Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-23
TIE YANKEE.

At TIE present moment, when the pretensons of
the Yankees exciting much attention III
Spanish neutrality-suspicious. which have in view
no less than dominion over at time more or less
distant, whether by means Of that decentralization
which they know well how to put in play, or by
acts of hostility against existing Government
in exciting the political passion of parties, by
armed invasiOns, or in fine by direct conquest-we
take the occasion to point out Of the principal
characteristics of the Yankees, who affect to be
our friends or, in the hypocritical language they
are accustomed to use, ouT protectors.
No one douLts-that is tc say no one who regards
in its true point of view the hostile and ambitious
spirit of that nation manifested towards the Re-
pubics of the South--that all these are more or
less threatened with annexation which seems to be
tho profession of faith to which the Anglo -Saxons
! Of North America are sworn in respect to every
State INHABITED by Spaniards o: their descendants,
wherever they think they can make their power
available.
Under such circumstances it is not surprising
the Cabinet Of Washington should have been So
readily drawn, some years ago, into the annexa ton
of Texas and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. which, tho
resting upon principle of the law of nations,
nevertheless ertended the area of the Un;on and at
the same time greatly enriched it.
But, say they, since the Spanish-Ameriean peo-
pie who have been thus brought to taste the sweets
/ OF their magnanimous and philanthropic govern
ment have been much benefited by the exchange
why should they nos go in their crusade and
make others particpators Of their prosperity?
Now that this Anglo-Saxon race known by the
name of Yankees, is anxious to absorb the whole
world of Columbus, and to exterminate every
Spaniard in it, let us endeavor to give some dei
of their character, that their distinctive qualities
may be better known, which is the more necessary
since even in Chill there is not wanting e writer
who seems to think that the only means of civil
i 1of4 1 -
iards in America is participation in the spirit 0
that people.
u In the personal description part of the origi
nal is unfortunately torn out that the tsansaol
is unable to give a literal version This vii
account for the blanks in the paragraph that fol
lows
There is, in truth, nothing in the physiognom,
or - to be enyied Though there is regularity
enough in the features Of his face and his muscles
were developed, there is, nevertheless, in hi
whole - much that is disagreeable. In his lool
something of the bird of prey his mouth, though
-. has much of the prophet in his thin and con
traced lips, giving to his person, in short exactly
such an appearance as we might imagine to belong
to pirate.
} Whether it be true or not that the good or eyi
thoughts of the heart as we'll as the predominant
qualities of the soul may be discovered in tn
physiognomy of the man, impressed upon the ez
ternal TEXTURES OF MS lace, III ne 1ankee, thb re
sembance, this identity of face and soul is alway
to be found, with very few exceptions. +
} Examine the history of the United States iron
! the time they began to make war upon the State
. of the South; examine it from day to day, not il
its falsifed records, but in the truth Of the act
committed by its Government in its ambition, i
its injustices in its unheard-of violations and thi
will be demonstrated to be the spirit which has &C
tuated the Confederation Of the North. Robberes
4 piracies, outrages of every kind have been th
! blessings lavished by the Americans upon th
people of South America, wherever their inyadin
+ and unjustifable march has been felt.
D Examine the pretensions, the acts committed b
S their fllibusters, annexatonists, and squatteri
5 and then the justice which has been meted to th