That is to say, 'We have you at disadvantage. Now is our time to strike.
A year ago we might have been afraid, but not now.' When John Bull is
next cited as the standard authority for fair play, let his very manly
vaunts at this time be quoted in illustration!
Up through the misty medium of 'News from the South' have struggled of
late divers rumors to the effect that the triumphant HOLLINS, of Steam
Ram and Greytown memory, has been somewhat shorn of his 'lorrels.' How
his stock fell below par is solemnly narrated in the second and
following instalment of our' Chronicles:'--
CHRONICLES OF SECESSIA.
BOOK II.
CHAPTER I.
There was a man and his name was HOLLINS.
He was of those that go down to the sea in ships, and sometimes across
the bay in very different conveyances.
Bold of speech, with a face like unto a brazen idol of Gath, and a voice
even as a bull of Bashan; a man such as Gog and Magog, and ever agog for
to be praised of men, or any other man.
Now this HOLLINS was greatly esteemed of the South, howbeit he was held
of but little worth in the North, since they who made songs and jokes
for the papers had aforetime laughed him to scorn.
For it had come to pass that sundry niggers, the children of Ham, with
others of the heathen, walking in darkness, had built unto themselves
shanties of sticks and mud, and dwellings of palm-leaves, and given unto
the place a name; even Greytown called they it;
And, waxing saucy, had reviled the powers that be, and chosen unto
themselves a king, wearing pantaloons.
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