e language. Such writers are
the children of both nations. It is not a tariff protection; it is a law
which must needs prevent the printer, or the bookseller, from pocketing
the money, lawfully due to the poor, honest writer.

There have been some writers who said, that genius will always carve its
way, though its country be a bad step-dame!--Indeed, we have biographies
of many geniuses, by which we see that they lived with bread, and water
all their life, and sometimes, by want of bread, they did pass shivering
days, and nights in garrets, with unfinished poems, superior to that of
Milton. True, a small part of those poor geniuses, at the end of their
painful life, they did find a protector. But, many of them, who would have
been the glory of their nation, did they not die on the straw? Many, who
with their arts would have lifted up to heaven the mind of their
contemporaries, finding themselves neglected, they turned their geniuses
to the fashion of a coat, or a bonnet, the only means of getting a better
living among citizens who think more of fashion, than of the culture of
their mind. Do we not see, even literary periodicals inculcating the most
extravagant fashions with which many a father of large families had been
ruined? However, there are still many ladies, whose educated mind,
permitting them to discriminate their faces in the mirror of truth, with
them, intelligence is found to be the best ornament, than useless gaudy
dresses; and we are happy to say that, their neat, simple, modest fashion
cheers our heart.

I do agree with the above mentioned writers, that sometimes, though too
seldom, the genius carves its way, despite of its bad step-dame. Still, we
are forced to acknowledge, that many american children, born to nobilitate
this soil of their affection, are driven to unworthy occupations, because
a few misguided citizens, with a misunderstood interest for themselves,
wish to have no International Copy-right. And for what reason?--Because
they want cheap books! It was with a painful feeling, I had been obliged
to listen to erroneous, immoral speeches contrary to an International
Copy-right. They said that this republic must not care of the ruin of few
publishers, or authors, when the plurality is benefitted by it; which is
to say, the benefit of buying books cheaper than their real value! Fine
christians, indeed! Such a doctrine, though not exactly the same, it
sounds to my ears, as nearly as inducing the po