The Shasta courier., 1869-09-11
: II Asst A COU RIER.
HOW THE YANKEES DIE OUT.

n IaVOrlte tneory-on<whlch thousand
changes have been rung by certain Of our
Irish cotemporarles-with those who did
not like the Puritan. has been that the
Yankees are not provocative, and but for
the influx of foreigners would have died
out long since. L he readers of the Boston
Pilot, New York Tablet, ETC., have been
edtied thousand times by the assurances
that but for the Irish and Germans there
would not be a remnant Of the Yankees
(whatever the word means) left.
There never was a more baseless theory
spun out Of the brains OF the widest Uto-
pean than this in regard to the New Eng
land people.
Let the reasoner of the Pilot type take
New Eng land just as it stands, and he
could make out a plausible case. He might
be able to prove that the foreign births in
Boston exceed those of the natives. So
Also may the foreign population exceed
the Yankees in Boston. The case stated
thus, and we have never seen our cotem-
poraries 90 further, is somewhat in favor
OF the dyingout theory.
1 hose VINO desire to count the Yankees
must not take New England alone. That
is but the fountain OF the race.
Gowhere you will, you Will find Yankees.
They are as universal as the Irish. Chicago
is more Of Yankee city than Boston. Go
into the the wholesale houses IN Water
street in Chicago, or into Its Chamber Of
Commerce, if you want to find Yankees
Go to San Francisco, to New Orleans, te
st. Louis, to any part of creation whers
there Is railroad to be built, ship to he
sailed, an elevator to be erected, aud you
will find the universal ankee. Nine
Yankee "origin." Your Atlantic cables
and Pacific railroads have been all spun out
OF his inventive and executive brain. And
yet your dull booded journalists, VIII hates
progress and innovation, can prove in a
paragraph that there are no Yankees. We
do not mean to assert that the Yankee is
anxious to develop his muscle in driving
railroad spikes. He develops the BRAIN,
and consequently is master Of all the mere
muscular giants IN the market. The Yam
kee does not ignore muscular labor, and
will strip off and pitch in if necessary. But
his education, while teaching hlm to re-
spect labor, teaches him how to escape from
the sewers and rise to the higher grounds
OF usefulness. Talk as We may, the great
object IN lie is to escape from drudgery
into the high paths OF commerce, science
aud SO forth. The man who is content to
dig through ilfe will never rise above the
earthworm.
Thus, the Yankee starts out determined
to go at the fret job that comes along, 20
through b it, ana march on and up. lie
pegins at the brakes and winds up as Di-
rector This is the true education. Man
should never be stationary nor retrogress-
ive He should be always rising in life
thus, when the Yankees cut their eye
teeth-they bid good morning to the old
folks aud start for Chicago, San Francisco
or Japan. Anywhere out Of New. England
Every Yankee carries schoolhouse, IA rail
road, machine shop and telegraph with
him. He distributes these, and also VII
lagos and towns, as he " skutes" along
Others may carry the bricks and mortar,
but he sets these others to work. Others
may dig the mountains and lay the rails !;
he surveys and superintends- He is the
cause; others the effects. If you doubt
these assertions, look about you and see
who "earns his living by the sweet Of his
hired mans brow" but the Yankee.
Dying out? Why, the Yankee can
never die out. There are more gray heads
in New England villages than IN the vii
lagos OF Ireland-and less broken hearts.
We are convinced that New England has
done her duty in the matter u plllng up
the census. Barring the Irish-who are
a species of Yankees, differing only IN their
ideas of going through the world, the Irish
being content to 60 on foot while the
Yankees sweep by in palace cars, and few
other minor differences-the Yankees
proper bring up the largest families of any
people that we have seen.
They are the pepper and salt of creation;
and though we may be smashed sometimes
against their augularities. we admire them
for their greatness. They are true to lib
erty, as their fathers before them were,
and all they want is little more, very lit
tie of our devil-may care Irish blood to
make them giants among men. This, we
believe, they will receive in due time, and
we hope in return. to receive great deal of
their COOL grim, tireless, continuous spirit
OF go-aheaditiveness.-hish Republic,
Nep York.
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