Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-10-13
ANALYSIS OFTTIEAMERICA CHA
RACTER.

A work has just been published in Eng
land, entitled "Two Years on the Farm
OF Uncle Sam, with Sketches of his Loca-
ton, Ncphews and Prospects, = by Chas.
Casey, the author Of which seems to have
some vigor and considerable powers of
analysis. We find the following passage
from the work in one of our English cx-
changes, and give them as indicating at
least desire rightly to appreciate the
American character
Vicing with the Persian in dress-the
English in energy cautious as a Dutch
man-impulsive rs All lrishman-patriot-
ic as Tcll-brave as Wallace-cool as
WclIington-and royal as Alexander,
there he goes, the American citizen In
answering your questions, or speaking
commonly, his style is that of the ancient
Spartan; but put him on stump. with an
audience of Wings, Democrats, Barnbur-
ncrs, and lie becomes a compound of Tom
Crib and Demostheucs, a fountain of clo
Qrcnce, passion, sentiment sarcasm, log
ic and drollcry, altogether different from
anything known or imagined in the Old
World States, Say anything of anybody
(as public men) united with conventional
phraseology, he swings his rhetorical
mace with vigorous arm, crushing the
antagonistc principle or person into vii
laiuouS compound. See him at dinner,
he dispatches his meal with speed which
leads you to suppose him Illuminating
animal, yet enjoying his cigarro for an
hour afterwards, with the gusto and en-
nui of Spaniard.
Walking right on, as if it were life
tyik rrloS Mt EAVn hoOt
yet taking it cool in the most serious and
pressing matter, u compound of the red
man, Brummcl and Franklln-statesman
and laborer, on he goes-divided and
subdivided in politics and religion-pro-
fessionally opposed with keenness of
competition in vain looked for even in
England, yet, let but the national rights
of liberty be threatened, and that vast ma
tion stands pyramid of resolve, united
as one man, with heart, head, hand and
purse, burning with a Roman zeal to de-
fend inviolatc the cause of the common
wealth.
To him who has lived among the Ame-
ricans; and looked largely at tho theory
and practice oftheir government, and its
extensive Executive, there remains no
doubt that the greatest amount of perso-
nal security and freedom has been produ-
ced from the least amount of cost of any
nation in the world. Culiing its principles
and wisdom from the history of all en-
pires, it stands the nearest Of all earthly
systems to perfection, because it is built
on and embodies those principles which
God hath proclaimed in his attributes. =
notice that the American sets less
value on life than Europeans; that is, he
does not think the loss of life the greatest
loss, the ul:imatum, When a man dies,
you see none of that sentiment use the
best word | can think of) which surrsAnds
such an event in the old countriSs,
The American is silent in manner, en-
barrassingly so at first. extremely accu-
rate in his observations of human nature,
and any man that cannot bear to be scru-
tinized had better not come here, The
American judges much by the eye,, and
has q most enviable power of estimation ;
your temperament, speech, look, and act,
are all taken in by him, and if you can get
at the tablet of his judgement, you will
lind remarkable daguerreotype of your
exact worth written thereon. They are
phrenologists and physiognomists, not
merely as philosophers, but as practical
appliers of these inductive sciences, and
beneath show of positive laziness or Ian,
guor, there is an amount of energy and
action, mental and physical. perfectly sur.