American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-11-29
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An extraordinary peOPio' =" ~" ""S
practical they are rapidly distancing the
world. In bold conception, in splendid,
daring and successful execution they excel.
They have the FIVE senses fully developed.
They See admirably. They Hear and
know all that is transpiring. They are
iarge-not to say gluttonous-eaters, and
So have good Taste-living fast" They
are. persons or communities of acute Feel
ing. for they are exceedingly alive to the
national honor, and so win so 10 war for
tribes, and they lay hands on all they can,
and so prove their Touch acute.
They are a fresh people; and by that |
mean a people not worn out. This is some
thing-a good deal. At least We think it
is in horses and women. A young wiry,
fir ,strong-limbed, round barreled colt is
always a ~favori.e with an old horse man.
He says "the animal has the root Of matter
in him. He wants training. The bit,
the bride, and gentle authority will reduce
his powers. He will yet make a nag that
will 90 down into the thirIies.'" A yong
D fresh looking, ruddy-cheeked, bright-eyed
girl is a beautiful creature. She may be
unused to The drawing room, may notknow
how to apply rouge 10 her cheeks, may have
little art and less coquetery, may be unable
to speak French, but she hiss health, and Il
sonI which is ungalledby sorrow, aud hard
usage, and this is interesting.
So it IS with US as a nation or people.
We are young in our grisil. We lack
solidity. compactness, full growth. The
nation has not seen a mans lifetime yet.
How then can it be anything else than
green? 1t has all the freshness Of newness.
Forty years ago it was said of us that "No
American has achi we'd any thing mlsterly
in painting Where are the American
srchitects, land and %naval?' An Echo
answered. But Echo is no longer the ma
tional trumpcter. She has given place to
Fame sud she has a hundred tongues. She
proclaimes our wonderful qualities in every
land on every mountain-top and away off
in the islands Of tie sea. One can hear
her Boosting Of our statesmen, Of our gen
erals-not such creatures rs they have in
the Crimea-but men like Washington,
Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor and
Winfield Scott-the ,Maccabees OF people,
who, when they do fight, do it Triumphant
ly, aud with such zest, beaitiness, and de-
cided relish that one thinks only Of that
horrid trade-War. Her voice is solo-
rous and clear, like that of some old wizard
in a mountain gap, proclaiming that "now
we have poets, painters, artists, authors,
that the land is brimful Of genius, overrun
ming with it, and oozing out in the shape
of steamboats,, subsoil piows, potato dig
geqs, stone cutters, yachts, knife grinders,
wheat reapers, dirt excivators, wide gauge
railroads, and Erie canals" On Sunday
she takes it on her especially TO proclaim
that we have a "church without IA bishop,
a State without king" She points a fin.
ger at our steeples, and says 10 all creation
"Look aud %learn!' She carries you through
every shady nook snd through every glen
and bids you take note ofthe way, the man
ner, and the velocity with which our teach
'ers force the young idea how to shoo..'
And then. straightning up her tall form
for Fame is tall and strait-she rings GU
n voice clear as the scream Of a young
eagle, and declares, that though we alC
laughed at, ridiculed, criticised, AMI founc
fault with, we are n great people, an al
The people, as in duty bound. say "amen!
II is to a sober and coolly calculating
man a matter Of establishment aud pril'
the degree to which the inventive faculties
of our people is at work. True, it show
itself mostly in the useful arts, in mechan
teal contrivances for the saving of labor
From the elaborate and artistic ship-keC
to that Of a hen-pursulder the mind of GU
people rune' to new creations. To max
what was never before made, to do wis
was never before done, suits our type o
mind. We discover new laws in mechan
les or chemistry, or new applications Of oil
laws.