ndence:--"There is one thing, however, that may
justly claim the calm consideration of a great and generous people. Now
that half a century has passed away, is it necessary to the pleasures of
this day to revive feelings in the children which, if they were found in
the parent, were to be excused only by the extremities to which they
were pressed? Is it generous, now that they have achieved the victory,
not to forgive the adversary? Is it manly, now that they have nothing
to fear from Britain, to indulge in expressions of hate amid
vindictiveness, which are the proper language of fear? Would there be
less patriotism, because there was more charity? America should feel
that her destinies are high and peculiar. She should scorn the
patriotism which cherishes the love of one's own country, by the hatred
of all others."

I think, after what I have brought forward, the reader will agree with
me, that the education of the youth in the United States is immoral, and
the evidence that it is so, is in the demoralisation which has taken
place in the United States since the era of the Declaration of
Independence, and which fact is freely admitted by so many American
writers:--

"Aetas parentum pejor avis tulit
Nos nequieres, mox daturos
Progeniem vitiosiorem."
_Horace_, _book_ iii, _ode_ 6.

I shall by and by shew some of the effects produced by this injudicious
system of education; of which, if it is necessary to uphold their
democratical institutions, I can only say, with Dr Franklin, that the
Americans "pay much too dear for their _whistle_."

It is, however, a fact, that education (such as I have shown it to be)
is in the United States more equally diffused. They have very few
citizens of the States (except a portion of those in the West) who may
be considered as "hewers of wood and drawers of water," those duties
being performed by the emigrant Irish and German, and the slave
population. The education of the higher classes is not by any means
equal to that of the old countries or Europe. You meet very rarely with
a good classical scholar, or a very highly educated man, although some
there certainly are, especially in the legal profession. The Americans
have not the leisure for such attainments: hereafter they may have; but
at present they do right to look principally to Europe for literature,
as they can obtain it thence cheaper and better. In every liberal
profession you will find that the ordeal neces