The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-02-01
The Yankees--A. few Good WI ords
from one Of their Devoted 1En0s
mics During the War. w


mics During the War.
IFrOn tho London EsglanGl Tslsgtaph peesnhsr I6.l
A highly imaginative transatlantiO
geographer has lately informed tho
world that America ID, or shortly will
be, q acOnntry bounded on the north
by the Arctic Circle, on the south by
eternity, on the east BY the rising
sun, and on the west by the day Of
Judgment There are i set Of bitter
and bilious gentlemen, chiefly Of the
tory persuasion, to whom this kind Of
patriotic imagery is gall and worm
wood. They are miserable because
America is big, and because she useag
these laugha6Iy big expressions."-
The real reason why they hate her il
because her governmental 90 free and
the success of it so wonderful; !; butt
since it does not do to confess these
facts, they are always girding at her
faults of manner, and style--a prac-
ticc which is about as useful as to rail
at the Allegheny Mountains for being
huge and craggy. For oar part, We
experiencing more surprise or vexa-
tion at the hyperbolics Of our de-
scendants beyond the Atlantic, than
we should at seeing u likely lad split
his trowsers in growing, or a fine,
healthy baby reach his plump palms
out for the moon. The thing ia natu-
raj, and even satisfactory with tho
young giant that we have bred and
England, the mother Of empires.
ought to be heartily pleased and
amused at the glorious gasconades of
her mighty child. Is She to bc an
elderly coquette, aud vex herself be-
cause her sons outstride her, and her
daughters shoot up with a beauty and
vigor that remind her how She aoes9
She ought, if she were honest ana
hearty, to beglad and proud Of Young.
sters-the like Of whom history new
er knew--to knit them to herself in
bonds of firm love, and aim al making
out of them an Anglo Saxon family
Of empires which should girdle the
world with the language Of Shakes ,
peare, and the happy influence of the
hLtIe matron island We like to read
these ridiculous sublimities, wherein
our imperial oockerels crow them.
selves well-nigh off their legs with
lnstiness round the old Britanic hen. q
What o bird the American chicken
will be when all the feathers come. II /.
it can scratch and crow, and flourish
its spurs like this in an epoch when ,
it is but going through the barbarisyA
OF new civilization, and has the bess
part of its haekles to shoot. And Il
bignesS justifies big words we should
like 10 know who is TO blame these
inventive and Aowery patriotsY Has
any other nation 100000 ssva, 4
acres Of fit corn ground tor a back
yard, which will grow six quarters 70 .
the acres, as long as you like 10 plow
the old crop in Has any other ma
tion . mountain of solid iron to make 81
the plows of, like Pilot Knob in Mia.
souri,, or seas of oil Under the ground
and shores of solid copper along the
lakes Docs any other nation double
its population every twenty vears
and suck in the emigration of Furops
without counting it; or carry carqoes
two thousand miles along one river;
or venture on the impudenoe of a
Monroe doctrine, or fight a war with
l,OO0iOOJ soldiers and havo them all
home again, like boys after school.
within year2 Or what other peo
pie collect revenue of GllS. 100000
sterling, aud with e2O, 900 COO in gold
at time in its exchequer, laughs 1T a
debt OF 100000, 900, and engages TO
wipe II out in ten yearsY Mr.. Arte-
mus Ward says no never knew a Yap-,
kee who didn't talk about the Rocky
Mountains except one, and he was
deaf and dumb but even he wrote a
book about them. Who is stupid
enough to laugh at that2 II is in The
nature of the people the Young
giants must have gigantic topics,
words, policies, schemes and savings:
and il welaugh, lot it be with hearty.
good nature, and as old folks do al
tho brag and buncombe Of the Young
oRes, whose strength and health arc
so beautiful and full of the promise
OF noble days and works.
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