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

lhey arc IKE cats throw them % as YOU
please, they will come down upon their feet -
Shut their industry out from one career, and il
will force itself into another Dry up twenty
sources OF their prosperity, and they will open
twenty more They have a perseverance, that
will never languish while anything remains to
be tried they have a resolution that will try
anything, IL need be, and when Yankee saws
I"lll Try" the thing is done
Boston is bat the fourth city in the Union as
TO population, yet in many points il may be
considered the chief a metropolis there never
will be in the United Slaies-l mean for prac-
tical purposes-as London is to great Britain,
or Paris to France-for Washington will never
be great city. There may be au oyererown
population at New York, and there may be a
federal government forever within the ten miles
square, but neither Of these, nor any other
spot, will ever be able to assume to itself the
whole powers Of a metropolis. No city will
exercise a moral dictaiiun over the rest, or over
the country; no city will give the tone 10 pol
iiics, or set the fashions in literature, for the
whole Union
New York and Philadelphia owe their grea,
population to the numbers whom they receive
from the other portions Of the Union and from
the other side Of the Atlantic Boston has
grown by internal augmentation only, o. accre-
ton from lis immediate neighborhood in con-
sequence, it exhibits nothing Of that shifting
and heterogeneous character which marks the
great cities Of the South. In those cities you
find masses Of people who know little Of each
other, diverse in origin, dissimiar in habits.
discordant in tastes, difficult to calculate upon.
or TO combine for any common end but the
Bosionians are as one man-they know each
other, understand each other; whatever affects
one portion Of their community, affects the
whole they have perfect unity Of feeling
and stability Of character This has ever been
their peculiariiy and to this it is owing that
the revolution first exploded in their city. Had
| Boston been as New York. Faneuil Hall would
never have been the cradle Of American lber-
{ ty. Whatever the Bosionians do, they do
commonly with great unaniiniiy and effect
To do a thing "in Boston Style is ptoyerbial
throughout the country, as signifying a thing
done with superior prominess and execution.
With sixty odd thousand inhabitants, Boston will
raise more money IN given time, for any pub
lie purpose, than either New York OF Phila-
delphia, with more than 100000 each. i, is
the chief city, too, for literature aud the fine
arts for your Yankee. with all his ihffiiness.
is a huge buyer OF books and will bid higher
I for pictures than anybody else on the western
side Of the Atlantic. As New England is to
America what Tuscany is 10 Italy, so may we
continue the parallel, aud compare Boston 10
{ Florence, which cities resemble each other in
more points than one. Boston, like Florence,
I for polish and ciSiliiy OF manners, Tor the tai
ent of its citizens, for their early lave Of lber-
ty, and for the external appearance Of the city,
the beauty Of its situation, the splendor Of lis
ediiices, the cleanliness Of the streets. and the
general appearance Of industry, wealth, and
comfort while cor the orderly character of the
population, their sobrety Of habits and the cur
rect tone Of moral feeling that prevails among
all classes, il nay challenge a comparison with
any city, large o, small, uYon the earth. some
well-inientioned but ignoraO, people, in their
zeal to encourage the consumption Of cold wa
ter, have been in the habit OF telling one anoih-
er that much inlemperance has prevailed there;
this is totally wrong impression. have
seen more persons intoxicated at Rome in ten
days than have seen 10 Boston for ten years.
IL
rigid, aud, as we are apt to call them, bigoted
puriians, shoald have become the most tolerant
in religion Of all the American people. There
is liberty Of conscience, it is true, through
out the Union but religious prejudice is nigh
ty in many parts. In Boston, the severe and
siraight-lac Calvinsm Of former times has
disappeared. The Uniiarians now form the
largest sec, in the city, and, il is well known,
number n their ranks some Of the ablest men
in the Western world With this sect there
is no intolerance the opposing secls have
learnt forbearance from their example, aud ih1
odi,am heologicln has lost its bitterness here.
The Yankee is cool, cautious, and calculating !;
he wants a reason for everything an old pref
udice is no obstacle in his way to improvement;
his opinions must rest on solid tangible ground.
His religion must be religion of the under
standing. lie is not creduous, he is not en-
ihusiasiic There are no Catholics in New
England, save few foreigners, and there new
er will be any. The New Highlander is emf
) nenily religious man, but his religion never
will be a religion Of ceremnnies. The Epis-
copaians are much less numerous here than in
other parts. Meihodists are rare, and the 9th
er enthusiastic secls still more so.
Boston, however, is by no means the whole
of Yankeeland. Paris, we know, is all France,
and London may carry all England whl'herso-
ever she lsteih Not so in America. BroIh-
er Jonathan, with all his guesses, is another
guess sort of person; the Yankees Of the
country connol be led by those Of the capital,
except perhaps in the fashion Of go-io-meet-
/ ing coat, or the hue Of a riband. There is a
) watchful jealousy among them which is forever
= on the lookout lest the capital should get an
; undue ascendancy no matter what the poiri
in question may be, it would create az alarm
7 among the lowest yeoman of Berkshire and
7 Worcester counties, were it to be noised abroad
3 that Boston had one feathers wsigh, more in
Auence than was allowed her by chapter aud
D section of the Constitution. Urban influence
D can thus get no ascendancy the city has not,
E like great heart, all the life blood of com
r muniiy at command the country is all heart.