The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-30
"THE UNIVERSAL YANKEE"


formerly of this city, delivered lecture
in the Fourth Street N. K Church last
night. His subject WAS, "rhe Universal
Yankee" and we take the following from
among his remarks:
Over half century ago grotesque
looking parsonage, with his worldly effects
done up in bsndsns handkerchief, and
dressed with bell-crowned hat, gathered
pants, swsllow-tsil coat, &c, was seen
moving through the streets of an Euro
pesn city. In answer to questions, he
said he was from "Down East" from
New Hampshire IN fact, and as
he had come down to Boston
with Obadiah Sinclair to see the
sights and buy some motions" he
thought he might as well see little
more, and here he was, ready to talk or
trade. A Dutchmsn says, You pees Won
Yankee2' and the stranger admits that
he ia one OF the universal Yankee
nation" From the Indian pronunciation
name of Yankee comes, and Yankee
doodle was written by one of Brad
docks officers, j~st previous to the
"deteat" where all the honor fell TO the
derlded Americans. The Yankee nation,
though but a youngster, has made great
stir in the world. Some people
think he is boaster, some deem
him a cheat, skilled in the manu-
facture of wooden hams and nutmegs,
and though do not deem him faultless,
still he interests me. He has good
points. He Is fond of civil and religious
liberties. The theatre upon which he
operates is favorable to developme' t..
The mound builders were men. The
Indians, till corrupted by their contact
with the whites, eXceled In savage man
illness, and climate and country so au-
spicious TO such have been even more SO
to civilized men. His distance from Eu-
rope in his early days, caused new race,
with great originality and vigor, TO take
the place of the etfemlnste characteristics
OF the old world, and strong will, strong
curiosity and strong genius are the main
features OF the new people. Foreign
jealousy, which disputes every inch with
him, must acknowledge the last speclti-
cation. His power of Invention seems
almost without limit. His ships
are as swift as any.
His locomotives are on foreign roads.
European bankers secures their vaults
with his lock, time themselves with his
clocks and raise and harvest crops with
his mowers, drills, or reapers. Great
Britain is his chef competitor. The first
thought of steam power was British, but
stesmbostS on purely American. The
telegraph is American, but British cspi-
tai and energy laid the Atlantic cable.
The railroad Is originally British, but DO
one has now roads like ours. Jonathan
is full of pluck and daring. 1t has been
said of him, "If tube were constructed
from New Orleans to New York, through
which to thrust men with te!egrapnlc
speed, and good security could be given
that one, and one only ont OF every
twenty could make the transit with per-
feet safety, there would be about forty
applications for every chance, each sp-
phcant being confident in his own mind
that he would be the lucky man"
The country sttests the character OF
its people, and populous empire has re-
placed the wilderness from sea TO sea.
O.d hunting grounds have lost their
identity, while Sitting Bull and Chief
Joseph represent the mad struggle oL less
than half million Red men against the
on ward tramp of over forty millions OF
people already on the soil, while from
every "outer wall the cry is, still they
come"
Such nation could not be otherwise
than influential beyond the limits OF It's
own terrltory. jonathan, a notorious
clock peddler, has, by the force of his ex-
ample, commenced the work Ct regulst-
ing the political time OF the world
Yankee lnienuiLy and enterprise assist to
diminish the obstacles to general inter-
course. The whole world is tray
cling, and trading, aud talking
by telegraph. Thousands flee from
other lands to find protection
in this; they communicate with their
friends; they revisit their respective
lstherlands, and thus Jonathan drives y
thriving trede by SAMPLES. With every
raw of Intellie ence thrown back, asplra-
tions for freedom embody strength. Yam
kee commerce penetrates everywhere and
wherever an American merchantmen
rides the crested waves, or an American
tar tresds the decks, or an American bale
of goods is unleaCed from her holds,or an
American fla fostSirOn her mss,head,
beaten and striped, humanity Will % lliu
mined BY the stars of hope.
That we are wholly unexposed to dan
ger, it would be folly to suppose Against
these there is an infalllble safeguard
namely an unylelding Bible morality.
The favor Of God is essential to national
prosperity, and this can never be en-
loved IN dlsobedience to His law. what
less than the DIVINE superlntendence can
harmonize the Heterogeneous population
Of this country7 What lesven short OF
a strong moral tone can reduce the whole
to one lump
The European and Asistic worlds
have entered upon the throes OF war
like CONFUSION, the end of which ls not
vet. Whatever we may feel for those
who suffer and die in it, we are without
apprenension Ms to its result upon the
destiny of our common humsuity. "The
knowledge of the Lord shall cover the
earth, even as the waters cover the chan
mel of the great deep, and if all men
shall know the truth the truth shall make
them tree
For ourselves we calmly contemplate
the future, and inc!ud> the best Things IN
the still developing mission of the Yam
kee nation.