Litchfield enquirer., 1854-03-09
A Gennine Yanlee out yEesr.

fabulous character, but now and then we hen of one who has all the rough and ready, go-aEea, talent and native idiosyncracy, combined wili real virtue and beneyolence instead of pett, shrewdness and penny-wise tact. The follow ing portraiture of sample from this county, i from the Editorial Jottings of the National Mag azine:
 Pressing our way through the throng' Of men and freight that crowd the grane railroad depots of the city; depots whicl cover acres; we found ourselves again oI boaid steamboat hound for Lake Hu ron. We were hardly on board whei my friend introduced me to passenger ~ho. saw at glance, was 'scharac. ter" He wore hat that certainly haf not been brushed for six months, ianc might have been as many years old il was high, and failing slightly aback. dis closed as genuine a Yankee contour as ever the London Punch or Yaakee No- tions portrayed that prominence of the nasal region, out pointed if not up point- ed, those lines radiating from the eyes and extending 10 the very ears. those thin but tough integuments, and that in- describable expression of easy self pos. session, of mingled "cuteness" and good humor, which become the moral and physiogpomical characteristics of Brother Jonathan the world over, His shoes were rough, heavy clumps of leather. that cer- tainly had never known "blacking ;" his coat and pantaloons were black woolen. of the coarsest, strongest texture; his shit bosom and collar were unstarched coarse cotton, and he wore no stock. He evidently did not relish the delec.alion of shaving, and his speech was the very perfection of the nasal drawl. He might defy the best Yankee "Shaker" of En. field to beat him in the last respect. And yet there was something exceedingly inc teresting about him. He announced him- self to me, when introduced as 'loafer of the seventh distillalion ; he seemed to be conscious of his appearance. and to enjoy the practical joke it was playing upon the fashionable diletlanteism of the world. For after all, he stood before us a genuine man; man who had nobly fought with misfortuns and won the day. who was religiously upright. whose en- ergies are expended in doing good in the noblest way, by promoting education and virtue. whose name is on an important literary institution of the West. and who vas now actually on his way to the Chippewa camp meeting, 10 obtain two or three young Indians whom he wished 10 educate at his own expense. for the benefit of their race.
 We learned that he was in fact real Connecticut Yankee, from Litch6eld Co.,. 1; that, Yankee like. he started in youth to teach in the South that finding it rather poor business for both health and pock> ct, he returned destitute and sick, not to hang upon the old folks,' but heroical- y 10 marry Yankee girl of like mind with himself, and then, armed with his axe and accompanied by his bride, to march bravely into the Western woods. Here he located about twelve miles south of Cleveland .and putting down his stakes rejoiced with his wife. thanked God. took courage, and shook his Atick' a. fortune | with manly defiance.
 In brief he has formed village, (the well known Berea Of the West, has given it the buildings and necessary income oi a fourishing Boarding Academy; has opened grindslone quarry from which is paid this income, and also $500 a year 10 the Methodist Missionary Society; has built a rail road (of which he is the sole propreior) connecting the village with the Cleveland and Columbus Road; has built cotton and wollen manufactories in which all his own cloths are manufac> tured, and being genuine Yankee. (.hat is, thoroughly practical man) he has. last of all erected large stone edifice for another academy--a sort of manual labor school on a plan of his own. In this institution he has placed steam engine and apparatus, for the manufac> ture of cloth and for knitting under gar ments and hosiery, by which he is to furnish employment to female pupils while farm, from which. he hopes tc draw full subsistence for the school. is together with stone quarry, 10 affo'd q labor and manly muscle to male pupils The design is to afford education to | young men and women who are under the necessity of "working their way | No one not dependent upon such | efforts is to be admitted. Several stu. dents are already there and at work. God bless you. John Baldwin. with your old hat and rough shoes. your big heart and generous deeds
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