Gazette Of The United States

A correspondent observes, that the excellencies of the new Constitution are daily unfolding themselves to the view of every unprejudiced friend of the United States: Its truly republican principles, which have thrown open the doors to virtue and abilities, and made the highest posts in government accessible to every man without exception, have proved a powerful stimulus on the minds of our citizens to diffuse the blessings of knowledge far and wide: In many parts of the United States, new institutions are founded, and the old ones enlarged: In most of our capital towns, schools for the acquisition of every branch of science have been recently established, in which the living and dead languages, mathematics, geography, writing, arithmetic, music, drawing, and polite accomplishments, may be acquired.

But among all the various branches of education, as no one demands, so none receives greater attention than our native language; this is now taught grammatically, and with the happiest success; owing principally to those excellent performances on the subject, which have been published by several of our own countrymen.

Nor has the mercantile part of the community only, been attentive to this great subject of education, seminaries of learning are constantly springing up in the interior parts of the United States; so that the rays of science are diffused in every possible direction over the face of our country, and in this, as well as in several other respects, "the wilderness may be said to bloom like the rose."

Other great and important effects justly ascribable to the salutary influence of the new government alone, may be the subject of future paragraphs.