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Georgias! Statesman.
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The profound Reflections of Isidore upon the
Philosophy of Internal Improvements.
. Argument.
lifluwcc of Internal Improvement The
S.ate of our literature prosperous—A word
about our university—The soil Sec. natural
resources of wealth—lnternal Improvement
las been neglected—Disasters of the first
improvers—The deluge—Cause —Beauty of
the primitive earth—Need no impiove
—Origin of its inequalities—Opinions
of Philosophers—How improvement be-,
came nect ssary—The Indians—Our freas
l;rj Power of science—She crests man a
Monarch and fortifies him against future
deluges —Origin of th Globe —The globe a
raw m«tlerial—Prema'tve nature heimoy
cal Kngm.vMmg art —The ' Potts—TAe 1
"•lobe evolved from a sphere of fire in a
fluid shape —Milton —The continents first
formed by insects —brought totueir present
protection by the further efforts of Crabs,
Oysters &e. —All the solid land, the off
spring of life—The aves give birth to em
uree- t o v: at—lt» influence upon
users— Engineer* not capable of perspira
tion and why—The people address the rn
• ineers— Put hard questions to them—Their
reply—The people outwited and dispair.—
Trees bad matrials for rail roads —The ru
lers honorable —Something more of the
origin of the continents from insect life—
The Philosophers—lnsects not honored in
the annals of fame—Stauutons Embassy —
Aings and Queens of Carthage and Babylon
—How their robes were dyed—Man should
b» contented with his world—The moon
her *pp»*ranee —Our Legislators—Their
wisdom —The quantity of water on the
earth proved to be daily diminishing—
TV abandonment of the system of canals
by our people a wise act—The Philosophers
again—The author unfolds the origin ofthe
mountains, which separate us from Ten
nessee and obstructs our commerce—The
misfetune.
Mamoths—Their lores —Tamany and his
It argues well for a country wl.cn
the spirit of Internal Improvement is
with it; it is'prompted !>y the gener
ous anti mutual desire ol bettering
the public condition, and augment
ing individual happiness at th same
time that it indicates the march of
the light of mind.
This spirit for som time past has
been gradually kindling in our own
happy country, at length it has brok
en out in an open flame spreading con
tagiously from mind to nund, and «
system of operations has been com
menced. I cannot but think we live
in a happy era—Acadamies in ev> ry
part of the State have been erected,
and are crouded annually with as
pirants <®>r lilcrnry fa mo -our univer
sity is in high and vigorous operation
—w have commenced our system
of emendation m the proper place,
the mind, the source and hypomoch
lioisof all a t on and improvement
The Classic are daily encroaching
upon the Wilderness the wild Woods
further back will still cntch the sweet
umbers ol Homer and Maro, and the
Chattahoochee, Alabama, will °tand
as high in the future annals of our
song, as did the Tvber and, Eurotas
m the song, which is past but which
stiil moans along the desolated path
ot time, and charms rising posterity
with its harmony, and its sweetly
melancholy stories.
If any thing could he said in dis
praise of our university it is the fun
gous exuberance of its genius* which
occasionally ulcerates, and breaks
out in the shape of diplomatic corres
pondence too green with satire ad
dressed to some of our great men,
who are painfully sweating and tug
•‘•ft *1 the unoiled wheels of govern
t”ft°li and should of right not have
,‘r calamitis thus added to. The
university was intended bv our wise
■ ln cestors for the happiness of the
< o uiitry, and should therfore he sn
' r ed to literature, end not resemble
" great central catapulta, which dart®
“s envenomed missiles into, the good
!, onest breasts of our citizens, who
are zealously desirous to enjoy a lit
tle distinction, and taste a little fame
before their parting breath takes
leave. Th : s calamity, therefore is
to ho lamented altho it savours of a
superfluity of talent in the public
® ,n t of the country to he coined fi.r
lulure public use—lt is talent too
esastic for the sensibility of our good
citizens already sorsly afflicted on
account of the public good and con
cern-
The soil of a country is it natural
wealth, its rivers look to the trans
portation of the products ofthe soil,
snd are therefore likewise its natur
al wealth. Where the rivers of a
country are scarce or defieient, arti
ncial ones, canals may be made, and
this species of its wea.th increased.
1 hev may all be considered as re
sources offered to man to excite his
industry, and call forth his enterprise
f" he happy anti rich he must co
operate with nature, who will he his
companion in a!*, hi- efforts, and the
limit ofher resources will be the limit
of his enterprise. All the industry
ofitgriculture would he nothing with
out the cooperation of watery cloud,
"hirh undulates in the heated at-
Jiiosphere of summer and the genial
breeze seething with life.
