Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-07-18

Stuart Dor CrOmsel Ia America where tbsre was no
power to mediate between them, they would have de-
voured each other as they did in England had rot Pro-
violence thrown them wide apart, one party at the
South the other al the North, leaving between them
the territory now occupied BY the jatesmieHr States
Of New York and Pennsylvania with their satellites Ne"
Jersey and Delaware.
The virginian of ruic is frank, hearty open,
cordial in his manners noble in bis sentiments elevated
is bis notions he is worthy descendant OF the English
gentleman Surrounded, from infancy, by his slaves,
who relieve him from all personal exerion, re is rather
ndsposed to activity, and is indolent DE Is gen.
aroma and profuse To him, the practice
Of hospitality is at once duty, pleasure and hap
pness Like the Eastern patriarchs or omers heroes
he spits an OK to regae the guest whom Providence
sends him and an old friend recommends to his atten-
ton and to moisten this solid repsst he ceis Madeira,
of which he Il as proud as OF his horses that has been
twice to the East Indies and has been rpenng full
twenty years he loves the institutions OF his country
vet he shows with pride his family plate, the arms on
which half efaced by time attest his descent from the
first co oniss and prove that his ancestors were OF
good family in England When his mind has been cul
his manners and refined his Imagination, there is no
place in the world in which he would not appear to ad
vantage, no destiny too high for him to reach he is
one of those whom man is glad to have as compan-
ion and desires as friend Ardent aud warm hearted
he is of the block from which great orators are made
lie is better able to command men, than to conquer ma
ture and subdue the coil. When he has certain DC
gree of the spirit of msthSd, aud will not say VII
(Gor he has enough Of that but of that active perse-
yerance so common at the North, he has all the quail
ties ne dful to form great statesman.
"The Yankee, on the contrary is reserved, cautious,
dstrustful his manners are without grace, cold and
often unprepossessing he is narrow in his ideas, but
practical and possessing the idea of the proper, he
never rises to the gradd. He has nothing chiyalric
about him. aud yet he is adventurous and loves rowing
life HIS Imagination is active and original, producing
however not poetry but drolery. The Yankee is the
aborious ant he is industrious and sober, frugal and
ON the sterile soil of New England, niggardly
He is crafty sly always calculating, Boosting even
the tricks which he plays upon the careless or trusting
buyer, because he looks upon them ss marks OF bis
,uperior slgacity and well provided with mental reserI
vations to lu his conscience. He is little given to
be spaliy or rather he displays it ony on rare coca
sions, and then he does on great scale. lie Is
ready speaker and close reasoner, but not brilliant
orator. For statesman, he wants that greatness Of
mind and soul which enables a man to enter into and
love auothers nature and leads him naturally to consult
his neighbours good in consulting his own. He is ind
vduasm incarnate But if he is not great statesman
he is an able administrator an unrvaled mar OF 6us
ness If he is not suited to command men, he has no
equal il acting upon things, in combining, arransing
and giving them value"