The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-04-21

property, in virtue of rrn,r,lizirg attraction
rs tie alleged metropolis, and not call oul
people pr"vinci,s, aud have to come beg
ging rs {" w,itc the lives of Hend,lck IIud
son and Gomvrrncur Morris
"'rbe It'll" gentlemen was on his hobby,
exal1inG his own city ut the expense of every
other place. h"r't suppose he had been
in either Of tn" cities he had been talking
about. ! WAS just going to say something
TO sober him down, if could, when the
young Marylandcr spoke mp.
Come now" he said, what's the uso
of these comparisons? Di,lnt hear this
gentleman saving the other ,iav that every
American owns a!l America? If you have
really got more brains in Boston than other
folks, rs Won seem To think. who hates Won
t"S II, except Il pack of scribbliny fools I?
If | like broadway better than Wa,h;,.r "
ton street, what then own them both
rs much as anybody owns either. lam an
American, an" wherever look up and see
the stars and stripes overhead that is home
for NE
"Ile spoke, and looked mp as if he
heard the emllazel folds cracking over
Inn in the h,erz. We all looked up in
Voluntarily, as il we should see the nation
al flag hy So doing. The sight of the
dingy ceiling and the gus fixtures depend
ing 'he'eirom, dispclec the illusion"
From John Mitchel's last letter to John
Martin, Esq. R"sStrevor, Ireland, published
i'll The Southern Citizen, We make the fol-
lowing extract,
No, sir, this Is great empire: ior the
single reason that we lllv. an iucnlculablv
greater amount of essential manhood here
than in all The world beside Are We tie
happier? d" YOU ask No matter for
happiness. not Happiness. but nnheness
Is 'll" rlIl"f end AMI aim Of man. Happy
or moi, "" w'il sulf.I no II an, no comb
against omr Will. or il. anv other than
our own way. We do no, starye to d.nlh
here while Il stranger reaps our soil: we
81" not kn'ck ont our own front teeth
here, NOR chop "ti our f"rclingc,s; for III
TACT our tin."r> and teeth ale our own
PROPERTY not the property of any master
"r mistress. There are t!lir.y millions Of
us, more or less; each III sovereign as
Srnlramls, and p,oud:r, ten thousand times
over, than the poor >rhe,ning Bnnaparte
or stalking Bomba. We have Il magnfi
r"", country to live in. the two great
orcans of the globe 1T our thresholds in
front and rear, and above us the blue sky'
As at present advised, we don't see what
rXierna agency can harm us. We cannot
understand how any empire on the globe
with al! its fleets and armies can come in
collision with us, and not bc crushed like
an cgt shell. 1t is true, we submit, for
the present. to some hulniIialions: we are
Snuhhrd on sea and land checked and
curhcl in Central America couu,.,a.,ol
!" Japan, rIrcnnven,e.i in Cuba, by Pow.
ers' (;.s .hrv ran themselves, ,h,, h.,r.,
TO have ut this mouent plenty of cre,lures
with fn,.tiny,rs ouJ fr,r, ,,,,,, ,,,;,,o.,
""'' S'' we nave IN abiding
'o"''''l'n '""t "e are able, not only to
whip, but to anniliIate them all. This
pride and dignity, this security and con.
sc;,ns n,,v., ar.. ,,.,,, r.
"'e'''"S' l. IS
Nv "'''''' '''"' P"t''"t'c hmerlcans, at the
hrst suggestion of such thing. shrink
from the thought of breaking to pieces this
So fair and ,n,u.Iv q s,r,.,nr ,n1 h.,;,
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