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BY
JO!L\ K.M CHAft L't'O.W
PRICE —XUKKB IMII.LAH . Xi.it AS.-:CM, HAT 1
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MISCELLANY.
EMiCiu no:/.
The dream of emigration which
O
is rapidly pouring itself from the
old world into the new, Ins alrea
dy put fame of the governments
cf Europe upon meatures of pre
ventative policy. They mull con
template these drains of the lam
ina of their population with no
common folicirude.—• We mav
expect tpe fevered interdiction of
so ipreading an evil to their power
and prosperity. We may loci; to
their fmedliy ciofing their ports to
nr, emigration, which threatens to
it > *.i til t• < ti * ‘kf El O’ ):i. i **•_ 1 f
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the a; sand inventions, they have
been for centuiies nursing to a.a
turirv.
The circuui fiance speaks a lan
guage, however, eafsly spelLd and
underload. Volumes could not
convey a more perfect deferiptiovi
oi the deranged habits of European
Society—-of the concuflion and
diilocatiou which the commercial
part of the machine has undergone.
The long wars which have fain
iihed the refoarces of Europe,
have idr her without the power,
for Ibme time yet, to replenish ail
this wade—to fill up the gaoloo
ctiaith of her means—to iurniii*
immediate Uismilams to in du if ry
to renew the springs of co.nmerciid
enterprise and activity, tda:ced,
even tkadeoed, as they have been,
by the untoward (pint of hoftdity.
The (buggies of power and ambi
tion of die paflions for glory, the
wars of Princes and Potentates
have left their deadly inflictions &l
almoll incurable galhes, more or
lels, cn every part of that
body of the civilized globe. Wars
for .upwards of a quarter of a cen
tury, between commercial dates,
make dreadful havoc in the relati
ons and habitude, of an inbufbri
©us and cialized epoch.— i'hey
are utterly alien to the Jpirit of our
•age —They are followed by amor
al as well as pecuniary ravage,
which the arts of a healing policy
can alone gradually repair. It is,
however, the laboring portion of
fociery, who furaifh the large (lak.es
in this game of glory and ambition
—played oy the highest too often,
for their own exclusive gratificati
on. Long periods of sorrow ar>d
fuffering atte(Li this calamitous
trath—nor seldom at the glorious
termination of a war is their bitter
train of calamities iiTTw (ted. The
prelent situation of the people of
England is the tei rible iiluflration
of this fact. Under such circum,
fiances, to lay an interdict on the
enterprise of man, by which he
hopes to reined / the evil of his con
dition, in a change of country ;
to call chains around his oody,
and pin him to the foil on which
he tnufl famifli, may be among the
politic devices to prefc-rve the pow
er princes, ia the use of a degraded
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WASHINGTON, (cEOiiGU) FUID AY, AU GUST’ 22, is 7.
and despicable population; but
othing can De imagined more hos
tile to the liberal aims of an mi
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to lira genera! character of our aV
—which is one of humanity, rxi
many points conne&ed. with the
social comfort of the species.
But is it poffiblp to put ; u effect
ual corrective to the prucipe of in
creating emigration, by tf.Rirm of
po .ver i io am (Ia cur ret: < which
has set in with so (hong aui hea
dy an impure ? lodefeat tie cun
ning and ingenuity ot man, when
he is drawn .o a Icene full o; hope,
by tne reiutieis import unity bf fell
interest, and lpurn of poerty?
“When he is won by these prilling
motives from the ties of kind fed k
country ? We believe not. That
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ry of the present generation--
none Hnce the inllitution cf osr
government —nor perhaps in tty
records of hiflory—the prodigiois
numbers which are <] nly drains*
olftroui the ‘bores of Europe, t.
cultivate our fields—cun receive
pm haps no efficient check, in th:
mid;l of the ‘faculties and Itron
temptations, which conitantiy loin.
it and beEt tile emigrant Nor i
it from one or two iources, w;
have received thele large tribunes
to our population. It is not oni j
from countries whLii have beep
walled and vexed by the iword of
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ot ungoverned power —or made
Ueriie by the hand of nature ; but
emigration is to be fe-n (preadiiig
even from the abodes which have
be n long luppoied consecrated to
coiiifoitand independence. Swit
zerhivi lupplies her con ributions
as well as Holland, Germany, and
oth.r parts of Europe, tofwell the
mals ot our numbers. Nor is it
podium to overlook the difference
to all appearance, wrought in the I
character of the European, on hi
translation to the new vvoilJ. lE*
Lems to undergo a renovation cf
hisexiftence. lie mull feel ne v
faculties, as it were—new pahlons/
new wants Birred and developed
within him. He quietly <Jpens a
path to wealth ; to perfcnttl inde
pendence ; and occafionlily, to
influence and power, lie finds i
no monopolies to check las enter
prize, and clog his indiiiry ; no
oppreflive burthens to tat away
his resources; no disqmlifictions
of any kind or degree, to shut a
gainff him the wide arn| brilliant
aveues to power and renown.
His faculties find their proper ex
pansions, and his enterprise ire rich
reward.
US. Patriot .
