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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 26: three months in Europe. (search)
he took no part in its proceedings. If he had been a delegate, he tells us, that he should have offered a resolution which would have affirmed, not denied, the right of a nation, wantonly invaded by a foreign army or intolerably oppressed by its own rulers, to resist force by force; a proposition which he thought might perhaps have marred the harmony and happiness of the Convention. A few days after his return to London, he had the very great gratification of witnessing the triumph of McCormick's Reaping Machine, which, as it stood in the Crystal Palace, had excited general derision, and been styled a cross between an Astley chariot, a flying machine, and a tread-mill. It came into the field, therefore, to confront a tribunal prepared for its condemnation. Before it stood John Bull, burly, dogged, and determined not to be humbugged—his judgment made up and his sentence ready to be recorded. Nothing disconcerted, the brown, rough, homespun Yankee in charge jumped on the box, s