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trast to the airy lightness, and unquestion= 
ably more elegant, style of building of 
modern times. Adieu: believe ine, My 
friend, most truly, yours, &c. 
Tue WaNDERER. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ABSTRACT of «@ JOURNAL kept in MaRy- 
LAND, in the years 1805 und 1806. 
WAUE wars, oppressions, and calami- 
ties, of Europe, have contributed 
amazingly within the last twenty years 
to the population and commercial pros- 
rity of the United States. The popu- 
ation is supposed to have more than 
doubled itself, and the imports and ex- 
ports have been centupled. The federa. 
pheenix has risen from the ashes of the 
old continent,. for so many years a prey 
to the devouring elements of tyranny and 
discord. She extends her wings over a 
vast and fertile region, watered by ma- 
_ jestic rivers, and blessed with a variety of 
suial climates. There the squalid pea- 
sant of Ireland, who starved and rotted in 
filth and misery, on 1s. per day in his 
native country, now earns with ease his 
dollar and quarter, looks hale and ruddy, ~ 
walks with the port and dignity of inde- 
pendant manhood, and, by his sparkling 
| eyes, elevated towards Heaven, seems to 
pour forth with an habitual devotion bis 
gratitude to Providence, for having 
brought him to a Jand flowing with milk 
and honey; where the labourer is worthy 
of his hire, and where he has a certain 
prospect, with moderate industry, of be- 
coming in a short time the proprietor of 
afarm. There the German farmer may 
purchase the best land at a cheap rate, 
and free from fiscal tyranny and grinding 
taxation ; he may speedily amass a heap 
of his beloved dollars, which are the ob- 
jects of daily labour, and the penate gods 
of his nightly devotions. There may the 
tsecuted philosopher and friend of 
Siberty, find a peaceful asylum, and pro- 
secute his studies in the laboratory of 
slieltered by Arcadian groves on the 
beautiful bordsrs of the meandering and 
mic Susquehannah, unapprehensive of 
danger to himself, or to his apparatus, 
from the infernal aufo-de-fes of furious 
brigntry and sanguinary despotism. There 
a e mercantile adventurer carve out 
his fortane with a rapidity traly astonish. 
ing, and live surrounded by all the con- 
veniencies, comforts, and elegancies, of 
life, There may the man of God go to 
Nature, either in the crowded city, or 
Absiract of a Journal kept in Maryland. es 
Heaven his own way, without paying toll 
by any of the privileges of his citizenship, 
Tnfirmity is inseperable from the state 
of man and nations; and though philoso= 
pby may dictate, prescribe, and foresee ; 
though wise governments may enact the 
best possible code of laws, yet cannot 
they prevent and obviate all the evils 
arising from the passions and favorite 
pursuits of individuals and communities. 
That education has an important in= 
fluence on the human mind and cha- 
racter, cannot be doubted; and that the 
nature and variety of worldly pursuits 
have an all-powerful tendency to 
strengthen or weaken the principles of a, 
virtuous education, and consequently to 
produce either happiness or misery, in 
the proportion in which virtuous princi- 
ples are imbibed, and to the number and 
nature of temptations in our passage. 
through life, may be considered’ a self. 
evident maxim. ! a 
The experience of all ages and nations. 
refers to agriculture, as the primaval and 
principal source of health, virtue, and 
happiness, In the mutual, real, and arti- 
ficial, wants of individuals, societies, and 
nations, originated barter and commerce. 
In their infancy, they were the hands 
maids of agriculture, by taking off her 
superfluity from the fertile regions of the 
globe, and exchanging it for the precious 
metals, minerals, and drugs, of barren and 
inhospitable shores. In process of time, 
however, they have become the mis- 
tresses of their natural mistress; and 
though things must eventually recur to 
their original state, yet not without vios 
lent convulsions and general calamity, 
we have beheld the ministry of England, 
for the last twenty years, regulating agri 
culture (or rather deranging it) by its pare 
liamentary influence in the enacting of 
laws, by its commercial arrangements, 
and treaties with foreign powers, and. by, 
its orders of Council; and though the 
holy zealot, and alarmed and selfish friend, 
of his country’s liberty, to the exclusion of 
other parts of the world, from a similar, 
enjoyment, may have given the ministr 
credit for its chivalrous attempt to defend 
the religion and law of Farope againgt 
the infidelity and anarchy of France, yet 
the political arithmetician detects the jaa 
tent, but real cause, in its unextinevish. 
able hatred of France—the consequence 
of her interference in the American war, 
and in the opportunity which her revolue 
tion seemed to afford England of anni- 
hilating her industry and commerce, and 
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