I'he Press and Literature A
Superior talents are not necessary
to every editor. The principal
point to be observed in the man
agement of a newspaper are, 1. To
endeavor always to afeertain and
pubiifh the truth with regard to
every affair that is interesting to
the community, 2. To adraonifh i
| t ie credulous and ignorant againfl
: t<p ready a belief of mfidious ru~
mrs. 3. l u pubiifh what is ufeful
h gmaml, ~.;d u.
| xi plain, according to tne belt an ’
thorities, what is obfeure. 4. so
j avoid vulgarity, both in expreflioii
| iti'l allusion, and invariably to
(elect the bes and niofl grammat -
ical phraleology. Negligence in
tliis fourth particu!aris productive
!or ferrous evii : it vitiates talle,
! corrupts the Englith tongue, and |
j detracfrom the elegance and
propriety of colloquial intercourse.
U the specimen; war • not wholly
beneath criticifin, We might cite I
i examples of low and mangled
! phra ! eology from an 100 newspa
g. ms aow in a courle of publication
1 1 fie United States, la Electing
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bojfmiold, the rather or head of a !
hi mly cannot be too careful in I
cn ioli ig one which is pue in its
llyle. By rhoie who know, that !
from the words we use in talking j
and acquire by reading, the ordin
ary manner of our converlhnon is
derived, the importance of a care
ful (election ot nei.vpnpers f:ir per
usal, as to this particular, will be
ealily comprehended.
i’hefe remarks will be much
strengthened when we advert to
the lurpriLng inlluence of the profs
in fociely. It poffeflVs a power in
bme meafurc magical ; and how- !
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be, as to genius, judgment, or :
learning, such is the talismanic :
force of the typographic art, that j
when that fame editor, garrulous 1
in nonie tile, fends forth ids (hallow
j lucubration through the machine
ry of the press, it am (Is the atten
tion of the community, and, upon :
a parr of it, produces a certain es- I
leer. We may trace this fulcepti- I
I biiiry of impreliion from weak and i
I insipid observations, to a fiiii great- 1
er vveaknefs of mind in thole who
are liberal to it, as to an intellect
ual indolence which {brinks from
the labor of reflection.
usuor. \
The Richmond Enquirer
has lately contained much ac
quisition relative to the pro
priety of the laws which pro-1
hibit usury. The subject ap- i
pears to 11s to be a mere man !
oi straw ; for the question I
at issue is, in truth, only npm- j
inal. All the banks violate s
the law of the land in this!
particalar. Six per cent is!
the common limit of the rate !
of interest; and yet, by the i
modus operand /, ail the banks ;
receive above the rates : they
do more, they receive com
pound interest, which, by ma
ny Courts of common law,
has been deemed illegal. In
deed, in some cases, they de
rive interest without any cap
ital at all—a thing that would
be incredible, if it were not
tarovec- by the modern .system
and baii-Ang. As to interest
m Ion: > from individuals, or
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waving, the brokers and the
asm us take all iliey can gety
and taere are such a nnmbei*
or persons interested in the
business, mat tiie law is wiaoly
a dead letter; except perhaps,
now anti men, when some
poor unfortunate devil is pro
secuted to secure impunity
to the rem. i here is even
strong reason for believing
that some of the banks are aw
teresred in the shaving of their
own depreciated paper. When
we see all this, when it is
known and breugut nonie to
■’ me business and bosoms’* of
every one, what signifies a
dry discussion about the po
licy or impolicy of repealing
tlie laws concerning usury.
Repeal them cr not, usury
will, and does, prevail; winch
is just the same thing as if no
law existed on the subject.
FROM EUROPE.
Oer intelligence is not very in
terdting. Roused by tyranny £:
famine, the people in itverxl parts
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<Ja a uUiLv, uii uUvUi|pl wG
varturn the dtabiifhed authorities,
but ddiitute of able leaders, and
witiiout union in action, their at
tempts for the prdent have fallen
m tfifcdiug liteir object, and many
of the unfortunate malcontents
have died on the field and fcatlold.
in i ngiand, miiery and wunt
continued to press upon the people.
Reported ccnfpiraeiesand tumults
lurnilhed minilters with pretex s
for urging the further continuance
of the suspension of the hab.as
corpus act and imprisoning whom
loever they confidcred inimical to
defpotiim. Arrelfs were quite
common. But the inflexible ob
(linacy of the EngliDi diameter,
when once beat our cf its natuul
phlegm, leaves us room to hope
that redress is not far diltant. file
king of Westphalia, finding the
deputies cf the nation untra&able
and resolute in rejecting the projet
or a conditution submitted for their
fit cl ion, diflolved the aCernbly, un
der pretence of laying the inflru
nient belore the people, and in
forcing it as boon as approved by a
majority of them. This appealing
to the people against their repre
sentatives is the molt wretched
hum-bug of royal depravity of
which Ave have ever beared. It is
tantamount to a declaration that
the sovereign is more thoroughly
acquainted with the difpofjtion &z
wants cf the Wcftphadans than
they 2ie themselves. Eut the moft
important political event received
in America of the late arrivals is
the departure of count d’Yermo
loff from St Petersburg for Ptrlia,
charged with a million for obtain-
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