The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-11-09

Mr.. Casey, IN his work, "Two years on the
Farm of Uncle SAM" just published in Lon
don, given the following analysis of the Amer
lean character:- o nl ii0
Vieing with the Partisan in dress-thc English
in energy-cautions as Dutchnhan--impul-
sive as an Irishman-pa'rotic as Tcll-bravo
as Wallace--cool as Wellington--rnd royal as
Alexander; there he goes, the American cit
izen! In answering your questions, or speak
ing commonly his style is that of an ancient
Spartan; but put him on stump with en-
audience Of wings, democrats or barnburners
and he becomes a compound Of Tom Crib and
Demosthenes, fountain Of eloquence, passion
sentiment, sarcasm logic and drolory, altogeth-
or different from anything known or imagined
in tho Old World states. Say anything, (as
public men) united with conventional phra-
seelogy, he swings his rhetorical mece with a
vigorous arm, crushing the antagonisie ptin-
eiple or person into most villaihnas com,
nound Sne him Mt dinner, no despatcncs MS
meet with speed which leads you to suppose
him a ruminating animal, yet enjoying his
cigar for an hour afterwards with the gnsto
and ennui OF Spaniard.
Walking right on, as if it were life against
time with tho glass at fever heat, yet taking it
cool in the most serious and pressing, matter, n
compound of the Red Man, Brumrnel, and
Franklin--statesman and laborer on he goes
divided and subdivided in politics and religion.
professionally opposed with keenness OF
competition in vain looked for even in Eng
land: vet lot but the national rights or liberty
bo threatened, and that vast nation stands
pyramid Of resolve united as one man, with
heart. and purse burning with Romans zeal
to defend inviolatc tho cause Of common
wealth. 1
To him who had lived among the Ameri-
cans, and look largely at the theory and prac-
tice Of their government and its executive.
there remains no possible doubt that the great
est amount of personal security and freedom
has been produced from the least amount OF
cost of any nation of the world. Calling ifs
principles and wisdom from the history Of all
Empires, it stands tho nearest Of all earthly
systems 10 perfection, because it is built on.
and cmbodies those principles which God
hath proclaimed in his attributes.
noticed that the Americans set less value on
life that tho Europeans: that is, he does hot
think the loss of life the greatest loss, tho
ultimaum. When man dies, you see mono
of that sentiment, U use tho best term can
think of which surrounds such an event IN
other countries. The American is silent in
manner, embafrassingly SO at first extfcmly
accurate in his observation OF human nature,
and any man that cannot bear to bo scruton-
lied had better not come here
The American judges much from the eye.
and has most enviable power of estimationi
your temperament, speech, looks and acts. tro
all takon in by him; and if you get a talbot of
bis judgment, you will find remarkable da-
guerreotypc of your exact worth writer
thereon. They are phrenologists and physi-
ognomists not merely as philosophers, but ai
practical nppliers Of those inductivc sciences:
and beneath show of positive lazincss or Ian
guor thcro is an amount Of energy and action,
mental and physical. perfectly surprising.--
They arc not avcrsc to tho higher branches of
science and literature, but they hend all to
utility. and are rs nation, the best arithme-
tician in tho world; and this science alonco
gives torso matter of fact to their mental
working: in fact when man wants tore
fleet OH proposition, he says--"Wait till |
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