The Columbian fountain., 1846-07-04


The vote on the passage OF the bill was
yeas la. nays 90.
The House then, at half past three O'Clock,
adjourned over TO Monday.
From Douglass Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Aprl'
1916 /"
LETTER OF JUMPER HEDGEHOG,
To Ehhu Bwri, Blacksmith, Of Worcester,
United Siates Of America
Concluded
| And so, Elihu. Gunpowder Adams is an
swered out of his own Genesis
But we shall have no fighting for Oregon.
| Mr.. Adams's speech is like one Of the wooden
cannon mounted for cheapness by the Dutch;
it looks warlike and dangerous, but sound it,
aud there's no true ring of metal in tits only
wood thickly painted. Besides, your Olive
Leaves-copied as they are in the American
| papers, which as you say, ''enables you 10
bring the principles OF peace, before million
| OF minds every week, your Olive Leaves
must go TO cool the glory fever, smacking It's
| lips for blood.
| You've been some lime known among US
| BrtisherS, Elihu, as the ''earned blacksmith"
but ysur Olive Leaves are getting for you
| still better name. It's fine thing, no doubt,
| to get at the heart of dozen languages and
more-as they say you have done--and so be
able to make, may say, speaking acqualn-
| tance with The Greeks and Romans, and SO on;
but it's nober work to have made yourself
sthe head of the periodical peace pubca-
tons" Of America, and so TO preach quiet and
goodness to tens of thousands Of men, that
otherwise, like bulldogs. might be pated on
10 tear one another TO pieces.
It's fine thing TO think of you, Elihu Bur
r, Blacksmith To see you, working all day
making your anvil ring again with glorious
labor, chow should like just set OF shoes ior
my mare OF your own making, 10 see you
forging anything but swords and bayonetS,--
and when that work is over, TO think OF you
sitting down. with your iron pen IN your hand,
working away, TO weld mems hearts together
to make the chain of peace, as your own
Red Men say, between America and England,
and to keep it bright forever When think
OF this work of yours Pm pretty sure that your
true hearted countryman, Longtellow, must
have had you in his brain, when he painted
the picture of his blacksmith.
! Toiling,-reioiclng, borrowing
Onward through life he goes,
Each morning sees some task begun,
Each evening sees it close
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned nights repose.
Thanks, Thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought,
! especially like your fancy that English
| Plymouth should wrlteIto American Plymouth
Rochester TO Rochester-Norwich to Nor
wlch, and so oD. As you prettly saw, 1t
would be more like mothers writing TO their
daughters" You are right too, that "every
letter thus interchanged, like weavel's shuttle
will carry across the ocean silken ligature 10
bind two kindred hearts, and through them,
two kindred nations" Depend upon it, the
thinking masses-for odd as II might seem 10
some Solomons now in their graves, and may
add, odd as II does seem TO some Solomons
fast going there, masses do begin to think
they are all against the cruelty the wicked
tom-fooery OF war I've just been reading
one OF their addresses; think the last Fine,
rousing words are in II, | can tell you words
that strike upon the heart better than fife and
beaten sheep'sskin. Just 10 show you that
we, too, have our pacific blacksmilhs-our
iron workers who, like Ellhu Burritt, think il
and bayonets, copy out this little paragraph,
addressed as II is to Americans:
working men of America. you are, or
should be, the pioneers of freedom such was
the mission bequeathed 10 you by Washington
and his great brother patriots. That mission
you will best fulfil by perlectlng your institu-
uons-by abolshing the slavery of white and
black Ding this into the ears of your coun-
trymen, Master Burrrl wages and the whip
by driving from your legislatures the land
lords, usurers, lawyers, soldiers, and other
ldlers and swindlers by making the verlta-
bic people, the wealthy producers. really SOW
ereign,' and thus establishing real, instead of
nominal, Republic. War will uo and but
VIII prevent you accomplishing these reforms"
And TO crown all, you'll have 10 sow wheat
ior US, instead OF making gunpowder. Already
! you have sent maize INTO The stomachs OF the
lrish-and this is better, isn't Il, mere prohta-
bic too, than rlddling them with bullets
And tins morning read N one o The papers
| a lonu account nj The pIpasgnt dishes made out