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The Daily Dispatch: May 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Feature of Yankee Excellence. (search)
would "get along in the world." There is hardly anybody in this world — and impossible that there is any one in any other either above or beneath it — who will deny the truth of Beecher's portrait of his own people. It brings to mind a celebrated trial of skill at the World's Fair in London a few years since. Hobbs, the Yankee lock manufacturer, went to the fair and challenged the world on locks. A famous London mechanic unwittingly took him up. We forget his name. It may have been Brown, or Johnson, or Smith — he was certainly a locksmith. He presented his lock in comparison with Hobbs's. How was the question of relative merit between the locks to be settled? Hobbs said "easy enough."--"I'll undertake to pick your lock and you undertake to pick mine. If I pick yours, and you can't pick mine, of course mine is the best, and vice versa." The Englishman was green enough to accept the terms — he was not posted on Yankee cuteness and skill! The result was inevitable. The E
The Daily Dispatch: May 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Feature of Yankee Excellence. (search)
tive to us during our stay in the city. Gen. M — knew that I was a rebel. I would have scorned to deceive him in regard to my politics. On Saturday last ex Gov. Brown, Dr. John M. Watson, Dr. Curry and family, passed our town, exiled from their homes. Dr. Watson was turned out of his house as early as last October by Negley. It is now the past-house of the city. Ex Gov. Brown will remain in our county. He and your friend, Major Falconet and others, dined with us yesterday. Gov. Brown has changed very much. He is very thin, and has a wild, painful, and startled look, with the habit, when not talking, of dropping his brow in the palm of his hand, Gov. Brown has changed very much. He is very thin, and has a wild, painful, and startled look, with the habit, when not talking, of dropping his brow in the palm of his hand, as if suffering deeply. I think he has been greatly misrepresented, and is now winning the sympathy of his friends, and will deserve their esteem when he makes them understand his true position to them and his country.