Litchfield enquirer., 1835-01-22
From she London Nep hoathly tSr October.
 YANKEE NOTIONS.

ton of the United States, does not make a great figure in the map ofthe American Republic; yet the traveller who leaves il out of his route can tell bat little of what the Americans are. The history of the 1 Yankees, is tlfe history of the Republic ]: the character of the Yankees has Tinliuen- ced, and continues to inilnence, that of every part of the nation; and their name, from provincial designation, has become among foreigners the pOpalar appellation Aofthe whole people. Such is the predon,i- nance of character aud civilization; the other States are becoming Ike the Yan- kees, while the Yankees are keeping like { themseives.-lt 1t is in New England, there's 1 fore, that you find the most original, ope- rative, and distinctly marked American characier. Here should the traveller be- gin and end; whoever leaves the Yankee out of his ]" United States as they are \, will find he has left Hamlet out uf kEiamlet's s tragedy and the person who, upon short intimacy with the pork-merchants of Cin- cinnatti and the kitchen wenches of New York, pretends 70 write book on the Domestic Manners of the Americans, ? will show the same degree of modesty with him who touches at Liverpool and the i Hebrides, and then spawns his quarto, en- titled "John Bull at Home."
 It is in New England that you find Jon- atlan at home. In the other States, there IS mixture, greater or less, of foreign pop ulation; but in New England the popula- ton is homogeneous and native-the en,i- grant does not settle there--the country is too full of people, while tire fertile soil of the west holds out superior attractions to the stranger. 1t is no lubber land: there is no getting half dollar day for sleep- ing, in Massachusetts or Vermont; the rocky soil and rough climate ofthis region require thrift and industry in the occupant. In the west, lie may scratch the ground, throw in seed, and leave the rest to nature ]: but here his toil must never be rensitted 1; and, as valor comes of sherris, so doth pros perity come of industry. The southern planter who visits the east and finds the whole land a garden, wonders why the fat fields and the warm sky of his own region do not produce the same picture, and in his endeavors at an explanation, ascribes it to the taritf-whereas the difference in the two regions arises from the regular and natural operation of things: it is solely the effect of industry.
 What is Cape Cod but heap of sand yet 1t maintains thirty thousand people, and there is not beggar among them. All the tariffs that conld be devised never would ruin New England, were they framed eS l propviO anOtw of Georgia or South Carolina. While the Yankees are themselves, they will hold their own, let politics twist about ahaV uaysn them up as you please, they, will come down upon their feet. Shut their industry out from one career, and it will force itself into another. Dry up twenty sources oftheir prosperity, and they will open twenty more.
 They have perseverance that will never lang0ish while any thing remains to be tried they have resolution that will try any thing, if need be, and when a Yankee says "l'll try" the thing is done.
 Boston is but the fourth city in the Union as to population, yet in many points 1t may be considered the chief; metropolis there never will be in tho United Sta,es-I mean for practical purposes-as London is te
 Great Britain, or Paris to France,--fol
 Washington will never be great city,
 There may be an Overgrown population al New York. and there may be federal Government forever within the ten miles square, but neither of these, nor any other spot, will ever be able to assume 10 itself the whole powers of a metropolis. No city will exercise a iaoral dictation over the rest, or over the country; no city will give tbe tone in politics, or set the fashions in literature for the whole Union.
 New-Y and Philadelphia owe their great population to the numbers whom they receive from other portions of the Union, and the other side ofthe Atlantic. Boston has grown by internal augmentation only, or accretion from its immediate neighbor- hood; in consequence, it exhibits nothing of that shifting and heterogeneous charac- ter which marks the great cities of the south. In those cities you find masses of people who know litie of each other, diverse in origin, dissimilar in habits, dis cordant in tastes, difficult to calculate upon, or combiGe for any common end; but inc BostoDians are as one u,an-they know each other, understand each other; what ever affects one portion of the community, affects the whole they have perfect uni- " of feeling and stability of characier.--- This has ever been their peculiarly. and 10 this it is owing that the revolution first fexploded in their city. Had Boston been as New-Y York, FaDueil Hall would never I A RL. sk