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318. 80 that our men, who come from Eng 

 land, must not expect, that, in these common 

 labours of the country, they are to surpass, or 

 even equal, these " Yankees," who, of all men 

 that I ever saw, are the 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. No wonder that they triumphed 

 when opposed to poor pressed creatures, worn 

 out by length of service and ill-usage, and en 

 couraged by no hope of fair-play. My LORD 

 COGHRANE said, in his place in parliament, that 

 it would be so ; and so it was. Poor C ASHMAN, 

 that brave Irishman, with his dying breath, ac 

 cused the government and the merchants of 

 England of withholding from him his pittance of 

 prize money ! Ought not such a vile, robbing, 

 ftmrderous system to be destroyed ? 



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 



