Litchfield enquirer., 1862-01-30
Alisfellann.'
JOHN BULL AND BROTHER IONA
 THAN.
Mahing Fun of Both.


 A FRENCH VIEW OF THEIR RELATIONS.
 Mahing Fun of Both.
 The French are great writers ofpamphlets, an on all public occasions they write with amazin industry No question, however, has provoke more pamphlets than the Trent case, which hs been considered from all points of view. One 0 the most interesting of these, because the mos lively, IS by Mir Alfred Assolant. whose broad side is entitled Canonniers eos Pieces. Frou this we take few extracts, not because we thinl them just, but because they arc amusing. THE co4BArANrs.
 "You know whence arises the quarrel. Johl Bull, the Englishman, and Jonathan, the Ameri can are two vigorous fellows, who, from thei common origin. cherish an unruly passion fo the property of others. Their clutchcd hand extend eTer the globe, seeking everywhere fo some isle, country or continent to seize ant transfer to their capacious pockets. If necessa ry, they will content themselves with 6 single rock, provided that it be we'll situated, like Pc rim or Gibraltar John Bull having undertaken this game the earliest, has so far been the Iucki est in it, and partially at your expense, oh gooc people of France, all the while that you were crying out at the crows or, according to youl habit, looking at the flies buzzing along, and your King, the well-beloved Louis XV., that true Bourbon and perfect gentleman, was sup ping at Versailles with his duchess All this has cost you the two worlds of India and Cana. da, and Louisiana, third world, which alone was worth the two others together. To be sure you did something else; you made excellent songs about conquered generals which amused Europe very much. However, one of these un- lucky warriors was hanged for your laugh, ami able and joyous nation, sometimes resembles the gnashing of teeth.
 "John Bull to- day promenades in magnih- cent cloak, of which the most beautiful pieces | Quebec, Montreal, Bengal and the Isle of France, Dutch or Portuguese. He is very rich, this great Siegneur; he raises his head aloft he has made a fortune; he has everywhere his counting houses, farms and fortresses he has nothing more to gain from battles-all his present ambi- tion is to keep what he has conquered he is be come philanthropist and Quaker; be holds in the one hand the Bible and in the other the yard-stick for measuring his calico : his mouth is full of unctuons words-liberty, peace and free. trade. To hear him, one would take him for an apostle; to see him, one would take him for a natter of the rue St. Denis; but let any one in terfere with his opium and indigo trade and very soon he will see our friend John Bull drop his paterna1 air and his homilies, shoot the re- luctants, fasten the Sepoys to cannons' mouths i pillage dcfenceless cities, burn what he cannot l carry away, and murder in cold blood whomso- ever he fears. For our friend John has this pe- culiarity-that whoever may offer any obstacle 1 to him is cursed unto the seventh generation and delivered into his hands as Aeag and the | Amalekites were into the hands of Samuel l And God knows whether he is the man to ex- tend mercy to those whom he can catch. As to others, let them show their teeth even but lit tie, and he understands very we'll how to swallow the insult and digest it in silence-he is terrible to King Otho, but gentle and polite to the Czar
 This is the faithful portrait of John-the portrait which, without doubt, an important pos terity will recognize as just
 BROTHER JONATHAN.
 1 "Jonathan, his brother is of different dis position. He is long. lank, dry fellow, who does not trouble himself to initiate the gestures and conversation of Quakers his coat is button 1 cd up to the chin; ; he has frowning brows and sparkling eyss; in his pocket is a revolver; Q quid of tobacco distends his cheek, and segar is between his teeth he holds in his hand pen knife, with which he wbittles away at piece of wood. He asks questions and calculates he spites and calculates he eats and calculates he sings psalms and calculates he loves, he chants, he sleeps, and calculates he ruins himself, he gets rich again, he travels all over the world, and still calculates he is miserly neither with his labor nor his money he is John Bull with his hair turned up and without hypocrisy, He | has not studied either at Oxford or Cambridge, nor h.s any signs of the courtly manners of lords and gentlemen.
 Yes such as he is, I love this long Jonathan with his heron-like claws, his neck long as that of stork, and his eyes reminding one of a start. led tiger. He does not lie. He is not incss sanity talking of liberty, justice, the rights oi nations and similar respectable subjects. When he wants the property of another he raises his head without ceremony and draws his bowie. knife one knows, st least, what he is after. He wanted Texas, and he took Texas. The Mexi- cans tried to prevent him; he beat them threo times, entered into Mexico itself and took away from them California. When he landed for the 1 first time in Massachusetts he was paupre did ble in ragged clothes and puritanic face. pass ing half of his time at church and the other half in the forest, cutting down trees and construct ing with great labor log houses, badly joined and by no means waterproof. To-day he is an auda cious parreau; he marched ahead according to his motto burned the forest, built cities, scaled the Aheghanies until he saw afar of green Ken lucky and fertile Ohio; he traversed the deser, and entered the promised land, the Canaan o his desires he followed the great stream of the Mississippi till he came to where its banks art covered with cypress he overran the continent he conquered the savages and cleared the land he became the legitimate proprietor by using both the plough and the sword-use es arat,1 las the lawyers of Rome would say)-and bolt indeed must he have been who would have souch to interrupt him.
 't THE FEELING BETWEEN THEN.
 "Quarrelsome ed-feilows, and hatipr eacl other with that bitterest of hatreds, hate trul fraternal, flor they were brothers, you know.l was not long before John and Jonathan wer into each others hair. But as some one ba said:
 Corsaires contre eorsaires
 Ne font pas leurs affaires.
 At first, John, who is the elder, put on airs o superiority he searched the ships of Jonathan and coniscated his merchandise, and even tool away his sailors under the pretext that these un lucky wretches spoke English. Jonathan. ye , young and beardless. but lately cmancipated an accustomed to hold John, who had been his tr . tor in great respect. allowed himself to be ma . treated for some time but at last his bear grew out, and his patience vanished He seize ' a moment when John had his back turned an was boxing, like good fellow, with Napuleo,
 to trip him up by the heels and. by my faiti
 this tripping up process would have been fat, ? if the great Napoleon, shut up about that tim !. amid the snows of Russia, had had a chance ! ' come to the aid of JouatAan but au Ennon
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