The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-21
OUR YANKEE CouNTRYMEN.-THEIR
IsMs. THEIR OL0aIES, AND THEIR

lSMS, THEIR ObOdiEo, AMI lHCiN
TIES
trrom the New York Kxpress.l
That streak Of Yankee land, which en-
braces New England--Northern New York
Northern Ohio-Indana, Illinois, and Michi-
gan-is strong 'Fremont" Southern New
York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, with
Southern Illinois and Indiana, are Of differ.
ent color, and hence It 10, while Yankee land
has gone strong for Fremont, the Southern
States, and the Southern parts Of Northern
States. have gone. strong the other way
That Yankee land, which, in the days Of old
forwards. in the days Of the Storys the Web.
stera, the Everetts, and the like-held so
much sway over this country, has lost its
power-and has, in fact, became but more
provincAl-a La Vandes, &c. In short it
has now no real hold, authority, nor power,
in this Union. Why is thsi
The Yankees once conservative--once con-
stitutional-once a stad, steady people, are
now the first to run after the iams, and the
ties, and the ologies, or anything new. Mas
sachusetts, the Representative State Of the
Yankees, three years ago was all "Rum" and
"Anti.Rum." and nothing was talked of but
"Rum.' Two years ago, it was so American.
lied that il made itself ridiculous, and made
Americans in other States ashamed of it's ex-
cess. Now, however, not only Rum" but
even Gle "Pope" ha. been gnored-md the
people entertain but one, idea--but one
thought, from ''morn to dewy eve." Hence,
in the frequent changes Of issues, and from
fckelness and inconsisten cies-the Represen.
tative State Of the Yankees has lost all pow.
err. and but prejudices and damages even the
right, when it rallies to that right.
The people of New England are On intense.
iy intellectual people-but the fact is, they
have not enough to do, to keep their intel.
lects usefully employed. Amusement among
them is to some extent tabooed. except the
Amusement of Sewing meetings" and hence
the active mind rushes into the isms, the olo.
yies. and the ite. The people there, from
the energy of the climate, can work l6 or 10
hours day, If necessary. and they have
hours enough to ,pare from sleep. for any sort
of intellectual employ. Hence, as in "sew.
ing meetings." Sewing societies." de-, &c,
there is not enough to do-the mind pants
for other excitements, and agonizes itself up
on Affections the world over, real or magma
ry-and the more it agonizes itself, the more
imaginary these Affections are. There is not
negro in Georgia that pains not some
soft New England heart-while starve hun.
dreds upon hundreds in the Western Is.
lands Of Scotland, even-that never gave
that New England heart throb. The crime
the Undesirable misery of the barbarsm
in this great worlds metropolis of ours,
though printed and published in all the va.
ried forms of our City Press, touches not the
chord of New England sensibility-but a
murder in Kansas makes quake the whole
New England heart. "Distance lends en-
chantment to the view," and the greater the
distance, the more intense the tension Of the
New England heart strings. This metropolis
on election day-as recorded in our city press
was the scene of as fierce and bloody con-
tentions as have disgraced the fields of Kan
sas-but not wall comes, as yet, up from a
pare Yankee ewspaperi
New England, in New England-and New
England, in Northern Ohio, Indiana, and
Michigan, are great States, or pieces Of States.
The industry and energy of the people are
wonderful-and cannot be too highly extoll.
ed-but they are provincial only. The isms,
the ologies, and the ties of the nation worry
them to forgetfulness of the nation ITSELF
Reading lie great blessing-an indispensa'
bility of life among all cultivated people
but reading is curse-if reading only opens
the mental faculties to being excited. in or
der to be imposed upon. That sort of read
ing which takes in only one side, and that
side error, is of course worse than that igno
rance of letters which knows nothing of the
alphabet, but which, therefore, goes about
anxious, inquiring of all sides, and therefore,
learning from all. The humblest ignoramua
thus, that learns all on two sides. knows
more than the collegian who shuts his eyes
and ears to everything. but what tickets bis
passions or pfejudices Reading, therefore,
snot observation-disclosures but on the contrary
may be, a positive curse. Now then, reading
among our Yankee countrymen is not alway'
q source of instruction, but on the contrary
often, of much error. Our good sisters oil
Potsdam, NORTHERN New York, had amid their
very academies, read themselves into thor
ough conviction, that they themselves were
in danger of being turned into slaves, and Of
being victimized by some slaveholdlng mas
ter If they could not have read line, they
never would have been led into any such con-
victions to make them as unhappy as almost
all of them are.
These remarks have been suggested by the
following in the New York Post:
"Not a single friend of Buchanan is re-
turned to the House of Representatives from
all the populous region East Of New York"
Weli-what Of it, One George W. Jones
Of Tennessee, whom that State has been send
ing to Washington for is or 20 years, will
. from his national position, as we'll as expert
ence, have more weight than all this New
England together-and yet this George W.
Jones is but common saddlerl New Eng
land. to have influence, my ~ other
than fanatics to Congress- -
SPREAD OF MoRMoNIsM.-
religious delusion is spreadi