Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-16
AMERICAN

Neal, in the chit-chat of his Saturday Ga
zetta," speaks as follows of the energy and
originality Of the American:
The American-of Alleghania or Yankee
do~odledom--that restless why man, balanc-
ing himself upon two legs of his chair, his
straw hat turned up behind, and with his
pedal eXtremities too far through his panta-
loons, as he hacks the table with 4 keen cdg-
ed knlie-has a trdit-the result doubtless OF
his parentagc-the influence of the energetic
and enterprising Of all nations, nourished in
TO luXuriance by the ef ect of Institutions
trait which distinguishes him from other peo-
pie. Observe now, as he lodges his heels
higher than his head. Would you cramp him
by precedent, shacklo his action by the con-
troll of rule! Not a moment will elapse be-
fore his limbs may be wreathed into a new
attitude more 0tHre than any which ingenuity
has yet devised. His legs are dangling as
human legs, perhaps, never dangled before
he sits upon the rail, or lies extended on u
bench. in ali endless variety of experiments
In regard to facilities for repose. Ii he
smokes, what a power of suction-ifhc chews
what al energy in the performance; and when
he eats, how prodigious the saving of timei
1t is impossible to cast him in a mould-he
is not to be fenced in by fixed ideas, and cam
not be induced to follow a beaten path. Ask
him; he can do whatever man has done; ca
silly; there is no merit in that. 1t is what man
has never done that he proposes to himself.
His commencement affords no clue to that
which may be the end Of his efforts. Teach
him to retail needles, he possibly will find
an empire tomorrow. Place the implements
of a printer in his hands, yet the next you
hear of him may be in the leading armies to
battle. Editing a little newspaper, very like
when nothing else is doing, the time will soon
arrive that he will be sweeping EDWARDS to
Oregon, or to participate in a 'revel in the
halls of the Montezumas."
There Is nothing so small, that he cannot
narrow himself to it. Nothing so large that
he does not feel competent to grasp til
don't know how" finds no place in his vocab-
ulary, and he feels himself ready to be a ped
lar or a president, as the opportunity affords
itself. He is like the cat, throw HIM as you
will, and the universal Jonathan alights al
ways upon his feet. Beware, too, how you
are harsh towards that friendless %youngster-
venture not to treat an impoverished neigh
Dor with contempt. Who can tell but that
the one who now eXcites your scorn, ay, the
very archin not deemed fit to play with your
more nicely nurtured children; the youth to
whom your daughters blush to speak when
in the street, and from whom also your eyes
are %averted, when in what you deem more
choice companionship,--is not destined soon
to tower like an eagle far above your utmost
height, and TO cause his once lowered name
to Tesound throughout the worldl There is
nothing impracticable to the universal Jona-
than Of these United States; and if his earlier
years he unstained with vice or crime, be sure
to treat him with the respect which is due to
humanity, or both he and you may remember
the slight when it is your turn to look up to
him.
dragged enough" remarked a lady in a
Paramount omnibus; Dragged enough, and
not over Clean" said she with a smile, as she
glanced at the tow-headed concourse of check
aprons that strove to get a ride for nothing;
but perhaps our chiIdrcn's president is there,
with the statesmen Of his cabinet, and the he
roes OF his armies. And why mott 1t is the
struggle which makes the man; and there
may be, there are, facilities in training all a.
round us, perhaps in this very printers devil,
who with ink smirked brow is waiting at our
elbow-which will transcend ''all Greek, all
Roman fame Here's copy, for thee, boy,
straight to the Office and play not by the way;
thou d~iplomatist or warrior, poet or philoso-
pher, whatever the future has in store for thee.
Thy face, no doubt, would be fairer for a lit
tie soap, and thy cheveiure needs comb and
brush; but yet the laurel may in time sit ev-
EN- there.