The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1867-04-02
Good Words forthe Yankees.
FROM OYE OF THEIR DEVOTED ENEMIES
DURING THE WAR.
From ths London Telegraph, Dec. 15.i


A highly Imaginative trans Atlantic
geograIA.er has lately informed the woild
that America is, or shortIy vii be- n 'r.,uu-
try bounded CIR the north by the Asiatic
circle, on the south by eternity, on the
east by the rising srn, and on the west bv
the day Of Judgement. There are set of
bitter and bilious geuti5me chiefly of the
tory persuasion. to whom tbs kInd OF I'M
agery is gall and wormwood. They are
miserable because America Is bfg, and be-
cause she uses these laughaby big express
ions The real reason why they hate her
Is because her government is SO free, and
the success OF it so wonderful; but since il
does not do to confess these facts, th4y are
always girling at her faults Of manner aud
~tyIe-a practice which is about as useful
as to rail at the Allegheny mountains for
being huge and craggy. For our part, we
experience no more surprise or vexaiidn at
the hypetboIIcs Of our decendants beyond
the Atlantic, than we should at seeing a
/ likely lad split his trowsprs in growing. or
a fine, healthy baby reach his plump arms
out for the moon. The thing is natural
and even satisfactory with the Young GIANT
that we have bred; and England, the moth
/ er Of empires, oaght to be heartily pleased
and amused at the glorious gaseouades OF
her mighty child. Is she to be an elderly
/ coqaettA and yex herself because her sons
outstride her, and her daughters shoot up
with a beauty and vigor that remind her
how she ages? She ought, if she were hon
est and hearty, to be glad and proud Of
gsters-the tIke Of whom history new
Ter knew-to knit them to herself in boials
OF firm love, anl aim at making out ef
them an Anglo-Saxoa family Of empires
which should Qiriie the world With tRe
language Of Shakespeare and tbs hapIy
influence of that little matron island! We
+ ike to read these ridiculous sublnnities.
wherein our imperial cCckeres crow them
selves welI-nigh off their legs with lustiness
round the old BritanIc hen What i br
the American chicken will be when all tn,
Seahters come, if ii can scratch and cF,'Nv
AMI flourish It's spurs like this in An ep6th
when 1t Is but going through the barbah.
Ism OF new civilization, and has the best
part Of It's hackIes to shoot. And if b;y-
ne r~l1ti,.> bic words we should ike to
know who IS to blame these inventive and
d?wery patriots? Has any other nation
forty millions Of square acres Of fat eoTh-
ground for backyard, which will crow
SIX quarters to the acre, as long as YOU Ike
to piow the old crop in3 Has any other
nation a mountain of Solid iron to make
pIows Of, ike Pilot Knob in Missouri, or
Sc Of o!i under til" ground and shores of
50 ! conner anug the lakes ? Does any
other nation double its population every
twenty years and suck in the emigration of
Europe "dnout uniting it? Or carry
carGreS 700 nil along one rivers Or
venture on the impudence Of Mtnroe
doctrine? or fight war with a million
soldiers AMI have them all home again,
like boys after school within a years Or
what other people collects a revenue Of
100000 sterling, and with f2O,OOO-
\ CO. - rlI at time in It's exche luer,
laughs at a debt Of $500, 100000, and en-
cages TO wipe it ont in ten years? Mr..
Artemus Ward say he never knew a Yam
: kee who didn't talk about the Rocky
, !, Mountains except one and he was deaf
and dumb; but even he wrote a book abont
them. Who is stupid enough to la.aG'i
at that? 1t is the nature of the ,,aaBie
: the young giants must have gi~anriC lon.
, lcs, words, policies, schemes, aud savinas
aud if We angi, let it be with hearty a,Fo.l
; natur" and as Old folks DO at tie hra5 Al
bunconb Of the young ones, whose strenss I,
and heaIth are so beautiful and full OF {hs
promise OF noble days and works.