Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1835-08-06
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From Blaekwood,s Magazine.
WHAT THE ENGLISH THINK OF I

WHAT The ENGl@lSu idiNh or 10
We have always respected. nay, admi
red America aud the Americans. Indeed
! il would not be easy TO hold cheap whole
world, and that a new one--if not spick
and span, fresh from nature. certainly
teeming with novel and bold forms Of life
| After all, however, there is but one world
on this earth good for much, and that is
the world of the English language, Ger
many and Italy, and France and Spain,
and Holland and the Netherlands, and a
/ few other countries, are well enough IN
/ their way; but the outIandish LIMOGES sro-
| ken there, If they do not altogether sepa
rate them from our sympatbies--and no.
! thing can do that with such capaclous
hearts as ours-greatly cool the warmth
Of our feelings, and TO our ear carry win
them an alien sound. This may be very
unlike what might be expected from the
philosophers and citizens OF the world (;
but we are far from laying any claim TO
such character, aud are set OF sturdy
preludiced, bigoted. home and race loving
Scotchmen True that the Inhabitants OF
Great Britain and Ireland were oil various
breeds but we are all one now IN the
broad sense of the word and our twenty
millions and upwards, all linked by the
ties of kindred, are or ought to be band
of brothers. We have our quarreis and
aninosities, and feuds, even. alas, to The
shedding of blood but let any other ma
ton wage war with us, and 1t Will Know
once more what is the power and majesty
of the Union. Now the Americans are
Englshmen, and Ifishmen, aud scotch
men-Jonathan is but John Bull, or Pat
or Saunders, under a somewhat different
climate, and somewhat different form OF
government, and we look on the Atlantic
but as the road connecting our islands y
his continent, on which we pass to aud iro
without crossing or jostllng by wind or
stream, and keep up, (may it be ioreyer!)
that friendship which with those living at
the other end of the highway, is an old
inheritance bequeathed TO them by their
Pilgrim Fathers, and with us here a pos
session received from our blood relations
on their frequent and welcome visits to
this their ancestral land. AS Tor national
preiudices and the like, why such feelings
are natural and far from unbceomlng, they
spring on both sides from proud consci-
business OF our own worth, and some occa
sional suspicion on the one side, that The
mother has not forgiven, or at least ior-
gotten the dlsobedience Of her rebellious
child-on the other, that the child, since
she threw off her allegiance, has ceased
to love the parent who was once also her
queen But all that is too absurd to be
deep rooted and we firmly believe that
there is strong, a sacred attachment be
tween them whom SO many ties unIte-and
who are divided, though not much, indeed
but nominally, only by the sea. May
peace be between us while time endures
and we should be unwilling TO go to war
with any body, yet if the American navy
must have a brush with the French. and If
our national honor or our interests demand
or justify it,may British squadron appear
TO the windward-and the victory be to
the Stars and Stripes, with or without the
aid of the Leopards, not to the Tricolor.
No fear Of that, for we know by proof the
metal Of American ships and American
.eamen, and they alone are worthy of sal
ling in line of battle with fleet of that
power who so long has held the dominion
of the seas.
[Some years since there was fight, in
an Italian port, between watering party
from an American vessel and number Of
natives. A British barge was on shore at
the same place and near enough for the
English sailors TO see that battle was GO
ing on, when they exclaimed, without
knowing the merits of the cause " let's go
and help the Yankees" and ran at once
10 the scene of the contestl