Men in nil com tries have ever
hf, en anxious to uncover the bosom
ofthe earth in permit of gold, while
) ,' C ; j lll * o indite rent and nog
* \ : ;' at more abundant and valu-
and enjoyed in the shape of canals
and other Public YY orks. Henc
the resources of counties have gen
erally been more or less neglected,
and the people impoverished by
their own ignorance, when nature
had made them rich. We at length
have awoke from an unhappy lethar
gy, and with our eye* wide awake
are aspiring to the possession ol
riches of nature. Hail happy t.*a
hail! !
We are now ready for embarca.
tion, we sound the trumpet to sum
mon our readers to th* beech, and
beg them to put foot in the vesse,!,
in which we are to sail, for w must
leave the shore, and keeping what
we have said to the lecw ird or weath
er : ide, bear high upon the subject.
The only preparation necessary will
be a gooM light cork-jaccoat in case of
accidents, which may happ* 11 any and
every where, a strong grounded faith
in the mercy of the element to be
passed, and a moderate supply of
cool fountain water. The region to
he traversed is the most beautiful
and romantic imagination can con
ceive, the scenery will fascinate and
warm the heart, Sc blow the thoughts
about like the leaves of autum, the
atmosphere is all spirit, and the mind
will swim round in Ivhirlpools of
pleasure of immeasurable depth.
Abont thirty centuries have swept
by since the earth for the second tmi*
has been peopled with nations, and
since the r cord of their transactions
was commenced. During this lona
tirn but little improvement compar
atively has been made, one h alf of
the globe is still a Wilderness inhab
ited by Savages and Barbarians.—
The first of our race, who inhabited
our planet, when its surface evert
where was smooth and level as it
was fertile and green, and who were
m a fair way to populate all coun
tries, and raise up in them govern
mental institutions, were in the midst
of their prosperity and enterprise de
feated, and fell a prey to its bellig
erent elements— Abrupt ione aqua rum
terrestriuni.' Acordtng to some tbit
sad catastrophe was occassiuned by
the too near approach of an unlucky
wight of a comet, which melted the
circumpoler ic. s, and surcharged the
•eas vviili water, and enabled, them
to overflow the contine ts. Som<
maintain that the primitive earth,
Tetlus pnmaeva, whose surface eve
rv where was smooth and level, be
ing suspended in its orbit before it
was sufficiently dry, dessicata, to sus
tain it forin, breaks to pieces The
xterior crust forming the continents,'
in the shape of imm nse concave
arches, which were covered with the
most majestic and beautiful forest,
,st>d rested upon the internal sphere
ofvv.aters, broke down into the most
confused heap. The fluid rushing
up between the interstices from be
neath, raised with it transversely
huge fragments of these broken
arches, while other portions again
*nnk lower down to form the Valhes
allot which floating about in the ut
most disorder and confusion, were
at length collected together and con
solidated by their mutual attractions.
On the reunio of lf.e®e sha.tered
arches,the pietio ® r *isi Q transverse
ly were unfortunately wedged in by
!those which sunk down and swam
beneath. 4’ gave origin to the moun
tains and oth r inequalities of the
modern continents of the globe.-
There are not a few, among whom
was huffon, that insist these inequal
ites were occasioned by submarine
currents ofthe primitive sea, when
it held its dominion, and washed
over the present continents. Then
are others again who attribute them
to the agency of fire.
And here I would bespeak the
readers attention—be tbe origin of
these terrestrial excrescences, which
disfigure and are a blemish upon
the smothness of our pianet what
they may—whether the irruption of
tbe internal waters, the curre. t® of
ancient seas, or the agency ol interi
or fires, it is they which mainly con
stitute the necessities of Interna Im
provement, and provoke her genius. —
It is these hills of yeur country tall
and rock-built, aged as their mother,
upon whose lap their broad bases
rest, which, turned out of natures
ample mould claim their immortality
of her over which the predescessors
of your soil per>ued the, wild beast,
their prey from time unknown, an »
v-.ur I,.titers travels as a matter o
( i -sity, which without the l«i
an atom have seen your generation®
®uccessivcly dashed to pieces with
out scarcely adding a particle to tn
[rich the spot, ou which they til ,ihn
t he broken down and tier) :i
bv .. fin- wapt of 'iriuio pa
]>er, the purchase ofthe big dn n > t
sweat of former years, them:teives Hie
other day rag , which would not
keep out the cold wind, when it
blew.
