The Nevada journal., 1851-12-27

The London Dispatch of Oct. 5tl
has strong article on Yankeedom
in which, with some pretty hard rub
at American character and peculiari
ties, it gives the Yankee nation NOR
credit for ennobling traits than is usu
ally admitted by the English press
1t is true the tone of English writers
has greatly changed within few
years, and far less of the gross preju
dice that of yore tinged the emana
tions of the British press is now per
ceptible. Playful carricature is fire.
quently INDUCED in, but substantial
justice is rendered. Ths Dispatch
thus discourses of
YANKEEDOM.
This title is not unapt. The domin
ion of the spirit of the "free and en-
lightened citizens" of the Great North
American Republic makes itself felt
throughout the world. Already Tex
as and California are theirs, and Mex
leo entire will speedily fall within the
sphere of their ceptripetal attraction.
They are as much at home III our
Australian Colonies as we are our
selves. They have made good their
footing in the South Seas. They
squat in the British possessions and
settlements in India and China, and
appropriate all the commercial advan-
tages conceded to British subjects,
without any of the expenses and re-
sponsibilities. They teach our far
mers how to reap their grain, our
thieves how to pick locks, and (by the
massD our women how to wear the
breeches! They attract all our labo-
rers to their States, and make us their
dependents, and, let us add, their
dupes, in reference to the raw materi-
al of our staple manufacture. In a
word, they have impressed their mark
not merely on the Western Hemis
phere, but upon the age. Yankeedom
is power, stamping itself upon the
mind ard character of the human race
With occasional national developments
ofa course of action worthy only of
the blackleg, the burglar, the pick
pocket, or the assassin, they have, on
the whole, ballast enough to hold them
steady to good sense and common hon
esty. They lurch indeed fearfully,
and pitch from stem to stern, as if they
were going down by the head. But
in the long run the keel always settles
in its proper place, and the voyage is
accomplished at last.
after severely characterizing the
Cuban expedition, the Dispatch
says:
We are inexpressibly gratified to
observe the honorable tone of the
American Press on the subject of this
great burglary; and the strong rever-
ence which it Indicates for the princi-
Piles of civilization gives us much con-
fidence in the steadiness, good faith,
and stability of American institutions
and of the American character. 1t is
by this respect for the laws of nations,
and the principles of political integrity,
that in this century Of the world peo
pie can alone become permanently
great and happy; and it is obvious to
us, that daily our Transatlantic chill
dren are becoming more sensible OF
the commercial value of good char
acter. The States which for time,
by rashness and over-speculation, had
become insolent, have one by one
dropped into the orthodox practice OF
paying 20s. in the pound. The enor
nous consignments of specie from Cal
ifornia, are rapidly correcting the rad
ical defect of American trade, truck,
credit, and an enormous paper curren'
cy of shin plasters, worthless. delusive,
and dishonest almost, as French as
signats. Useful and profitable natisn-
al works, undertaken without due con-
sideration of the means, and suspen-
ded from failure Of these, have been
resumed, are completed, and have be-
come highly remunerative. Europe,
and especially Great Britain, is at all
the expense of bringing up race OF
hardy and valuable laborers, and just
when they have arrived at the age ol
self-sustainment, they make present
of their services to America, and gen.
orally carry with them, in the aggre
gate, not |, IS than two millions and q
half yearly in hard cash. 1t is, per-
haps, not very wonderful that the
sable editors" of our daily papers have