The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-04-26

A writer In the ''Church Record" thus
concludes Ell article on New England:
Patriots, philosophers, philanthro-
pists and scholars have been children
among the granite gorges Of this New
England, and wherever truth and honor
are battling, the sons Of puritans will be
found eager in the fray. But We are err
ratic-pardOn uS-we would talk with
you Of humber men, indigenous plants,
that nature has scattered upon this sterile
SUBJECTIVE Yankeesl truly full Of char
acter, burning with enterprise and curios-
ity. We meet them. lean in person as q
hunters dog, and with . parched cOunte-
nance, ready for sorrow or sadness, Of
elastic steps, thoughtful but not abstract.
ed, patient, because cunning, ever watch
tul, slow to anger, avoiding a conflict, but
resOlute at bay. In dress, always pre-
else and never foppish; choosing their
own fashions, and seldom changing them,
their toilet betrays them everywhere they
go. The ease OF their language is their
desire to please, and their oily words fore.
shadow a profit They are alI mechanics;
the history of mans necessities is the his
Va NuC't WhllC NttAA
is only curious inevitably come from such
busy hands and brains. The live Yankee
has no home; his love Of invention breeds
. love Of change, and wherever . human
trail shows itself, we find him painting on
the track. He never pines in foreign
lands, or grows sentimental; the beauty
of river is its capacity for q steamboat,
its sloping banks checked into village lots,
and its classic waters might do the drudg-
cry Of cOttOn-mili. He looks upon the
marble pyraMid and guessss at its height,
calculates the stone by the perch, and sells
the magnificent rslis At pyoGi. 8e
cnmdS The Mountains height, crossed by
beleaguering hosts, aud is struck at once
with the propriety Of tunnel; he sits
beneath the Sheltering vine and listens to
the whispering sea, looks upon the warm
promises Of the grape, and forgetting the
holy memories Of the land Of songs, his
fretful slumbers turn the smiling vintage
int0 wine and make for him a happy bar
gain. You shall find him at Constantine
pie, making up in grimace what he lacks
in language, while spreading plaster
with his tongue for the man Of Mahonet
go 10 the Sandwich Islands or to Austria
liza, and listen to his arguments in favor
of republics; go where you will, from the
north TO the sultry south, from earth's
J''9rning khaktA.,,e,>, s-..>. ~N~Oe.ss ks">>,..
jonathan you will find arguing or trading.
His religion is practical; he mourns over
the heather, aud is ready to convert
them by thcjob; he loves liberty with
a,th,,..or,a c.,ll
lieveS that his country can whip the uni
verse. IL the phlegmatic and well bred
Englishnan talks Of roast beef and his
ancestors, Jonathan has pumpkin pie
and grandfather to match them il the
Frenchman grows frantic over fricaSSee
Of frogs quarters, Jonathan pulls out q
dough-nut and a greening; if the dusky
Italian mentions the mad bclchings of
Vesuvius, Jonathan is ready to qucnch it
with the believing torrent of Niagara.
In argument, always Specious, this pro.
g:essive phenomena tramps the world
with the skeleton Of a patent right in his
carpet-bag, and in his ever open hand a
pleasant How are ye?" If you would
save your pride from being BUNDLED, risk
it not in a dickcr with Jonathan; his ra-
zor is the true Damascus. strapped upon
the wand of Midas for golden harvest !;
his sanctity is often shrewdness, and his
sweet camplaiSance is quite often the re-
f1ected halo of somebody's shilling. Con
stitutionally and by education honest, he
is always penitent for the deeds done in
the body; his Inequalities and charities
are ceremonial duties, his piety is the Sc
verify of the Sabbath, but his bias is the
impulse of creative genius
chained to the more sordid passion for
lucre. The live Yankee is but the eccen-
tricity Of a truly wonderful people; the
moral and physical impress of New Eng
land is stamped upon the universe; we
owe her our nationality, and the world
owes her admiration and respect"