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The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth

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Title: The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth
Author: Timothy Templeton
Release Date: December 3, 2005 [EBook #17210]
Language: English
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THE
ADVENTURES
OF MY
COUSIN SMOOTH.
BY
TIMOTHY TEMPLETON.
OF TEWKSBURY.
New York and Auburn: MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN,
New York: 25 Park Row--Auburn: 107 Genesee St. London: W.T. Tweedle, Strand, and David Bryce, 48 Paternoster Row.
1856.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Edward R. Jenkins, Printer, Nos. 26 Frankfort Street.

CONTENTS.
Some Particulars respecting Cousin Smooth
CHAPTER I.
--Mr. Smooth in Washington
CHAPTER II.
--Mr. Smooth Sups, and goes to Bed
CHAPTER III.
--In which Mr. Smooth has an Interview with General Cass
CHAPTER IV.
--Mr. Smooth's Dream
CHAPTER V.
--A Morning Adventure
CHAPTER VI.
--Mr. Smooth finds his Path to the White House a difficult one
CHAPTER VII.
--Mr. Smooth Penetrates the Dark Confines of Mr. Pierce's Kitchen, where he finds things sadly confused
CHAPTER VIII.
--Mr. Solomon Smooth takes a Fish Breakfast
CHAPTER IX.
--Mr. Smooth Circumnavigates the Globe
CHAPTER X.
--Smooth preserves Young America's Rights
CHAPTER XI.
--Mr. Smooth is Right Side up
CHAPTER XII.
--Mr. Smooth makes a few Reflections
CHAPTER XIII.
--Mr. Smooth sees a Country great in Resources blighted by a Narrow Policy
CHAPTER XIV.
--Done Brown in Downing Street
CHAPTER XV.
--His little Lordship's Show, and a Peep into Downing Street
CHAPTER XVI.
--Smooth Dines with Citizen Peabody
CHAPTER XVII.
--Smooth looks in upon the Mixed Commission
CHAPTER XVIII.
--Smooth receives the Documents, and calls a Congress at Ostend
CHAPTER XIX.
--Smooth Discovers Himself
CHAPTER XX.
--Arrival and Grand Reception at Ostend
CHAPTER XXI.
--Fashionable Debts and Fashionable Diplomatists
CHAPTER XXII.
--How Smooth got his Manners
CHAPTER XXIII.
--Mr. Smooth proposes taking Mr. Pierce's Fighting by the Job
CHAPTER XXIV.
--Mr. Pierce sends Smooth Down East among Britishers
CHAPTER XXV.
--The Pious Squire
CHAPTER XXVI.
--Smooth encounters a Colonial Justice of strange Character
CHAPTER XXVII.
--Smooth settles all International Difficulties, and proposes maintaining the very best Understanding with John Bull

ADVENTURES OF MY COUSIN SMOOTH.

SOME PARTICULARS RESPECTING COUSIN SMOOTH
No uncommon type of our "Young America" is Mister Solomon Smooth, the individual whose part in these sketches was performed for General Pierce in particular, and "Uncle Sam" in general. Mr. Smooth was born and "growed" on the extreme south point of Cape Cod--a seemingly desolate spot, yet somewhat renowned as the birthplace of Long Tom Coffin. If I would select one of our nation's 'cutest sons; if I were called upon to name the kind of man with that in his natural composition to make the safest, shrewdest, and most calculating merchant; if I were called to pass judgment on the man most qualified to sustain the spirit and characteristics of the American nation abroad--one who would never betray our national energy, nor degrade his profession, nor fail to seek that which might promote the interests of those who reposed trust in him, at the same time never forgetting his own--if I were about forming an expedition, and would provide myself with that character of man upon whom the issue of its success most depends; if, I say, I would seek the man possessing those rigid qualities of a moral nature which are a sure protection against doing aught that may degrade the councils of a nation, I would make this sandy cape my starting point, and draw from the upward growth of that stern energy to be found among those flourishing, energetic, and intelligent communities embraced within that circle which terminates at Cape Ann, and between the circling arms of which two capes heaves Boston Bay. But Smooth, though somewhat primitive in his personal appearance, is none of your common Cape Cod coasters, such as your Captain Doanes, and Cooks, and Ryders, and Clapps. Not he! So slender of person is he, that there can be no particular impropriety in our drawing a comparison between him and that peculiar type of per son commonly called a Virginian bean-pole. Nor, when he gets himself (as is not uncommon with him) "all over" native brown homespun, does his configuration materially change, there yet remaining, and boldly refusing to be disguised, that face so full of penetration, and those features so sharp. The waggishly inclined have identified them with the wizardry of dividing storm currents. Nevertheless, of this lean conformation, which is better within than the world without is in general willing to admit, is Smooth particularly proud. In manner, Smooth is piquant; and being an acknowledged member of the fast school--that