Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-04-20
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fOOrrspoaAsnns Of the ls.isburs Chsonieasl
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O.@SSs'.S1s ~ yVo uovO Guy
trouble in deciphcriug my Ms this time,
you must place it to the credit Of your
correspondent, "Anglo-A American" whose
very pious wishes in my behalf, sdded to
the hagellation be has administered as a
kind Of foresasse, has left my poor nerves
10 anything but quicscent state.
He reminds one very much Of the .rav.
eler who slept at Stony Middleton, aud
Who remarked to his landlord in the morn
Ing, "You may we'll call this Stony Mid
dlston." "Why ?" asked Boniface. abe
oause," said he, 81 never was 50 bitten
with feas in all my life" "Auglo- Amer.
lean" reads "witb attention" a single letter
Of mine, selects from that single para.
graph, aud comes to the conclusion that |
have "deep sympathy with Russian des-
Potism,' aud that am "narrow- minded,
spiteful, ignorant snob ~ Whew! What
an unfortunate thing it is that I'm not
ecbastopol.
Joe Smith used to amuse his converts
with story of his fathers ram, who
broke bis neck hutting at an old hat that
he supposed contained mans head
trust your correspondent did not hurt him
self over his "mares nest ?"
After establishing, to bis own satisfac-
tiou, my "disgracefur' sympathy with
Russia, he gives US three reasons as the
only ones he "can imagine" why any one
"should wish to SEQ England crushed, !"
&c. These three, either for brevity's sake
or in accordance with rule extensively
used in Ireland, and classically named
"Taurus," be has reduced to two, viz:
'Fua. A nan may be rupist and
cherish ap'ous spite against England, be-
cause she has thrown of her allegiance to
the "scaret woman.
".Second lie may be Southern sla,
very Propagandist Fillibustcr and he
may therefore hate England simply be-
cause he fears that the naval power Of
England may prevent him and his amiable
piratical associates from stealing Cuba, in
order to pcrpetuatc slavery in that tropi-
cal Eden for ever aud for ever"
What pity "a. AS" imagination
gave out at that point; another guess and
he would have hit it.
With respect to the first, I presume
there arc few Papists who date their spite
against England SO far back as the Re-
formation they only hate her as they
would any other Protestant country and
in the present war 1 do not know that
the Catholic world is at all opposed to
England !; indeed, it would not be sur
prising if the balance Of sympathy was
with her, seeing she is the faithful ally
Of France, "the oldest daughter of the
Church )" and who doubts that "Pio
Mono" had much rather wear his crown
at the hands of France and England, than
80 them defeated, and he placed at the |
mercy Of the head of the Greek Church, !
even without Constitutional liberty! In
chat case, our friends s'reason" is but .
lame one, and IS far as it concerns myself,
I have only to say, that IS my ancestors
were among the defenders Of the "Maiden
City" when English liberty was driven to
that stronghold, the defence Of which had
probably As much share in securing that
blessing 10 our race, as any other single
svent ,mong the many struggles Of the
period I am not very likely individual
70 have much sympathy for the old lady
in scarlet.
In regard to the second-the "South-
ern-slavery- -propagandist- Fillibuster" rea-
son, conclude that our friend is not
believer in "manifest destiny" Perhaps
he has heard of an individual making
some noise in the world just now, COM
monty called "Sam." "Sam," it strikes
us, is of opinion that Cuba is his by right,
or chad ought to be" aud is just hanging
there
-"ripe, rosy and mellow,
Like peach that is ready to drop in your lap
and when it does drop into that capacious
apron, it is not at all probable that the
English Navy will have word to say
about it and we must admit tha. we
rather like "Anglo-Americano's" logic,
who in ono sentence eulogizes the land
that gave to the world "habeas-corpus"
"tria by jury" &c, and in the next sets
her down as the defender of the very
very Constitutional, aud very
free rule of Spain.
Without enlarsing on this original
and very sagacious guess at why one
would be likely to hate England; Iwould
just ask "a. A." what special advantages,
political, social, or religious Cuba, under
The present rule, possesses, over our most
slave-rddcn southern States? and how
many degrees her sun would 60 back on
The dial Of time by exchanging the one
system for the other!
Be good enough, Mr.. Editor, to say to
your highly imaginative friend, that am
NOT q pro.Si,vorv E;llih,s,or ,,d That a, |