The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-04

The New York Courier and Enquirer has spirited ar
tide on this subject. from which copy the foown,
parsgrsphsi
III the Americans do excite smiles il Is by their pre-
,snsiops" said the London Times six weeks ago VERY
we'll; if Eogshmen exci,e smile, IL is by their stolid
;mpadence The advantage. we believe, is our sid,
altogether Brother Jonathan assumes superiority
ahch he understands hi aself aud which he is mpsten
"a have the whole world understand John Bull claims
.sp,ronty which he does not understand himself, but
which in his stupid concs lie fances he impose upon
the understanding OF all mankind by the mere force oil
brsxen assumption.
otis hardly more than twelvemonlh ago when
Jobn ayshed all OF the OF his viii upon the first
Collins steamship seen in the Mersey He laughed
awhile, and then let her go home freighed with little
cargo and much rdicule But John, though somewh hal
famed for making fool OF himself on very slight
proyocaon has doae chuckling about that matter Al
The openDg Of the Crystal Palace John fairly cudgelled
his brains, week in and week out, for abuse of the
American contributions. He fairly exhausted his wind
and bottom in showing up the ridiculous gro,esque,
tawdry, clumsy. gingerbread, patchwork, iourneyman-
made mongrel constructions that belong to people who
would be cenaurs and mermen il they could, and are
always rebelng against the irammels OF unity, After
John had pretty well let off his Spleen the time came for
putting some OF these ridiculous Yankee notions TO the
test The ploughs whose lghtness and fragilly made
them hi for only fancy gardening were set IN action in
the s,ifest soil before agricultural jury and John,
when he witnessed their OF draught and efficiency
Of execution, was quite amazed I; and the very next
thing he did TO buy all he could lay hands upon
and TO order ssore more TO be shipped New York
a, his own risk A reapng machine which john in
his bilious Righteousness had characterized cross
between an Asteys chariot. ireadm and flying ma.
chine taken into grain field and put into opera
ton. John looked on as pompous as King Cambyses,
but thousand times innocent Of the real science OF
reaping than the greenest Yankee pumpkin AS he sees
clean swarh ten feet wide, opening before him as fast
as span OF horses could walk, and work done by a
single American in hour which twenty EogIishmen,
the before had not done in day, he gives his
scul scratch two. sends back word that the thing
would secure TO English farming protection against
climate, and economy OF labor which must prove of
ncaculable advantage and hardly restrain his
own eagerness to get some Of them over the walter in
time for the present harvest Yankee picks the crack
lock of England in tweny-four minutes and half
another brings in American lock, with thousand.
dollar bill under it, and Englshmen OF every breed try
their hand it for forty five days in vain, even though
the real keys given them with which to operate
John 10 beginning to find the meaning and the use OF
Of the Yankee gimcracks in the Exhibition and is
now showing very marked inclination TO drop the sub.
ject And yet be knows nothing OF the thousand other
Inventions Of equal WORTH have chosen, for reasons
best known TO ourselves 10 keep at home"