Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-08-16

daWdySS duu at All ptdCeSs tO edts ANU w
drink 10 know how to prutect himself
from the cold. as well as his wife and his
children, indifferent of personal comfUrt
till he has well provided for his family. He
attacks nature. body to body, and the most
tenacious o: the two, he always subjects
her. He Obligrs her to surrender at dis
erection he causes her to produce what he
wills, aud fashions her to suit himself
Like Hercules, he conq"ers the LYDIA of
peStilentiai marshes, and brides the rivers.
In the State cf Massachusetts, which
counts $4,000 souls, the House of Repre-
sen,alives is composed Of nearly 600 mem-
bers the smallest village must have its
Representative.
More hardy than Hercules, ho extends
his empire not only over the earth, but
over the sea he is the best sailor in the
world. The ocean is his tributary, and
enriching him with the oil Of her whales
and all her smaller inmates. Wiser than
the hero of the twelve lacors, he knows no
Omphale who can seduce him, no DEFIANCE
ra whose poisoned presents can obscure
bis toresighted penetration. Ii seems he
is rather Ulysses who has his Penelope
with whom he counts, and to whom he re-
mains immu,ably faithful. He has not
even need 10 stop his ears, when he pass
es near the syrens, and the most tender
passions are deadened in him by religious
auslerity, and the pre-occupaiion of his
agricultural work. Like Ulysses, also he
has sack full Of expedent. Taken una
wares, at night, in forest. by tempest,
in half an hour, and without other assist
ance than his knife, he constructs shelter
for himself and horse. During the winter,
if he is surprised by one of those tempests
of snow unknown with US, in the twinkling
Of an eye he constructs for himself sleigh,
and pursues his way. in making himself
like the Indian, with the forks Of the fo-
rest trees.
Thus to the genius Of commerce, by the
aid of which he draws grain of that which
sends from the earth, he joins the genius
Of the labor which enriches it. and that Of
the mechanic which fashions the products
of il. He is an Incompatible pioneer, an
unrivalled colonist. 1t is the Yankee who
has impressed his signct on the United
States during the half century that has just
passed. This has been offered by the
Virginian. in the councils Of the Republic,
but in return it has pfedominated over, and
even eclipsed him 10 his own territory, for
it is necessary in order that the Virginian
should tear himself from Southern indo-
lence, that The Yankee should hear TO him,
even to his own door, and in spite of him,
an example Of the activity and the enter
prsing hunlor Of New England.
Without the Yankee the cotton fields OF
the South would be yet untitled. Il was
Yankee, Eli Whitney, who at the close Of
the last century invented the Cotton Gin,
u machine for cleaning tho cotton, and
which has made the fortune of the South.
In order that speculation should become a
la mode in the South, it is necessary that
some Yankees, arrived by hazard from the
distance of some 400 leagues, should have
given the idea Of j, to some of the inhabi-
tants Of the country, and have drawn from
it, most fully, the clearest profit.
New England has furnished the Union
only two Presidents, both Of them popular
ON the eve Of their election, both of them
unpopular on the morrow, and both rejec-
ted OF the end Of their first term, whilst all
| the other Presidents have originated from
Virginia and South Carolina, and have all
obtained second term. But as she has
taken her retaliation in the affairs, both Of
the North and the South, the East and the
West, the Yankee is here true Marquis
de Carabas. At Baltimore even rs at BOs-
ton, in New Orleans as at Salem, in New
York as at Portland, ifthey cite you mer.
chant, who by intelligent combinations,
has realized and preserved large fortune,
and il you demand whence that man comes,
it's a Yankee. is the reply. II in the
South you pass by plantation, which APP.
pears better regulated than all the others.
with finer avenues, and the habitations Of
the negroes better arranged, and more conf
Portable" Oh" says one to you "ihis
belongs to a man from New EngIand-he
is smart man.
In village Of Missouri, by the side Of
a house whose windows are broken, whose
exterior is dirty, before the door Of which
are seen fighting the children with latter
ed garments, you perceive another, all
freshly painted, surrounded with barrier.
simple, but well preserved and limewashed,
with dozen trees we'll pruned, disposed
all around through the windows you dis
tinguish in little saloon, shining with neat
ness, the young boys well combed. and the
little girls clad almost in the last Partisan
mode. Both Of these habiiations belong
to farmers but one comes from North Ca
rolina, the other has originated in New
England. On the river Of the west. you
hear cried up a steamboat to which no acci-
dent has ever happened, which the travel
lcrs aud the merchants seek with tho great
est zeal; the captain is n Yankee. A.
New Orleans, opposite the lsvee. you per-
cevc a fine building, which all tho passer-
gers adnli,c, it is still Yankee who owns
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