The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-02
Americas Heraldry.

Americas heraldry.
The American people have exulted over |
the result OF the Geneva tribunal, and though |
none Of the ship owners who were losers by |
the Anslo-rebel pirate Alabama and her con-
sorts have yet received dollar of tine |
award Of that high court of arbitration. the
country is satisfied with the mere fact that
Great Britain has been Inundated and brought
to a confession of her wrong doing ana
eowardce toward people in extreme trouD-
Ne. But our triumph promises 10 be short
lived; aud our rejoicing may yet be turned
into mortifiestion aud humiliation for there |
Is a rumor that Great Britain is forging a |
thunderbolt OF revenge which will bring
speedy repentance and eontrition, but, alas
too late to ward OF the already falling blow.
1t does not propose TO make war upon us, for
that Is a game at which two can play, and
hitherto the mother country has come out
OF such little contests second best. Nor is it
proposed to force the. Dominion upon us with
Its preposterous fights about free schools and
other conflicts of the eighteenth century.
Neither is 1t proposed to purchase our Con-
gressmen with British gold and thereby
transform such sturdy protectionists of pig
iron as Cameron and Kelley into blatant or
chronic free traders of the Evening Post
stamp. Revengeful John Pull won't insist
that United States capitalists shall build
lis Canadian Pacific railway; and now
that Boston claims the honor, the English
government will not demand that the State
of Maine be ceded to the Dominion in order
that the natural seaport of the Canadas may be
within the limits of Lord Duferin's domain,
thus honorably declining to accept the tender
of the territory made by politician of the
first half of the century, during the late I'M
pleasantness.
Doubtless the individual who rushes to
hasty conclusions, will breath freer when he
is assured that none Of these calamities
are impending and again his depress-
ed spirit will rise under the false
Inspiration of delusion as vain as that
which leads the sangdne Congressman to
believe that he can create money by voting to
initiate The currency. The average Yankee is
very smart person hut he is not skilled in
those subtleties which beget revenge at
once refined aud savage. He never has COM
pretended the British character. He pre-
tends 10 despise all distinctions among men
and takes great pride in the ''glittering gen.
eralities' of Mr.. 7. Jeiierson's Declaration OF
Independence. Cool John Bull has pene-
trated this veneering Of democracy and under
Its surface finds that the Yankee-which term,
since the war Of 1875, may be applied to the
whole country called the United States-is an
aristocIat-that blood, ancestry. grandfathers
etc, are as precious in his vulgar eyes as are
coronets, stars and garters to the average
Briton.
John Bull has carefully inspected our coat
OF mail for flaw which may afford the long
coveted opportunity for assault. At length
he has found that weak spot in the joints of
our harness arising from our inordinate desire
for coats of arms and into that seam he is
about 10 hurl javelin which will make
part of the nation writhe with agony. 1t
comes about that an English boolk-worm who
hates our Republic has been hunting over
ancient manuscripts and records where he
has discovered that many of the early foun-
ders ofour country, or at least their ancestors,
were runaway apprentices and deserters,
dissolute and troublesome fellows who left
their country for their country good as stow
Always in vessels, no account people of whom
it was well to be rid in Short very much of
the kind of men and women whom the Brit
1sh government now send to their penal
colonies orkeep in their wrelched poor houses.
This fellow announces that he has in Prep
aration for publication the names and char
acters of such of our forefathers as left Eng
land and that he will make us blush with
modification when we come to read our book
of peerage (no allusion to the School Com
mttee) prepared by vigorously hating
Briton from the original record.
At single glance we take in the fearful
import OF this direful threat. The malignant
Briton is to get glory by showing that the an
estors of our Washjngtons, Lees, Adamses,
Winthrops, the signers of the Declaration of
Independence, the members of the early con-
crosses who founded the fair fabric of our
government were runaway apprentices, de-
serting soldiers and dissolute fellows Blue
blood will, in America turu pale; Beacon
Hill, the mount of Pride, win become the
valley of Humiliation, while the .'poor bow
of the North End and his friend will enjoy
perpetual triumph over their Brahmin fees
The F. F. VS. and the Southern chivalry
century and half old will gladly escape the
odium of the world by losing themselves in
the crowd of ''pore white trash of no count,
sah." Heretofore it has been matter of
pride that ones ancestors were English born
All that is now gone. Hereafter it will be
matter of pride to mention that ones fore
hor fIo icIo ofL
or were numbered among the lager loving
kindred Of that royal old buffer, Kaiser Will
liam. Indeed, it may yet be matter of pride
to say that ones ancestors were savage Eth
opians forced from their country by British
lust for gold.
Here, 100, is one source of refuge. By law
we can get our names changed so as to hide
all trace of English origin. However harsh
to our ears and impossible for our tongues
the seven syllable names of Teuton origin or
OF Swedish importation, by patience the dis
graced classes can acquire the pronunciation
OF these and escape the malignant disgrace
OF this bloody Briton. Then there are the
Smiths, the Whites and the Browns, which
SO outnumber all the rest of mankind, that
fate will allow them to escape in the very
name they bear. o, John Smith, if not lost
in your name, you will be the envied of all
enviers!
The election which takes place in Con-
necticut, Monday is greatly in doubt, as every
election in that State for the past six or eight
years las been. In 1866, the Republican
majority was Sal; in 1867 the Democratic
majority was 9S7; in 1858 it was 1906 In
1909 the Republicans again carried the State
py All; In 1870 the Democrats had 843 ma
Jorlty. In 1871 the Republican plurality was
100, and in 1872, the party majority for Gov.