Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1843-08-08
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ere, WIN we're all my countrymen. though
they call themselves Romansi cried the
Italian. 4 81
'Pshaw!F said the Yankee-'all your
heroes and philosophers put together,
would not make one Franklin, or half
Washington.
'Gsntlemen,' said the Greek, tyou
may boast as much as you will, but had
Il not been for Greek warriors, philosO-
piers, poets and sages, you would all
bave remained barbarians 10 this day
What think you Of Homer. and Eschyl.
us, and Sophocles, and Euipides, and
Demosthenes, and Miltiades, and Them.
istocles, and ten thousand others, whose
fame extends to the uttermost ends of
The csrthi' ~ Sp"
'Who are these block heads taking .
boutg asked the Egy p,ian, The Chinese,
The Persian, aud Turk, Of each 9th.
ler.
Talking Off cried the rest, with one
voice-'Of the lights Of the world; the
children Of immortality, THE HETRs Of
UNIVERSAL FAMEn
sWe never hasrd Of their names be-
fore, and therefore they must have been
rather obscure persons was the reply.
Buff you Come TO the Heirs Of Uni
versal Fame,' cried the Persian-'What
are all these TO the great hero Rustand,
and the great poet Fordousi, who wrote
a poelical history Of lax, in twenty
thousand coupletsi' sss. gg..s-
did any body ever read III, asked the
Turk grayely. y 40 t--.a
I'VE never heard Of either,' answered
all the rest. a@s@s s,@ q.
Hi Yah! exclaimed the Chinese
[tHi Yah! Your elder brother, Loo
Choo. knocks head and worships. What
do you say TO the great Moon Of poetry,
the light Of the universe, KwanG Chung.
lord Of the Celestial Empire and he ad of
tho world, who wrote three hundred vol
umes ofpoetry, in the Interpretation Of
which three thousand learned pundits
lost their senses2 The whole universe
10 filed with his verses
We never heard Of Il before,' cried
they all
what a act offoreign barbarianS!: said
he Chinese, ~, .-.gs ~, d
tAnd what think you Of our great
prophet Mabomei2' asked the Turk y
Mashallah his sword was invincible a
painst the enemies Of the faith, and his
wisdom more invincihle than bis sword.
All knowledge is contained in the Ko-
ram s 5g
sIt may be, but we have never read
it, said they all. with tho exception Of
the true believers.
sDogs!s cried he, may your heads be
converted into shoe brushes, aud your
eyes become as blind as your undeFstan.
dings! se.
+ As is usual III these cases contention
succeeded argument, and abnse was an,
swered BY recriminauOn. Each being
unable TO establish his own claim to su,
periorily, made himself amends by de.
tractihe from the cl.ims Of bis OpPo'
nents; and If all had been true which they
said Of each other, their heroes and great
men would have been parcel Of mis-,
erable creatures, unworthy the gratitude,
or even the remsmberancS Of poateri.
tys se,s sg ea.s-s,.
sAnd this Universal Fame! exclaimed
an old teryise, who satsmOking his pipe
quietly in corner, without taking part
| in the debate. 10 be adored as a prophet
n one corner Of the wotld and abhOEred
as an imposiisr in the others Ito be a
hero in one nation. an oppresssoT in the
ewes Of its neighbols--t % be held en- ora
cls Of wisdom on one side Of the rivers
I an apostle Of error on the Other--to be
vanerated in one pIace as the Champion
Of liberty, aud stigmatized in smother as
| q rebel and traitor land to be either an
known to, or hated and despised By
more than one half Of mankind. This,
this ii UNIVERSAL FAMEp