Columbia gazette., 1854-04-15
MISCELLANY.
GENUINE YANKEE OUT WEST

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The Yankee, as described in popular
lectures and shown up by foreign tour
lists, is more or less a fabulous charac-
ter, but now and then we hear of one
who hasall the rough-and ready ,go-ahead
.alent and native idiosyncracy, combin-
ed with real virtue and benevolence in
stead Of petty shrewdness and penny
wise tact. The following portraiture is
taken from the Editorial Jottings of the
National Magazine -
Pressing our way through the tbrongs
Of men and freight that crowded the
grand railroad depo!s of the clyde
pots whici, cover acrcs-we found our
selves again on board steamboat bound
for Lake Huron. We were hardly on
board when my friend introduced me to
a passenger, who, l saw at glance. was
Character He wore hat that ccr-
tainly had not been brushed for six
months, aud might have been as many
years old; it was high, and falling slight
ly aback, disclosed as genuine a Yankee
contour as ever the London Punch or
Yankee Notions portrayed-that promi-
nence ofthe nasal region, out-pointed if
not up-poiuted, those lines radiating
from the eyes and extending to the very
ears, those thin but tough iuteguments,
and that indeseribablc expression of ca
sy self possession, Of mingled "cutc-
ness" and good humor, which have be-
come the moral and physiognomical
characteristics Of Brother Jonathan the
world over. His shoes were rough hea-
Wy clumps Of leather, that certainly had
never known "blacking;;" his coat and
pantalocns were black woolen, of the
coarscst, strongest texture; his shirt-bo-
som and collar were unstarched coarse
cotton, and he wore no stock. He eyi-
IDENTIFY did not relish the delectation of
the nasal draw. He might defy the
best Yankee "Shaker'' of Enfield to
beat him in the last respect. And yet
there was something exceedingly inter-
esting about him. He announced HIM
self to me when introduced, as ssloafer
OF the seventh distillation;" he seemed
to be conscious of his appearance, and to
enjoy the practical joke it was playing
upon the fashionable diletanteism of the
world. For, after all, he stood before
us genuine mana man who had no
bly, fought with misfortune and wen the
day, who was religiously upright, whose
energies are expanded in doing good in
the noblest way, by promoting education
and virtue. whose name is on an impor
tant literary institution of the West, and
who was now actually on his way to the
Chippewa camp-meeting, to obtain two
or three young indians whom he wished
to educate at his own expense, for the
benefit Of their race.
We learned that he was in fact real
Connecticut Yankee, from Litchfeld
County that, Yankee like, he started
in youth to teach in the South; that fud-
ing it rather poor business for both
health and pocket, here turned destitute
and sick, not to hang upon the cold
folks" but heroically to marry a Yankee
girl of like mind with himself, and then,
armed with bis axe and accompanied by
his b1rde, to march bravely into the
western woods. Here he located about
twelve miles south of Cleveland, and
putting down his stakes, ,rejoiced with his
young wife, thanked God, took courage
and ''sAoek his stick" at fortune, with
manly defiance. In brief, he has FORM
ed village (the we'll known Berea of
the West, has given it the buildings
and necessary annual income of a -four
ishing Boarding Academy; has opened
a grindstone quarry from which is paid
this income, and also $500 ayear to the
Methodist Missionary Society; has built
. railroad (of which be is sole proprie-
tory connecting the village with the