Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-01-19

talks bad English. "The land of steady hab-
iis' has sometimes been used as a nickname fur
the country; bot nothing is more applicable -
Habits are so stable, and the whole moral frame
Of society is so well organized among these
people, that, we're all restraints oflaw removed
things would go on as usual they are law
10 themselves
Ia European countries, lie that is born a
peasant will be peasant all his lie his
chance of forming an exception 10 the rule is
exceedingly small But, on beholdng the mos,
rus,ical clown Of all Iankee-land, it would not
be safe to affirm that he would not be numbered,
al some future day, among the most eminent
men of the country. There is no burying a
man of genius here the humblest birth shuts
out no one either from the hopes or the facul-
ties of rising to that station for which his ma
tive talent has qualified him. Rare, indeed, is
1t to find an individual who cannot read and
write, every one has therefore that In0dicum
of knowledge placed within bis reach which
will enable him to obtain more. should his
wishes aspire. Clowns, properly speaking,
there are none among the Yankees Yankee
is emphaticaly civil man, though his ciyivil-
ity may not produce all the bows and grimaces
and nnmeaning compliments which accompany
or constitute that quality among the French /.
rudeness of manners could be charged against
these people only by those who know nothing
about them. "Couniries," SAYS Goldsmith,
wear very different Appearances 10 persons Ia
different Circumstances. A traveller who IS
whrled through Europe in a posi-chaisc, and
a pilgrim who walks the grand tour on foot,
will form very different conclusions" Now,
sundry people have been whrled from Boston
Ia New York in a nail-coach, and said know
not what aboni manners. have travelled
over the New Englaud states on foot over
highways and byways; snpped at the most
splendid h1iels and the musi paliry inns en-
tered every farmers door that offered as a rest
ing place aud crossed any mans garden, or
cornheld, or orchard, that lay in my way, With
out receiving an uncyl woid on my whole
route On one occasion lost myself in the
woods among the Green Mountains Of Vermont,
where imagined there was no living creature
10 be encountered for miles, excep; black bears
catamounis, and similar country gentlemen /:
but on a sudden emerged from the wood into
an open spot where stood log hut A liue
Aaxen-hesdcd urchn espied inc coming, and
began to scramble with all specific hide him
self, as ] supposed but no--ii was to gain the
summit of an immense log of wood. which lay
by the lille pathway. where he greeted me- 40
passed, with as profound bow as ever re-
ceved.
4 Yankee is cauiious--more so than a
Scoichman. lie will make no bulls, but take
especial care not TO be caught tripping in his
speech. 1t is amusing often To see the dexter
answer to question. where he suspects 1t may
not be altogether safe to speak positively; aud
as to nswering an sbFupt query. without know
ing why il is put, catch hin there if You can.
Guessing, after all. is not so Improbable a
practice it is no small undertaking, at times,
TO extract evidence from a witness in court.
'Did you ever see the man drunk |" asked
counsel OF a fellow on the stand.
"Why, I've seen him jolly"
"3ul did yon ever see him drunk -
1--WE seen him pretty we'll TO live"
"Bui did you ever see him drunk -
1--WE seen him when thought he had full
enough"
"But was he DRINK, or was he mott"
"Why, he might have neen drunk and then
again, he might not. can't say he wasn't,
and ! can't say he was"
"Pray," asked another, "did you see the de-
fendani throw the stone !"
"why, saw him have stone, and ! sup
pose he might have thrown it,"
'How large a stone was il ~
"Why, should call it argish stone"
"But say how big il was"
SIT appeared to me 10 be stone Of some big
ness.''
'Bu, describe the bigness Of IT,"
"As near as can rccollec,, it was eonsid-
erable Of stone"
"But can't you compare it, and say ii was
as hig as this thing OF that thing :"
"Why, if should say now, | should say
it was as big-as big--as piece of chalk"
The highest praise which a Frenchman i'm
agines he can bestow upon an individual is 10
call him an homnie d esprit, An Englishman
describes his friend as ''eood-nalured, sensi-
bic fellow - special Yankees commendation
lerprising man." Nothing for Yankee like
enterprise and good qualities 10 him are worth
little without il. ! think it is in Cicero's new
Undiscovered "Republc," nee zero salts esi
ha5erc rirtuten nisi uiare, This is a true Yan-
kee maxim-give your good qualities action.
To him il is inconceivable that a man should
be good for anything who does not make his
presence felt among those around him. A stir
ring spirit, stirring deeds, a stirring life
these fnrm the common theme Of praise and
if Gan is said to he good, it viii be necessi-
a.