Litchfield enquirer., 1853-05-05
American Character,

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 American Character.
 MT. Casey, in his work, ]" Two years on she Farm of Uncle Sam," just pub. lished in London, gives the following analysis of Amerisan character as | Vieing with the Parisian in dress the Enslis in energy-cautious as . Dutchman-impulsive as an Irishman l-patriotic as Tell--brave as Wallace cool as Wellington-and royal as Alex ander-there he goes-tEe American citizen! In answering your questions. or speaking commonly. his style is that of that of the ancient Spartan but put him on stump, with an audience of Whigs. Depocrats UT Barnburners, and he becomes compound of Tom Cribb and DeMosthenes-a fountain of clos quencs. passion, sentiment, sarcasm, To- g,c. and drollery, altogether different from anything known or imagined in the Old World States. Say anything (as public men) united with conventional phraseoly, he swings his rhetorical mace with vigorous arm, pushing the antagA onistic principle or person into most villainous compound. See him at din. ner-. he dispatches his meat with 8 speed which leads you to suppose him not ruminating animal; yet enjoying his cigar for an hour afterwards, with the gnsto and ennni of Spaniard.
 Walking right on, as if it were life against time, with the glass at fever heat. yet taking it cool in the most se> 'ious and pressing matter--a compound of the Red Man, Brummel, and Frank lin, statesman and laborer-on he goes, divided and subdivided in politics and religlon- professionally opposed. with . keenness of competition in vain looked for in England. Yet let but the nations al tights or liberty be threatened, and that vast nation stands pyramid of re> solve. united as one man, with heart. hand, and purse, burning with g Ro" mans zeal to defend inviolaate the cause of their commonwealth. @@
 To him who has lived among the
 Americans and looked largely at the theory and practice of their government and its executive, there remains no pose sible doubt that the greatest amount of personal security and freedom has been produced from the least amount of cost of any nation in the world. Culling it's principles and wisdom from the history of all empire, it stands the nearest of all earthly systems to perfection, because tt is built on and embodies those principles which God hath proclaimed in his attri- butes. 1 rt .s a I noticed that the American sets less value on life than Europeans ; that is. he does not think the loss of life the greatest loss the ulsimatum. When . man dies you see none of that senti. ment, q use the best term 1 can think of,) which surrounds such an event ID other countries. sE9s
 The American is silent in manner--~ cmbarrassingly so at first, extremely ac. curate in his observation of human m. ture, and any man that cannot bear to be scrutinized had better not come hare. The American judges much by the eyes and has most enviable power of esti- nation. Your temperament, speech; looks, and acts. are all taken in by him i; and if you can get tablet ofhis judg- ment, you ~ill fiud remarkable das guerreotype of your exact worth writ, ten thereon. They are all phrenoiogists and physiognomists. not merely as phis losophers. but as practical applierss of those instructive sciences; and beneath a show of positive laziness and langnnr there is an amount of energy and ac. ton, mental and physical, pe.fectly sur prising. They are not averse to the higher branches of science or literature: but they bend all to utility. and are. as nation the best arithmeticians n the world; and this science alone gives a terxe matter. of. fact to their mental working; m fact. when man wants to retlec. on proposition. he says. Vat Vat till l figure up. | ss sNee