Yankee-doodle, with the usual
thorough-base accompaniment of self-conceit:--

"Reflecting that from three millions we had increased to twenty
millions, we could not resist the conclusion, that Yankee
enterprise and vigour--he used the term Yankee in reference to the
whole country--were destined to spread our possessions and
institutions over the whole country. Could any act of the
government prevent this? He must be allowed to say, that wherever
the Yankee slept for a night, there he would rule. What part of
the globe had not been a witness of their moral power, and to the
light reflected from their free institutions?" * * * *

Your Yankee proper can no more "get along" without his spice of cant,
than without his chew of tobacco and his nasal twang. What follows,
however, took even us by surprise:--

"Should we crouch to the British lion, because we had been thus
prosperous? He remembered the time when education, the pride of the
northern Whigs, was made the means of opposition to the democracy.
He recollected the long agony that it cost him to relieve his mind
from federal thraldom. EDUCATION WAS AN INSTRUMENT TO RIDICULE AND
PUT DOWN DEMOCRACY."

What Mr Chipman would do--_if_--

"I appeal to high Heaven, that if a British fleet were anchored off
here, in the Potomac, and demanded of us one inch of territory, or
one pebble that was smoothed by the Pacific wave into a child's
toy, upon penalty of an instant bombardment, I would say fire." * *
* * "Now he (Mr C.) lived on the frontier. He remembered when
Detroit was sacked. Then we had a Hull in Michigan; but now, thank
God, we had a Lewis Cass, who would protect the border if war
should come, which, in his opinion, would not come. There were
millions on the lake frontier who would, in case of war, rush over
into Canada--the vulnerable point that was exposed to us. _He would
pledge himself, that, upon a contract with the government, Michigan
alone would take Canada in ninety days; and, if that would not do,
they would give it up, and take it in ninety days again._ The
Government of the United States had only to give the frontier
people leave to take Canada."

Though Michigan has the benefit of this hero's councils, he is at the
pains to inform us that Vermont, a New England state, claims his birth,
parentage, and