The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-03-30
4 Genuine Yankee cut West

+ 4 Genuine Yankee cut West
/ The Yankee, as described in popular
lectures and shown up by foreign tourists;
is more or less fabulous character, but
now and then ne hear of one who has al
the rough and ready, go-ahead talent and
native idio5yncracy, combined with real
virtue and bencvolcncc instead Of petty
shrewdness and peuny-wise tact. The
following portraiture is from the Editori-
al Jottings of the National Magazine
Pressing our way through the throngs
Of men and freight that crowd the grand
railroad depots of the city-depots which
cover acres-Be found ourselves again on
board steamboat bound for Lake Huron.
We were hardly on board, when my
friend introduced me to passenger, who.
| saw at a glance, was 'charaeter.---
He wore hat that certainly had not been
brushed for six months, and might have
been as many years old; it was high, and
falling slightly aback, disclosed as ganu-
inc a Yankee contour as ever the London
Punch or Yankee Notions portrayed
that prominence of the nasal region, out
pointed if not up-pointed, those lines rad
iating from the eyes and extending to the
very ears, those thin but tough intcru-
ments, and that indescribable expression
of easy self possession, of mingled cute
ness and good humor, which become the
moral and physiognomical characteristics
of Brother Jonathan the world over
His shoes were rough, heavy clumps of
leather, that certainly had never known
'blacking;' his coat and pantaloons were
black wollen. Of the coarsest, strongest
texture; his shirt bosom and collar were
unstrached coarse cotton and he wore no
stock. He evidently did not relish the
delcctation of shaving, and his speech
was the perfection Of the nasal dravl. lie
might defy the best Yankee Shaker of
Enfield to beat him in the last respect
AND yet there was something exceeding
ly interesting about him. lie announced
himself to me, when introduced, as a
'loafer of the seventh distillation;' he
seemed to be conscious Of his appearance,
and to enjoy the practical joke 1t was
playing upon the fashionable dilcttante-
ism Of the world. For after all, he stood
before US a genuine mana man who
had nobly fought with misfortune and
won the day, who was religiously up
right, whose energies are expended in do
ing good in the noblest way, by promot-
ing education and virtue, whose name IS
on an important literary. institution of
the West, ard who was now actually OH
his way to the Chippewa camp meeting,
to obtain two or three young Indians
whom he wished to educate at his own
expenses, for the benefit of their race.
We learn that be was in fact real
Connecticut Yankee, from Litchfeld
County-Ehat; Yankee like, be started in
youth to teach in the South; that finding
it rather poor business for both health
and pocket, he returned destitute and
sick not to hang upon the old folks
but heroically to 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 bis stake re;o;ced with bs young
wife, thanked God, took courage, and
Shook his stick at fortune with manly
defiance.
In brief he has formed 4 village, (tho
we'll known Berea Of the Vest has Civ
en- it the buildings and necessary annual
income Of fourishing Boarding Acad-
emy; has opened a grindstone quarry
from which is paid this income, and also
$500 a year to the Methodist Missionary
Society; has built railroad (of which he
is sole proprctor) connecting tie village
with the Cleveland and Columbus Road;
has built cotton and WOODEN manufacto-
ries, in which all his own clothes are
manufactured, and being a genuine
Yankee, Chat is thoroughly practical
man) he has, last of all erected large
stone edifce for another academy-a sort
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own. In this institution he has placed a
steam engine and apparatus, for the man
ufaoture of cloth and for knitting under
garments and hosiery, by which he Is to
furnish employment to female pupils;
while farm, from which he hopes to
draw full subsistence for the school, is to-
gether with stone quarry, TO afford la
bor 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 dependant upon such efforts is to
be admitted. Several students are al
ready there and at work God bless you,
John Baldwin, with your old hat and
rough shoes, your biz hear; and generous
deeds!
, Of all happy households, that is the
hoODiaSt who're f,IsehOoA IL never thOurht