Friday, February 06, 2026

George Brown on talking to Americans

Previously posted on this site in 2018, but some things never get old. This is newspaperman and statesman of confederation George Brown on talking to Americans... in 1852: 

...when you get hold of a Yankee, drive it home to him; tell him his country is disgraced; wound his pride; tell him his pure institutions are a grand sham; send him home thoroughly ashamed of the black blot on his country's escutcheon. In steamboat, or railroad, or wherever you are, hunt up a Yankee and speak to him faithfully; there is no other man so sensitive as to what others think of him.

H/T Russ Chamberlayne, who first drew this to my attention.

 
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