Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-06-27
LIVE y ANKEES.
Their mode of Quarreling.


! hour. and threaten you so that he may be neard
half mile Oil, and yet, he would never be the
| first 10 strike blow, nor hardly eve" the first
! TO tEnch, as he calls it. If you give him hra-
w clip one is enough; aud il he finds, ate TWO
| or three attempts, that he cannot get grab at
YOU, at close-hug or rough and>tumble,th tbs hShI
| is over, and he goes off But goes of how
| Ike man satisfied with whal he has got! OF
/ like whipped cur, growing and threatening
YOU as if he were the victor, and you the WHO
| ped? / ne sight o: his own blood, or that oil
| another, is always enough to brighten him oui
| of broil, he won't s. nd up like an English
| man. 10 BE- knocked down over and over again
! A for,ir,h par: as much would satisfy YAM
| kee; and YET nothing on earth, not even pistol
| al his head, or knife AZ his throat, would
make him hold his tongue. 1t you knock him
down, you have score Of ncighbors 10 get up
ON your back or pinion your arms under an
| idea that you would throw yourself upon him,
| and pummel him under the ribs, or over The
breast; for such is the custom Of the country,
and lew are the natives, that would be willing
10 hit even mortal foe, in the face.
And yet awkward as they are in fighting,
cowardly as they are in ihre atening, unmanly
as they are III all their private quarrlS, they ale
the men thai | would trust to before amy hat /
ever saw, except the Scotch for locking death
in The face where they have the law on their
side. Where they are supported BY The sense
of fright, or called forth by the cry Of mull'
tude. The} are uuapPeasahie then, their rell'
cious feeling is at work, they believe them
selves TO be under the immediate protection Of
| the God OF Battles, and you might a. well nope
TO divert the famished lioness from her prey, as
| the native Yankee, whose wife or little ones,
oof or hearth-siDHe are touched by the invader
! from going forth 10 war. The sword once up
on his thigh, and the rife swang at his back,
the very nature Of the man is altered He IS
grave and terrible; his relri5ulion, like that Of
the outraged Swiss, slndiCtive as death, un-
sparing as the grave. He pnurs out his own
blood with sense Of joy, and he cleavss the
tlesn Of the enemy, as if he were hewing an al
tar for the Most High God.
The war Of III, Revolution will show what he
is a, such period; but as We have no book,
not so much as novel or newspaper to tell
the truth Of him in his every day character,
shall trya sketch of him now and then from
life.
In The cities Of the South, a traveller may
often hear great noise coming toward hm,as
he is walking through some broad, still, unire-
uuented street on the sabbath day. He stops,
and listens and looks about with some degree
Of anxiety. After a while he beg ms 10 disun-
suish the sound of voices. apparently quarrel
ling i'm matter Of lie and death. A moment
or two more, and he sees one solitary mana
great bill niger, coming toward him with
step and carriage that indicate nothing un-
usual, nor out Of the way; but while he IS look
ing at him, the niger stops and throws p
his arms, and nourishes his fist about, & pours
forth torrent of gib5erish, the very sound
whereof is enough to MAKE your blood run cold
though all the stranger can distinguish IS
Goody>eo ree .Midee? lem me ketchee- 90! dal's
all oh! oh. ending with sharp cultural cry,
that may be heard three squares oil, Aud all
his uproar the knave repeats without turning
his head or looking behind him, as often as he
hears window open, or sees child cross the
street. You would swear from the words and
the sound, that the fellow was going to tear
somebody limb from limit, or to eat him up a
i live No such thing, the fellow has no such
idea he only letting of little niger; just as
the sailor boy, who has got ashore from his
first voyage, throws away his none by hand
fulls, to prove that he is not altogether so raw
as the bes of some tough old man-o'wars Imam
may indicate.
just so it IS with our Yankees. They let OIL
their wrath in very niggersh way. they
hea.s at each other till ne gets out of all pa,
tirnce with their cowardy behaviour. This
very day as | was coming alone principal
street cf this town, h, .rd a furious cutlery;
the voice Of man threatening another at the
tod most pitch of his voice. "Jee off bright!
ice, say won't We? hush Broad! Drive my
cattle in here? back Stab Their! Stah-ah!-ah!
III give i: tu yer!" BY this time, could see
mans head over-'opping the fence Of a lumber
yard; TWO yoke Of cattle coming out, one with
the chain dragging, as if they had just been un-
hitched; no other living creature in sight.
stopped awhile, curious to see how much my
brother Yankees were like ied>hot Virglnny
Niger. At last a boy about twelve years old
came up, and the coun,ryman seeing me at the
same time, thought il was expected of him pro.
badly TO show the wherefore and the why OF all
this uproar. So, giving the oxen touch with
The brad; not half severe (the Yankees are
proverbially kind 10 their ca,tle) as you would
have expected from so angry man, yet enough
to spirit them forward pace or two, he broke