THE AMERICAN EAGLE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 48, 24 April 1863, Page 2

THE AMERICAN EAGLE.

Those who have studied attentively t! f° Iraibits of this singular bird, need scarcely 1 informed that the regal honors confern ft upon its European congeners, are repudiat* by the aerial Republican. His flashing ej *7 glares scornfully at the Crown and Scepti st and his irritable talons would fain rend tli pieces the puip le in -which Monarchy is robe o j Spurning corruption, the " President of tl Cliffs," as Audubon in his graphic phrase< P. logy would have called it, turns a disdainfi *J tail upon those ancient Courts where ga ±~ti bage and aristocracy abide, and soars to & *ts\\ silent eyrie on the Capitol, where purity ap )' bunkum sparkle like virgin snow. ' * Another quality not less remarkable tha j, ( its humility is its dove-like gentleness. Il beak, instead of being a warlike weapon, is i soft as the bill of a town sparrow, and n p< more charming spectacle can be conceive %\y than a couple of these loving birds bred i -^ different quarters of the great transatlanti , continent — for example, North and South- *° sitting on the same perch, and expressing b dl signs more eloquent than speech, their wi .fa lingness to live or die together. At presen Q the perch has given -way, and a few millio dollars and a few thousand guns of th xn largest bore are required (and what simple to minded naturalist would grudge them ?) r t <»o restore that relic of the golden age. w j We have spoken of the extreme amiabilit; Jof the President of the crags and mountai vt\ tops. For one big animal, however, it che o f rishes or at least manifests the fiercest ani „ mosity. This is the old English Bull-dog, wh has never resented the Bird's snappishnes: lei save on a recent occasion, when with rapa 18 cious claws it snatched up two biind pup which were protected by his paw. Yet, not withstanding the Britisher's mild disposi su tion, the Yankee Eagle never sees him, bu -on he flaps his wings with self-created furj th making, meantime, such an unearthly noise that nothing can be compared with it, if yi , except (as we are bound to do), the virulen * JU shrieks which compose the patriotic orator on of Cassius Clay. be Though wearing a black and rather foi a . ] midable looking muzzle, the Britisher is W1 cheerful old dog, and regards the frantic hos an tility of the Yankee Eagle with easy indiffe q u rence, tempered by that pity, which is akii +i to love. He would gladly form one of i " happy family" embracing among othe sa: denizens of the menagerie, the Yankee Eaglt th •the Gallican Cock, and the great Russia f a ] Bear. The condition, however, should b clearly defined upon which alone this famil ; compact can be maintained, and that is, i on the Bird from, force of habit should attemp art to crow over his chums, he must not b (y, offended by the Britisher jocosely waggin] se] fiis tail. — London Punch. m Li_ a :