman upon, put them to some honest,
I useful employment; when you invite men
!to your houses to associate with your
wives and daughters, select them for their
I morality, industry, and intelligence,'and
j not for their money. Do this, and you
j will soon have but few people to gamble
’or to drink ardent spirits; and when peo
ple quit drinking it, they will quit selling
! it. But, while you pursue a different
course, do not attempt to inflict disgrace
i upon a man by the law for an act which
I you do not think sufficient to exclude
him from your family circle.
I If there were forty laws against the
I retailing of ardent spirits, no one would
be indicted for it, unless perhaps it were
some poor vagabond. Nobody would in
dict a man who kept a genteel, fashiona
ble drinking establishment. Your grand
jurors would then drink from one court
to another, and would not present the ow
-1 ner, because they would say they were
not bound to notice any thing that came to
their knowledge before they were empan
nelled, and during court they would walk
a mile out of the way rather than go near
enough to see him selling liquors. If
your officers were to do it, you would
cry out against them for being too partic
ular; you would say that the law was only
intended to put down low, vulgar drink
ing shops; you would keep the witnesses
out of the way: get your solicitors to wo/.
pros, the bill; and an officer who would
be so very particular would soon he put
out of office.
Most of the vices which curse the hu
man family originate with the higher class
es and descend to the lower; this, too,
must be the course of reformation. The
gentleman gets drunk upon his wine, the
poor man upon his whiskey. The gen
tleman gambles by staking his hundreds
and thousands upon a game of whist, the
turn of a card, or the speed of his horse; the
poor man gambles in the same way, but
■on a smaller scale. The drunkenness
and gambling of the gentleman do not,
perhaps, impair his fortune—the drink
ing and gambling of one night sweep the
poor man’s all, and with it his character,
and his hopes, and his prospects; and then
you want a law to prevent him from drink
ing and gambling. We repeat it, legisla
tion upon these subjects is productive of
no good. Public opinion can put them
down, and public opinion alone.
Jlut it must not be that sort of public
opinion, that sort of regard for virtue and
morality which regards the effects and not
the offence, which never considers these
things offences in any but those who have
been the victims of them. It must be
that sort of public opinion which wars a
gaiust the offence in whatever walks of
life it may be found. Your gentleman
drunkard, or gentleman gambler does a
great deal more mischief than your regular
drunkard or gambler. Your gentleman
drunkard or gambler does the thing de
cently—he leads the young into it, and
prepares him for a vagabond. Whoever
knew a young man to commence his ca
reer of drunkenness in a dirty hole, fre
quented only by confirmed drunkards, or
his gambling at the faro table of a profess
ed gambler? No, no, these are not the
places where he begins; he is taught that it
is genteel to take a drinking frolic occa
sionally, until he becomes a confirmed
drunkard. He is taken into a room to
play a gentlemanly game of 100, or brag,
or poker, and stripped of his money and
his character; those who have swindled
him are called very clever fellows—and
you want a law passed then to prevent
him from gambling and getting drunk.
Now, if you want to put these things
down, commence at the right place.—
Make it disreputable for any body to
drink or gamble; teach your young men
to shun genteel drunkenness and gambling,
and our word for it they will never take up
the other. Do this, and you have no need
for legislation to prevent the sale of ardent
spirits or to punish gambling. If you
will not adopt this course, all your legisla
tion will only increase the evil.
The sentiment conveyed in the following
extract is as just as it is forcibly expressed.— j
It is from Miss Sedgwick’s delightful tale of
“Home.” One of her characters charges his .
