Washington telegraph., 1855-10-03
A False Prediction.

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The time is at hand when the so-calkez
American banner shall be trampled deep in
the mire of ignominous defeat and disgrace
when there shall be none so poor as to
do it reverence"
! We came across the foregoing sentence in
the columns of an exchange paper, some
days ago and cut it out with a view to It's
publication. We now carry out that view,
and call the attention OF the public to the
attrocious sentiment it contains We have
never known anything of the kind to excel
it, in bold rank, unnitigated depravity.
But, to adopt the only construction the
best friend Of the writer could desire for
him, and there is no loophole for escape
he has effectually imprisoned himself. The
"banner" alluded to can be none other than
that used by the present American party,
and they use bat one, and one only-the
Star SpangIed Banner of their native
land No other flag floats from their mast
head. No other symbol woos the breezes of
heaven over their places of meeting. No
other emblem-and none other is needed
graces their council halls The star-gem-
med signal of freedom might ana sovereign
ty is all and all with them And well may
it be. for no such standard ever glittered in
the sunlight since the morning stars first
sang together for JOY over a newborn world
But this writer-and we are sorry TO say
there are many like him-for wretcbed par
tisan purposes. when not a single principle
is involved. 50 far as their side is concerned
-boastingly and arogantly predict that such
banner shall be trampled deep in the
mire of ignominous defeat and disgrace ;"
Unthinking, rash and unpatriotic men =
Trample that flag in the mire-deep in the
rnire-of disgrace May the spirit of pa
triotism forgive them. for they know not
what they say or do. Before that banner is
torn from its lofty height and trailed in the
mire of disgrace
Full many pennon shall be torn,
And many knight to earth be borne
And many banner rent
Hundreds of thousands of gallant hearts
throb and bound at the thought of it. 1t
inspires proud and glowing recollections =
Hundreds Of thousands of strong arms are
ready to protect it to the death and hun
dreds of thousands of eyes are watching it
with an intensity and an eagerness not
surpassed by that of the poet Kew, when.
from his forsign prison ship, with strain
ing eyeballs he sev6t+ - iy0''0e.,.te- ~
gloom of the morning to discover if the
flag of his country still waved mSestically
from the ramparts of beleaguered fortress,
or whether it had gone down before the
fearful bombardment Of the night previous.
To the young patriot, seconds seemed
minutes, and minutes days and hours weeks
as with beating heart and almost madden
ed brain he watched the dappling of the
gray tiuts of the eastern sky into day, ana
awaited the beams of the morning sun to
clear away the mists of the waters that OBJ
structed his vision in the direction of the
object upon which his whole soul vas centred
At last. at last-but, oh. how long it seemed
to him his wish was gratifed. His own
glowing lines best describe his feelings:
"On the shore dimly seen through the mists on
Where the foes naughty host in dreat; silence
reposes
What is that which the breeze DER the towering
As it litfallv blows, half conceals half discOses?
Now. it catches the geam of the mornings first
In fall glory reflected n,yy shines on the stream,
IT'S the staT-spangled banner! OH long may it
Ger the land OF the free and the home CT the
brave"
That is the self-same, identical flag. the
American party is now fighting for and IN
der; and as Great Britain, aided by many
thousands of foreign mercenaries, failed in
the first and second attempt TO trail it in the
mire Of disgrace. we imagine little need be
apprehended from the anti-Ame-cans of
the present era. n. o. Crescent.
/. 4 VALcABLE INvENTIoN-A gentleman
of this city, well known for his mechanical
genius, rs we'll as literary taste, has discov-
cred a method of throwing q jet of water
(any size) the distance of five miles, in
direct line.
4 careat is not yet out and We have
no liberty to speak OF the machine. Suf-
fee to say. this great object is effected by
means o. wedge and screw. combined
with a piston The inventor calculates
thai be can pump small stream Ike the
Mississippi dry, in q hours; which be viii
do, if it should be necessary to build dam
across it at any time.
Baton Rouge Comet, 9th wlt.
The n Y. Express says the greatest