The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-05-17
TIE YANKEE.

A highly imaginative Transatlantic geo.
grapher has lately informed the world
that America lie, or shortly will be,
country bounded on the north By the
Arctic Scirele, on the south by stsrn-
ity, on the east by the rising sun, on
the west by the day of Judgment"
There are SET Of bitter and bilious gem
liemen chiefly OF tbs tory peFsuasions to
"nom this kiEd Of patriotic imagery Is
gan and wormWood. They are miserable
because America ID big. end because she
usss 1hese laughable expressions. The
EeAi reason why they hate her Is because
her government ia so free and the sue.
cess of it so wonderful; but since il dos.
not do to confess these facts. the are ii.
ways girding at her faults Of manner and
styie-a practice which is about az useful
as to rail at the Allegany mountains fOr
Oieng huge and craggy. For our part,
We experience no more surprise and vex.
alton at the hyperbolics of our descendant
beyond the Atlantic than we should st
seeing likely Lad split his trousers in
growing, or fine, healthy baby reach
his hands out for the moon.
The thing is natural and even satisfsc-
tory with the young giant that ne have
bred; aad England, the mother Of Em-
pires, ought to be pleased and amused at
| the gasconedes of her mighty child Is
she 10 be an elderly coquette, and ysx
herself because her sons outstrids her,
aud her daughters spring up with beau.
~ ard vigoF that reminds her how she
ages? She ought, if she were hearty and
honest. 10 be glad and proud of young
s.ers-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 sho'd girdle the world with the
language of Shakespeare and the happy
influence of the little matron islandl We
like 10 read thess ridiculous sublimities,
wherein, our imperial cockerals crow
themselves well-nigh off their legs with
lustness round the old Britannia hen.
What bird the American chicken will
be when ali the feathers come, if il eau
scratch and crow, and flourish its spurs
like this in an epoch when i lie but going
through the barbarism of q new civiliSa-
ton, aud has the best part of it's hsckles to
shoot. And if bigness justihes big words,
we should like to know who is to blame
these inventive and hoWery pAtriotsS
Has any other nation 4O, 900. 600 square
acres of fat corn ground for back yard,
which will grow six quarters to the acre
as long as you like to pillow the old orSp
in? Has any other nation a mountain Of
solid iron to make plows of, like Pilot
Knob, in Missouri, or seas of oil under
the ground, and shores of solid copper
along the lakes? Does any other double
its population every twenty years, and
suck in the emigration of Europe with
out counting it; or carry cargoes of 200 /,
miles along one river; or venture on the
impudence of Monroe doctrine, or fght
war with 100000 soldiers, and have
them all home again like boys after
school, within a yearf Or what other
people collects revenue of EII8,OOo,.
600 sterling, and eco, 200. 900 IN gold ct
a time in its exchequer, laughs st debt
of Coco, 900. 900, and engages to wipe it
out in ten years.-LOndOH Telegraph.