The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-07-03
OUR CoUNTRY's PRIDg.
PATRIOTISM SET TO THE HIGHEST PITCH
A GENUINE SCREAM OF THE
AMERICAN EAGLE.


Do other lands boast of theiI
great rivers We could take up all
their Niles and Thameses, their vel
low Tibers, castled Rhines and
beautiful blue Danubes by their lit.
tie ends, ard empty them into our
majestic Mississippis and Nilsson
ris, AmazOns, Saskatchewans and
De la Platas without making rise
enough to lit an Indian fatboat of
a sandbar. Do thev brag of their
seas and lakes We could spill all
their puny Caspians and Azovs,
their Dead Seas, Nyanzas and Ma
giores into our mighty Superiors,
Michigans, Fries and Ontarios, and
scarcely produce ripple on their
pebbly brims to wash away the
eighteen-inch "footprints on the
sands of time" left by the fairy-like
slipper of st. Louis or Chicago
girl. Do they prate of their roman,
tic scenery ? We have Il thousand
iewel-like lakes that would make all
their Wanted Comos, Genevas and
Killarneys hide their faces in n veil
of friendly fog. The thunder of our
Niagra browns out the feeble muir
mur of all their cataracts, while the
awful crags and canyon of our Yos-
emite and Yellowstone,
TIE PRIsMATIC GLITTER AND DASH
of our ST. Anthonys and Minneha-
has, and the lonely grandeur of our
horizon fenced prairies, boundless
oceans of blllowy verdue, dwarf to
insipidity the most famous scenes
of Switzerland and Italy, eclipse the
wonders and elories of the Arabian
Nights, and defy all the skill Of po-
cts pen and artists pencil to depict
the veriest atom of their sublimity
and their loveliness. Do they prat-
tie about their Etnas and Nesuvi-
uses ? With our noses turning
somersaults OF inetfable contempt
clear over our heads, we thunder
forth our CotopaXis, POpocatapetals,
Chimborazos and q score OF other
alone are top huge for common
tongues-G | am aware that some of
the specimens Of national prodlg-
iOusness that have mentioned do
not exactly belong to us yet; but
they belong to our next door neigh
bors who are not as strong as we
are and to our gioriously Yankee
spirit, where or what is the differ
ence p Do other lands and nations
talk of their mines Of jewels and
gold ? We answer with the eX-
Haustless bonanzas of California,
Colorado, Dakota and New Mexico,
where mQuntains of gold and silver
ore challenge the skies, and
where the ceaseless thunder of
the worlds great ballion mills re
sound in the yet warm air of the
Rocky Mountain grizzly bear. Do
they rave of the harvest fields OF
Germany and Britain and the vine
clad hills of France? We show
them half hemisphere with soils
and climates as varied as the tastes
of men, and with capacities for pro
duction as boundless as the needs
of men; yielding everything cereal,
vegetable, animal, textile and min
eral, agricultural, horticultural,
geological, geological, pomological,
piscatorial and ornithological, ovinc,
bovine, capricoYnine, equinine and
asinine- the last including most of
our alleged statesmen-that all the
wants of all the races, tribes, KIN
dreds and tongues Of earth can ever
require. The sun in heaven, in all
his grand rounds since 1.-The evening
and the morning we're the first day"
never looked down on more mag
nificent dOmain--a fresh and glo-
rious half world, grand in all its
adornments, resting like vast em-
erald breastpin upon the bosoms of
four great oceans. 1t is the broad
est land ever given to any people,
the grandest and most beautiful,
the most varied in its productions,
and the most unlimited in its capa-
bilities and its future.
And Americans were and are the
people for it--cosmopolitan,
THE RACE OF RACES,
mingling in their veins the blood of
all other nations, and combining in
themselves the good qualities of all
the sturdy manhood, courage and
patriotism of the English, the peril
nacity, thrift and honesty of the
Scotch, the patient, plodding indus
try of the German, the pride and
gallantry of the Spanish, the art
and sentiment of the Italian, and
the fire and dash of the Irish and
French, all permeated by the ener,
gy and shrewdness and colossal
modesty that are peculiarly Yankee,
the stern piety of the Puritan cross
ed with the reckless deviltry of the
cow-b boy and the endurance of the
Kickapoo. With such a country
and such a race what is not posi-
bic &? The mighty march of new
world progress and development is
hut begun,