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OUR COUNTRYMEN.
These lines are by the accomplished sister of the poet. The editor hopes to be pardoned by their writer, while he is certain of receiving the thanks of readers for inserting them.
'We do not know when we have read any thing which grated more harshly upon our Republican feelings, than the following sentence. It is from a letter of a young American, giving an account of his interview with Prince Metternich. Is it then true, that any of our institutions are such as to give pleasure to the Prime Minister of European despotism? And is it also true that the effect of these institutions upon the morals of any of our citizens is such, as to make them ashamed of the honest pursuits of industry? If so, is it not time they were modified?'—St. Louis Observer.
'Among other things, the Prince asked me if I was engaged in commerce. (Now I knew commerce was despised here.) I answered, I was the proprietor of land and Slaves. The company seemed to be pleased; for each Hungarian or Servian nobleman is so, under the feudal system of this day.'
Morning o'er proud Vienna! on spire and palace wall,
A broad, bright coloring of gold, the early sunbeams fall—
