Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-10-11
TELEGRAPH.
ENGLISH FEELING TOWARDS
AMERICA

AMERICA.
1t must be gratifying to Americans to
know that Notwithstanding the abuse heap
ed upon them and their Institutions, by the
hordes efEnglish travellers who yearly inlesi
this coutry, there are those in the good old !
'sfader land" who are disposed 10 accord
TO them the credit they deserve. We, as
one of the universal Yankee nation,
have never been disposed to complain where
our real faults have been animadyerted up
on, nor to deny that we possess them in as
great abundance as any other nation; but
we have felt disgust towards the English
character for the undue and unqualified
censure which many of their public men
have, for years past, been meeling out to
us. 1t is seldom now, that we receive an
honest greeting from John Bull, without
qualification But when the old man is in
good humor, and thinks that Jonathan is
his son. he for moment iorgets the NAH
ner in which he "cut the leading strings"
and says, "God bless you," from the very
bottom of his soul. The new era in Allan
tic Steam Navigation bids fair to increase
good feeling between the old and young
gentleman, and may bring about an entire
reconciliation between them, We find
symptoms of this in an article in the Lon
don Quarterly Review, "Atlantic Steam
Navigation from which we extract the
following:
Thirty years ago Fulton after witnessing
Mr.. Millers experiments on the Forth aud
Clyde Canal, succeeded in really establish
ing steamboat on the Hudson River, be-
tween New York and Albany, distance
of about $50 miles. His speed was only
six or seven miles the hour; but how as
founding must ii have been to the unbe-
levng and jesting crowds on the river
sido who witnessed the commencement of
the project, when they were compelltd to
acknowledge its execution? We have
heard it lately stated, that of the two men,
bers of leadleg New York firm in these
times, one started from Albany and the
other from Bristol on the same day-each
by sailing packet-and each being sixteen
days on the voyage, the passage to Europe
was accomplished in the same time with
that between the Commercial metropolis of
the new world and the Legislative Capital
of the same state. MIR. Porter Yin 1880
enumerates thrty-nine steamboats, az be-
longing to the port of New York Our
own enquiries may be more recent, and
year or two is matter of some moment in
those matters, especially in America, where
the whole aspect of their Kaleidoscope So
ciety changes as it were at jar, almost while
the book Of the men who undertakes to de-
scribe it is going to press; we should set
down about sixty steamboats, for y. York.
A daily journal from that busy emporium,
now before US, speaks Of the starting OF
some ten or dozen for Albany, at the
same hour, and Of an equal number seen
meanwhile crossing the water in various
other directions; most of them, be II con-
sidered boats that may well be called 'iloat- |
ing palaces And again, looking to the ia
terror Of that Country----a country that
would seem almost to have been made for /
steamboat navigation for it---what a specta |
Gle do we there behold of victorious SCI (
ence, energy, and art thinking ii would
seem, their proud triumpha marches, their /
progresses" Instinct with all but life, !
Tramp, tramp along the earth they ride
Splash, splash, across the sea-
everywhere. rejocingly rushing on, as II, !
with all their flying flags and noisy en-
gines of speed themselves to celebrate the
advent of that civilization which they DO 50
lUuCu 10 SAleHu HCiS uic INV uOpdl ~
steamboats, on Lake Erie alone. On the !
Mississippi waters where 90 years since,
there was no such thing as regular line /
known, there are now 300 boats at the /
smallest calculation we have indeed seen
the number rated twice as high"
Our neghbors in the provinces might /
feel their pride little burt, if their self /
conceit would allow them to stop so much .
as to notice the following:
Not only does America occupy the .
Western Hemisphere by herself, while all
other continents are pitched against her IN
one, but on that side civilization has yet
made so little progress, things are SO liter
ally nep, that the United States of Ameri-
ica' might with some plausibity assume to
DC America, the writer says,
1.-THE Americans themselves, not more |
in the transports of their exultaton over the
first thought Of the effects of it, than in
their admiration of the thing itself, and of
the style in which it was carried through, |
seem to have been too much otherwise ex-
cited to feel their wonted chagrin at ap-
pearing to be ever taken by surprise in
matters of practical adventure. Nay cher
ishing, we do believe the honor Of their IA
Their land next to that of their own (for we
have often that, although jonathan gives
gruf;grumbling family growI of lecture
now and then---partly, perhaps, TO prove