neighbor with the intention of educating his
sons for the learned professions and his daugh- j
ters for the wives of professional gentlemen,
to which the father thus sensibly replies :
“I shall be governed by circumstances;
I do not intend or wish, Anthon, to crowd
my boys into the learned professions. If
any among them have a particular talent
or taste for them, they may follow them.—
They must decide for themselves in a mat
ter more important to them than to any one
else. But my boys know that I should
be mortified if they selected these profes
sions from the vulgar notion that they
were more genteel—a vulgar word that
ought to be banished from an American
vocabulary—more genteel than agricultre
or the machanic arts. I have labored
hard to convince my boys that there is
nothinuvulgar in the mechanic profes
sions, no particular reason for envying
the lawyer or the doctor. They, as much
as the farmer and mechanic, are working
men. And I should like to know what
there is particularly elevating in sitting
over a table and writing prescribed forms,
or enquiring into the particulars of diseas
es and doling out physic for them. It i$
certainly a false notion in a democratic
republic, that a lawyer has any higher
claim to respectability—gentility, if you
please—than a tanner, a goldsmith, a
painter, or a builder. It is the fault of the
mechanic, if he takes a place not assigned
to him by the government and institutions
of his country. He is of the lower orders,
00!/ when he is self-degraded by the igno
rance and coarse manners, which are as
sociated with manual labor in countries
where society is divided into castes,
and have therefore come to be considered
inseparable from it. Rely upon it, it is not
so. The old harriers are down. The
time has come when ‘being mechanics,’
we may appear on ‘laboring days’ as well
as holidays, without the ‘sign of our pro
fession.’ Talent and worth are the only
eternal grounds of distinction. To these
the Almighty has ’aflixed his everlasting
patent of nobility, and these it is which
make bright ‘the immortal names’ to
which our children may aspire as well as
others. It will be our own fault, Anthon,
if, ill our land, society as well as govern
ment is not organized upon anew founda
tion. But we must secure by our own
efforts, the elevations that are now acces
sible to all. There is nothing that tends
more to the separation into classes than
difference of manners.”
Oregon Territory. According to
the opinion of Mr. Slacum, Messrs. Lewis
-and Clark, and others who saw this coun
try, its products are of the most valuable
kinds, consisting of peltries of various de
scriptions, besides salmon fisheries, &.c.
due. The influence of the Hudson’s Bay
Company is also mentioned as requiring
to be counteracted, in consideration of
the vast power which their trappers and
traders are likely to acquire among those
with whom they deal. As the difficulties
of passing the Rocky Mountains, which at
one period was deemed insurmountable,
have within a few years been overcome
to such a degree that where a passage was
regarded as impracticable, passes of easy'
ascent for wagons, &.C., have been found,
a fear is expressed that in the event of
war, hostile troops might be introduced
by the way of the Oregon river, and
brought over to the head waters of the
Missouri river. To prevent such a move
ment, as well as the smuggling of goods
of British manufacture free of duty into
the territories of the United States, it is
deemed advisable that a settlement be
formed at the mouth of the Oregon. As
an evidence of the ease with which the
defiles of the Rocky Mountains may be
passed, the names are given of several mis
sionaries who with their wives had passed
over. In the cases mentioned, the course
pursued was from the State of Missouri
along and near to the banks of the river
of that name, until they reached the Platte;
! thence along that river to its fork; thence
by the North fork and the Black hills to
j near its source; thence to Green river, one j
| of the branches of the Western Colorado;
thence the Bear river, which empties it
self into the Great Salt Lake, and thence
to the head waters of Lewis’s river, the
Southern branch of the Columbia river,
by which or its tributaries they pursued
this course to Fort Wallawalla; one ofi
the principal points of the Hudson’s Bay !
Company within 800 miles of the ocean.
A great portion of the midland region is
described as a wild country, to which
refugees from all quarters will resort and i
may be employed by Great Britain, in the
event of a war with the United States, to
great advantage. In speaking of the
Great Salt Lake its length is stated at 150
miles, and its breadth 40—no outlet to
its waters apparent, although two steams
flow into it. The report contains a quo
tation from the Encyclopedia of Geogra
phy, in which a detailed account is given
of the geological character of the country
on either side of the Rocky Mountains,
or great back bone of the American Con
tinent, but its details are such as not to
interest general readers. It is in speak
ing of the climate of the reigons west of
the Rocky Mountains that the authorities
cited indulge in terms of the most unqual
ified admiration, representing it as almost
free from frost, and, except during four
months of unbroken rainy weather, serene
and delightfhl. Mr. Spalding, one of the
missionaries alluded to as having crossed
the Rocky Mountains with their wives,
and descended on the other side, in an ac
count published not long since, mentions
a Dr McLaughlin, whose farm is on the
Columbia river, and whose crops for the
previous year amounted to 4500 bushels
of wheat, 4000 of peas, 1700 of barley,
1500 of oats &c. His horned cattle were
759, his hogs 400, with from 200 to 300
horses. He has also a saw and flourmill.
