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Title: The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth
Author: Timothy Templeton
Release Date: December 3, 2005 [EBook #17210]
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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