The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-07-02

WESTERN ELooUENcE.-The farther we go west the
higher the style rises. Wisconsin, at present, epiles
the agony of rhetoric up TO the maximum point.
The following is an extract from an Grafton delivered
on the fourth of July last, at Lancaster, in that
State:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that our country was born
in blood, baptized in gore, Graded in the war whoop,
and bred to the rifle and bowie knife. We have it,
through blood and carnagel thunder: They tore
like 1migateHFehanGe; but the, they cut and scared
They ~grappled John Bull like a pack of bull
7l1f3rs. They took him By the launches; they Crap
pied his lcine pipe, and last, they made him below
like bloody thunder. Washington heathed the sword.
The gentle olive branch of peace waved her green
and luxuriant foliage in majesty over the shores Of
Columbia; and foreigners hocked in and built their
nests with us among its sheltering boughs. But a
few years had rolled away down the railroad track of
time, when John Bull again came believing up the
Mississippi, paving up onto his back the rich and
luxuriant sile Of Louisiana, and horning the bank Of
suyed river and lashing his tail like fury. But just
before Orleans he found the great Jackson, and he
couldn't shake him more than an oxen, he couldn't
shure! Great SVplause) jackson stood there like
time. At last he "a him a lick, right back in under
between the horns, Hat knocked the breath out Of
him, and sent him oElatting and believing like he
felt disagreeabIe at thsktumk.
Soldiers of WinnebagN Var, and invincibles of Sank
furse! Here thirteen mAkarose.) Hlroes of Bad
Axel Veterans Of StillmaN& light Very nimble
men. You have come down &C., a reform gen.
Grafton. Heaven has bountifuly ~ nged out your
lives that you might see the fruit of ye0 NAuYou
behold around no longer the torch Of the savage, ana
the cleaning of the tomahawk and the scalping knife.
All is now peace and quiet. Those houses that you
see around you are the abode of civilized and refined
white folks. This spacious edifce that surrounds
you is not a wigmam; but a temple of law and JUS
tice. How changed all things are. Under the spur
of the schoolmaster, the very tail of civilization adj
vanced beyond what the front cars then was. Glori-
GUS freedom! Great and glorious country! Let me
Ii ~
ing with my dying breath, "bear the s,als and stripes
aloft; and onward-onward." (Ierryfc <heering.)
TIE TOWER OF BABLE.-Much, Of late has been
said of the tower of Bable. Antiquarians have
FURNISHED their antique volumes, ignorant brush
marks are surprised how mortar could be made
without bristles from Ohio, while writer's have in
dulged in a confusion of language far worse than
existed when the sons Of men wished to build q
cnurch-steeple, even unto the moon. The curious
shoald read the book of flasher, published by the late
itmented Major Noah. What would one think Of
Paddy carrying a hod to the top Of an unfinished
building, which consumed a year in the ascent, at 6
dollar n day? Read what that vertable document
FLASHER" says of Babel. and when they were
building they built themselves a great city and q very
strong and high tower; and on account Of its height
the mortar and bricks did not reach the builders in
pleted full year, t<&@&1pr that, they reached TO
the builders and mortar and bricks;
thus was It done daiis.d chapter TX. verse "a.
Talk of Trinity steeple Of chet-towers after that (!
Why after reading1gk foresplng. my eyes were 50
swollen with wondss & spositisely, can't see
my pigeon-hole- But wbsn ipand note r
made. ~