American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-03-13
What Shall We Call Them.

The Richmond Wing says that the people
have been puzzled for name appropriate to
the base race east of Mason and Dixon's line.
Unionists and Federals are the terms they
employ themselves, but everybody feels that
they fall far short of describing the thing as
it is. Gen. Beauregard has suggested Abo-
iitionists-but this is technical and limited
in its Specification, and does not begin to
define the universal deprayity of the race.
Yankee is the only word that meets the CASE
and is the synonym of everything mean that
the mind of man can conceive. We have
constantly used it in that sense for nearly
two years, and We are gratified to find that
the reverend author of the campaign from
Texas to Maryland" who knows the animal
well, and thoroughly appreciates all the de-
testable traits of his character, concurs with
us. We subjoin his paragraph on the sub
ject, with hearty appreciation of the desig-
nations and the reasons for it:
{. The next and last is the only one that
will apply. Yankee, the popular name for
the citizens of New England. This is what
Webster says it means-und this is what we
want-a name for the people of New Eng
land. And as their history is well known to
the civilized world, the whole world will I'M
dcrstand ourselves when we call them Yam
KEGS. 1t is the only name word in the
English or any other language, living or
dead, that can be applied with fall scope and
force. 1t extends to all their ten thousand
schemes of deception and fraud, and compre-
hends their every act of lying and stealing
from the days of Washington till the present
hour, in all their political, legislative, execu-
tive, commercial. civil, moral, literary, sacred,
profane, theological and diabolcal history.
The word has ever been used in contempt
uOus ridicpie of their conduct towards each
other, and their dealings with the rest OF the
world. And there is other word in all
the range of human learning. which will con-
m ind of ma hpf in En-
and America, in Africa and the islands of the
sea, so many and correct trials of character,
as the word Yankee, when applied to Yam
KEGS And thus applied, it means meddle-
some, impudent, insolent, pompous boastful,
unkind, ungi ateful, unjust. knavish, false,
deceitful, cowardly, swindling, thieving,
robbing, brutal and murderous.
With this name we inyoluntarly associate
the story of the clock peddler who stole the
landlady's Counterpart off her own bed, and
then sold it to her-shoc-soles made of birch
bark, wooden hams, patent medicines, chalk
milk and wooden nutmegs. 1t carries us
back to days of yore, and enables us to look
at the different phases of society, from the
time they burnt old women for witches to
the days of the inauguration of the woman's
rights conventions. Exhibiting the style of
dress worn by Puritans in beautiful contrast
with the fast age that puts their women in
breeches.
The Yankee country has given birth to
Socialism, Mormonism, Spirituaiism, and
Abolitionism, with every other devilism
which has cursed the nation of Unionism
And as there is word that will express
all these and hundred more tsms / prefer to
use that word, and thereby say all that can
be said on this subject-the term is Yankee
ism. And we will call them Yankees Gen
Beauregard and the newspapers to the con-
trary notwithstanding.-L Repubrn