[Gutenberg 45717] • Uncle Sam

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We are all so familiar with the causes, events, and con sequences of the war of 1812, that it is unnecessary to dwell upon them here; yet some passages from contemporary newspapers will perhaps give us a more vivid impression of the thoughts and feelings engendered by that contest than will the formal writings of learned historians. An editorial note headed with the historic words Era of Good Feelings, which appeared in the Columbian Centinel of J uly 12, 1817, began as follows: During the late Presiden tial Jubilee many persons have met at festive boards, in pleasant converse, whom party politics had long severed. We recur with pleasure to all the circumstances which attended the demonstrations of good feelings (p. 2 To us of the present day, who take our politics more calmly, it is not easy to understand the furor and turmoil which characterized the war of 1812. But if political warfare nowadays is less abusive and Vituperative than it was a century ago, as is certainly the case, yet also it is distinctly less picturesque. Is it possible that in the matter of nick names, we Americans have lost our inventive capacity? What has there been in the past decade to match Father of his Country, Old Hickory, Mill Boy of the Slashes, Old Man Eloquent, Tippecanoe, Old Bullion.

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