\\ r hnt trophies vet rema : • sci
enre, nrdto w!;at'i« <hc not rornn t
lie tibi trunt artes, pacisquc imponere mo rent, parcerc subjccti* et debellare supertios.—Virgii..
MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER, 12 1826.
tent! She, who has brought celes
tral space within her dominions,
traversed its amazing amplitudes,
poised its firev spheres in her hand--,
traced out their orbits, and asscer
tained their velocities! In this age
she leaves the courts of Urania, and
descends from her arduous labors of
the skies to ornament and beautify
the mansion ofthe globe, and render
it more fit and convenient for mans
habitation. She has taught him, and
is still teaching the habitudes and
properties ofthe various elements or
substances, which compose it. put
ih means in his hands of turning
them to good advantage, and of
avoiding their injurious influence and
tendences —in a word, she has raised
for him a splendid throne amid mate
ria! beings, put a sceptre of domin
ion over them in his hands, Sc crown
ed him their rightful monarch, by
teaching him the chemistry of his
world,
It remains for her to facilitate his
passage over its surface, which, we
have seen has been rumpled and
tend red declivitous by the wild
v* l enience and of the terres
trial elements, in an age when he
knew not how to control them, when
he himself fell a victim to them, and
was a main sufferer the rich and
beautiful countries which had given
him birth and afterwards nurished
him being tiien only fit lor the hab
itation of fishes, and the amphibious
tribes. The Poet Horace speakes
of these days.
But b tore I proceed to unfold the
operations of science in the hands of
genius, her true Ministers, in smooth
ening down these declivities, th
frightful monuments ofthe disasters
of former times, it will b proper
touch upon the origin and structive
ol the earth, as l have upon the
change 1 -, which it has since under
gone, otherwise 1 should leave open
a w ide gap :n my reflections upon
Internal Improvement, which wouid
be extremely injurious to the future
evolution ofthe subject, by flinging
some important ideas in tbe shade,
which are to be the bases ot still
more important and useful conclu
sions. For* knowledge of the ori
gin of a thing reflects some light up
on its character, and a knowledge of
the structure indicates the means, by
which it is to be operated upon.—
The globe in the hands of man is ;>
raw material, which requires to be
wr.,ght lti his workshops to fit i!
for his use and accommodation-—re
quires to be operated upon; and this
is all that is meant bv the technical
expression, Intermit Improvement
I need not remind you that thatpart
1 of it which we inhabit is now under
i the lathe, a,id will soon he roadv for
! use Afterwards I shall speak of
j the relations of man with the earth,
shall show there is no country, wher*
Internal Improvement is more de
[ sirabie than in our own nor anv
i where more benefit would result from
; its operation, and sLal! demonstrate
wbat at first may appear impossible,
that not only t! e surface of the earth
may be levelled and channelled out
for the passage of land and water
machinery, hut that the length of our
solar day likewise admits, and mav
he improved bv engineering art, and
the manipulations of diurnal in
dustry thereby prolonged.
ORICIN AND STRUCTURE OP THE BARTH.
There was a time, intimate some
Philo«nphers, when the mire Deity
onlv filed universal space—when no
a«tr:.l hodv was launched to plow the
blue Ocean above us—when a’l that
was with one recnome and Ivrnnnv
eehoed uncr-nted music to the ear®
of him, who onlv and properly exist
ed. fhnee then in the midst of the
etheriu! vault nature he ran <0 vejri
tato. hentious spheres were let down
pendent, which mutually repel and
attract one another, composed of
subtle and penetmtinfreio: ents ; tb«
primitive tranquility was for a mo
ment disturbed by the rush r r morn
shooting worlds, yet ail moved in
cadpnce to the numbers ofthe mu
sic. which was before the days.—
The harmony of these numbers con
tinued to warm and animate nature
in her descent <0 bcinar. until it be
came for the first time, after pervad
ing the whole frame of matter,
choaked up and finally ob«tucted in
man—inr>erviow« man arcasiorcd
♦he first pause in the solemn march
of this harmony. Hence the origin
of (rood an evil, and the necessities
of all human arts to fore nature
crippled and disjointed, n« she i«, (o
produce th° (notification* of the pas
sion® and apuptite-., to the prodn'--
t : on of which her r r imetivo const -
tut ion was spontaneously adopted.
