methinks i see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousting herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks i see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam.--milton on the liberty of the press.
it is with feelings of deep regret that i observe the literary animosity daily growing up between england and america. great curiosity has been awakened of late with respect to the uates, and the london press has teemed with volumes of travels through the republic; but they seem inteo diffuse error rather than knowledge; and so successful have they been, that, notwithstanding the stant intercourse betweeions, there is no people ing whom the great mass of the british public have less pure information, or eain more numerous prejudices.
english travellers are the best and the worst in the world. where no motives of pride or i intervene, none equal them for profound and philosophical views of society, or faithful and graphical description of external objects; but wheher the i or reputation of their own try es in collision with that of ahey go to the opposite extreme, and fet their usual probity and dor, in the indulgence of spleic remark, and an illiberal spirit of ridicule.
heheir travels are more ho and accurate, the more remote the try described. i would place implicit ?den an englishmans description of the regions beyond the cataracts of the nile; of unknown islands in the yellow sea; of the interior of india; or of any other tract which other travellers might be apt to picture out with the illusions of their fancies. but i would cautiously receive his at of his immediate neighbors, and of those nations with which he is in habits of most frequent intercourse. however i might be disposed to trust his probity, i dare not trust his prejudices.
it has also been the peculiar lot of our try to be visited by the worst kind of english travellers. while men of philosophical spirit and cultivated minds have bee from england to ransack the poles, to pee the deserts, and to study the manners and s of barbarous nations, with which she have no perma intercourse of pro?t or pleasure; it has beeo the broken-down tradesman, the scheming advehe wandering meic, the maer and birmingham agent, to be her oracles respeg america. from such sources she is tent to receive her information respeg a try in a singular state of moral and physical development; a try in whi
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