The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-10-02
From the Boston Times.
Baynrd Taylor's Correcting to America"
AnalyAed.

BAynru IayIOr'S directing TO America
Analysed.
81 greet, with full heart, the land ofthc West,'
This is good-but we had always thought that
Jenney's heart was already overlooking with
the milk ofhunan kindness, and that there was
hardly room lief, to take, like western squatter,
pre-emp,lon right for 100 acres of "freedom s
soil
"Whose banner of stars DER world is unroed;'
The poet should here have stated whether it was
the civilized or uncivilized world, because we
have reason to believe that there are places
where the banner of stars has not yet made its
debut-the Interior Of Japan and the suburbs
of hell, for instance.
"Whoso empire o'ershadow's Atlantc's wide brcast'
If the empire of Uncle Sam GO 'ershadows'' any
thing, it is the first time we ever heard it,
Oerspreads would have been better, maugre
the stretch of Imagination's India rubber and
the danger of "our empire getting it, feet
wet in Atlantic's briny bosom.
'sAnd opes to the sunset its gateway of gold'-
This is brilliant idea-but it is pity that the
sun about setting upon California. We
though it had but just risen on that golden re-
glon.
''The land of the mountain the land of the lake,
Cataracts, snakes, and Virginia worm-fences are
expected to be included i'll this line.
'!ind rivers that roll in magnificent tide'-
How remarkable! The most magnificent of our
rivers, we'll be bound, would go into Mysteries
if they imagined that the tide would ever ebb
and flow at their sources.
'sWhere the souls of the mighty from slunber awake
1T they are uneasy, why not wake up, and, as
Pat says, shake the tleas off them? Barnum
should engage one Of these wonderful souls
it would be "tremendous' curiosity after
the Jenny Lind excitement dies away, and
would not hold tallow candle to the soul of
a Lynn shoemaker, which is never expected
to rise after it takes its final slumber.
"And hallow the soil for whose freedom they died"
Hallow-lujah! This is the end of the first verse,
How mighty accommodating in these good
naturcd souls to kick the kiver off their collins
and go to work hnlloWing through the land for
Jenny Lind and Pete Barnum! The idea is
sombarnumbucal, but nevertheless very pref
ty, yet rather spectrelike. We have heard OF
"sermons in st',r,cs, and all those things, but
we acknowledge our indebtedness to Mr. Bay
ard Taylor for bringing to our minds eve tSe
figures of the heroes of seventy six coming
forth and unrollrg themselves from their wind
ing-sheets, like Gliddon's mummy, for the pur-
pose OF seeing and hearing what we have scar
cd up IN the way of seraphs and musical an gels
since they mot the angels] 'sfought and bcd
and died on Bunkers glory height"
Thus much for the first verse Of the matchless
"Grectlng.'
So much from the Boston Times, now for a
little Of our own opinion. We have already ex-
pressed our notions ofthis song IN general terms,
and now nrOceed to q strictar ,,,1,..;, of ~ ~
cond verse. 1t begins thus.
'Thou cradle of Empire! though wide be the foam
That sewers the land of my fathers and thee'
1t IS the first time we have heard America STYLED
the cradle Of Empire. The use Of a cradle Is
to rock babies in; to be sure there are baby
states and baby Empires, but no poetic license
can be allowed to transform the Jubg into the
cradle.
In the second line he makes the wide foam scy-
er, this cradle of Empire and the land of Jcn-
ny Limbs fathers. 1.-The intended to make the
ocean separate the two countries he ought to
have used the word from, but using the word
and makes him cut his cradle
hear from thy bosom the welcome of home
FOR song has home in the hearts of the free
He hears a song from this cradles bosom, for
song has home in the heart S of the free that
w '"J oecoooC sun las Il nome IN the
hearts Of the free, therefore hear from this
cradles bosom welcome of home Shy
strlckers, cracky and cat gut ! what an in
ference.
'And long as thy waters shall CLEAN in the seq
What waters in the cradle, oh-oh OH Bayard
Taylor what language to put into the mouth
OF nightingale, why it is strong enough to
sti--We beg pardon.
Such is the song, selected from among seven
hundred others to be rewarded with the pecunia-
ny bounty of Barnnm and given to the world as
the best that America could do, fie! for shame!
as children say, ''every dog should know your
name
steamboat e1piOsion.--Efect OF Racing.
The Steamboats, Kate Kearney and Mononga-
hala left st. Louis on the 18th for the purpose
OF running race. The Telegraphic dispatch
which is dated on the 10Th at Quincy, says As
the Kate karney was leaving Canton, she callap-