The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-01-24

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A highly Imaginative Transatlantic
gsographer has- lateiy informed tho
-worid eAat ADerise 10 OF shortly viii b,
. country bounded on the north by tho
ArtRc Circle. On the south by eternity,
- theN4seehy the rising sun, aud on the
west by the day Of Judgment" There
'WegSee u BITTER md bilious sss<isuea.
chiefly Of the tory percussion, 70 whom
this kind of patriotic imaginary is gall
and NORWOOD. They are miserable be-
CAUSE, Amesica is hia. and because she
uses these lau2hAbly me expFessions---
lIhs real reason Why they hass her 10 be-
eAuse her G0veEnmeut 10 60 tree, and the
success Of Il 80 wonderful but, since it
does not do to confessr these facts. they
ere always Giu1ing ct her faults Of nan-
Der and tyle--a pHaetice which IL about
- useful - To- rail at the Allegheny
Mounteins for being huge and craGgY--
For Onf part We experience no more sur
prise or vexAtiou at the hyperbolics Of
cars descendants beyond the, Atlantic.
than We should ut seeing . likely, lad
split his tsowserss in growing, or . dne
healthy baby reach its plump arms ont
for the moon. The thing is natural and
even setisfactory With the young giant
that we hare bred ; and England the
mother Of empires, ought to be heartily
blessed and amused At the glorious gas
oonsdes Of her mighty child. Isshe TO
DO an elderly eoquette.s and vex herself
because her sons oustride her, ana her
daughters shoot mp with q beauty and
yigor that remind her how she ages
She ought if she, were honest and hearty,
to he glad and proud Of 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
should girdle the world with the language
Of Shakespeare, and the happy influence
Of the little mAtron island We like TO
read these ridiculous sublimities, wherein
our imperial cockerels crow themselves
swell-nigh OF their legs with lustiness
round the old Britannia hen. What q
bird the American chicken will be when
all the feathers come, il it can scratch
and crow, and flourish its spurs like
this in an epoch when 1t is but going
through the barbarism Of o new civilixa-
ton, and has the hest part of its hackles
to shoot And If bigness justifies big
woryls,, we should like to know who is 20
blame these inventive and fowery pa
triotsa Has any other nation forty mil
lion square scres Of fat corn-ground for
. back yard, which will grow six quarters
10 the acre, IS long as you like to pillow
the old crop in Has any other nation
Q mountain Of solid iron to make the
pillows OF, like Pilot Knob, in Missouri,
or seas of Oil under the ground, and
shores of solid copper along the lakes
Does any other nation double its popula-
ton every twenty years, and suck in the
emigration Of Europe without counting
Il; or carry cargoes 1900 miles along
one river or venture on the impotence
Of q Monroe doctrine; or fight . war
with . million soldiers, and have them
all home again, like boys after school,
within-a year? Or what other people
collect = revenue of ELS, OOO, 900 ster-
ling, and with eco, OOO, 900 in gold at q
time in it, Exchequer, laugh at debt Of
f5OO, 900 900, and engage 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 even
he wrote book about them. Who 10
stupid enough to laugh at that2 It is
the nature Of the, people; the young
giants must have gigantic topics, words,
policies, schemes, and sayings; and il
we laugh, let IL be With hearty good ma
ture, and ~ old folks do ct the brag and
buncumb Of the young ones, whose
strength and health are so beautiful and
full of the promise of noble days and
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