The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-12-02

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Pa what Il patriotism
My son. psuotism (ahem y properly weighed and duly
examined by the OF inscruaby, Is familiar
figure the feeling which animaes the tender bosom Of
domestic hen when impatient fox endsayors 70 pun the
animated eggs from beneath her feathered trousers in set
We love patriosm we see sticking out a feet all
around u.s. II Is manifested in the church, in the
cation IN the FORUM and at the hearth stone II is lovely
sys.ywheIs and 4 loved BY everybody but like bread
most every instance broad margin is jeff for the exer
We have met, within few days. with a large number
blush % say - like Mr. cays rotten mackere in the
g a ey a. aSS al
honorable men,, Toa foreigner whose patriotism has
moved across the Atlantic in the shape Of bill Of
seekers At the Capital Of freedom IS marvellous in The
extreme. They have no love for home; they desire to
leave home and work al the centre of the republic They
party triumph but when seriously pressed, they feel
that upon their election, and their election alone depends
the much. desired and glorious result
then they were true blue. When the British army, in
1914 marched to Washington patriots considerably
in the minority and heroes like angels visits to earth,
the smell Of salpetre and birthstone had passed away,
like the breath OF Ea, then the farweather boys came
forth like toads in summer evening" and like the frogs
Oh what patriots they how they fought and bed,
and prayed and groaned and shouted for their country
and their countrys gory "God bless the Union pro-
yided we have plenty Of dampinss and pot to boil
them in"
Some patriots love home, and some love to roam Some
are Christians and love their enemies and
mics and love their friends Men who are born in aims
houses seldom love the spot Of their birth; and when
they become ch they always forget to leave egaces to
such institutions. Whoever left a Donation TO poor
dsnerested patrot-one who loves his birthplace not
for what has done for him, but for what he has done
for it, The land we live in is patriotic land; the odor
must be indeed who will not snuff up the soft
horned animals Of old did the east wind Of Araby.
The present age is patriotic age and the present ad
Its love for Office never was exceeded it's love for sal
aries exceeds that of mother for her infant child 1t
rolls the golden stipend under its mahogany tongue,
while its leaden and its marble heart hears not and
feels not the walls and the suerings of the innocent wife
and the pratiling babe Oh how patriotic to punish
pleasure OF lashng the tender back Of lovely female is
one beyond all language to express Better, like the Aus
an murder the victims bride, than to crush her spirit
and send her maniac to Bedlam road grave.
II is patriotic now to love other countries better than
our owns to be more jealous OF the infringement Of the
rights OF strangers than OF an interference with the
rights OF our own countymen; to reward enemies,
and to punish our friends. =
An age of glory, when reared upon the pillars OF MARS
j. always an age OF blood and bitter tears The present
partakes OF all that cruel and barbarous of the past
perfected by knowledge and sharpened by experience
We love consistency, and we admire the truth. When
Alexander called the pirate captain before him, and
tainted him with being a robber, the reply Of the
manaced captive was worthy of him: ''You are the
sheepfold" The fact u.s. great operator in cheat.
ing is lucky man, while the dealer in petit lar
ceny is dragged into conr and boarded at the public
expense in the penitentiary But all patriots.
There military patriots and civil patriots
patriots and financial patriots There manufacturing
patriots and grazing patrotsjudca patriots and
stabulary parots-nn keeping patriots and beer swill
ing patriots. Everybody has to grind, and wants
some to help grind It and he who holds and he who
turns bless their stars that they luxurate in patriotic
feelings and live in