Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-07-09
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TO A NEW YORKER
WHO SCOFFED AT YANK EES.


And 'Taunton turkeys arc so thick,
We sell them by the rod
We turn our very stones 60 gold
The MARBLE granite slate
And as for manufactures.
Where is our rival state
Our cities dot the broad expanso,
Tecmng with busy life
And every village. farm and stream,
With Yankee wealth Is rife.
Our churches stand like scniincs,
On valley, hill and plain;
And city spires. like forest trees,
Point upward, many vano
Nature hath favored your New York,
Il could not well be less;
Boston hath grown by human might
This truth all must confess;
Think Of her thrift for ten years past,
Then please to calculate,
What she will be some ten years hence,
Progressing at this rate.
Aud beauty mingles with our ,hrin,
As Boston Common shows
Aud Albums mount whore living love
Its kindcst care bcstowa.
Old Newport, Miiow Graded, see,
on Rhody's tcrdant shores
It's there Old Ocean shakes his name,
Resembling eycmorc
New Haven. With ii. shady Gins,
And Hartford, with lbs charter
Connecticut, my native state
Say can you find o smarter
The Empire state" is your New York,
grant Il, hard % mate her;
Yet stll give me tho "Nuuncg State
Where shan We find gruer?'
We have both railroads and canals,
But here my courage pitches;
own You'll beat me ou this heat
View York has bigger bitches
Our commerce sNims deeper sea,
IL stems the swelling wave.
And send us white winged messengers
In every sea % lave
Look al oin Titerad, ,ir.
We've Graded genius. sl.ei
Come, countyou great oncs 10y our side,
And see who hath thc iowcr.
sherman Parsons, Adams, Ames.
Are synonyms Of glory
And Massachusetts, boasts, beside
A Hancock and St0ry
There's Silliman, Webster, Noah, mean)
Aud pmncy, Dana, Ware
With Webster. Adams, Davis, sin
What noble men they arcl
Macdnnouph, Perry, Morris, Hull
Green, Putnam, stark AND Allcn
With frccioui's martyr, Nathan Hale,
Aud valiant General Warren
Divinity can bring some names,
For goodness famed, aud Learning;
A Pays0n, Dranard, Gri.wold, Ware,
riorpoiut and Cumming
60 search DER Asia'e burning sand
The Mission ground, who fills
a Newell Juds0n. Gordon, Hall,
\ Winslow. and Mil's
And count our poets side by side
srrsgue Willis. 1Iillhonse, Lowell;
Pike, ilallcck. Brainord Siqnurnuy,
Holmes, Bryant, Mellon. Porciyal,
Longfellow, Dawes and Bright.
With Prentice, Dana. Whittier,
An these arc ours of right
BENJAMIN Franklin ten INC. sir
You VI can boast Dig Thunder"
Say, will he play with lightning, sir,
And ncyer dodge from under
Aud then those sons of1'ype we boast,
Greeley, Prentice Burritt
Burrits a second Babel sin,
And Prentice, who'll oulwt'
Another vet. I'm proud to name
Jonathan Shck-Jack Downing
guess he is New Engand's child
He's worthy Yankee browning
There's Emerson. "Ihe Mystic" sir.
Joe Neal, Of "Charcoal Sketches, -
With Morse. who chained the lightning, sir
All these New England fctchcs
Some smart ones, too, we've loaned to YOU
Pray do not call noe saucy;
But when you lacked for Governors,
Who furnished Wright aud Marcy
SO richly blest, afford
To let some wander forth;
Your llamilton-she owes us one
- Her polar star is North
We always have been generous,
You cannot have forgot.
That when old Union wished a head,
New England furnished Mott
And thus, whene'er yon siit il down,
You find at your own hearth,
Tint men most justly named as great
All claim Yankee birth.
That prince Of Yankee spectators
Ay-Bonum Is the man
Nov look around you, right and left,
And beat him II you can
Always ahead Of time aud tide
Whatever he can find;
Sometimes that least Of little folks
And sometimes Jenny Lind
Wen beat you, big or little, sir,
Perchance t wilt strike you dumb,
Rhody has raised the biggest man,
Connecticut. Tom Thumb
Whate or is touched by us, improves
Is rendered brighter still
Zen Comedy had added charms
When played by yankee Hill I"
We're good in peace, and In q war
You'll find there is no lodging;
For fear, within a Yankee breast,
Hath never found lodging
We beard the lion within his den,
Or stride a cask Of powder
The v9ry mps Of daring, we,
Though fed on clans and chowdcr
New London girls in oldcn time,
Meier paused to ask. what matters
But when the soldiers lacked guu-wads,
They tore their skirts IN tatters.
Yes, should the boys once dare 10 finch
From duty, or forsake il;
The girls would face the lannon's mouth,
And Lose their lives, or take 1t
Go search philanthropy's bright page
What names are traced upon II
The nobest record written there,
A Yankee heart has won II
Ask Erin, when the famine dire,
Her starving thousands slew;
What heart first answered 10 her call,
And cr the ocean flew
Then never laugh at Yankees, sir,
Nor seorn New England rough;
Her face, own, Is not so smooth
she's made Of rocky stuff
But she had strengthened mental might,
Hath cherished genius child
Hath trained her children in the right
Practice on preeepl piled
Go roam through Eurupo's cities proud
Meath Afrio's burning sun;
At every turn, where'er you 20,
You'll find New England's son
Go rest you near the Pyramids,
No matter where you trampi
You'll find Yankee gone before,
Who there hath pitched his camp!
Clocks, nutmegs. aud whatever else
You cali Yankee crops
you have cash, he's glad to SELL
Al not, ne II always swap.
For he was merchant, sir
A Yankee trader bold
Who snapped his whistle for a knife,
When only four years old.
No matter where his home may be-
VIVA, flag may be unfurlod,
He'll manage, by some cute device,
TO white through the world
Brnfu Of restless enterprise
The busiest Of the busy
Such constant work, such constant stir,
Would drive Dutchman dizzy
Flout II you will, al as and ours,
Were YOU but half AZ wise,
With half the hawk-eyed shrewdness, sir,
Which glaneeth from our eyes,
Wed take the leap together, sir
And pulling on one track,
Would leave the league confederate,
To follow at our back.
With our united shoulders, sir,
Together az the wheel,
Would turn our nations destiny,
BY well directed zeal