The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-08-30
MISCELLANY.
How they Manage Matters in the Mod
ell Republic.

How they Manage Matters in the Mod
ell Republic.
We publish below a continuation of the
article from Blackwood, which we COM
menced last week, and hope that all our
readers will peruse it. "Fas est alb hoste
docerif-it is right to learn Of an enemy:
Moral courage is not entirely wanting in
the United States; bnt it Is u kind OF cour-
age altogether too moral, and sadly deficient
in animal spirits. The New t.nglanders
especially, set up, in their solemn way, to
adnIonish the vices of the Republic, and to
inocuiate them with the yiru!ent virtues of
the Puritanical school. The good city of
Boston alone teens with the transcen-
dental schemes for the total and irnme-
diate regeneration OF mankind. There
we fad Peace Societies, and New Moral
World Societies, and Tetotal Societies,
aud Anti Slavery Societies, ail Sin full blast"
each opposing to It's respective bane the
most sweeping and exaggerated remedies.
The Americans never do things by halves;
their vices and their virtues are alike IN ex-
tremes, and the principles of the second
book of the Ethics of Aristotle are altogeth-
er unknown To their philosophy. AT one
moment they are all for ''brandy and Bit
ters,'' ut the next, tea and turnout is the
order Of the day. Here, you must "iiqiof
or fiaht''-there,. a hfilS wine for the stoin-
ach's sake is slerniy dep.ed TO n fit of collie,
or an emergency of gripes. The moral soul
of Boston thrills with iinaginings of perpet-
uai peace, while ST. Louis or New Orleans
are volcanoes Of war. Listen tn the voice
of New England, and you would think ne
gro slavery is the only crime OF which ma
ton ever was, or could by possibility be
guilty; 60 to South Carolina, and you are
instructed that .,he Domestic Institution
is the basis Of democratic virtue, the corner
stone of The Republican edifce. Cant, in
deed, in one form and other, is the innate
vice of the "earnest" Angio-SaxOn mind,
OIL both sides of the Atlantic, and ridicule is
the weapon which the gods have appointed
for its mitigation. You must lay on the rod
with a will, and throw ''morai suasiou" to
the dogs. Above all, your demagOgue
breads satire as verpin the ayenging thumb
--"Any thing bat that" squeaks he, san
you love me. Liken me TO Lucifer, or
Caius Gracious: charge inc with ambition,
and glorious vices; lei me be the evil genius
of the commonwealth, the tinsei villain of
the political nelodrama; but don't threaten
me With the fooi's cap, or write me down
with Dogberry; above all, don't quote me ia
cold blood, that tbs foolish people may see,
after the fever heat has subsidized, what trash
l have pallned upon them in the name OF
Gterty!" Yet this is the way, Jonathan,
70 deal with denIagogues. You make too
much of yours, man. You are not the
blOckhead we take you for after all; but
you delight TO see your public men in mot
ley, and the rogues will fool you TO the top
Of your bent, till it is your pleasure to put
down the show. So now that the piper has
to be paul, and Il lucid interval appears to
he dawning upon you, to the piilory at once
with these "stump'' orators, and pot-house
politicians, who have led you into snch silly
scrapes; turn them about and look at them
we'll in the rough, that you may know them
again when you see them, and learn to avoid
far the future their foolish and mschlevlous
counseIs.
=. ID remarkable that while perception
IF ,hs ri';cGious, perhaps TO excess, Is char
oc,sr;s,;c of Re British mind, and is at the
ho.so,n If NAV dor. c:.s in the national man
ners. Commonly a,tribu. 20! TO less venai feei-
ings, our Transatlantic desc" g, ~
Just the opposite direction. The A.. 's .,a.'
seldom laugh at anybody or anything
er at themselves; aud this, next to an unto,
tunate Trick Of Insolvency, aud preternatu-
raj abhorreuce of niggers, is perhaps the
besetting sin Of an otherwise "smart" peo-
pie. AS individuals, their peculiarities are
not very marked; in truth there is mar
veAous uniformity Of bad habits amongst
them; but whem viewed ia their collective
capacity, whenever two or three Of them
are gathered together, shades of Democri-
1us commend us TO Il seven-fold pocket
handkerchief. The huaours of most ma
tons expend themselves Oh carnivals and
feast-days, at the theatre, the ball -room, or
the public garden; but the fun Of the united
Stnies il to be looked for at public meetings,
and phiianthropicai gatherings, IN the halls
OF Jyceuins, female academies, aud iegisla-
tive bodies. There, they spout, there they
swell, and co-sr themselves with adulatlon
sszwitk garment. From the inauguration
- Resident to the anniversary OF the fair
graduates Of the Slickyille female Institute,
no event is allowed to pass without grand
palaver, in which things in general are ex-
iensively discussed, and their own thiegs in
particular are extensively praised. They
got the trick nodouhs frpn, Us, whose per-
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