Western Carolinian

              - — s * ffjtrulittimb published bv krider & btng_ia_.i bauftryvvv tvav6\>.vi jv.vfc so 1810 vol \ vo 3 the wr.steir c'a.ioi.i\ta.n is published every tucs dav jtt three dollars per annum payable at the observe next the reverse of this hideous as pect thc thorn and thistle plucked away the wilds turned to fruitful fields the poisonous fens drained and converted into rich meadows the valliea clothed with corn ; « the cattle upon a thousand hills ;" — all this brought to pass by thc skilful industry of man ; who while he is tilling the ground sinews his body grows robust in con stitution and invigorates lhe faculties of his mind meanwhile the lord iookcth down from above visiteth him with his vivifying sun with the rains and tlie dews of heaven and giveth him increase it is not in judgment but in mercy that the divine constitution of things compels man to la bor ancl of all labor that of husbandry is the most congruous to his health his peace and his morals ; ancl the most conducive to the devebpe ment ofthe hicultics of his body and mind prejudices of education for principles which i have no doubt he conceived to be more consonant vii*h his fellings und more con sistent with his ideas of liberty and indepen dence whatever may be said us to the mo tive which produced the change 1 have no hesitation in thinking it originated entirely from principle and that his feelings and sen timents were more in harmony and unist n with the pjayrty he joined than the one he had forsaken the conduct he has since pur sued has evinced the integrity of his motive and the sincerity of his attachment to his party and his country and the confidence which that country has reposed in him is an evidence that she also has been influenced by a similar opinion mr adams is in person short thick and fat resembling a little in his face the portrait of his father which you have seen ; und nei ther very agreeable nor very repulsive lie is between forty-live and fiftv years of aye and seems to be vigorous and healthy he is regular in his habits and moral mid tem perate in his life to great talent he unite unceasing industry and perseverance and an uncommon facility in the execution of busi ness though he has read much d drank " deep of the pierian spriny he seems not to solicit the character which literature be stows and what will seem extraordinary to you chooses rather to be ranked among men of business than among men of science reason and b uninfluenced by the attractions i passion l jie must comprehend says mirabeau,"all the defects of our social ei istence discern tlie degree of improvement ol which we are susceptible calculate the ad vantages that result from the possession of liberty estimate the danger of confusion ami tumult study the art of preparing men for j felicity anel conduct them towards perfection by the plainest anel most obvi ms paths his survey must extend beyond ordinary limits ; he must examine climates eh liberate on cir cumstances and yield to eve ms without suf fering them tn master him to extensive research and general knowl edge mr adams adds great powers of ob servation his residence as minister at the courts of st james and st petersburg has enlarged hia stock ed facts and rendered his information more corn ct and practical he is not one id those statesmen who theorise when experience can afford iis aid and avoids the application of abstract principles when plainer and more obvious ones are calculated j to subserve the object in view he is sedate circumspect and cautious ; reserved but not distant grave hut not repulsive he re ceives but seldom communicates ; and dis cerns with great quickness motives however latent and intentions however concealed by the contortions of cunning or the drapery of hypocrisy this penetration seems to be in tuitive and natural and not tlie result of 1 j mere acquaintance with men or a long md intimate association with the different classes ol society it is the operation of native judgment and not the exercise of acquired cunning this excellence is common te tht people ofthe east hut whether it originates irom education or from any peculiar organi zation ofthe physical powers i am not milli cientlv master of the theory of helvetius and godwin to determine imr adams has more capacity than genius he can comprehend better than he can invent ; und execute nearly as rapidly as he can design though as a public minister hc hud no great opportunity to display his powers yet from the little he exhibited i judgment may be formed of his ability in that character he has all the penetration shrewdness an<l perseverance necessary to constitute an abb diplomatist united wiih the capacity tei per ceive and the eloquence to enforce what would conduce to the welfare and interests of his country mr adams is a good writer a state paper of his which i have lately seen is corn - posed with great ability and though neit suffi ciently condensed evince much skill and dexterity in the nrt of composition with which he is evidently well acquainted in short my lord there is no public character in the united states that has more intellectual power the moral inclination to be more use ful or that will labi r with greater assiduity to discharge the important kities he owes to himself and to hi ; e imli v t%zzsi paper will be cusconuiuied until all arrearages are p4a unless at the discretion of thc editors whoever will become responsible for the payment of nine papers shall receive a tenth gratis advestisbmem-s will be inserted on the customary terms fc»o advertiserfient inserted until it has been paid for or its payment assumed by some person in this town cr its vicinity cc/all lettere to the editors must be pom paid or they will not be attended to auttu!