Litchfield enquirer., 1856-02-14
run YANKEE CHARACTER.

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 THE YANKEE CHARACTER.
 Js.ocs R0s.el: Lowell txYi6ins fhe Yanle ec exsre.urly well Tn the following passages
 The Yankee character has wanted neithes open insiigncrs, nor even more daugeroas enemies n lhe psrsons of those in<kiilfpt paiaiers who hays gwen 10 t shal hardness, anguiafi,y, snd wsni II proper pefspeciive. which. in fsush. bei0n gcd n ,t iosl1rir snbleefs h,t to ,llsir oxs n;;9xasd and ussksIIfni pencil
 Nav Enx3apd wa $ not ss muclt fhe colony If mather coun,ry as Hasar- driven forib ;r,o Inc viIderness The iiiile self-exi!ed t.a ,d ,v,.;ct, came bi,her in 1929. came, nsa 10 sseslrs ~aid. hus 10 fa1nd desnocEacy. They 2. n,c ti,at they might have the privilege 10 work and pray, to sit ppcn hard btEchcs and lissen 10 painful preachers as long as they ,voa,d. vca even unfo thirty seyenihiy. II :he ,suir,t so wflied it. And surely # the Greek mi boast his Thcr,nepy.a, ssheses ibree hundred men tel in resissing the Persiar, we may . ea be proud Of our Plymouth Rock where a handful Df mea, women. and children not merely faced, but yanquishods Wsnier, famine, tho wilde rpcss, and. the ye' more lD- yincibIe storge thai drew them back 10 the efeeu island far away These tenrd no lotus, growing upon the sur!y shore. the taste Q! which could nuke them forget their lui!e na- tive Ithaca nor were bey 60 wanting To themselves in faith asio burp their ship, but could see fine fair west wind belly ihe home ward sad, and then turn unrepining 10 srap- ptc viii, the terrible Ua,knswn.s,s
 As Want was the prime foe these hardy rxodisfs had 10 fortress themselves agains', 90 ii is little wonder H that traditional! iend is long in wearing aut of the stock. The wounds of the old ~a,iare were loag 2 healing, and an east wind of hard i,mes puis ps9 ache in every one of thea. Thrift was he first lesson n Iheir .horn- book, panied ou', letter afier letter, by tho lean 6nger of he hard schooiDaster, Necessity. Neliher. were thnss. plunip. srosy.g;li.'d Englisbmen that came hiiher bos a hard. faced, atrab!oas. earnest eyed race, siiH from long wrestling with t:ie Lord in prayer, and who had taught Satan to dread ihe new Puritan hug. Add two hundred ycars' influence of soil, clmate, and cxposufc with iis necessary result of idiosgn rsasies, and we have the present Yankee. full of expcdicnls, hall. sier of al. tates, inventive inal bu, ibc bea ulful, full of slgfis, not set capable of fcomfo.t. armed al all points against thc old snc,ny, Hunger, lopganmous, good al patching, not So caietsl for wha, Is besi as for what alll do, with a clasp 10 h,- purse and U buitop 10 his pocket. no skilled io- build against Time, as in old countries but against sore pressing Need, accustomed to move. Inc world wnb his own Eei , and no lever bui his own long forecast. A strangr hybrid, ,lindceJ, did ci,cntnsisnce begei, here in the New World. upon he old Puuiab stock, and iiie earth never beioie saw such
 my siic- praciicalism, such nigaard genialny such calculating, ,fanaicsn,, casi-iron cnihus, asn, such unwilling humof. such close fitted
 grneros,iy. This new GrGenlus esurisns will
 make living out of any i.ing lie will in
 vent new trades as well as ipols. His biain is his capital, and he will gel education al alt risks. Put him on Juan Fernandez, and he would make spelhpg book hrsl aad a sali. pan afierward. Ia celum. jusseris. iba-or the other way eitber- il is all one, so any thing is to be got by i,. Yet, after all, ihin, speculative Jonathan is more like the Eng lisimaa Of two centuries ago than John Bull himself is. He has lost somewhat in -olidlty, has become fluent and adaptable. but more of the original groundwork of character re- mains. He feels more al home wirh Fulkc Greyille, Herbert of Chcrbary, Quarlcs, George Herbert, and Bro" ne, Ihin with his modern English cousins. He is nearer than John, by al least hundredy years, 10 Naseby, Mansion Moor, Worcester, asd the tune when if ever, iherc ware true Englishmen. John Bull has suffered the idea of the Invisible 10 be very much iai,ened out of him. Jonsihan is corscious still that hc lives n the world of the Uusern as well as of Inc Seen. To move John, you mus. make yvur fucrcm oc. sold beef and pnLiing an abstract idea Will do for Jonathan. ..z.A .e -