Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-22
The Two Iessons.


/ that it is without novelty, without zest, fiat,
stale. aad improbable. While the other ma
+ tions have contributed freely, the American
department is but a beggarly account Of
empty boxes What J John sees, though ,nu2h
of it is very nice, possesses little interest br
him, for he has seen it. or something ve,y
much like it, before. 1t amounts, after all, %
/ little else than Monsieur Tonson come again
The originality, the inventiveness, the me
| chanical genius which so dumbfounded him ten
! years ago, and enlightened him too, are rePEe-
| sented now only by aching void. He now
Experiences neither q sensation nor an idea :
aud gets no chance either of venting his bile
or playing the fool, which at times is his pc
culiar privilege. We all remember how, ten
years ago, John fairly cudgeled his brains week
/ in and week out, for abuse Of the American
Contributions when tire show first opened. He
exhausted his wind and bottom iu showing up
] the ridiculous, grotesque, tawdry, clumsy,
( gingerbread patchwork, journeyman- made,
{ mongrel, constructions that belong to a peo-
! pie who would be cataurs and mermen if they
could, and are always rebelling against the
traumels of unity" After John had pretty
well let of his spleen the time came for some
of these ridiculous Yankee notions to be put
to the test The plows, whose lightness and
/ fragility made them fit only for fancy garden
ing. were set in motion in the stifTest soil, be-
fore an agricultural jury, and John, when he
witnessed the ease of draught and efficiency Of
execution, was quite amazed and the very
next thing he cid was to buy all he could lay
his hands upon, and TO order a score or more
to be shipped at New York at his own risE
& reapihg machine, which john in his bilious
facetiousness, had characterized as "a cross
between an Astley's chariot, a treadmill, and
Hying machine" was taken into a grain field
and put into operation. John looked on as
pompous as King Cambyses, but thousand
times more innocent of the real science Of
reaping than the greenest Yankee pumpkin.
AS he saw clean s7yathl ten feet vide; open
ing before him as fast as a span of horses
could walk, and work done by a single Ameri-
can in an hour which twenty Englishmen COLD
not have done in day, he gave his skull a
scratch or two, sent back word that the thing
would "secure to English farming protection
against climate and an economy Of labor
which must prove of incalculable advantage" !"
and could hardly retain his eagerness TO get
some Of them over the water in time for the
next harvest A Yankee picked the crack
lock of England in twenty-four minutes and
half Another Yankee brought in an Ameri
can lock with thousand dollar bill under it
and Englishmen of every breed tried their
hands at it for forty-fve days in vain, even
though the real keys were given them with
which TO operate. John thus began to find
out the meaning and the use of some of the
Yankee "gimcracls,' and it is to his credit
that he turned them TO excellent account
He will freely admit that his ten years use OF
the Yankee inventions, which were sent to his
Crystal Palace, has been worth to him more
than that whole exhibition cost, a hundred
times over. They have saved him mint of
money and world of trouble.
OF course then, Brother Jonathan must be
sadly missed on the present occasion, The
whole affair threatens to be downright .fasco
without him. Yet, after ali his absence, IN
der the circumstances, is 10 real misfortune.
He is engaged in teaching another lesson,
which, if John Bull will rightly lay at heart
will be infinitely more valuable to him than all
the labor-saviBg machines Yankee wit ever
devised. 1t is time that J oLn should feel that
man lives not by bread alone We are show
ing him the power that lies in democratic in
stitutions to inspire a ration with immortal
faith and courage in darkest times, enabling
it to rise triumphant and gorifed when he
was sure it was sinking into an abyss of ruin
We are showing him how TO raise volunteer
armies, how TO construct extemporaneous
uavies, how tc maintain efficient bIockades,
how TO keep full exchequers, how to crush
colossal rabeliion-how to do all those things
which he has over and OFer ag@in pronounced
absolutely and utterly impossible. We are
glad to perceive that John bids fair to prove
an apt scholar in this case as in the other
| He has already got we'll out of his vitupera-
| tive vein, ard Just as it used to be when the
real meaning of the thrashing machines began
/ to dawn upon him. he is now in dead maze.
! As his organ, the Times, expresses it, "'The
whole history IS mystery as well as marvel.
/ It is almost rs hard to believe what has oc-
CURED as to imagine what will ultimately hap
pen." This marks progreSs-first the unreas-
oning stOlid abuse, then the blank bewilder-
ment that comes from practical demonstration
and incipent conviction in due time we shall
have distinct recognition, and in the end, per
chaDce-who knows ?-positive intimation.-
When Johns eruptions Of spite subsde into a
silent muddle of wonder, it is a sare sign that,
anon, his wits viii clarity, and that he will talk
aud act Ike rational being. This is Johns
way of getting wisdom. He is thus learning
to respect democratic ideas; ard, sensible fel-
low that he is, after all, in the long run, he
will finally turn them to practical account
himself long while hence, perhaps, but all
the more surely in the end.
Yes, John, the lesson we taught you ter
years ago is nothing in comparison to what
we are giving you now. So, though you don't
see US at Kensington, reflect that after all the
teacher has not forgotten you.--Ne1r ForL
World.