\y\/r\y\i #»*_. v ' * ti ■ v.^j'si 4i^irj-.-.i<*<v«~a_j from the plough hoy behold therefore tbc goodness and severity of god severity in smiling the ground with a curse so visible that man must needs see the marks of it even to the latest generation : good ness in making this very curse upon the ground the means of immense benefit to our apostate race — goodness too in blessing the work ofour hands giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons and filling our hearts with food and gladness philosophers and poets from the deepest anti quity up to the present time have so copiously bestowed their praise upon agriculture es the source of human comfort und weal that it would be next to impossible lo add materially to what lias bcen already said upon this subject and said so admirably well but one little crevice suffi cient for a s^'ort essay still remains to be filled up i know not that any one has undertaken to show that agriculture redeems the earth from the curse denounced upon it at the lamentable period of the apostacy and even turns that curse to a blessing this i will attempt and if my feeble attempt should fail to produce conviction it will at least give scope for useful reflection american farmers yours is among the choicest of callings and no so great a body of people in any other part of this globe has such ample means j of independence ancl comfort ofthe ground j you till you yourselves are the lords every goodly tree you plant every acre you meliorate tends directly to your own benefit and that of your wives ancl children " be up ancl doing " think not bald " concerning your work ami thc toil of your bands because of the ground which j the lo-d bath cursed to the industrious il is a blessing in disguise say not a little more folding of the hands to sleep if llie thorn and ! thistle is stiil growing in your enclosures ex , pel therefrom wiih all speed every nuisance every deformity occasioned by the wiles of the serpent destroy tbe teeth of tbc old dragon wherever you find hem scattered within your premises make every acre of your ground turn to some gootl account f o industry add skill icek earnestly and by all means i your power to increase your own knowledge in practical agri culture to skilful industry add strict economy lie frugal ; let your living be good but plain anel uncostly ; so you will ave id the curse of debt which is not remediable like that brought upon the ground dash from your lips the cup oi in temperance ; its deadly poison is mere to be dreaded than the envenomed tooth of the adder that hisses yn.lcr your sheaves bring up your children in the habits of industry and frugality : and in the fear of the lord grudge not to school , and educate them well that thej may become in telligent virtuous useful respectable men and women i.i all your b iis and labors in all yom secular affairs i.i 4d your domestic concerns seek the guidance of that wisdom which is from above unci lhc blessings of heaven will rest upon ! you ! mr adams is extremely plain and simple i both in his manners and habiliments and i labors to avoid atike the foolery and bplen i dor oi " fantastic fashion and the mean and i inelegant costume ol affected eccentricity — ! he is evidently well skilled in the rhetorical art on which he has lectured and in which i he displays considerable research and ability ; but whether he succeeded in reducing his principles to practice while a member of the senate i am not able to say 1 should infer however that his speeches were more correct and polished if they were r.ot more eloquent thnn those of his coadjutors in legislation — vet after all my lord there is something more required to complete an orator than the mere knowledge ancl practice of those principles which rhetoricians have established as the ground work of this art if there be as ab sence of that peculiar kind of talent or want of that peculiar enthusiasm which propels the mind to embrace with ardor and delight the profession of an orator the most intimate and accurate knowledge or the most perfect dex terity in the use o the " rhetorician's tools will be inadequate to produce excellence — and however skilfully a man may round his periods and balance his sentences select his phrases or direct their harmony without that etherial and incomprehensible power which gives animation to matter sweeps through nature like the lightning of heaven and creates and embodies and unfolds ; he will still be cold and tame and spiritless ; correct indeed but frigid ; regular but in sensible from what i can learn mr ad ams with all his knowledge and talent did not attain the lirst rank among american ora tors he wanted enthusiasm and fire ; he wanted that nameless charm which in oratory as well as poetry delights md fascinates and leads the soul captive without the desire ol resistance or the consciousness ol er-or thorns and thistles shall it btar was the bur den of the curse that lit upon the ground but it is not on irremediable curse : the industry of the skilful husbandman removes this foul stain which the fall brought upon the ground ancl bedecks it with a thousand beauties those cursed thorns and thistles he grubs out ; whatever is noxious «>. useless r t lsigbtiy he clears away ; and rears up instead the tree that is good fur food the nutritious vegetable whatever is pleasant to the eye or grateful to the palate look upon thc field of golden wheat rank and good ripe for the sickle and waving in thc gentle breeze is there any visible curse remaining upon that field ? no : willi eden itself it almost vies in delight someness look now over the domain of farmer thrift what there do you sec indicating that his ground ii yet under the curse ? nothing he has honorably