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Daniel Wobster, said, quite coolly, and without a smile, for 1 Joss,
looked for one very closely, thinking he Joked, “I do not ar. 81.
know if the great Lord Chatham might not have been his
aqual, but certainly no British statesman has since his day
deserved to be compared with him.” And the lady, in the
ame serious tone, asked me if TI did not find the private
“arriages handsomer in New York than ours were in Eng.
land ! I have heard all sorts of absurdities spoken in referance
 to the glorious incidents of this nation’s history, and
very often have been astonished to find wy attention called
fwith a view to solicit my concurrence with the enthusiastic
praises of the speaker) to battles and other events which I
bad never heard of before, and which yet the Americans consider
 to be ag familiarly known to all the world as to themselves.
 I consider thig failing—perhaps, as a good phrenologist,
 I might almost term it g discase-—to be an unfortunate
oeculiarity, There is no cure for it, however. On the conrary,
 is will go on increasing with the increase of the wealth,
bower, and population of the United States, so long as they
wre United, but no longer. 1 have generally made it a rule
io parry the inquiries and comparisons which the Americans
ATO 80 apt to thrust at an Englishman. On one or two
secasions, when the party has been numerous and worth
powder and shot, T have, however, on being hard pressed,
wd finding my British blood up, found the only mode of
slaying their inordinate vanity to be by resorting to this
mode of argument, ;—t | admit all that you or any other
Person can, could, may, or might advance in praise of the
Past career of the people of America, Nay, more, I will
myself assert that 00 nation ever did, and in my opinion
a0me ever will, achieve such a title to respect, wonder, and
gratitude in BO short a period; and further still, I venture
bo allege that the imagination of statesmen never dreamed of
beountry that should in half 4 century make such pro-