Here we are !• 1 to the brink of
the great fountain of human sweat,
where the lover -h mother of our arts
h-v in travail and brought forth.—
. The engineering art, aliunde tbe art
f regu! ting the exterior surface of
Ueir planet, though strongest is ■>
I ma-igthe v T*n;rost rs her children.
To proceed. Some (Euripides)
have been wont to consider the world
is having been hatched, and come
forth like a great chic Len, when it
bursts its phosphated shell. ‘Ovum
Jiliar.Yoctisproruptvm.’ There were
other ancient Poets, who sung the
world from primetive light in strains
which will continue to warm and ele
vate the conceptions of men, while
their generations shall spring for
ward to feel and enjoy the existence
of nature. Not only the world itself,
but its sovereigns with them had
the same pure and elevated origin,
' Luce ntundns quoque Dii ipsi, pura
nati sunt. Milton, who is a close
imitator of one of these Poets, had
this cosmology in viciV, when he
speakes of tin. eternity of light.
“Hail, holy light! offspring of Ileav’n first
born!
Or of th’ Eternal co-eternal beam.
May I express the unblamed? since God is
(light
Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,
bright edliiecce of bright essence in create,
Or hear’st thou rather, pure etlierial stream,
V\ hoie fountain who shall tell ? before the
son.
Before the Heav’na thou wast, and, at the
voice
Os God, as with a mouth, didst invest
The rising world of waters dark and deep,
Wove from the void, and formless infiuate.
Here are the ideas of inspiration
let off iu the most beautiful meta
physical costume, irterblended with
some oftho.se ofthe Orphic compo
sition. But it is Milton, who only
worked in the porcelain ofthe hu
man brain, a; and had .1 right to pich
up the precious material where ever
he could find it.
In order to save the reader and
myself much perplexity and trouble,
1 shall just simply on this important
subject, unfold the feir and impar
tial geognosy of a celebrated natural
Philosopher, who lectured on his
profession many years in the univer
sity at Edinborougb, and ivho, from
his being situated rearly iu the cen
tre of the world, enjoyed many ex
cellent opportunities of observation,
and must of course have been inti
mately acquainted with the whole
affair.
M here the universe now is an
ciently there existed a sphere of sim
ple and pure fire, impregnated with
the primordia of natures present con
stitution. Oxv gen ohemically uni
ted to this fire lormed hydrogen, oxy
gen and hydrogen still further com
bined formed water teeming with
auimalcular hte; this life operating
upon the fluid element, which nour
ished it, produced earth in the de
composition of the body, which it
h and animated, and >n this admirable
way the solid parts of this globe, in
the process of time, were originated
valhes, bills, an mountains, the com
ponent parts of continents. And in
this way, at this day, insects are pro
ducing empires for mafl in the bot
tom 01 the sea? Countriesare veg
etating for him there under the in
dustry of the little creatures, which
produc. the coral. One day the
waves will open their womb, and
give these countries birth; the soil
upon them mellowed by the incum
bent atmosphere, and tanned by the
austral breezes, will send up huge
umbrageous forests with tiie luxu
uos and gratifications of men, whose
motsteps will mark it, and who will
build cities, organise society, esta
blish government, and raise up beau
tiful Queens and royal Princes to
reign over them:—whose ruler-., as
our® have done, with their hands up
on the peoples Treasury, may send
to toreign countries lor men of en
gineering skill, may open this Treas
ury to them that they may open the
rivers and tnsuleate the earth for th
sake of commerce, for commerce,
which may be imaginary: —and fur
thermore it may be opined, that
th ir days, when their learned labor
i® over, may pass may q’lietcly and
happily upon the soft and glittering
couch, which, gold properly decom
posed,has the power of forming. This
gold shuts up the pores of their body
for life, &. all perspiration forever af
torw artls ceases. The gold of a conn
try is its people s sweat, the sweat is
an excretion from the blood which
i-the chief supp* 1 to animal life,
and he, who has this glyd may lire
without the illimination of this odious
Jhiid, which is his life corrupted and
driven through the skin Happy
tPrice happy, ye perspireless mortals
-mootheoers of the soil, your pores
.ire securely shut against future
times, tor ! ai 1 nations
ci.iimn ; —and lumpy the natioi
-honld they find thuir wide pores
iiut in their turn, >
But the p> le mnyjthen. say've men
i -k. 1 andgerin-i. r joiced whet
we heard cur rub ri had sent to fer
;•-1 co. ; ;ri( 1. 1 Jon — ye of <• .
