The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-23


THERE are three Abbotts, who may or may not
be bound together by ties Of blood, but
who are united by family resemblance 50
striking that, without examining the ismlV
tree, we detect their coming from common
root. II the qualities now divided among TINS
excellent trio we're centred in their ancestors"
is well for the American nation that death mas
claimed her own. The first OF this monasuo
brotherhood is the Rev. J. S. c., whose work
ON the first Napoleon has made him familiar
to our people as the author Of the worst his
tory ever penned by man claiming to be i'm
partial. Having set up the uncle as a god,
and done obeisance before him for nine hun
dred closely printed pages, the reverend gem
tleman visits Paris, and lioks the dust off the
feet OF the nephew. His account of the inter
view was graphically given a few months
since, and brought John to the climax, the
zenith of his popularity.
Then there is another Abbott, who has, like
his namesake Jacob, seen visions. What has
been revealed to him is told to us in his chill
drens stories, and the extremely natural emo
tiOns expressed by Rollo show this eminent
man to be entirely childlike both in his feel
ings and his mode of expression. He, how
ever, seems to be the best of the batch, al
though he has never been raised from the
ground by an Emperor before whom he had
prostrated himself
These two mitred individuals had, we
thought, monOpolized the glories of the family
name; but now third has arisen, like Joseph,
and his sheaf demands that all his brothers
do obeisance unto it. Mr.. Abbott, we regret to
state does not possess a Christian name that is
familiar to us. His scheme, however, is so
grand, and at the same time so simple, that
we think he should be named "Annexa-
tion'' Abbott. He has been before
Congress to secure the assent of that
body to his plan for the annexation of Mexico.
His ideas certainly commend themselves for
their luCidity. We are to commence at the
North, and, like vast anaconda about to
swallow an OK, we first lick the creature all
over. Then we gently commence to masticate
the northern provinces, and gradually each
succeeding province is lost to sight as part of
Mexico, and goes to swell the body of the
United States. By this means the whole of
Mexico, from the Rio Grande to Yucatan, will,
in course of time, be ours. How could any
thing be palmer All that is necessary is,
that we gently take our neighbor, willing or
unwilling. We will not ask her consent-that
would be ridiculous. We just say:-"We have
concluded TO run the boundary line of the
United States south of Sonora and chihuahua
and after few days remark casually, eve
thought it proper to include Durango and San
Luis Potosi," and thus, step by step, add in
crement to increment, until Guatemala is
reached. truly the ideas of this Abbott are
greater than those of his brothers, and he
deserves to be done reverence to. Viewing
this remarkable family in an arithmetical
light, we would PROFOUND conundrum:-It
the second is so much better than the first,
and the third than the second, what will Ame-
RIGA do should there be five of this herculean
race ? We throw this out merely as a warn
ing, for it seems, from the rapid increase, that
some venerable Abbott having broken his
monastic vows, his children are made instru-
ments of punishment for the sins of their
forefather.
Lor,