True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1839-11-20

to declare publicly that he too well acquainted
with the dne .sfa Christian. TO en,ertan his friends
on the Sabbath Nothing is therefore more melancholy
Sunday, the labor Of Nond " is delightful pnstime.
Approach an English merchant in his counting
room IN the morning, and you will find him # Fl and
Dry answering YOU only by n'onosyI'abes, accos'
pans to conceal his 'patiencc; he will dismiss YOU
without always taking care 10 do it politely The
man, in his drawing in the evening, ut his
try house in summer will he full Of courtsey aud a,,eu
ton towards you. The Englishman divides his time,
and does hut one thing al onre III the evening, he plays
The man o leisure, rtposng and enjoying life he is a
gentleman having before his eyes, in the English arts
tcracy,a perfect model to form his manners and grace.
The moiern Frenclman is confused mixture ufthe
En- lishlean Of the evening and the Engshnan Of c
morning; in the morning, little Of the former, in the
! evening, little the latter. The old French node
was the former or rather, do each Justice, was
the original alter which. the English arstocracy has
formed ITSELF The American of the North and North.
west whose eharactsr now gives The tone in the United
states, rs permanently man of busness-he is always
the Engllsiman OF the morning. You find many OF
the Englsmen OF the evening on the plantations Of
the South. and some are beginning to be met with i'll
| the great cities tthe Ncrth.
"'raiI, slender, and light of figure, the American
seems built expressly for labor; he has equal for des
patel, ofbusiness. Nobody also eau confirm so easily
to new situations and crcum stances; he is always ready
his occupation. He is mechanic by nature; among
there is not school boy vino has not made uaudere
nhlud ora republic or MOnarchlul Constitution;
Massachusetts and Connecticut, there ia not atour
| er who has not invented machine tool. The re j.
not man Of much consideration, who has not hi
scheme fr rail road, project for village town
and who has not in metto grand speculation in thu
drow ned lands Of Red River, in the ton lands of Va
200, or in the corn fields Of Illinois. E,nins atty
pioneer, the American, who is not more or less Euro
peamzed-lI'c. pure ianks>, in a word, is not only
,Sork king man. but he is migratory lie hns no roo
in the soil he has no feeling otrevsrence and love 10
the natal spot and the parental root he aw avs dispo
sed to emf rue, always ready start in the first steam
that along from the spot where he had but jus
now landed. lie evoured with ,ssion for loconu
tion-he cannot stay j" "ne pIuce; he go and
he must STR e' his limbs and keep his muscle in play
When hi feet no, in motion, his fingers must be i
action; he must be whiting PIECE Of wood, cutting tI
back OF his chair Or notchng the edge If the tab or hi
jaws at work grinding tobacco. Whether it be tina
u continued compeon has given him the habit or thu
he has exaggerated esiimue of the value time
that the unsettled state nfevey thing around him. keep
his nervous system in state Of perpetual agitation.
itut lie has come thus from the hands of nature; h
always has something to be done, he is always III
terrible hurry. lie is first fo' all OF work. excel
those which require slow and minute processes. ri
idea Of these f him with horror.