The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-06-16
John Bull Blowing.

VI l1uBilSu newspapers Is tho I0DlU.
hawh. Thus the wrotch lectures this
country:
A WonD WITH Brother JoNA-
THAN.-You are going little too far,
clever Jonathan. You are talking to
Us in tone that We do not intend to
stand, peacefully disposed though we
be. We do not want to meddle with
any one, but if any one NEEDLES with
us, there are teeth in the Lions Jaws
yet, though ho is old, and may not be
darn'd smart, nor 30 noisy, as that
thleving, screaming bird of yours ;
and he will fight mono the worse be.
cause ho has not got tho eternal quid
In his mouth. So MUD yourself, and
your bird, too, Master Jonathan; if
you don't, both Of you will get an
ugly scratch.
10 drop metaphor, Brother Jona-
than, and appeal to your reason If
you have got such u "Gxing" any,
where about you-"whut is tho rea-
son that you use mo thus 7" Is it
necessary for you to make political
capital by abusing and insulting
mo? If the brugging, clustering
footpads who calls themselves the
great Fenian party arc subjects with
whose allegiance () you oannct dis.
pense, am sorry for you, Jonathan.
In every respect, and most in self,rcs-
pect, you must have sunk lower than
l ever suspected. Whom else do you
please by this attempt to brow beat and
rob US? Not the brave among YOU ::
not the honest; not the intellectual ::
not the upright; but tho disappointed
speculators, foul-mouthcd brawlcrs,
rowdy shoddy manufacturers-mcn
who have plundercd you during your
civil war, and being too great towards
to take to highway robbery, find their
occupation gone double faced, fawn-
ing hypocrites, who, by lying, bribery,
and unblushing shamelcssness, sneak
ed or forced themselves into the ser
vice of their country, that they might
suck her blood like vampires as they
are. "These be your patriots :" these
are tho "great people" to whose voices
you must listen these are the Amc-
rican nation, crying, trumpet-tongucd, :,
for ga morscl Of that zero British
Lion )" and if you don't A.g the Gu )
into silence Jonathan, by ST.. George
they shall have u bitterer morscl than
they bargained for What! Talk Of
our enemies at home! Talk of Trc
land being thorn in our side You
are serried with thorns thick rs n
hedgehog's bristles you arc one mas
OF sores within and without; you have
more enemies in your own countr,
than all tho world lcagucd .gainst
you could furnish. Show me hun.
dred men, whom you can trust viii
tho public money, who will take ser
vice under your Government.
You may attach Canada, you NAV
declare war against us,you fill may Ire
land with thieves and cut -throats, Won
may cover the ocean with privateers to
prey upon our commerce, but you viii!
DO moro injury to yourselves than to
US. You will be making the voice of
the lowest among you the voice of the
whole nation. You will have no SYM
pathy from any honorable foreign
Power, nor from the worthy and noble
among yourselves. You will stop all
real progress on your own part-and
you are far from perfect, Jonathan, 60
ahead though you be-you will bo ut
terly false to all traditions which YOU
received from the brave spirits that
founded your independence. You
might possibly gain Canada, but your
triumph would be that Of robber,
not of conqneror. You might ex-
tend your empire over the whole con.
tinent of America, but you would lose
forever that empire over the hearts Of
Englishmcn.