The wild horses are very numerous, and
of a Tery fine breed, resembling European
coursers, or the blooded horses of Virginia,
; and may be bought from the natives for;
' beads worth one or two dollars. Wild
sheep are also found in great numbers,
and have fine wool on many parts of their
bodies. The soil of the country, which
rises in terraces from the Pacific Ocean
towards the interior, is of a rich mould, and
for grazing purposes, is believed to be
equal to the best of Mexico. From the
entire description, we are led to think that
this region is destined to be thickly peo
pled, and to afford all the luxuries of a
fine soil and climate to thousands whose
tastes will induce them to abandon the
scorching heats and intense cold of the
Eastern side of this vast continent.
[Dr. Linn’s Report.
Rice. —The Rice trade has not yet
received the attention it deserves. Asa
food, not merely a luxury, Rice, since the
first appearance of the Astatic Cholera,
has been extensively consumed in the
United States, especially in large cities,
where it is found well calculated to pre
serve children from affections of the
botfels; and being pure farina, it does not
sour on the stomach. Rice bread is a
substitute both for vegetables and bread,
and millions use it thus. It requires salt
as its essential condiment, at the rate of
at least a table spoonful to a quart of rice,
and can, m twenty minutes, be cooked
fully, and every grain be separate and
white as snow. In this state it is eaten
with meat. The East Indians make a lay
er of rice and one of facot, and call it pil
lo. The same dish is extensively used
in the South by boiling the rice in the
water where bacon and fowls have been
boiled, and serving all together. It is a
mistake that rice cannot make bread.—lt
is true, rice is pure farina; and bread is
usally made of wheat, which contains a
portion of gluten, which, by yeast, is fer
mented and thus throws out carbonic acid
gas, which forms bubbles or air cells, and
raises the dough. Mastication reduces the
mass and it passes into the stomach solid,
and mixes with saliva. Rice is extensive
ly used in the form of bread in France
and England; and more than one of the
bakers who furnish the people of New
York with the best family bread, use a
third of rice flour, the gluten of the other
two-thirds serving to raise the whole,
whist the rice imparts the peculiar sweet
ness of that grain. At the highest retail
prices it is cheaper than any other food,
and there is no waste.
A Rl’sssian Postmaster. — The cor
respondent of the N. Y. American (a la
dy) writing from St. Petersburg, gives the
following interesting description of a
Russian Postmaster, and of his mode of
performing arithmetical calculations:
“At the first post station, after passing
the frontier of old Finland, I was much
amused with what 1 then thought to be an
original character. The postmaster was
a Russian serf, in the costume of that class.
His only garment was made of dressed
sheep skin, with the wool inside, and sew
ed tight about the neck, with a sort of a
rolling collar down the back, showing the
wool outward; the sleeves were of the
same material; the garment came down
within a foot of the ground, and a broad
leathern belt encircled the waist. He w'ore
a long silver white beard, and snowy locks
over his shotdders. The whole thing
looked like a sheared white bear. In reck
oning up the amount of our posting, he
used the little machine which I have seen
in our country, brought from China, and
in general use, there, as I am informed.
It is a small box, or frame, with wires
drawn across it, on which are strung little
wooden balls of different colors. So dex
trous was this venerable Muscovite at this
mode of computation, that he made up the
amount of our indebtedness to him in half
the time it took us with pencil and paper,
and correct to a fraction.
I afterwards saw several travelling ped
lars, each with one of these rattle traps
dangling at his girdle. I have since ob
served that it is in common use in all the
bazaars, and is of infinite service where so
few can read or write, as it is next to im
possible to make an cror with it in simple
calculation. Having had its principles
explained to me, I am quite certain that
should its utility once become generally
known in our country, we would see one
on the counter of every shop, and at every
stall in our markets. It works every thing
by decimals, and in the most simple man
ner. The decimal division of ourcurren
cy is well adapted to this short hand meth
od of computation. I have made tho ac
quistion of one of small size and, should I
not forget th; initative lessons I have taken
on this harp of Plutus, shall be able, one
dav or other, to teach you its harmonious
numbers.”
“Bear and Forbear.” An elderly lady
died recently in Pittsburgh, who must
have been a subscriber and “constant rea
der” of the Richmond Enquirer—for her
whole life was in conformity to the oft-re
peated maxim of that paper, which heads
this item. “She bore her husband twen
ty-two children, and never gave him a
cross word.—[Phil. Gazette.
