Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1845-11-01
OUR ENGLISH VISITORS.

OUR ENGLISH NlSl lOkS.
The following is an extract from the ar
ticIe entitled "Our English Visitors" by
William kirkland, in the Columbian for Au.
gust, 1915.
AS regards our own county, we are great
~ aided in respect to self-know Wedge by the
different characters OF those who have writ
ten about US. The grave and the gay, the
proiesed writer and the man OF business, the
man o. warand the man OF peace, the iovais'
and the radical, the merchant and the law
yer. not 10 mention ladies' OF various degree.
have found a theme in America. From all
this variety Of witnesses II would be strange
if we could not, suborned though many OF
them may be, pick out that which It most
concerns Us TO know, In the conflict OF
opinion we may certainly arrive at sone
valuable conclusions, There is one rule
which can hardly nisend us-upoa what
ever point the great majority OF writer's Of
widely differing general views coincide, up.
on that point we may take for granted their
correctness.
This rule would lead to some important
and interesting results which would alone
repay wadIng through much trash; an M
gre4!ent IN which il must De confessed |l-
/ l>h tourists in the United States abound !"
an almost overpowerng degree. The first
| point we shall notice, on when a majority
Of our Transatlantic visitors agree, Is our
good.na,ure. This would naturally strike
Engishmen, who are So noted tor display
of an opposite quality that they are called
on the cuntluuent "mIur God DEM" They
give their testimony on this point most
Iharmonlous1y, IN the midst Of great dIscre'
DanCy on the subject OF our manners. But
what is the com paratlve importance o. GER
tain conventionallsms 10 this delightful, quai
~ Of habtual good nature1 Commend U;
TO the man who turns his egg into MS wine
, glass in silence, rather than 10 HIM VINO eat
his from the shell, and then swears OF tn
cook because it was hall minute overboIi
ed. Giant US good nature and its co,mau
good temper; Conjolned in fact, and both us
ually are allowed TO our national characte
: by travelling critics, and we will give u
> our manners 10 their tender mercles stpu
Iating ONLY tor the privilege OF making re
prisals. Manners IN their more lmportan
meaning are simply the outward eXpreSSna
OF an inward feeling or sentiment Mo
the manners through which shine good-oN
f ture and good-tenper can scarcely be esseT
~ italy UduS lHOhSA hhSs my ~ 100 49,
perfect. We may quietly pass the man
sneers Of the English al our oblivion OF ce
tain points on which, not Europe, but II
Ihltle island alone, has attempted to esta
lish arbitrary laws, quite secure that g
where we will on the worlds wide stag
our manners will win our easy way amor
the great human family, while our wou
be oracle is Obliged to storm or bride wher
YER difference OF opinion arises. II
fact is so well recognized all over the ira
r. cling world that we need only aIIude TO
Of as OF power neu,ralze all that can be sa
ne on the other side.
lg As an off set TO this concurrent tes
u, Of those BaIaams who praise US as II pc
he force, we must consider the equality gene
al agreement on point OF an oPPosl
character. Our vanity sensltlveness al
- disposition to selfglorficaton are
he remarked upon almost unanimously by c
n servers of all degrees OF sagaclty and ilIeT
illness. One Of them (Combe, we thin
makes the apology for US tina, from wi