Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-11-03
SOUTHERN NOTIONS OF YAM
KEGS

Suppose farmer in Vermont has six
sons; one perhaps will remain to be stay
and staff to the good old man when he tot
ters down the hill towards the sunset of life;
bot another first gets to be a schoomaster,
then studies law, fourishes a while before
the courts, goes TO Congress, and finally is
Governor OF the State.
A third pushes off on foot for Boston,
drives stage for time, then tends Il bar
in Il tavern for a while, and at last is u
clerk in store. Here he gains the conf
dencc OF his employers, at twenty one is
admitted into partnership, and is soon
merchant of established reputation. The
fourth is wild rowing fellow; who goes to
sea before the mast; but the yankee is still
in him, and, his wild oats being sown, he
at length becomes captain Of packet, ana
at the age of fifty, is weather-beaten sea-
man, and retires upon a comfortable in
come.
The fifth is pedIar, and crcuatcs tin
ware for half dozen years through the
Southern States-he then goes on a hunt
ing expedition to the Rocky Mountains;
after his return he oficiatcs as steward on
board Il Mississippi steamboat. Being Of
a musical turn, he joins caravan, and
plays the clarionct through all the principle
cities Of the United States. He then shoots
off to Kentucky. where he keeps school for
a short time. He next removes to Ala
bama, where with capital of two or three
thousand dollars which he saved, he sets
up store in a new town, still covered with
stumps. The town increases and our
young merchant tlourishes. In due time
he has extensive cotton lands. These he
cultiyates with care, and year by year, adj
ding acre by acre, becomes wealthy plan.
ter, respected and beloved bv all around
him.
The sixth is a favoritc son, and like most
tavorltes, comes very near being spoiled.
He is sent to college and their acquires
some knowledge and good estimation Of
himself. But he chances to be sent to one
of those colleges, where there is too little
intercourse between the pupil and instruct
or and where parcel of young men arc
left without rudder or compass at the most
stormy and dangerous period of life. lie
catches, therefore, the infection Of bad
principles, and goes forth with q deceased
and impure spirit to the world.
He is bred a lawyer, he has talent, per-
haps genius; he commences life with fair
prospects, but still with the idea that for
tune is to be obtained without effort. He
is disappointed, and becomes dissipated;
he loses his friends, and is on the point of
being lost TO society; but the yankee is still
in him. His fathers honorable example,
his mothers religious counsel come to his
aid. The good and evil are at strife. but
the former prevails; he shakes off bis in
dolonce, he tram7les his vices beneath his
feet.
lie makes a bold effort, and removes TO
the wide valley Of the Mississippi; he es-
tabishes himself as lawyer in the vicini-
ty of a courthouse, still surrounded with
the relics Of the forest. He devotes him
self carefully TO his profession; and at the
age of forty is honored and respected as
Chief Justice of the State. Such, or some
thing like this is the history of many
New England farmers family.