New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-06
American Activity and Ubiquity.

American Activity and Ubiquity.
The restlesspess ana onlnipresence Of Amer
;cans have been frequently noted and remarked
!. botb n Home and abroad, by those who wer
mrnrised at seeing some representative Of tn
!. ,reatest nation of all creation whereve
thev xsnt. come have laughed and some phi
losophized upon the subject, but all borne testi
mony 70 tho tact.
Jonathan is, indeed, bird Of motion ant
movement, finding all oceans, islands and con
tinents all cities and places. worthy of his at
tention and patronage, He is migratory botl
by nature and education. His earliest study j
book Of travels, and his first reeollections ar
the tales of wild adventure told him on hi
rrandfatherss knee. 1t is customary abroad Il
ascribe all the rowing disposition to Yanke
nature. It is not thus confined, however, bu
il just Dis strong in the South and West, as il
the North, and actuates the people Of ever.
State. He who lives on the outermost Yves
looks to q land lying still nearer the settin
sun, and longs to visit those dim regions wher
the God Of Day was tabled to enter the colder
cup that bore him to the commencement of an
other days journey. He who found life amit
Southern sayannahs or on the shore Of the Mex
lean Gull, has dreams Of islands that float il
the sunlight Of the equator and enjoy eterna
summer. The whole nation is nomadic by in
,etinct, and, in accordance with their means, al
xhe people are travellers. Climb the pyramid d
Cheops OF search the ruins of Copan, the first
sight will be Yankee autograph. Visit the
most fashionable places Of European resort--an
American will be found eolipsing dukes and
earls In prodigality and display. Far as the
earfier European exploring expeditions pene-
trated towards the North Pole, an American
NhaleIahip hrcught down to them news from a
still higher latitude, and half the Southern Arc 1
tic Ccnfinent has been mapped out by tho dis /
coyeries IF United States feet. A native Of
Virgins to-day sells coffee to the caravans that
cross thu great dessrt 0f Sahara 4 son Of Yer
mont does business in Greenland Massachu-
setts boy stands among the wealthiest Of Eng
q HAN capitalists. There are Amerieans possess
ing rank and influence Ia the Russian, French
and Turkish armies, in the Cabinets of China
and Tie Sandwich Islands in South America
and Western Africa. Indeed, where is it that
American rovera have not been thar American
residents can not be found
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never gets fat; and, both in doctrine and deed,
he assert that the attrition and polish Of con
slant intercourse with men and the world
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up new planets and asteroids, tries tosquare the
circle, and claims to have found out the principle
of perpetual motion. He hunts up new regions
and manufactures new religions; goes into the
past and future, but lives practically and use
fully III represent.
There is not so much polish and adjournment
in the workmanship of Jonathan's hands as in |
that Of many other peoples, but there is inin- |
itely more originality 1t is again his activity |
that ID at work He can not stop to do what
every one can do Having discovered princi-
pie and how it can be made useful-having rem
dered it proftable--he pushes on, at once, to
what lies beyond, aud seeks new discoveries. I
The pause is but momentary--a brief space I'd
herald bis invention, for time is money and time
flies He flies to oyertake and keep up with it.
He reaices in The foremost Of the fray. and loves
to ride on the largest wave
What we have said may seem to smack some
what Of that national self glorifcation Of which
ne are accused 1t is not soft is true. 1t is
merely d note of one Of our national peculiari-
ties and what results therefrom. It grows by
It's own growth, and becomes every day more
marked and notable Long NAV IL nontinnel