Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-10-12
Universal Fame.
BY J. X. PAULDING.

|
person, that his fame is, or will one day be u
niversal. The myriads of Asia and Africa,
with few solitary exceptions, never heard Of
| The IlusiTlous heroes, statesmen, poets, and
| philosophers OF Europe and a vast portion of
| The latter, are ignorant Of the very names of
great men of The east. But instead of an es-
say, we will give our readers story TO illus
| trae our meaning.
! Ii happened once on time, that an lsraellIe,
an egyptian, Greek, a Turk, Persian,
| Chinese, Frenchman, an Enslishman, Ger
man, an Italian, and an American. met by
chance at a carayansary, somewhere IN The
east, and being all great travellers, speaking
many languages, entered into conversation
with each other. As usual they all differed
| in their estimate of human happiness; the
comparative value of The various enjoymens of
life---and, above all, in their own individual i'm
porance, in The scale of nations Each one
held up his own country as the acme of perlec-
lion and The utmost he would allow The 9TH
ers, was degree Of merit exactly correspon-
ding with lher approach towards The inialllble
! standard of his own sel-lmporlance.
The lsrseliIes,' said the Jew, 'were the
chosen people; therefore they must be the
most true and virlunus of mankind
| The Creeks exclaimed The Alhenian. were
| the hrIghles, race that ever adorned The world.
| Look at their laws, their literature, and their
arts
Pooh = cried The Egyptian, you had moth
| ing but what you stole from us. You were Ig-
norant barbarians, and so would have remained,
| if your wise men, as you call them, had not
come to Egypt TO learn their A c.
BY your leave, said the Persian, the ma
tives of lrak being the most ancient people OF
the earth, must have been the parents of all
human knowledge
Hi Yah = quoth the Chinese, every body
knows my naIion is The most ancient by al
least forty thousand years, and That he foreign
barbarians derived all their knowledge from
them
Mashalah g said the Turk, taking his pipe
from his mouth MashaIlah! there is no re-
lision but ,ha, Of Mahomel, and no knowledge
but that of The Koran. The lsiaeliIes are
tchoufoutS, the Christians are dogs, and there
is no truth but aitiong the followers of the
prophet
.Pesle = cried The Frenchman. There is no.
body knows The true all of living but the
French
There is no nation whose music is not in
iolerable, but The Italian said The NeapoliIan.
The Germans are all philosophers quoth
the native of Wemar.
Yes, but England, old England cried John
Bull, is the country for roast beef and free.
dom, nobody can deny that
Il do,' exclaimed the Yankee The A.
mericans are the only free people in the
world
'Mashalah whence did you come !? asked
the Turk.
From The New World
never heard Of it before said the Turk.
Nor L. said The Persian
Nor L. said the Egyptian.
Nor L. said The Chinese. don't believe
there is any such place
Nor H. said the Turk. There is but one
world, one God, and Mahomet Is his prophet
What parcel Of ignoramuses exclaimed
the Yankee.
AS it is impossible to seule the claims o
nations by those loose generales, The comPa
ny proceeded 10 particulars, each bringing for
ward the greatest men and great acheveme nt'
of his counlvymen in balte array, 10 supper
his pretenslons 10 superiority.
so great poet as David, 80 brave warrior a
Joshua, who made the sun stand still, Or sucl
a prodigy of learning as Rabbi Ben Hammes
kend, who wrole beyond The comprehension o
all his readers 2 asked The lsraelue.
Did the world ever produce such hero a
Napoleon, such a poet as Vobare, such tragic
writers as CorneiIle aud Racine, such comic
one as Moliere, or such dancer as Veslrls
cried The FrenchHan.
Bah g exclaimed the Englishmsn.-' Wha
do you think of Wellington. Nelson, Shaks
peare, Bacon, Locke, Newton, and all that sor
Of thlng!'
They can't hold candle 10 ArnInIus, o
Kant, or Gall, or Schiller, or Goethe ! said IN
German.
Nor to Julius Caesar, nor Sclplo, nor sir
gil, nor Cicero, nor thousand others, VIII
were all my countrymen, though they call them
selves Romans cried the Italian
sPshaw " said the Yankee all your he
roes and philosophers put together would no
Imake one Franklin. or half Washington !
.Genllemsn,' said The Greek. you ma.