New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-02
LET Us HAVE PLAIN ENGLISH.

LET Us HAVE FAAHN
I'm robber bold pistol at your head, ard
a call on some stalwart ditchers over Tue renee
would save your life, would you put 'na' cah
in Greek Would Mt you put 1t to them IN
their own mother tongue NY In their
own brogue if they bad one Would
Won even despise little rhetorical
effect The robber being in the garb of
gentleman, would you be afraid of his thinking
YOU rupgar if you put yourself on level with
the ditchers, by calling out to them as
friends, neigbbors, fellow-citizens, or even as
gentlemen If you did, would Mt you deserve
to die for your stupidity, if for nothing else
The sage of the worlds common sense, the WIS
est teacher Of pations, hump-backed H'op' re-
lates TO us how dearly the lion once paid Tor de-
spising the humbleSt Of flies; how bc owed HIS
life. on another occasion, to miserable mouse;
and, especially, how certain bird-it was no.
an eagle, to be sure, but dove-oDce Proh'eo
by triaing neighborly act The sara o"''
while drinking at q rivulet, noticed poor
black ant struggling in the water and likely 10
drown. She threw him spear OF grass D!
which he directly saved himself. n moine".
later bjrd.huntiDg rascal spied the dove and
was drawing bis bow on her The efa'e'ui
pismre. seeing this, BIZ The riAain's heel just 10
time to spoil hi, aim, and prevent his dining
on dove meat.
Need even an eagle, when attacked by a
periured reprobate, shooting stolen arrows, ana
hungry enough to eat turhey-buzzard be
ashamed of owing his salvation to similar black
gratitude =.
There is black somebody under the heel
of the power which is aiming at the nations
life, and it is generally conceded that sharp
twince in that heel lust low would be highly
salutary to the nation. The nation has, IN
fact, invited somebody to produce It, But the
poor black pismire, however ready TO have
something to be grateful for, and sure in that
case to be grateful, does not understand Greek,
much less the verbisge of legal technically.
He only knows such plain English words as
"FREEDoM," LIBERTY" He understands
"God bless you kindly glow of the eye,
and hearty shake OF the hand Why, then,
if we really want the heel bit to any pur-
pose. do Mt we shout " Freedom for all our
friends:" Liberty for the loyal forever; I"
For Gods sake and the right now, fellow
citizens Chat was General Jackson's epitbet)
do the small thing in the large way;" "Saye
us our Constitution and, 80 help us God, yop
shan't be unconstitutional any longer ?" Why
don't we put little soul into our battle-cry'
and make the Southern wehin ring with 1t
till JEFF. Dayis's marrow melts down into his
boots
There are three times three hundred thousand
born and naturallzed Yankees, who never
smelt battle, ready enough, bounty or nc
bounty, to die for their country. But they had
rather do first and die afterward, if neces-
sary. Start the good old chorus of universal
human Mater" in it, own dear, musical,
glorious, burning, selfeyident words. Start
the old chorus of Liberty Forever, and they
will all join in ard march on. knowing, every
blessed mothers son of them, that what is
going to be done now is to save the country
and not TO save its enemies