Daily National Intelligencer

VIEWS OF OUR COUNTRY.
From the Cork Mercantile Advertiser, March 27.

The Sunday papers received last night contain nothing of importance.—Indeed, in the dark and undefined state of the Continental politics, there is little which can give rise to conjecture or remark.— France, under the semblance of freedom, a victim to the struggles of an antiquated system, seeking to controul the more nervous and youthful efforts of liberal and unrestrained opinions, is as yet too much unsettled to justify the prediction of the practical politician, or gratify the philosophy of the metaphysical speculator Spain deserves attention at this moment, merely from the relations in which her Transatlantic possessions stand with the triumph of Civil Liberty. At home she has no claim to notice.

The object, indeed, upon which the eye rests with most complacency, is the spot where freedom and happiness appear to be enjoyed most profusely, and where the private enjoyment of the individual sacrifices little to the fertilizing stream of public prosperity.

The progress towards more uncontrouled freedom—more prosperous commerce and the more unmixed diffusion of domestic comfort, which marks the present state of the American republic, is really little less than wonderful. The arts appear to arise there, not from the mere combination of experimental successes learned from Europe, but to be the original, nervous efforts of native mind, gathering its data in untrodden regions, and amidst scenes of undisturbed and uncontroled nature.

The love of country is amongst that people an untortured and uncolored instinct, wasted, not in the diverging rivulets of personal aggrandisement, but rushing forward, a great good, for the welfare of a people.

Their politics are not the politics of a party. There are no wasteful expenditures of public money to be justified—no secrets of a discomfited administration to be purchased—no war of questionable utility to be vindicated—no silver-tongued orators to be hired—nor does there appear one act of legislative authority, which is not directed to the welfare, the triumph, and the happiness of the State, in opposition to the selfish considerations of even the very promoters of the measure.

Still—what is all this, but what the Constitution of these kingdoms is calculated to bestow—what we gather from history to have been derived from it—and what, if measures and not men, were objects of political consideration with us, would still be diffused abroad with a profusion equal to the light of the Heavens.