Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-06-03
AMERICAN PART or NEW ORLEANS

| AMERICAN PART or NEW ORLEANS.
Anofhef psu OF Tho ciy ~ quite American. Ii
seems Ike q northern cty--ard tho people like
northern people. There nro tho Yonkecs the mo.
MY making Ysnsees. all motion, all attention. oil
fat business. bne hinks he Is 10 New York OF
Boson, 10, 'he mcn about here have no, ths sal.
low color ofthe South, bti tho bright faces Of Nav
tnsland. Their pcculInrites ia conversation
are yenice peculiaritics. Their IDEAS are yankee
''ens. Their enterprises, daring, aud planning, IL
ila' of Tie npti, In truth the chief paft of this
population Is North OF New Jorsey--and here wo
have northern city If no, III the heart Of tho Sonin
yet neat the mouth Of the Mlssissippi, comnnnd-
ny Tho trade oithe West and drawing with great
falee that of the South
TIE Ankles EVERY WHERE.
lnfrhih, whefo ara not the yankees IL ask not
"hfre Meg "fe, Tor who can answer Tint question :
lind iiiani very whore lin every nook and cor
nef @hefe 80, there preserving their Identify.
thor attachment and love to the land Of their hlf,h.
and gazing, with an ego Of pride on its institutions
and It's hc,o No0 man from New England. no
matter hot long he mny have been from, home.
whose hebf, does ,h,ob quicker Ut tho n,entoh
OF her nhne,who does no, welcome a traveller
from iletn M his brother and talk with cxuIlatian
ii The day. Of his childhood Fer schools her ciur-
Hhes, her Tory her enierprzc her courage, are to-
pes IA when his soul expands, and even the dull
tongue and the cold honri, quickcns and warns.
WHEN his fancy entries him to The hills and Wales
Of hrs own New England Where are not tho
yankees find them in the cities and wilds Of
Carolina and Georgia. see them on the seq
bond from Norfolk 10 Savannah find them on
the rivers nndlrarios Of Alabama.
They crowd her principal ports. They push in
to her interior. nd her traders hor physicians,
and htr ln~Yef. | find them here their ships
cfowdine the pti, their merchants pushing Il cir
operation 10 tas Wild, of Texas. 10 the borders of
afknnsas, and then far up the Missouri the ILL
noia, and Inc Wnbnsh--to shy nothing of the Mis-
ss9rp the Tennessee, and Ohio In short. they
atc every where. Where living Is 10 lie earned u
dollnr to be wen, n dnrIng plan 10 be attempted,
nothing doun's III n nothing appas them, nchcc
sckness, nor disease, nor postence, noI DANGER
oustepof, Tho Mississippi is no barrier, nor tho
Red River nor Il" Arkansas, nor waflke tribes Of
Indians nor the Rocky Mountains. They are o.
overlapping all Tho dip,en, Oregon only bounds
| their ambition, whae Yankee adycnurers ut this
moment are moving
MIosiSolpN BOATING.
! MOI ouiy French Il Yankees arc 10 be seen here.
| IN New 0rleans,l but ltere are spaniards Tho
ifenrh Themselves make ,Irco parties thc Europe
an French, The French itom the Islands, and the
bfooes, native born ctize o.. white by the way
Us any Of the French Notwithstanding the contrary
| impression Then there ARE the boatnen, consti-
tntlng yet another people coming from where no
! one know5-a people unlike any which we meet
with at honlo courageous, during, profanr rough
hewn, and hut partly civilized using the knife as
well as the f5l in their conflicts, living on the wa.
ter cooking on the evcc, and sleeping, 1t may be,
with or without blanket Ca the stray cotton bags
that perehunce lilo on the banks of the Mississippi.
| They people who in general know no fear,
but littlo law, aud less religion They swarm tho
| banks Of the riycr--ther boats crowd the shore
They make their homes there with their dogs, and
secn as happy as any people in the world
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