Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-03-21
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AMERICAN CHARACTRR.-Mr. Casey, in his
work, Two Years on the farm Of Uncle Sam,
just published in London, gives the following
analysis of American character;
Vylng with the Parlsian in dress-tbe English
in eneTgy--cautious as Observation-Disclosures as
an Irishman patriotic as Tell. brave as Wallace
cool as Wellington and royal as Alexander
there he goes---the American citizenl In answer
ing your questions, or speaking commonly. his
style is that ofthe ancient Spartan but put him
ons stump, with an audience fWhigs, Democrats,
or Barnburners. and he becomes compound of
Tom Crib and Demosthenes---a fountain of elo-
eneuce passion, sentiment, sarcasm, logic, and
droiler?, altogether different from any thing
known or imagined in the Old World states.---
Bay anything as public men) united with conven-
uonal pnraseology he swings his rhetorical mace
with vigorous ARM pushing the antagonistic
prlnclple or person into a most vilainous COM
pound. See HIM at dinner-he dispatches his
meat with speed which leads YOU to suppose
hlrn Illuminating animal; yet enjoying his cigar
for an hour afterwards, with the gusto and e1aitu
of a SpaniaTd
Walking right on, as it were lille against time,
with the glass at fever heat vet taking it cool in
the most serious and pressing matier-a COM
pound of the Red Man, BFummel, and franklin,
statesman and laborel-on he goes, divided and
subdNlded in politics and religion professionally
opposed with keenness of competition in vain
looked for even in England. Yet let but the ma
tional rights or liberty be threatened and that
vast nation stands pyramid Of resolye united as
one man, with heart, head, hand, and purse,
burning with a Romans zeal TO defend inyioate
the cause CT the Commonwealth
20 HIM who has lived among the Americans,
and looked largely at the theory and practice of
their government and its executives THERE remains
no possible doubt that the greatest amount of per-
sona security and freedom has been produced
from the least amount of cost, of any nation in
the world. Culling its principles and wisdom
from the history of all empires, it stands the neal
est OF all earthly systems TO perfection; because
1t Is built on and embodes those principles which
God hath proclaimed in his attributes.
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 ultmatum.-
When man dies, you see none of that sentiment
q use the best term can think of,) which sur
rounds such an event in other countries The
American Is silent in manner-embarrassing so
at hrst, extremely accurate in his observation Of
human nature, and any man that cannot bear to
be scruilnzed, had better not come here The
American Judges much by the eye, and has
most envlable power ofestmation Your tenn
perament, speech, looks, and acts are all taken
IN BY him; and It You can get tablet of his iudg-
ment, you will find remarkable daguerreotype
of your exact worth written thereon. They arc
all phrenologists and physiognomists, not merely
as philosophera, ban as PRACTICAL appers Of those
lnduci've sciences; aud beneath show Of posi-
tive lazlness or anguor there is an amount OF en-
ergy and action, mental and physical, perfectly
surprising They are not ayerse to the higher
branches of science or literature; but they bend
all to utility, and are, nation, the best arh-
metlcians in the world; aud this science alone,
gives terse matter-of-Eact TO their mental work.
ing; IN fact, when man wants TO reflect on a
proposition, he says, "Wait I'LL figure up