] "Sir, our brethren of the West have suffered, as our brethren throughout the United States, from the same cause, although with them the cause exists in an aggravated degreeby a departure from the industry, the sim- plicity, the economy, and the frugality of our ancestors.

They have suffered from a greediness of gain, that has grasped at the shadow while it has lost the substance from habits of indolence, of profusion, of extravagancefrom a miserable attempt at the shabby genteel, which only serves to make our poverty more conspicuous.

These words of rebuke John Randolph of Virginia ad- dressed to the Kentucky members of Congress.

Nor did he refrain from speaking of particulars, for he pronounced the western country a land " where any man may get beastly drunk for three pence sterling in England, you cannot get a small wineglass of spirits under twenty- five cents ; one such drink of grog as I have seen swallowed in this country would there cost a dollarthe Western Country, where every man can get as much meat and bread as he can consume, and yet spend the best part of his days y and nights too, perhaps, on the tavern benches, or loitering at the cross-roads asking the newsa country, with countless millions of wild land and wild animals besides.

I had as lief be a tythe-proctor in Ireland, and met on a dark night in a narrow road by a dozen white-boys, or peep-of-day boys, or hearts of oak, or hearts of steel, as an exciseman in the Alleghany mountains, met, in a lonely road, or by-place, by a backwoodsman, with a rifle in his hand.