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country, they are to surpass, or even equal, these 

 *' Yankees" who, of all men that 1 ever saw, are thft 

 most active and the most hardy. They skip over a 

 fence like a greyhound. They will catch you a pig in 

 an open field by racing him down; and they are afraid 

 of nothing. This was the sort of stuff that filled the 

 frigates of Decatur, Hull, and Brainbridge. IVo 

 wonder that they triumphed M'hen opposed to poor 

 pressed creatures, worn out by length of service and ill- 

 usage, and encouraged by no hope of fair-play. My 

 Lord Cochrane said, in his place in parliament, that 

 it would be so ; and so it was. Poor Cashman, that 

 brave Irishman, with his dying breath, accused 

 the government and the merchants of England of 

 witliholding from him his pittance of prize money! 

 Ought not such a vile, robbing, murderous system to 

 be destroyed 1 



319. Of the same active, hardy, and brave stuff, 

 too, was composed the army of Jackson, who drove 

 the invaders into the Gulph of Mexico, and who would 

 have driven into the same Gulph the army of Waterloo, 

 and the heroic gentleman, too, who lent his hand to 

 the murder of Marshal Ney. This is the stuff that 

 stands between the rascals, called the Holy Alliance, 

 and the slavery of the whole civilized world. This is 

 the stuff that gives us Englishmen an asylum ; that 

 gives us time to breathe ; that enables us to ^eal our 

 tyrants blows, which, without the existence of this 

 stuff, they never would receive. This America, this 

 scene of happiness under a free government, is the 

 beam in the eye, the thorn in the side, the w^orm in 

 the vitals, of every despot upon the face of the earth. 



320. An American labourer is not regulated, as to 

 lime, by clocks and xcatches. The sun, who seldom 

 hides his face, tells him when to begin in the morning 

 and whtn to leave off at night. He has a dollar, a 

 whole dollar for his work ; but then it is the work of a 

 whole day. Here is no dispute about hours. " Hours 

 •' were made for slaves," is an old saying ; and, really, 

 they seem here to act upon it as a practical maxim. 

 This is a great thing in agricultural affairs. It pre- 

 vents 60 many disputes. It removes so great a cause 