and fair complexion, our hearts r.\-
joiccd when we heird of your com
j hig the promised farmers of our coun
try®’commerce and prosperity. Ye
j ave completed yout labour®.receiv
|. «! vour reward ami are l anpv
YVe are still covered with the odious
tilth oflabor, and are poorer bv your
recompeuce. \Ve have looked for
the white soil crowding our borders,
but have not yet seen it quivering
in the wind; we have listened for
the rumbling ofwater carriage thro’
our soil, but have not yet heard it;
we expected to have an easy passage
and a safe journey through our pre
cious country, but uur beasts still
tire, audgiveout by the way.’ They
reply, ‘we have done our duty, have
fuliiled the demads of government,
and our engagements, as honorable
men.
\\ r e have laid rail-ways through
your country, and enriched it with
canals. If your smmer’s sun drinks
up the waters of the canals of your
country too near the tropis, and
your winter floods break them, we
are not to be blamed; we cannot
push the sun further off, nor hold up
the clouds, if your rail-ways get
out of repair, and the washing of the
rain-water undermine them, we are
not to be blamed. The soil ia either
argilacious or sandy, and subject to
wash, it furnishes no rock, we were
compoledMo build them of the trees
of your forest, which, though soft,
sappy, and subject to rapid decom
position, mid in every sense of the
word unsuited to bear much press
ure or friction, yet they were the
best material we could procure, and
the best whith which nature has fur
nished you, and we arc not to be
blamed. And further in sending for
us your rulers meant your country’s
good and no censure ought to sully
their patriotism or blot theif fame.’
But there are so many by paths to
our subject, we continually get lost,
or it is like a rich mine, which fur
nishes valuable occupation in all its
ramifications. We most heartly,
however, beg the reader’s pardon,
lor just now having given him such
a severe ducking, in our perhaps too
arduous pursuit of submarine coun
tries, and of engineering art there.—
We shall now again attend to the
bumpy, haggard face of uor planet,
as it looks toward thff stellar zone
which requires the cosmetics of In
ternal Improvement to make it more
respectable and beautiful among its
fair comrades and fellow travellers of
(he skies.
You may recollect after having
had a fair and a full view of our earth
formed by the tedious and slow op
eration of insects, we were suddenly
broken off. Here again wo sha !
commence, for we have promised to
write a regular and hnrmonicdl co::
position on Internal Improvement.
It is then in animal chemistry we
are to seek for the origin ofthe earth
material of our globe, as they ap
pear in the shape of continents. On
this part of the subject I must refer
to Johnson Sc Hatchett, who with
some exceptions, are the ton at Ed
inborough, London, Paris, and the
adjacent countries. 1 deem it un
necessary to defend, at any great
length, this theory of the Terra
Firma from insects, since it has long
and still continues to be taught in
some shape or other, by the most
respectable philosophers, and in the
most respectable universities of all
countries.
I need not tell my readers that
the lime with which their houses
are plastered, has once been oysters
nor that the majestic columns and
walls of the temples of Jupiter and
Minerva at Home, had the same
like humble origin, nor that the
chalk and limestone beds of Ken
tucky and other States, are nothing
but the relics, where these, and such
like poor creatures perished.
Chaptali Sc Bitchat declare the
matter of the whole globe may have
been living flesh a hundred thousand
times over, and that all animals con
tinues to tread and live upon the
Consecrated dust ol’their ancestors,
Magnorum Proccrum? The former
goes still further, and admits that
the earth has not only been so many
times animated, successively by
parts at a time, but it is indebted
in sonic sort to animation for its very I
existence, speaking of the chalk
and limestone strattu, he says they
are the decomposition of testatious
animals. Biot, Delamaelhric, Malt
De Burne, Cuvier, Y\ hitston, YY’ood •
ard, Campancll, Buffon, Pemberton’
Bergman, and an irrccordable host
of such Poinces of science all pretty
much admit, and agree to the same
thing. H. Davy has demonstrated
indubitably the power of life in tbe
creation and formation ofthe earth.
Hoe fed some germinating seeds up
distilled water Sc carbon, and the
p ants, on decomposition, yielded
Bilex.
