Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres: Or, Reminiscences of the Life of a Former ...
Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres: Or, Reminiscences of the Life of a Former ...
Vincent Nolte
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I resolved to go thither, so that I might compare that body with the sessions of the territorial legislature of Louisiana, which I had had the oppor- tunity of observing in New Orleans, and which was made up of the most singular mixture of native bom Americans, and men of "French and Spanish extraction. I had scarcely entered the legis- lative hall, when I heard a very enthusiastic orator dealing forth a violent diatribe against England, with the following words: " We must have war with Great B...ritain — ^war will ruin her com. naerce — commerce is the apple in Britain's eye — there we must gouge her !" This flower of oratory was received with great ap- plause ; and, it must be confessed, that for such a population as most of the inhabitants of Kentucky formed at that period, it was extremely well timed, and betrayed a certain poetic sweep of thought. The North Americans in general possess often an un mistakable keenness of perception, which quickly enables them to catch a certain similarity between two altogether different 180 AN SABTHQUAKE.
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