Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-31
THE YANKEE IN THE SOUTH.

The impression still obtains that the southern
people cherish such a deadly hatred to Yankees
that they will neither smell, taste. touch. OF
handle anything contaminated by Yankee hands
| This is = most egregious error. The southern
| people love the Yankee, and they show THE af.
fiction In a thousand different ways. When
they retire at night, they unbutton Yankee but
tons to Yankee made coats. waistcoats. pauta.
looms. shirts and drawers. They pull on Yankee
boots with Yankee boot jacks, and divest their
feet Of Yankee sock They march to Yankee
bedsteads. turn do wn Yankee ooverlsts, Yam
kes blankets. PROSTATE themselves on Yankee
mattresses. and lay their heads upon Yankee
pillows. The bedbugs are the only things not
Tade by Yankee hands and imported from the
land Of the Yankees. On rising IN the morning
we tread Yankee carpets, stumble over Yankee
chairs and sofas, build a IRE with Yankee coal,
taken from Yankee %scuttles. in Yankee CRATES,
catch the ashes in Yankeh pans, and use Yam
kee pokers. Yankee shoveIs and tongs. We re-
pair to Yankee wristbands, pour water from
Yankee pitchers into Yankee bowels. and wash
with Yankee soap; then use Yankee fowls, and
Yankee tooth brushes. Next We march to q
Yankee bureau, stant before . Yankee glass.
and use Yankee combs. Yankee brushes. Yam
kee powder. Yankee cologne In Yankee bottles.
W. ~ ~ = eA1yS - ~ Aa0AC0 SA0ACs
covered with Yankee cloth, Yankee knives and
forks. Yankee dishes, and feed upon Yankee
food. We call for Yankee toothplcks, seize
Yankee hats from Yankee racks, turn the key to
q Yankee lock, open . Yankee door, enter Q
Yankee buggy, seize the Yankee reins to Q Yam.
kee relns to . Yankee hsrness. and repair to our
place of business. and spend the day In trading
on Yankee industry. The south is rich In re-
sources, but our people are 20 fond Of the fan-
KEGS that they LAVISH their wealth upon Yankee
enterprise.
There is a great big lesson in this
Yankee schedule, as the Appeal has put
it, and a bigger mi when we reflect
that the southern people, and the mid
die and western states as well, are not
only content to buy all these things
from our Yankee brethren, but are
complaisant enoughto pay them double
price for them by means of their ingen-
iously contrived protective tariff.
Another thing: Our Yankee friends,
and their obsequious servants the wes-
tern republicans, must not jump to the
conclusion that because the southern
people buy all these notions from their
Yankee neighbors, that, therefore, they
are a whisky-drinkins, dry-goods box
whiting, tobacco juice splitting crowd
of loafers, as they r. painted by many
northern writer's. Your Yankee is q
shrewd fellow, and he sells his wares
for money or "trade," and not for love.
The southern people pay for what they
buy, and they do not earn the necessa-
ry money with which to do 80 by idle
ness, any more than do people in other
sections of the country. The only
wonder is that their energy and the
fertility Of their ields has SO long ena-
bled them to pay such an immense
to New England as they have
for years been doing taking their
balances out of the south to build up
The east-but they are learning. Attain
"a and many other southern cities are
'pringing into prominence as manufac-
places, and without asking to be
protected against their New England
competitors, or any one else, they will
steadily and certainly grow.