From douglass Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, April


1852
LETTER OF JUMPER HEDGEHOG,
To EIhu Burritt, Blacksmith, Of Worcester,


United States Of America.
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10 Euhu BurrHt, DMchSHitH, OF WORCESTER,


United States Of America.


FRIEND BuRRIrT il was one OF
your Manchester friends, or whether, indeed.
it was nothing less than dove from your own
American woods that dropt one OF your Olive
Leaves in my cab,-I wont stop to consider.
It's enough that Pve read the Leaf again and
again, and can't help thanking you for it
Can't help admiring how that you, "a poor
man not worth dollar in the world" as you
say yourself, should be scattering thousands
and thousands of these healing Leaves about
America-Leaves in their meaning and inten.
ton worth all the laurels that ever grew out of
dead mems graves, made so foul and rank
with dead mems blood.


Your Leaf fell into my hands just after I'd
read Mr.. Adams's speech in Congress, where
he stands upon the Bible for his right to Ore
gon, and would cut throats according 10 his
notions of Genesis Foolish old gentleman
he can't have many more years mortal breath
in him, and therefore il is sad TO see him puff
fng and putting TO blow the embers OF war in
to blaze-to see him, as | may say, ramming
down murderous bullets, and wadding mus
kets with leaves from the Bible But there's
sort of religion that would sharpen the sword
itself on the stone tables of Moses.


However, this is an old trick. There's a
good many Of these pious lovers OF gunpow-
der who, somehow or the other, will insist up
on turning up the regimenta uniform with pa
ges of the Bible and Testament.


To make a man particularly the care OF hea-
ven, they think it only necessary to dress him
in red clothes, put feather in his cap, ball
cartridges in his cartouche b. K, and musket
in his hand. And these folks-they've been
doing il in the House Of Commons only
week or two ago--always give the glory OF
slaughter to ellis Arm that gives all battles ~
And so according to these people, the Army
of Martyrs should be an army with forty-two
Founders and a rocket brigade. Their Chris
tanity is Christianity humbly firing upon one
knee. Their incense for the altar is not myrrh
and frankncense. but charcoal and saltpetre.
Our Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Tor Instance
who in the House OF Commons speaks for
pous Oxford-he was quite delighted that the
Governor General of India had put so much
religion into the bulletin that published the
slaughter of nine thousand Sikhs, as they call
'em. They were all killed-according 10 Sir
Robert-not by the cold iron OF the English
infantry, but by heavenly host; the bayonet,
in truth, did not do the work; no, it was the
fiery swords oflhe angels, and praises were sung
to them accordingly. And this is the Christi
anity Of the Gazette; though can't find it in
the New Testament.


And, poor Mr.. Adams makes very lame
case out Of Genesis somehow or the other he
| reads his Bible upside down; ior he declares