Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-27
OTHER FAMOUS AMERICAN SAYINGS

SA4 uyksS II I fly open on golden hinges to levers Of Union as well as Liberty" A famed republican war cry during the prseidentiaI campaign of 1856, on the part of Fremont,s supporters, was Give 'em Jessiel" And the first party raIlying cry during that campaign was Free soil. free men, free speech. Ere monti"
 An old proverb mennorably used is found in the excuse of Josiah Tatt- nell, justifyfng assistance to the Brit ish fleet in the Pei-ho. It is from a. disptch to the U. $. secretary of the navy, June 1S5s-"Blood is thicker than water."
 Charles Summers words burn with naeanfus, when, in a leter to 4. P. Brooks. Sept. sth, 1860, he uses the phrase The twin relies Of barbar-' depiore, and denounce the barbarism Of slavery Bat do not agree that the national government has power under the Constitution to touch the twin barbarism of polygurny in the states. while fully endowed to ar rest and suppress both in all the ter ritories.
 There is eonsiderabie pep in . re- ply by James Lewis Petigru, when asked for guidance to the Charleston. s. C., insane asylum, My dear sir, take any road: you can't go anisss the whole state is one vast insane asy= 1um .p
 Quite as spicy was the famous re- joinder Of Jefferson Davis, in his first March, 1881, "All we ask Is to be let alonei"
 In letter to the Hon. William H. Seward, March 3rd, 1861. Winfield Scott made use of the oft-quoted sen tence, Say to the seeded states Wayward sisters. depart in peacet"
 To Fitz-Henry Warren is attributa- ble the stirring phrase, "On to Rich mondi" which was kept as a stand ing head in New York paper during June-July. 1S61-
 The sentiment of John Albion An- drew, in address to the Massa- chusetts legislature, Jan- 3rd, 1862, contains the climax, relating to a citi- zen's proper loyalty to his country, Entrusted with the precious fnheri- tance of liberty, endowed with the gift of participation in popular govern ment, the Constitution makes him at once the beneficiary and the defender of interests and institutions he cannot innocently endanger; and when he be- commits equal treason against man. kindi''
 It was Joseph Hooker who made the remark to General AveriIi, in No- vember 1882 Well General, we have not had many dead cavalrymen ly- ing about lately!' remark often misquoted in the phrase. Who ever saw a dead cavalryman?"
 Perhaps one of the most ironical remarks which American history re- cords is the memorable observation of Charles Francis Adams. in a dispatch to Earl Russell, against permitting the Confederate ironclads. then building at Laird's shipyards, at Birkenhead. to depart from Liverpool, Sept. 5ti1, 1883. ''It would be superfuous for me to point out to your Lordship that this is war."
 A signal wigwagged by William Teeumseh Sherman to General Corse in Altoona, from the top of Kene- saw, Oct. 5th. 1884. has been quoted Hold the fort. I am coming."
 1t is doubtful if many readers know the origin of a phrase to the aptness of which everybody subscribes, and leading magazine, The Total Deprav- ity of Inanimate Things" The writer of the essay and originator of the phrase was Katherine Kent Child Walker, and the title was used in September, 1884.
 Alexander Hamilton is credited with the expression, "A national debt a national blessing" in a letter to Robert Morris, April 20th, 1781. His exact expression was: A national debt, if not excessive. will be to us a na- tional blessing.
 Of the presidential reconstruction tour. during August, 1866, Andrew Johnson said. We are swinging round the circle"
 One of the briefest of teIegrams preserved in national history is that of Charles Sumner to Secretary Stan ton, then holding the war department in defiance of his illegal suspension by President Johnson, senate cham Der, Feb. 21st, 1868:
 It was during the presidential can vass of 1868 that. William Pitt Fes- senden uttered the famous phrase 'tRepudiate the repudiators."
 An occasional Norwich visitor in former years, Edward Everett Hale, is responsible for the inspiring rule of the Harry Wadsworth Club, from Ten Times One Is Ten," 1870.
 To look up and not down,
 To look forward and not back,
 To look out and not in,
 and
 To lend a hand.
 To Isaac Hill Bromley, once editor of The Bulletin, the world owes the introduction of the word -'Mugwump,' in his editorial entitled "Impeach Lo- gan'' in the New York Tribune Feb 16th, 1877. when he wrote: Listen. John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mo gull and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the commission.
 It remained for Horace Porter in the Cleveland Blaine campaign of 1884 to utter the definition: "A Mug wump is a person educated beyond his intellect"
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