Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-01-22
From the London New Monthly Magazine fer ID cembel
VA N KEE NOTION

Yankee land, or the New England portion
of the United States, does not make great
figure in the map Of the American Republic;
vet the traveller who leaves it out Of his route
can tell you but little of what the Americans
are. The history Of the Yankees is the his
tory OF the Republic; the character of the
Yankees has Influenced and continues to in
fuence that Of every part of the nation and
their name, from provincial designation, has
become among foreigners the popular appel
lation Of the whole people. Such is the pre-
dominance Of character and civilization the
other States are becoming like the Yankees,
while the Yankees are keeping Ike them
selves i, ,s III NJ: M1"- cccland therefore, that
you find the most original, operative, and dis
tinctly marked American character. Here
should the traveller begin and end; whoever
leaves the Yankees out of his United States
as they are," will find he has left Hamlet out
Of Hamlet's tragedy;-and the person, who,
upon u short intimacy with the pork mer
chants of Cincinnati, and the kitchen wench-
es Of New-York, pretends to write a book on
the "Domestic Manners of the Americans"
will show the same degree of modesty with
him who touches at Liverpool and the Hebri-
des, and then spawns his quarto, entitled
"John Bull at Home"
1t is in New England, that you find Jona-
than at Home. In the other States there is a
mixture,-greater or less-of foreign popula-
ton; but in New-England the population is
homogeneous and native-the emigrant does
not settle there-the country is too full o'
people, while the more fertile soil Of the west
holds out superior attractions 10 the stranger
1t is no lubber land; there is no getting hall
dollar day for sleeping, in Massachusetts
or Vermont; the rocky soil and rough climate
of this region require thrift and industry r
the occupant. In the west he may scratch
the ground, throw in the seed, and leave the
rest to nature; but here his toll must never be
RENTED; and, as valor comes out of sherris
30 doth prosperity come of industry. The
Southern planter who visits the east and ind.
the whole land a garden, wonders why thu
fat fields and warm sky of his own region
does not produce the same picture; and in hi
endeavors at an explanation, ascribes it TO tn,
tariff, whereas the difference in the two re
gions arises from the regular and natural op
Grafton of things; 1t is solely the effect of in
dustry.
What is Cape Cod but heap of sand ye
it maintains thirty thousand people, and ther
is not beggar among them. All the tariff
that could be devised never would ruin Ney
WIZ bhSy Ct UfUViO WOt
of Georgia or South Carolina. While tn
Yankees are themselves, they will hold thei
own, let politics twist about as they will
They are like cats; throw them up as yo,
please, they will come down on their feet
Shut their industry out from one career, an,
it will force itself into another. Dry up tven
ty sources of their prosperity, and they vii
open twenty more. They have persever
ance that will never languish while anythin,
remains to be tried;-they have a resolution
that will try anything, if need be, aud whe
Yankee says "I'll try" the thing is done.
Boston is the fourth city in the Union as I
population, yet in many points it may be con
sidered the chief;-a metropolis there neve
will be in the United States-I mean 70
practical purposes-as London is to G.. Brit
ain, or Paris 10 France-for Washington will
never be great city. There may be an owe