Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1840-01-30

0L,LL TRY.n


Ind ply was "'l try!n And it seems to us as
er, !his maxim had been adopted, on the instant {
ng us utterance, as the motto of .sthe universe
ed Yankee nation" and by them resoIuteIy acte
upon ever since. More ofthem, we dare ave
uhde rsland, and feel, and act up % its mean ine
lhan nave ever given much head to that Of til
national and state motto of"E Purtbus Uaum,
"ErcelS'or," "Dirigo," and the rest.
Thus It has come to pass that as good cloths
as good implements Of all trades, as good In
IN oor-sav ng machines, as good articles of wea
he ana USE as good printing, as good preaching, az
h. soou teachlng' as good speaking as good writ
,s ny as good prose, as good poetry, as good ac
q, Jug, as good sculpture as good painting, and as
sooo Instrumental and vocal music are produc.
70 Gu ~ ms same universal Yankee nation.'' as
come rom their cotemporares in any other
T. part OF me world. And all this under the ALL.
= pe,'au'ng' all potent, every where operating
'-try" 90 Wy 'i'aA'ni' = II
:, Two or three striking instances ofthis nrin.
clPle occur TO US, at the moment of writing This
!, lew years ago, all the world were aGoc. 10
: witness the wonderful mechanism of MaelSel,s
: automaton chess-player, but no sooner had the
tufoaned Turk shown his face in this henis-
Phere, when, behold! a very successful imita-
tlon OF The chess player, from the ever readv
genus OF brother Jonathan" He looked he
calculated," ne "reckoned," he pondered. and
exclaimed, "l'll try!" He did try. and he snc.
coed d. ~ SUI
y, 90 WIN the "Confiagraton of Moscow
we saw Two limitations nearly, ifnot altogether.
as good as the original, within year aiIer theI
landing OF Mynheer Maelzel upon our shore
ana ne had gone all over Europe without
meeting with any such attempt upon his me-
chanical monopoly.
there Isl piece of mechanism on exhibition {
al TINS moment in this city, which is eyery @. :
qual' II not superior, to the original "Conaaea =
t!oh OF Moscow" and which is the work Of n
SlnSle pair OF hands-and those the hands Of Il
regularly bred and legitimate Yankee. II Is =
iull OF the most delicate and intricate machine :
fy' and is obviously the result the most np , =,
zee. mechanical skill, and an ingenuity as great
ana remarkable as has ever been develoned in :,
any work oil art.-We knew the artist who did =
ms piece Of work, before he undertook il ~ !,
lie was aJourneyman 10 a maker ofpiano fortes :,
ana was reckoned SO skillu workman o. ~ :.
excite The Jealousy ofhis employer. who found :,
us Journeyman knew more than he himselfbod 49,
'vef dreamed OF. The fact is, our friend Lewis ii;
''S forever acting up to our maxim, ''I' try, IN.
W. ne u'u Try" III he trlumphed over every III,
wv ''osooueu' all
we happen to know the fact, that the frstlint
experimentaist with the Dagurreo- lio
'Pe' IN TINS country, was Yankee resi-
7ht OF Newburyport, Mass. As soon as he zen
'ad me account ofthsiinvention, or discovery, abo
lhe French periodicals, he said an tryr,- lis !.
irably ~ ''N000o0u az ps ro
but all this, by the way We might 90 on. this
"a write all day about the Perkinses with linn
- steam improvements, and their hardened Vir
- pank note plates-the Whitneys with eau
'ir cotton glns,-and thousand other in Stat
nous and clever Yankee specimens But we lev /
1o nol me lime. What mpeled us 10 begin r
~ ''liS meme was the arrival Of four young any
i"o"'eh from Boston, who have come here NOR
'no purpose OF giving concerts Their requ
,'9 % are nessrs. Blaney, White, Lauriat oitit
!, Dailey. we have listened to half dozen the
neif performances in private, since their any
iNai' ana we must say that we were never rial,
S'y impressed with The force of gen. putin
lahkee ability matters not in what tion
c1oh you may direct it--than upon hear bia or
lhese tour self taught young men sing Th
y are aided by no Instrumental accountant rules,
~ tney sing morning but good, homcly. ayes
'S' .nShsh; 'hey have no trick, no imita. ton o
! no turtle endeavor to produce wonderful are, /
-; .hey DO not pride themselves on the consid
IN u q lime TO which they can growl out are d
oass uo1e, nor DO they soar into ntrcacies prospt
g "Yoden," or the Rams de caches Of ne resoiu
p and the Danube: ST They only sing ssrioht which
WIN the voices God has given them the luton
nat they DO, and their hearers can un- ere
and. ~ resol,
eir Vocesare severally, afull round tenor. touchi
baritone Tor, so to describe il, d second trade
!, pass OF uncommon richness, depih States
my and compass, and an alto, or counter to the
truly phenomenon, in our view. The the Tn
neu erect Of the four in glees &c. is sur to sell
Wy line. They sing with great rastc The
sung, ana have already produced a strong would |
Voraole impression upon, several private sented
!, composed fprolessors and ainateurs adverse
Y, et US see, when they offer their names the sui
oncert here, whether we are 50 FAR soph;s advice
astopreler to cling to our recoIIections to & agi
herrmanns, andthe Tyrolese, who sang lagitatin
good German and Swiss, rather than oppositi
music Just as good from four of orr breeze
Weare confident that thew one sect
succeed, andwe are sure. moreover south v
etne rest ottheir talented countrymen, BY the a
t"yts told
4 N --4 mother |
~ tn ne following none four exchange III. sCoI
4 Y isgood philosophy: Iguage Of