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From him came Cooper's strong preference for English church government and equally strong feeling against the Puritans of Old and New England. While the Puritan's character was not pleasing to Cooper, he himself was called a "Puritan of Puritans," and it was to them he referred in the following: "Whatever else I may think of the Yankees, a calmer, firmer, braver people do not walk this earth."
"Whisky Jim," the retired stage driver, and Hans Brinkerhoff and the other German settlers, with two or three Yankees, completed the slender crowd, which comprised almost the entire population of six skeleton counties. And the ever-popular Edwards was among them, his grave face and flowing ringlets rising above them all.
However severe such an example might seem it would strike a salutary terror into the Yankees, which would be useful to them in the end, and their melancholy whine, at meeting a part of the punishment their barbarities merit, is absurd." From the Examiner, April 25th: "Tuesday evening a flag of truce was sent to Fort Williams, demanding the surrender of the enemy.
He bounded up to his room vaingloriously remarking, "I'm there with the ancestors. I was brought up in the handsome city of Schoenstrom, which was founded by a colony of Vermont Yankees, headed by Herman Skumautz. I was never allowed to play with the Dutch kids, and " He opened the door. " the Schoenstrom minister taught me Greek and was my bosom frien' " He stopped with his heart in his ankles.
He darted behind a tree. Click! flash! bang! and a bullet came with a heavy thug into the tree. Bang! went another gun, another, and another; and the pickets all along the rebel lines, thinking that the Yankees were coming, blazed away at random. The Yankee pickets, thinking that the rebels were advancing, became uneasy and fired in return.
He was as pale as his bronzed features could become, and her woman's soul was touched that one who looked so strong, who had been so vital a moment before, should now lie there in pathetic and appealing helplessness. Was that fine, manly face the visage of one of the terrible, bloodthirsty, unscrupulous Yankees?
"I don't want the Yankees to come down and take it away from us." Rhodes laughed. "I'd like to see any one take anything from you. They will develop it for you." "I never seen anybody develop anything for another man, leastways a Yankee," said Squire Rawson, reflectively. Just then Ferdy chipped in. He was tired of being left out.
"I reckon yo' better leave me," he says, "without yo' want to get yo'self mixed up in all this." "If I do," I says, "you may bleed to death here: or anyway you would get found in the morning and be run in." "Yo' mighty good to me," says he, "considering yo' are no kin to this here part of the country at all. I reckon by yo' talk yo' are one of them damn Yankees, ain't yo'?"
If a calf were separated from its mother, very well. The old ranchers never quarreled among themselves. They never would have made in the South anything like a cattle association; it was left for the Yankees to do that at a time when cows had come to have far greater values. There were few arguments in the first rodeos of the lower range.
"And the reason our papers didn't speak of it is because we don't want the Yankees to be on the watch for him when he comes back," continued the citizen. "We can tell by the way they have acted since they captured the forts, that they know what is going on in the city as well as we do.
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