Arizona miner., 1867-03-23
GOOD WORDS FOR THE AMERICA Ms
PROM ONE OF THEIR DEVOTED ENEMIES NJ
RING THE wAR.
From the London Telegraph.l

A highly imaginative transatlantic geo
grapher has lately informed the world that
America is or shortly will be, country
bounded on the north by the Attic circle, on
the south by eternity, on the east by the
rising sun, and on the west by the day of
Judgment There are a set of bitter and
bilious gentlemen chiefly of the Tory persua-
sion, to whom this kind of imagery is gall
and NORWOOD. They are miserable because
America is big, and because she uses these
laughingly big expressions. The real reason
why they hate her is because her Government
is so free, and the success of it so wonderful !;
but since it does not do to confess these facts,
they are always at her faults of manner and
style-a practice which is about as useful as
to rail at the Atleghany mountains for being
huge and craggy. For our part, we expert
ence no more surprise or yeXation at the hy
perbolics of our descendants beyond the At
lantic, than we should at seeing a likely lad
split his trousers in growing, or fine heal
thy baby reach his plump arms out for the
moon. The thing Is natural and even salts
factory with the young giant we have bred
and England, the mother of empires, ought
to be highly pleased and amused at the gIo-
rious gasconades Of her mighty child Is she
to be an elderly coquet, and vex herself be-
cause her sons outstrde her, and her daugh-
tiers shoot up with a beauty and vigor that
remind her how she ages She ought, if She
were honest and hearty, be glad aud proud Of
her youngsters-the like of whom history
never knew--to knit them TO herself in
bonds of firm love, and aim at making out of
them an Anglo Saxon family of empires which
grdle the world with the language of Shake
speare, and the happy influence of that little
matron island We like to read these ride.
ulous sublimities, wherein our imperial cock
erals crow themselves well nigh off their legs
with lustiness around the old Britannia hen.
What a bird the American chicken will be
when all the feathers come, if it can scratch
and crow and flourish its spurs like this in an
epoch when it is going through the barbar.
ism Of new civilization, and has the best
part of its hackles to shoot And if bieness
justities big words, we should like 70 know
who is to blame these inventive and flowery
patriots Has any other nation forty nil
| lions of square acres of Cat corn ground for a
backyard, which will grow six quarters to-
the acre, as long as you like to plough the
the old crop in Has any other nation a
mountain OF solid iron TO make the ploughs
OF, like Pilot Knob, in Missouri, or seas of
oil under the ground or shores of solid copper
along the lakes Does any other nation
NNSiN. 10 lNitthti'h NNtlN ANtutN Years ana
suck the emigration Of Europe without count
ing it or carry cargoes 1000 miles along one
river or venture on the impudence Of a
Monroe doctrine or fight war with mil
lion soldiers and have them home again, like
/ boys after school, within year os. what
other people collects n revenue Of EllS.OoO.-
600, and with c20,00O,000 in gold at a time
in its exchequer, laughs at debt of $500
100000, and engages to wipe it out in ten
years Mr. Artemus Ward says he never
knew Yankee who didn't talk about the
Rocky Mountains, except one, and he was
deaf and dumb but he wrote book about
them. Who is stupid enough to laugh at
this 1t is the nature 81 tae people the
young giants must have gigantic topics, words.
policies, schemes, and sayings and if we
laugh, let it be with hearty good nature. and
as old folks do at the brag and buncombe of
the young ones, whose strength and health
are so beautiful and full Of the promise Of no
BILE days and works.