The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-11-10
IErom Bidekroofs Magdsine for October.l
MAGA IN AMERICA.

Ny DEAR GoprREy: You will laugh when you
hear into what practical blunder was led by
desire TO crafty your curiosity concerning Magas
Icon in America wondered you should ask me
for description, when il was easy 10 have order
ed out the thing itself; and resolved to my
self the trouble of writing long story, by duly ex
porting specimen of the American Ebony, from
which you might form your own conclusions 10
its counterfeit merits, and its supposed relations
the great question of international copyright. Seq
MUS rriiant-you know What disciple Of old Plum
ketts will ever forget the difference between the de
rnissd per aurem, and
r.---"que stunt ociiiis subjecta 6debus, !"
have always maintained that his illustration of this
great principle gave Dickens the hint of his Dothe
boys Hall You remember, doubtless, poor Harry
Farmar's false quantity, and how Punkeit made
him peel onions till he cried his eyes out; asserting
his confidence in Horace's maxim, and that he had
found the usual box on the quite incapable OF
any exciting effect on Harrys mind. Who would
have said that the same Harry surviving the opera
ton, would have lived TO hunt bsons the praires
of Western America after riding elephants in
India, and bestriding cauels hump through the
waste places of Edoml Harrys wandering mind
has developed vagabond habit Of life as ever his
prophetic instructor yenrured to predict; but he
vows himself cured at last and that if he ever sets
foot again on Engands terra frmd, he will at once
become of the manly hearts that guard the fair,
and settle down in contented conIugution. He it
was, them who offered TO be the bearer to yourself
at - OF any dispatches, or parcels, l might
choose TO send but he affected to think me so tho
roughly Americanised that he entered against
my loading him with consignment of bowie knives
or cotton bales. nicely packthreaded parcel was
"e.o'uhsp put up uhu uuy auoiheu WIN your
mus 'aN'ii nane anu "aufess III tiie deiusiVe eN-
p''"''' '''' fo''e put your own 'ianus "ouia pre-
e"'"e e..
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,ss,v,s Customs ,na ,orbans octno,l,, tronah, h.,
fore iustice md lncked m yvher, The oniy nroa-
meet woula be =, distant, view Of New Sou,h Wales i,
II was in vain that demonstrated with his eloquent
horrors N, the ,hnught of rcpevvjng his ,rovc,s Il,
ooyernment ems, he insisted that nv nronosal niah
actually have insured the catasrophe. and from hi.
anneal +, nv f,eli,gs n,ssnd IN , hold investiy,
AGAINST literary nirocv md concluded nv n cenero,s
oo,,,ro,,;o, n, favor ~ ,h, COTTON h,Ios II / ,,o,d
,srJon rho ,yor,, aynroosi,ns with ,,hicb no f,d
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