The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-03-13
WIT AND DR0LLERY FOR THE MILLION.
THE ADVENTURES OF MY COUSIN SMOOTH
BY TIMOTHY TENPLEToY, OF TEwKsBURY.
Friends Of tie Administration are enjoined not
to read this book!

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to read this book!
rINHS book winning golden opinions as well in Eng
Il land as the United States. Friends and foes alike
praise wit and dollery and even recommend il 10 b
serious perusal those scathngly re5ukes Its laSt
conquest Is over one Of our Republican editors who
gives vent To his feelings in the following verses:
Smooth water, we all know, runs deep, and is some
! times dangerous.
Prince Alachiavell was deemed the aslutcst
or all who the path OF diplomacy trod;
Bat reckon you'll find both the fastest and cutes,
Among them Is Solomon Smooth. OF Cape Cod
The Gineral gave him "a rowing commission
To work puppet politics the world:
And twas he pulled the wire and took aim with
When Soae and Sanders their thmderbolts hurled
Prank Pierce, in the Kitchen he nobly assisted
To 'thIcken the swill OF the blac -muzzed Dig
Whose chlvarous gruntings they say) if rested,
With dlrest results to the Union are big
And while Caleb and JEFF were preparing founder
Called Cuba-a fish never cooked to this day
i9f , MaTcy, whom some style the modern expounder,
lie dld a small Job IN the psn,-mending way.
" All countries he Toame5, from Tabni TO Turkey
All sorts OF diplomacy praciced with skill;
he the skies OF his politics sunbrighi or murky
We find the cute Yankee a match for them sill
| HIS wit rs an acid that tres every system
The pure gold escapes but the umse is burned;
Ana no wonder Frank PIerce-who must sadly have miss
ed him
| Went crazy with JOY when his envoy returned
! "Ifyoure weary OF seeing faction control us
Or ri your backbone is TO bending inclined;
II You lhlnk the black Pig should eat, holus bous
the swirl that TO feed whole herd designed.
II Diet Q! dough has not spoiled your digestion,
And relish Of sound manly orthodox truth;
Then purchase the book, and, beyond any question
fou bless the gay pen Of Our Cousin, Sol smooth,
The extremes do now aud then meet as will he seen
by the political complexion OF the journals from which
the following extracts are made.
Sheds an important light upon foreign and domestic
pocy OF TINS Government under the present Admins
lion Under the guIso of buflesaue extravsgau-
the author presents picture of our recent diplomacy
ia Europe whch must suggest TO every sensible and pa
nohc American reader matter for humliatng
rchection.-Netc York Ereping Post
The New York Herald. in reviewing an En.lis IA co,,,
makes the following pungen. remarks: nv
he NTH
whose lights ARE always amusing even when they inll
short Of the rational He delights IN queer cences ey
Vasani images and quaint modes OF expression. Like
TIE rambling Engllshman, who has so lately given us an
amusing history of diplomacy, his peculiar style gives
nm ialr claim to the title OF the Rambling American
his narrative OF what occurred The Ostend Convention
Will we rather imagine, take the wind out OF Mr. scale
s anu deprive the eN-Alinister of the qualification OF
disclosing, for the first time the public the nauv nnn,
ant subjects that were debated there and the
pari he himself played in the discussion Our readers
mus DC burning 10 make acquaintance with this very
markaD'e book The elevated style which his episodes
are narrated, OF course enhance their interest"
The following is from the London CORE sponden of The
New York Herad:
THE book series OF humorous letters purportinp 10
frnm the White House satrizing NJ Pisrca "a
his projects The author whoever he NAV be discovers
an Intimate knowledge OF all Mr. Pierces faings public
well private and shows them nm in a svie nj @
spirited and logical Indeed Mr. Picrces Ministers sbIosJ
viii have no occasion to thank the author for his reserve
IN throwing light upon their conduct In his bun,orors
but too truthful description the Ostend Convenon he
discovers the very facts which have furnished material
for the letter P your Washington correspondent
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folly to which we have referred Every genu-
Inc American will ENJOY the scaihinC rebuke which
he pen OF me sauris can give TO the vulgar snobism
whch presumes to represent officially ne
Europe WaSiiason NaiioHDt KrG
The conception Of the book, as whole and of it's va
rious parts, Is excellent Criterion.
They Ghe sketchesl are keen and searching. without
nss MALICIOUS ana mus prove vastly entertaining TO all
who ENJOY genuine satre.-N Y. Saturday Courier
The following are from the Press of England.
Is a coach thai EriSh nubIic ShoIla,,
We look before aud after,
And pine for what is mott
But the British public does not II has like Charles Lamb
nid Imagination. and seldom straYs 20 Oula sb narts
tchere The remote Bernudes ,iGe and If the world viii
only leave II alone :. : seldom the British public will
gerry S. asonable time, and is u.s. a welcome guest
healthy OF tone and generous in sentiment ChGrLs
hitghS Tbtcn and Country.
Mr. solomon smooth is representative OF Young
America" who makes his way 10 Washington in search
OF place The ORe he obtains from Mr. Pierce is a sort
OF rowing coulnission as envoy in general which takes
how the dpomasts and employers Of Uncle do their
daty The plan is not bad one for exhibiting American
pace-huniers at home and diplomatic agents abreaa nor
is it wanting in acidiy.-SPeetaOr.
Whoever he may be who shelters himself behind the
sobriquet of Timothy Templeton, know that no is
oughly enjoyed The spirit OF the satire may be gathered
from the following rather severe reflection which Mr.
Smooth ueaIs the PresidenL-LondOn Literary Crime.
We have here curious Interviewing of political econ.
omy, social morality and that phy apophleniata pa,
osophy peculiar to the observing Yankee cloey bound
up and blended IN terrible satire. There is an
amount of homely and worldly wisdom scattered through
out which will DO found ample compensation for the
time bestowed on the book-Lo'rdor Weekly Dispaeh.
Containing, under the mask irresistible hunor bit
ter satire the present Government of the United States
with some sly and well-direced nsnuaons Oh ,he man
OF John Bull and the North American Colonies
ed to the crown OF Great Britain Piypiotg5 Herald
work deeply interesting possessing touch of in
ernaaoEal politics. Brother Jonathan is telling Mr. Bull
OF ms faults IN as queta way as possible without wishing
TO STIR up between the nations The work recon-
ends Itself for its sprghtlness and should be read IN
these times OF war and rumors OF war CGoriasf and
Eton Herald ~ ~
The author discovers ksss and there polish of stvs
that leads US &c suspect him OF using moi his o,
to pseerye mis- incog This the first tirre he has
welded pen, or evelled whitening satire TO those who
would learn more of the of the United
States we cannot do better han recommend perssi ~
this singular book Taey will be and nsis.eted %
Nelceosit: G,.aydiaa.
Price-ffty and seventy five cents
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