Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-02-28
,VESING STAR.
L0CAL INTELLIGENCE

on this subject on Monday evening at the
Smithsonian Institution. He commenced by
saying
No two people have 50 little idea of each
other ~ these Of the North and South The
popular idea entertained by Southerners re-.
speeting the Yankee is, that physic ally, he IL
Ratchet faced, long, lank, and Skinny; he Is
prone to talk great deal, and that through
his nose; he Is very fond Of cod fish, onions
pork and molasses, new rum. and bad eigars.
he is temperate, because he is too economical
to pay for his liquor; he is the concentrated
essence of sel6shness; he does not hate others.
he only loves himself more. He fed in old
times from religious persecution, to the rocky
shores OF Plymouth, and there erected an
altar to religious liberty, and consecrated it
with the blood OF skinny witches and heretical
quakers. The parts Of the Bible he loves
most, treat Of the sharp dealings of Jacob with
Lsban, and he laughs as he reads Of the good
bargain he made with Esau, and then goes
South to hnd some Esau to play Jacob with
himself
= His love Of money predominates over every
thing else; he has no poetical sensi silities
all feeling in him Is utilitarian If he had the
remodeling Of creation, the clouds would lose
their fantastic shapes and colors, and cease to
rove In the heavens, except as they went
straight to that tract Of country that needed
shower, and then discharge their contents
with the precision Of q waterproof the shells
would all be of one color, and Of the best aai-
ity for the manufacture Of lime; the noun
tsins would be levelled, and the valleys filled
up, 30 that the earth would be one vast plain,
which he would cover with two story brick
houses, all Of one size ard pattern, and their
inmates would be forced on pain Of death 10
subscribe for the New York Tribune He
could abort as soon compose an epic poem as
could steam engine. He can deliver pane
gyric on the Star Spangled Banner, and then
tell you how much it cost yard. He is very
enthusiastic, but there is q method in bis mad.
ness He would send an immense army to
Europe to inculca.e free principles at the
point OF the bayonet, as he would have a
chance 10 supply the arms, ammunition, and
clothes OF the army. None were more encour
aging to Kossuth than he yet when the sim
pie man wanted material aid" they stood
sloof, and all ne got from them was 5000 old
muskets which never 'Tent of7' till they left
the United States. Laughter
The Yankee Is regarded as very inquisitive
about every body's business but bis own He
Il walking Interrogation point. His valor
never gets the better Of his discretion and he
don't get into q row without knowing that he
can beat his opponent in foot race He Is
full Of isms, especially abelitionism, and
would be glad to see the cotton fields which
supply his factories DESTROYED, their owners
mastered in cold blood and the South turned
<into a desert, in order that his pet hatred
slayery-night no lspger exist.
He closed this part Of the lecture by an ex.
tract from a South Carolina novel, in which
the hero sold himself to the devil, bat could
obtain his release by substituting twenty five
others In his place. He advertises for substi-
tutes, and two hundred Yankees make tn cir
appearance On being asked on what terms
they will part with their souls, the spokesman
eXpatiates on the inestimable worth of the
soul, and won't take less than $40 in specie
IGreat laughter His purchases are locked
up, and ia less than an hour each of the
twenty i've has made about $40 by swapping"
jackets The devil, on his appearance, won t
release the purchaser, for he claims each of
the ankees as his Own property, and analyses
their souls and shows them to be compounds
of cunning, cowardice, knayery, and the rest
the quintessence Of Goldfish and new rum
Laughter
He now stated that though this WIS the way
in which Yankee was regarded in the South,
the carieature was 80 bad that it bore no re.
semblance to a Yankee. There was no people
who did not love money, and who always
minded their own business. The Yankee Ia
good at . bargain, for his country is so bleak
and sterile that be is constantly at war with
nature, in order to exc out a living, with the
strictest economy and industry; so that he
became sharp practitioner naturally. There
them; but there is alss citizen s0ldiery who
will present their bayons:s at the breasts of
their own ccuntrymen when called on by the
Government, a. did the twelve hundred at the
rendition of Burns; and to say that this citi-
zen soldiery disapprovei Of bis ro,urn, is but
to heap fresh praise on them for their course
II New England has produced a Theodore
Parker, she has also produced Webster, the
4 echo Of whose name will drown the feeble
ranting of the fanatic
He denied the alleged penuriousness and
covardice Of New EDglanders. Tie idea has
been derived from the conduct Of travelling
clock pedlars, who are 10 more representatives
Of New England spirit than Murrell and his
gang are representatives Of the South
The North is not fertile country-all th at
ia accumulated, is gained by hard labor, and
they know the worth Of their money. But
they are not by any means st:ngy; they give
with great liberality 20 all benevolent insti-
tutions Of the day, both public and private
This may be called enlightened seIf-interess,
but it would be Better for the South if she
shared it, The Yankees have been called
towards, because they do not hold to the So
called code of honor; but neither did the Ro-
mans nor Greeks and they we're not called
towards. He II educated to consider dueling
~ murder, and resort to that means of settling
aquarrel, a. foolish as II is wrong But. be
they what they may, they came of good stock,
Cromwell, whose motto was, "Trust in God,
and keep your powder dry III they have
inherited the grim and unloyely traits Of the
Puritan character, it cannot be denied that
they have also inherited his stern valor He
now reviewed the conduct IF the Yankees
through the old French and Indisn wars,
that Of the Revolution, and that Of 1912, rs,
and the Mexican war, and satisfactorily
cleared them Of that charge
He did mt helieye that New England MAS
nurtured by the Federal Government, but
that, like plant on the bare surface of q
rock, it has throye by its own native energy,
against the policy Ct the Government; her
sons had covered the seas with their commerce
and when action Of the Government almost
ruined them, they did not give up the graves
and battle fields Of their forefathers-no their
energy forced out new channels they turned
their attention 10 manufactures, and soon the
land resoundsd with the rattle Of the shuttle,
and the elang Of the hammer Prosperity
returned and THAR energy Was rewarded