Is then the solid parts of globe
indebted for existence to the joint
force of animal and vegetable anima
tion, which, by slew degrees, in for
i in. r times, mail.) inroads upon the
j mire fluidity of iis primitive state,
!th*' one vichJrjr 'ho « ’die ar:’! (he
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other the nonsaline earths, which
compose it, 4* gradually formed the
continents to support animals and ve-'
getablcs of greater magnitude? And
were these huge terrestrial forms,
which support so many nations, upon
which thrones and sceptres have been
raised, and royalty and dominion es >
tablished, for which thousands fight
in throngs to redeem or to possess,
began to bo formed and developed
by insects and mosses, which the
insects among the vegetable tribes;
and is the perfectibility of the globe
now’ going on by the same agenees T
It would saern to be the case. .
Animals too, as well as plants haj o
the power of modifying the canical
elements of corporal bodies and of
changing their ultimate state.
In his embassy to China, Staunton
mentions the fact, that tho insect,
which yields the cochineal is colour
less and transparent, hut that when
it digests the juice of the Prickly
Pear, upon which it is went to feed,
it becomes beautifully red, and is im
pregnated with the matter, which
constitutes its value in commerce
and the arts. It was in a simihiv
way produced in the finny crea
ture the ostrum of the ancients, which
colored the beautiful garments ofthe
kings an 1 queens of Tyre, Cartbngi.
and Babylon. Furcroy put together
the chemical elements of an egg, but
could not put on the shell. Life is
a chemeat beantiful and inimitable
in her operations. The glory of her
1 work sparkles in the ege and beams
! in the tangible form ofthe virgin, as
the chemistry of nature dees in thcr
diamond anu opal, which burn in tho
diadem of royalty anti light up the
throne.
We could easily multiply the in-,
stances, in which life modifies coi
poral bodies, and vieids a product al
together elementally at variance with
the oliment, by which ii was nour
ished.
Our planet, then, by the supc.raih
ditioa and agency of oxygen, was c
volved iu a perfectly fluid shape from
the orb of primaeval fire, the forma
tion of the solid hind began in the
operations of animal, ular life, and iu
that of the mosses, feeblest of th -i
race of \ egctables, with which the
lluid globe was impregnated; and, in
the process of time, assumed the
shape of continents by the more ef
fective agencies of crabs, oysters, 0 1 -
tcologic animals, arid the Jigniler
ious plants.
Such seems to be the origin qf tho
solid shell, or crust ofthe globe, and
ofthe beautiful countries, which aro
only its component parts, upon which
man has fixed his home, found where
with to delight his heart, and planted
his empire in perpetual po*.ession.
And though a hill or a mountain
should occasionally raise its head to
obstruct bis passage, he should not
feel perplexed, but should recollect
that his country was formed in the
bosom of tho waters, at the bottom
of the sea, and was gradually eleva
ted for his habitation and enjoyment
by creatures, which arc now far be
neath his notice, which notwithstand
ing their great achievements during
such a loiitr succession of time, tiro
dead in t lie annals of fame, where lie
is permitted to stand emblazoned for
much less brilliant and loss arduous
exploits, for having murdered suc
cessfully an uiusual number of his
race, or for having destroyed thd
happiness and liberty, and enslaved
whole uations.
He should rather admire the gen
ius and assiduity of nature in so art
fully producing him a world and a
country, and be contented as possible
with the dress or costume, in which
she presents it to him, for she is very
head®trong in her own way —op-
posed to every thing like rail-ways
and canals —is disposed to acknowl
edge no invention but her own; and
should he be able to smoothe and i
ron it uovvii by Ins improvements,
she will he apt to rumple it again.
If we look at the face of our near
neighbor, the Moon through a teles
cope it isfretlcd with deep furrows,
! freckled and pock-marked, all strong
ly manifesting the past existence of
woful epochs, and no doubt at this
day requires p.acii ofthe sort of im
provement of which we liave been
speaking. YVe should then not only
admire the genius, but also the im
partiality of nature in having bet
towed upon us pevish contumel
ious, curious, backbiting, bluster
ing, bloodthirsty, living, adulterous,
rogueish, haughty, ambitious, deceit
ful, chohck}’, diseaselul, half white,
half black, half red, half coper-color
ed, filthy.scornful,'beastly, pompous,
discontented, ungovernable, coward
ly, vain, and unworthy, as we are, as
clever, good, and comfortable a world
l as ®!ie lei® upon ether people. But as
I all our wise legislators unanimously
have confined their schemes and
* plans of Internal Improvement to our
•own plane), ®o we ‘•hail confine tho
j scope of C.re’” ya-uauie on tho y’jU-