Year: 1867

A highly imaginative transatlantic geographer
has lately informed the world that America is,
or shortly will be- country % bounded on the
north by the Artic circle on the south by eterni-
ty, on the east by the rising sun, the west by
the day ofjudgment" There are set of bitter and
bilious gentlemen, chiefly of the tory persuasion,
to whom this kind of patriotic imagery is gall
and wormwood. They miserable because
America is big, aud because she uses these laugh
ably big expressions. The real reason why they
hate her is because her government Is so Tree
and the success of it wonderful but since II
does not do confess these facts, they are always
railing at her faults of manner and sfyle-ap prac-
nee which is about as useful as to rail at the
Allegheny mountains for being huge and craggy.
For our part experience no more surprise or
sensation ut the hvperboic5 of our descendants
beyond the Atlantic than we should ut seeing n
likely lad split his trousers in growing, or a tine,
healthy baby reach his plump palms out for the
moon. The thing is natural, and evea satsfac-
tory with the young giant that we have bred !
and England, the mother of empires, ought to be
heartily pleased and amused Mt the glorious gas
conades of her m:saa;;y Iniid. Is she to be an
elderly conauette, and vex herself because her
sons outstride her, and her daughters shoot up
with beauty and vigor that remind her how she
nges? She ought, if she were honest and hearty,
to be glad and proud Of youngsterS-the like of
whom history never knew-io knit them to her
self in bonds of firm love, and aim at making out
of them Anglo Saxon family of empires which
should gridle the world with the language of
Shakespeare and the happy influence Of the little
matrop island We like to read these rdicu-
lous sublimities, wherein our imperial cockerels
crow themselves well nigh off their legs, with
lustiness, round the old Britannia hen. What a
bird the American chicken will be when all the
feathers come, if it can scratch and crow, and
flourish its spurs like this in an epoch when it is
but going through the barbarism of new civili-
cation, and has the best part of its hackles to
shoot. And if bigness justi6es big words, We
should like to know who is to blame the inventive
and fowery patriots? Has any other nation 4o,-
900 900 square acres of fat corn. ground for a
back yard which will grow six quarters to the
acre, long you like to pillow the old crop in ?
Has any other nation mountain of solid iron to
make the plows Of like Pilot Knob, in Missouri,
or seas of oil under the ground, and shores Of
solid copper along the lakes? Does any other
nation double its population every twenty years,
and suck in the emigration Of Europe without
counting it ; carry cargoes 1000 miles along
one river or venture on the impudence of n
Monroe doctrine, fight with 900 900
soldiers, and have them all home again, like
boys after school, within year? Or what other
people collects revenue of Els, 900, 900 sterling
and with eco, ooO, 900 in gold at time in its
cheduer laughs at debt of $500, 900, 900, and
engages to wipe out it in ten years? Mr.. Arte-
mus Ward says he never knew Yankee who
didn't talk about the Rocky Mountains except
one, and he was deaf and dumb; but even he
wrode book about them. Who is stupid enough
to laugh at that? 1t is the nature of the people
the young giants must have gigantic topics,
worts, policies schemes and sayings; and if we
laugh, let it be with hearty good nature and
the old folks do at the brag and buncombe of the
young ones, whose strength and health are SO
beautiful and full of the promise of noble days
and works.-Lonaon Telegraph.