Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-13
From the Columbia South Carolinian, Jan 27.
President LincOlu-A Southern For
trait of Him.

If the Yankees had searched the length and
breadth of their land for a fit representative they
could not have made an apter selection than the
mn who in the Presidential chair. is now PLAYING
fantastic tricks before high Heaven Abe Lin
culn il a perfect type of the people which he
governs He is the ideal Yankee-the Yankee
as we have seen him in a thousand ridiculous
carcatures, and read of him in a thousand rid Gu
lous stories With physiOgnomv which seems
TO have been purpOsely shaped in all IT. vulgar
features TO express sharpness OF sinteiligence,
blended with emotional insensibility. lean. lank.
long. lapsided. wkward and ungainly in person.
we might suppose that, warmed into life hv some
Pygualion of a sketcher. he had just stepped out
OF one OF the last numbers OF Punch. Thus
adapted externally To his representative position,
he i not less so i'm the whole character ot his
mind. He j. what ais history declares him 10 be
"a Yankee wood chopper, submei IN Yankee
monarch. in which capacity he presents more
ludicrous appearance than that OF Bottom crown
Ell with flowers fed with apricOtS and dew berries
AMI nursed and ended by gentle SPIRITS aud
ministering fairies
As one dwels upon the completeness with
which Liucoln at all points, embOGes the pecu-
iiarites OF his nation one can scarcely help at
tnhuting certain grave humor 10 those ancient
ladies. the Fates. who placed him upon the throne
In the mans hopeless inability to apprehend the
fFopIicie> OF time pace OF III titt tpti>e
familiarity with which he at once accoSts prince
peasant foreign envoy. visitor OF Distinction
OF his own dirty constituents; IA tie usual
draw with which he tells his absurd and inane
stories in his inapposte and impairment qGes
tons: in his mere smatteriDg OF an education
and N the utter impossibility of awning or abash
iug HIM by anv exhibition OF dignity or reverse
We recognize without difficulty the we'll known
Characteristic Of the Yankees, a they have been
again and again depicted upon the stage
We might pursue this topic still further. aud
show hos the policy of Lincoln toward the South
has been identical with that Yankee cunning
which makes the Yankee so dextrous in ali the
chicanery OF trade But we forbe,r, lest tragedy
shoud step in and compel Us TO assume gravel
tone than we care 10 take on 40 inefiaby con
tempible an object
Is il written in the book of destiny that tn:
thing. the likeness of which we have family
drawn. shall ever rule people in whom the love
of trath AMI honor and all noble aud generou.
feelings are characteristics which belong TO then
as well by nature as bv education! We do mol
believe il Better crinse under the siernest de-
pOtSn Of Europe-better the dominion Of the
hsnd himself, even though be should come iC
u 10, in the guise Of Millions ighty "archange
ruined i" but with the hoof, horns and tail of the
old legends-better a thousand times better, tx
termisation from the very face of the earth, than
to own a a master tor the fantest shadow OF
second. this mean, willy. illiterate, brutal. IN
princ'Dled. utterly vulgar creature-in word
this Yankee of the Yankees.