redeemed it from the original malediction there is nothing cumbersome re maining ; every thing is there that \ hould be and every thing in the righl place i had ventured to remark above that by means of agriculture the curse upon thc ground is even turned to a blessing : or in other words that in estimable benefits have sprung out of it let us examine this point was then tl curse upon the ground inflicted in mercy le mat '. i p:c ..:...; to hold the affirmative and for it v ill offer the follow ing e.onsiiie-riitioiis : the sentence s-—c'ui:it ... the ground ' f:-r thit sake it is not upon man lhat this curse falls bul upon the ground and upon the ground !.._•/ v sake ; — that is in ewder to adapt it to lhe ircum stances ef his 14.11«-ii nature it was nei longer befitting that ho shojild lice without toil for ii would have been destructive of his vital interests hi a moral point of view and in every important ic5pcct it had become altogether necessary that lis should labor and even labor bard for bis living — that be should cat i ud in tjieswrut of hu face ; therefore such a change was mercifully wrought i:i tbe face of the eariii-as should coni pel man to labor and by this means save him tium destruction for suppose the whole earth bad been and continued to be as blooming i en fair ;" that there weie no rubbish upon thc bice ol it no nuisances to remove ; that every thing nutritious every thing delicious grew up spontaneously and that man had nothing to do but to banquet upon the luxuries which perpetu ally surrounded him s would he have been happy r hupfy i his condition wouhl have been most wretched and deplorable torpid fo.i want of motive to exertion enervated by sloth cor ruptcq by luxury v wallowing in the mfire of profligate ice the pigmy i 3 -. uld i:i all probability ha bce.'j t:.z,h extinct ihousahdij ____________________________________ _•_-______________________________________________________________________■ 4mwn — the canada newspapers give us an evi dence a miserable malice which we did nor suppose if entertained could line open de fenders among respectable britons against one of om distinguished fello.v-citiy.ens — some exhibitor of wax-figure i at york had in his collection a representation ofour mai general jackson the exhibition of thi figure says the newspaper was tl highly of fensive not particularly to the inhabitants of york but to every british subject whose heart beat3 in unison with loyalty to his sove reign revenge was determined on 1 ho offending figure was taken unresisting from tlie waxen groupe and hung as high as hu man to use the words of a writer who gives an account of i spirit of chivalry ! what an exploit what enlightened minds must have conceived it ! what daring hands achiev ed it how loyal be thee men of york ! looking through thc vista ofa few years me -. inks i see in prospective the auspicious period when these united states i!l possess an agri cultural population far superior in numbers and equal in knowledge and virtue to any that the mh ul has ever known : when millions and many millions of tillers ofthe ground shall be spread over lids vast territory enjoying the comforts of moderate independence the lamp of divine truth the lights of science social and domestic happi ness and distinguished no less foi tbeir moral and chrisiian virtues than for the pre-eminent goodness of their secular lot ancl portion i ir the higher grades of eloquence where tlie passions are excited and acted on and the whole mind wrought up to a kind ol phrenzy by weakening the dominion of reason mr adan s did not excel ; but in close argumen i tatioii in logical anal sis in amplification and regular disposition he is said to have been inferior to none with great-knowledge of art he was however defective in the ars celare utlcm an essential ingredient in the-compo sition of an or tor his personal ai-.pear.ince too which is not very prepossessing or agree able must have operated against him and rendered his eloquence less effective and re sistless notwithstanding these defects he was considerably above mediocrity and main tained a character as on orator inferior to but few in this country it would be gnss injustice to the british nation to impute to it the disposition indi cated in this instance of stupid malignity regarding the authors ed it as ignorant zeal ots they imiit pity more than anv other sen timent the writer in the york observer however who applauds this magnanimous feat deserves the punishment which is justly due to all mischievous instigators of-nationalr broils let it be tbe business ofthe seripjb 1 v t ilill 1 t hii from " letti:ks ir.c.-t washington mr adams has distinguished himself in the paths of literature and politics the arlv part of.,his lile seems te have been de voted to th acquisition of ;• . nend knowledge i which hat ocen subsequently ii!<*mer.ted bv travel observation agtd re'iection ih was oiii ■.: attached to the party by whom his father was chosen p*esidt-nfs bnt very soon after j in ri j'.ubl :;•. ;-.'! liiiiistratfori came into poty 1 c i he tv induced to change his opinion v a fi nbandju w-lwt might havitbceo^thei mr adams's prominent inclination how ever appears to be political i o be eminent as a statesman is his predominant ambition . and i doubt not he will attain this character irom the nature of his mind and the tenor j f his sttiui's much indeed is required to form a state sman lie must have a mind that yill enable him in some d gree tt remove tne veil 01 futurity . tu compare the present wiih thc past . to zzl tu the government of ancl reflecting part of both nation to cou act such folly we are persuaded x r.a part of the united states in whichll th nt ynrk 4 > .'^^| __■ r»tvr titel universally « mtlemned