[TERICB.....M nr ADVANCE.
1 Washington’s Wif*. The hetMNß*
ber of the North American Review, «mm
j tains a review of Sparks’ life and writing*
of Grorgt Washington, an interesting
work, recently published in 12 volumes,
and which is republishing in England-
France, and Germany. In the course of
the review, which is very ably written, the
following beautiful tribute is paid to the
wife of Washington:
‘‘The matrimonial connexion of Wash
ington was eminently happy, and continu
ed for forty years till his death. With her
intimate acquaintances, the character of
Mrs. Washington was the theme of wttir
ing praise. To the nation at large, she
was the object of affectionate respect; for
it was known to all men, that she made
the home of the Father of his country
happy. Affable and courteous, exemptsfy
in her deportment, remarkable for deeds
of charity, unostentatious, and Withoot
vanity, she adorned priyate life by her do
mestic virtues, and with dignity and grace
every station to which her husband’s emi
nence called her. There is no doubt that
much of the calm and equitable action of
Washington’s character, is to be ascribed
to the happy influence of his wife, to tho
freedom irom domestic care, resulting
from her excellent management, and to
the even spirits, which can rarely be enjoy
ed but in a cheerful home.”
At the grand Whig festival at Buffalo,
after firing 100 guns, the company par
took of the following trifles, by way of a
lunch—no money received. Gen. P. A
Porter presided at the festival:
1 Ox, roasted whple,
1 Black Bear, do.
2 "Whole Hogs,"
30 Roasted Pigs,
100 do. Turkeys,
200 do. Chickeus,
20 do. Geese,
30 Rounds Beef—l2oo pounds,
20 Rumps -d0.—200 do. •
30 Boiled Hams,
100 Beef Tongues,
100 Pounds Sausages,
200 do. Cheese,
2000 Loaves of Bread,
40 Barrels Beer,
20 do. Cider,
Butter, &c. in proportion.
Scientific Entf.frizr. The French
ship Recherche, afier having reached 80°
N, latitude, and Id*’ long, E. of Paris,
was obliged to relinquish her further voy
age, in consequence of the men not be
ing able to bear the intensity of the cold—
the thermometer being down to 30 9 be
low zoro of Reaumur, or 67 1-3. below
freezing point of Farenheit. Here the
Recherche found a Russian ship which
had been wrecked, and in her cabin the
heads of four men, whose bodies bad,
no doubt, been devoured by the white
bears. It is said the Recherche will prob
ably go to Havre to take another scien
tific commision on board, aud resume
her polar expedition at an earlier period
next year: the season in the northern seas
having been too far advanced on this her
late cruise.
An Armless Boy. —The story of the
girl without limbs in North Carolina, has
called out from the Salem Observer an
account of a similar lusus natura in Scit
uate, Mass. It is a boy now aged ten or
twelve years, who has neither legs nor
arms. He has however, one finger upon
the left shoulder, with which he can pick
up a cent or-opeu a box. His method of
locomotion is by milling, which ho eaa
do with great rapidity. He has good
health, aud ordinary abilities, and Ming
taken regularly to school is as much ad
vanced in his education as boys aro usu
ally at his age.
We frequently hear persons boasting of
the health of their several neighbourhoods
in very extravagant terms, but we think
a friend of ours living at Bayou Lafour
che, can beat all others. He insists that
no person was ever sick in his neighbor
hood, and very seldom any dies. He says
that when the vicinity where be lives
was first settled, the emigrants were gen
erally very young, and lived tftlM on
long without seeing any body they
did not know what death was. "Vlm did
not travel much or they mighfso {hotter
informed in other places. , He says that
at last one old man abooA. 140 rears old
died, and they could not hnigjdo what
the deuce was the matter wltlriftat, but
kept him four days sitting ia a chair,
when some traveller pasting, told them
the old man was defunct; and they then
buried him.—[Ascension Herald.
Large Caravan. — A great, caravan,
the first for three years past, Jdtalj arriv
ed at Cairo, from Darfour. It was fifty
days in traveling in a straight line across
the great desert from. Darfour to Sint—
This caravan consists of iSjOfl camel*,
and besides a vast quantity of the produc
tion of the interior of Aftidi,ftrmgs near
ly eight thousand slaves, who are addin
the slave-market at CaffO.