American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-17

will the people before all is over
WHAT AMERICANS GET FOR HAVING THEi
EXHIBITION IN LONDON, INSTEAD OF WASHING
TON One half the money which the Londo
show has cost the contributors and yisiter
from this country would have suficed for tn
production of magnificent national exhibition
at the Federal metropolis, and to bring on
hundred thousand producers and consumer
together, to the great advantage OF both. Hal
this independent policy been pursued, our citi
zens would have been spared the modification
of being sneered at by the London Times, befor
the representatives of all Europe, after the fol
lowing fashion:
"If the Americans do excite smile, it is by
their pretensions Whenever they come om q
their oWn province Of rugged utility, and enter mo
competition soih European elegance, Uey certainly
do make themselves ridiculous Their furniture
is grotesque their carriages and harness are
gingerbread; their carpets are tawdry; their
patchwork quilts surpass even the lnyariable
ugliness of this fabric; their cut glass is clumsy;
their pianos sound of nothing but iron and
wood; their book-binding is that of q journey
man working on his own account in an English
market-town their daguerreotypes are the
sternest and gloomiest of all daguerreotypes
their printed caicoes are such as our house
maids would not think it respectable to wear
Euen their ingenuity, great as 1t is, becomes ridicu-
zous whm ii attempts competition Nth Europe.
Double pianos, combination of piano and a
violin, chair with cigar-case in its back, and
other mongrel constructions belonging to q peo-
pie that would be centaurs and mermen if they
could and are always rebelling against the
trammels of unity"
At least four thousand Americans, at an aver
age personal expense Of $3.50 each, have visited
London to be laughed at, and insultingly told
by the organ of the British aristocracy, that
they would be centaurs and mermen if they
could" When republicans betray such an over
weening desire to worship at the shrine of roy
atty, we are glad to see surly John Bull put his
horns into their flesh, and gore them till they
become little more American and patriotic in
their sympathies. Many citizen of this Re-
public has contributed from one to two thou
sand dollars, to promote scheme designed to
benefit English trade and manufactures, who
would not give dollar to assist American me-
ohanlcs and agriculturists to get up grand
National Fair in their own country.
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'-~>-Sso III JOnn quincy
Adams's time, the foregoing term Of reproach,
though not then justly applied, did much to-
wards heaping odium upon and causing unpop-
ularity to attach to the then existing Admins
tration. But the present Cabinet seems to be
the travelling one par excellence. Notwithstand-
ing the President and four members of his Cab
met we're recently absent, at the North, for
some weeks, and, more recently, the Presi-
dent and three members Of his Cabinet were
absent for about q week in Virginia, we now
lind four members of the Cabinet off again
namely, Messrs. Webster, Crittenden, Corwin,
and Hall. Have care, gentlemen Cabinet
Ministers, how you triffe with and diminish the
popularity Of the party through whose strength |
and power you climbed to your present emf
nence The Wing newspapers and public |
speakers will find it an uphill business to defend
you, in the next Presidential campaign, from |
the wen-almed blows of the Democracy on this |
SUBJECT We pray you to hear the admonition |
OF those who, though not your partizans, yet
Wlsh you to SO act in your high offices as to |
cause the people to applaud and sanction your
conduct
NOTES ON New MRxIoo.-Those who have |
reaa the former part of these Notes in the Sat |
urday Ners, will be pleased to perceive our re- |
suming their publication in the american Telc- |
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