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AMERICAN GENIUS. al 5 i.

81 ;ssS-.; The great peculiarly Of the American
character That it's genius is inventive, and
always 3adequate to emergencies. Where
others halt in the beaten pathway of$ pursuit
I or profession, the American suddenly strikes
Folt new, goal, ,and drives on TO: fame and
fortune. Who else would have thought Of
carrying clocks and ready-made shirts 10
China for a market, or bsinging Connecti..
ssntt, with its sharp faced soil, into competli
lion withthe age-io ortiied manufactures of
i England! 5s ,3a
No other man on The globe, with the, same
amount Of means and chances, will or can
perform as much for himself and the world,
II SSas an American. Not TO indiyidualize. but
take him in the national aggregate: Quick,
fertile. and ever ready. he needs but sugges.
ton; the details which others must; investi-
cato before they dare to make the exper-
spent, he lets follow and illustrate the expef-
iment, as the sparks fire flow in the trail
sof the locomotive at night, i. II.
Who ever heard os an American being
confounled by the intricacy or. magnitude Of
any enterprize In the arts of, peace and
war alike the same pfodigal flow Of Invention;
the same sagacity prudence aid daring,
blended in a sort Of humanic-heroics fresce,
mark the acts anda aptitudes Of the American.
His instincts are fresh where Other rnan u,aa.
~; and tracing his deyelopnients indnstrial,.
inventive and philosophic, MS displayed in the
short life Of the republic, ii, must be admitted
he 'transcends all other specimens Of The
genus homo It is the result of many caua-
,es-His position, physical, mental, moral
and social, is favorable to activity and decist
ion OF character; and his political equality, or
self-sntisfying. conviction that he is equal TO
the best OF men on earth, as man, gives
him tho independence in action That is s,yefys
where dipdng-lne between him and other
mef. s. s. !,
Talk of conlounding an American with o
difficulty or danger in enterprise, by sea or
land-in art, science, mathematical problem,
or metaphysical disqnisition, OF even a bum
die Of the first crop of fhiernglvphics-.ihe idea:
would be ridiculous! He may never have
seen map Of the world, nor read geoera-
ply, but he will find, with Nantucket
schooner, any port on the globe, by shorter
cut than is laid down in the charts; and if he
finds himself in the. West Indies with a car
GO OF bed-warming pans, he will have the wit
ito strip off the covers, and sell them for sil-
gar ladlest, at an advance of expected profit.
The lactics of the American are not laid
down in books, In peace or war, his ingenu-
5ity frames the plan Of operation on the in
slant, from The nature Of the cMc ninstances;
and she Is defeated, it must 4 be- by sheer
force. him the pillar ofS Hercules swou!d
have been less than 10 the Macedonian; Ne
ssopid hAs easesl instantaf afthe riddle Of the
Shstssa his teeth and
Migess Z double GofSiian knpii. Y Al writer ID.
Dlackwood has well said, that II d sufficient
prize were offered for The best treatise 1iipon On
any subject in any language, the American
would get it; even If he Had to learn the. lan-
guage, study the subject, and writc the work
within three months. This universal energy,
endurance, invention, and powerito adapt HIM
solfto any and every end give the American
his worldwide prestige Of superiority as a
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