NATIONAL NICKNAMES (ME. nekt.name, arname, by faulty liaison Or sandhi for an eke..
name, additional name, from ckr numc). tional.nicknames are as a rule first employed by the people theni,..elves. By the familiar JolIN BULL is meant the English nation. The name was tint used in the satire of Dr. dohn Arbuth not. Law is a Bottomless fits 'the sobriquet of dox.tritAN or Ilitortira 'JONATHAN has gone through three distinct phases. First. between 1771; and 1783 it was employed, as a mildly de risive term, by the Loyalists. and applied by them to the Patrbds; secondly. between 1753 and 1812 it was adopted by the Americans them selves. who used it to designate a country bump kin; and thirdly. during the war with England in 1812-15 it came into universal vogue as a national sobriquet. The aceepted story, attribu ting the origin of the term to it remark made by Washington in allusion to Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, originated in I846. and has recently been shown to be without founda tion. S.t.u, the familiar sobriquet of the United States government or people, iN eOWrtIlonIy Stated to have originated at the ontbreak of the war with England in 1812, when some one. ask
ing the letters 'U.S.' marked on casks and barrels meant, was facetiously told that they referred to "rnele Sam" er Samuel Wilson, an obscure citizen of Troy, N. V., sail to have been nn inspector or a contractor. This story not 1114.11 found earlier than 18-12, when it Was given in .1. Frost's Book of the Nary, p. 297. No &mid Frost voided it from some newspaper, but the story larks proof. The term Unch• ,sun has yet to be traced earlier than the fall of 1813, when we read Of “1:111.1C 11W:111114r United States custom house ollieers. and aro told that "Uncle now popular explica tion of the Cr. S., does not pan' well." The term appears to have arisen somewhere in the North, perhate. in New York or Vermont: and itA origin tin. presumably merely a jocular ex tension of the abbreviation I v then very common. For three years it ran IT career in the newspaper,. in 181I; it appeared in a Look. and by 1817 its popularity was well e.tablished, NIctiot.As Foot:, the typieal Dutchman. was first used by Arbuthnot in his Law is a