Met nation, rousting rong man after sleep, and sy yout tON ON tY OF thE PRESS.

        It is    t I observe terary animosity daily gro curiosity e    to ted States, and teemed ravels t teo diffuse error rat, notanding tant intercourse betions, t mass of tision, or eain more numerous prejudices.

        Englisravellers are t and t in tives of pride or i intervene, none    equal ty, or faition of external objects; but    or reputation of try es in collision    of anoto te extreme, and fet ty and dor, in tic remark, and an illiberal spirit of ridicule.

        ravels are more    and accurate, te try described. I    ?den an Englision of taracts of terior of India; or of any otract o picture out    I iously receive    of e neigions s of most frequent intercourse.    be disposed to trust y, I dare not trust his prejudices.

        It    of our try to be visited by t kind of Englisravellers.    and cultivated minds    from England to ransack to pee ts, and to study toms of barbarous nations,    intercourse of pro?t or pleasure; it    to tradesman, turer, ter and Birming, to be ing America. From sut to receive ion respeg a try in a singular state of moral and p; a try in    political experiments in tory of ts t profound and momentous studies to tatesman and the philosopher.

        t suerica, is not     a matter of surprise. t offers for plation, are too vast and elevated for ties. tional cer is yet in a state of fermentation: it may s frot, but its ingredients are sound and o settle doo sometantially excellent. But ting tt, and its daily indications of admirable properties, are all lost upon ted by ttle asperities io its present situation. tters    e is and personal grati?cations. tty forts e of society; udying tite and self-indulges, ant in timation of narro ao terbalanced among us, by great and generally diffused blessings.

        ted in some unreasonable expectation of sudden gain. tured America to tives y, and rangely and suddenly ric easy manner.

        t indulges absurd expectations, produces petulan disappoi. Suctered against try on ?nding t t sory and talent; and must tend ies of nature, and telligent aerprising people.

        Peraken or ill-directed ality, or from t disposition to ce tranger, prevalent among my trymen, treated ed respe America; and, omed all to sider ty, and brougy, t, on ty; ttribute to tion; and ue a society ins, and wo sequence.

        One ion ing from su by t tives of ty, tunities of inquiry and observation, and ties for judging correctly, inized, before tted, in sut, against a kindred nation.

        t furnisriking instance of enotics y of traveller ant and paratively unimportant try. s of a pyramid, or tion of a ruin; and ernly ributions of merely curious knoing faitations of coarse and obscure ers, ing a try    important and delicate relations. Nay, text-books, on y hy of a menerous cause.

        I s, opior sed to it, but for terest apparently taken in it by my trymen, aain injurious effects tauco ttacks. t do us any essential injury. tissue of misrepresentations attempted to be    giant. Our try tinually outgroer anotself. e    to live on, and every day ion.

        All ters of England united, if    suppose t minds stooping to so union, could not ceal our rapidly groand matcy. t ceal t t merely to p also to moral causes--to tical liberty, tained energy to ter of a people, and ional power and glory.

        But o the aspersions of England?

        o be so affected by tumely so cast upon us? It is not in t ation s being. t large is ter of a nations fame: s t nesses a nations deeds, and from tive testimony is national glory or national disgrace established.

        For ourselves, t is paratively of but little importance ; it is, perao illing     anger ament into tion, tros strengters are lab to vio ?nd an invidious rival, and a gigantic foe, sers for ated ility. Every one kure at t day, and s trol. tests of temporary; t in t is tive and fet t to t; t in t spirits; t in t morbidly sensitive to t tri?ing collision. It is but seldom t any one overt act produces ilities betions; ts, most only, a previous jealousy and ill-ion to take offerace to ten inate in ters,    and circulate t is to ihe brave.

        I am not laying too mucress upon t; for it applies most empically to our particular case. Over no natioe trol tion of t classes makes every individual a reader. t of our try, t does not circulate t of it. t a calumny dropt from an Englistered by an Englisatesman, t does not go to bligo tement. Possessing, taiure of tely is it in ruly is it y, to make it tream ions mig toget in turning it to ers of bitterness, time may e tle moment to    ture destinies of t try do not admit of a doubt; over tainty.

        Sake    empires    bee--s at uation, in repulsing from ion s o roying he boundaries of her own dominions.

        t ted States are inimical to t try. It is one of tly propagated by designing ers. tless, siderable political ility, and a general soreness at ty of t, collectively speaking, trongly in favor of England. Indeed, at oime ted, in many parts of to an absurd degree of bigotry. t to tality of every family, and too often gave a tra currency to teful. t try, ted o it enderness and veion, as t repository of ts and antiquities of our race--ternal ory. After our ory, ted--none oy. Even during te unity for kind feelings t fort    of ts of our try to s, in t of ilities, till     kept alive ture friendship.

        Is all to be at an end? Is tions, to be broken forever?--Per is for t--it may dispel an allusion al vassalage; rue is, and preveional pride. But it is o give up tie! a--closer to t t ill make us cast back a look ret as ernal roof, and lament t t ions of the child.

        S-sig land may be in tem of aspersion, recrimination on our part    of a prompt and spirited vindication of our try, or t castigation of    I allude to a disposition to retaliate in kind, to retort sarcasm and inspire prejudice, ers. Let us guard particularly against sucemper; for it ead of redressing ting as tort of abuse and sarcasm; but it is a paltry and an unpro?table test. It is ternative of a morbid mind, fretted into petulance, rato indignation. If England is o permit trade, or ties of politics, to deprave tegrity of ain of public opinio us be to diffuse error, and engender antipation:    of national jealousy to gratify; for as yet, in all our rivalsy. to ans ti?cation of rese--a mere spirit of retaliation--and even t is impotent. Our retorts are never republis, t ter a querulous and peevisemper among our ers; t ?oerature, and sos blossoms.    is still e try, and, as far as t, excite virulent national prejudices. t is t especially to be deprecated. Governed, as irely by public opinion, tmost care saken to preserve ty of trutes a prejudice, ion of rys strength.

        te. tions of to e to all questions of national    s. From ture of our relations     questions of a dif?cult and delicate cer ion,--questions t affect t acute aable feelings: and as, i of tional measures must ultimately be determined by popular se,    be too anxiously atteo purify it from all latent passion or prepossession.

        Opening, too, as rangers every portion of tiality. It so ex an example of oion, at least, destitute of national antipat merely t acts of ality, but tesies wy of opinion.

        o do ional prejudices? terate diseases of old tries, tracted in rude and ignorant ages,    little of eacrust and ility.

        e, on trary, o natioen an enlig parts of table igably studied and made knoo eacages of our birt sional prejudices, as itions, of the old world.

        But above all let us not be in?uenced by any angry feelings, so far as to s our eyes to tion of    and amiable in ter. e are a young people, necessarily an imitative one, and must take our examples and models, in a great degree, from ting nations of Europe. try more udy t of itution is most analogous to ours. tellectual activity--ts of ts erests and most sacred cies of private life, are all genial to ter; and, in fact, are all intrinsically excellent: for it is in t tions of Britisy are laid; and ructure may be time be someterials, and stable in tructure of an edi?ce t so long oempests of the world.

        Let it be ters, tation, and disdaining to retaliate ty of Britiso speak of tion    prejudice, and ermined dor. ing bigotry rymen     admire and imitate every t is Englis t out ion. e may tual volume of reference, o tical rengto embellisional cer.
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