The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-19
New England and New Englanders.
YANKEE BALLAD ADDRESSED TO NEW YORK
WHO sCOFFED AT YANKEES.

YANKEE BALLAD ADDRESSED TO NEW YORK
VINO scoFFED AT YANKEES.
Yes, sir, I am Yankee girl,
glory in the namel
You spako it in contemptuous scorn.
To me it breathes of fame.
LIN proud of my nativity
New England good and great,
Is head and shoulders taller, sir,
Than your boosted Empire State'
Let prejudice be set aside
Give sneerng to the wind;
Sit down and look at actual facts,
And see what you will findf
Our mountains overtnp your own;
Our lakes you need not spurn;
Although not quite so large as ours,
We find they serve our turn.
Our Fisheries Ger the world are famed,
The mackerel, shad, and cod!
And Taunton turkies" are so thick
We sell them by the rod!
We turn our very stones tn gold
The marble, granite, slate,
And as for Manufactures,
Where is our rival State!
Our cities dot the broad expanse,
Tceming with busy life;
And every village farm and stream,
With Yankee wealth Is rife.
Our churches stand ike seutiuels,
On valley, hill ana plain;
Apd CITY spires. like forest trees,
Point upward, many vane!
Nature hath favored your Now York,
1t could not we'll be less;
Boston hath gr ,wn by human might
This truth all must confess!
Think of her THRIFT for ton years past,
Then please to calculate
What sbv will be sone ten years hence,
Progressing ut this rate
And beauty mingles with our thrift,
As Boston Common shows;
And Albums mount, where living love
It's kindest care bestnws.
Old Newport, billow-cradled, SEQ
On Rhody's verdant shore:
ri. therr "ld DC an shakes his mane.
Resounding evermore.
New Haven, with its shady Gins,
And Hartford, with its chatter
Connecticut my native State!
Say, can you find smarter!
Tho " Empire state" is your New York,
grant it hard to mate her;
YET still give ne the Nutmeg State
Where shall we find grater?'
We have both railroads and canals.
But here my courage pitches;
own you'll beat me on this heat
New York has bigger bitches!
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1t stems the swelling wave,
And sends its white winged messengers
In every sea to lave!
Look at our Literati, sir,
We've cradled genius, sure!
Come, count your great men by our side,
And see who hath the fewer?
Sherman, Parsons, Adams, Ames,
Arc synonyms of glory;
And Massachusetts boasts, beside,
A Hancock and Story
There's Siliman, Webster, (Noah, mean,
And Quincy, Dana, Ware;
With Webster, Adams, Davis, sir,
What noble men they are.
MacDonough, Perry. Morris, Hull,
Green, Putnam, Stark and Allen;
With Freedoms martyr, Nathan Hale,
And valiant General Warren.
Divinity can bring some names.
For goodness famed, and learning:
A Payson, Brainerd, Griswold, Ware,
A Pierpoint and Charming.
Go search DER Asia's burning sand
The Mission ground, who tills7
A Newell, Judson, Gordon, Hall,
A Winslow and Mills!
And count our poets, side by side;
Sprague, Willis, Hillhouse, Lowell;
Pike, Halleck, Brainerd, Sigourney,
Iiill pierpoint, Gould and Rockwell,
Holmes, Bryant, Mellen, Peicival,
Longtellow, Dawes, and Bright,
With Prentice, Dana, Whittier;
All these are ours of right
Benjamin franklin, tell me, sir,
You that can boast " Big Thunder"
Say, will he play with lightning, sir,
And never dodge from under?
And those sons Of Type we boast
A Greeley, Prentice Burritt!
Burritt's a second Babel, sir,
And Prentice who'll outwit'
Another. yet I'm proud to name
Jonathan Slick-Jack Downing.
I guess he is New Englands child
He's worthy Yankee browning!
There's Emerson, 1.-THE Mystic" sir,
Joe Neal, Of Char ,oal Sketches;"
With Mcrse, who chained the lighting. 81
All these New England fctches!
Some smart ones, too, we've loaned to you
Pray do MT call me saucy;
But when you lacked for Governors,
Who furnished Wright and Marcy'
So richly blest, we can afford
To let some wander forth;
Your Hamilton owes us one
Her polar star is North!
We always have been generous,
You cannot have forgot,
That when old Union wished head,
New England furnished Ma
And thus. whene'er you slit it down,
You find ut your own hearth,
That men most justly named as great,
All claim a Yankee biIth.
That prince of Yankee speculators-
Ay-Iarnuln is the mani
Now look around you, right and left,
And beat him IL you can!
Always ahead of time aud tide
Whatever he can fad
Sometimes that least If little folks.
And sometimes jenny Lind,
Well beat you, big or little, sir,
Perchauco twill strike you dumb,
Rhody has raised the biggest man,
Connecticut Tom Thumb!
Whate'er is touched by US improves
Is rendered brighter still;
Fen 'omedy had added charms,
When played by Yankee llill"
We're good in peace, and in war
You'll find there is no dodging:
For fear, within Yankee breast.
Hath never found II lodging!
We beard the wolf within his den,
nr stride cask OF powder;
The very imps Of daring, We,
Though fed ON clans and chowder
New London girls, in olden time,
Neer paused to ask what matterSl
But when the soldiers lacked gun wads
They tore their skirts in tatters.
Yes, should the boys once dare to finch
From duty, or forsake it,
The girls would face the cannon's mouth,
And lose their lives, or ;ako it,
Go search Philanthropy's bright page
What names are traced upon III
The nobiest record written there,
Yankee heart hath won it!
Ask Erin, when the famine dire,
Her starving thousands slew;
What heart first answered to her call,
And Ger the ocean flew?
Then never laugh at Yankees, sir,
Nor scOrn New England rough;
Her face, own, is not 50 smooth
She's made Of rocky stuff;
But she hath strengthened mental might
Hath cherished genius child: