Another New England weakness was to believe in the measure more than in the man, and there was not one from that section who did not think that if you but introduced among negroes or Indians the New England town meeting, those negroes or Indians, thus blessed, would all and instantly become Yankees.
Another sublime provincial whom Richard uncovered was the Southern man.
He, like the New Englander, was so busy thinking on and revering a past that was dead, that he owned little space for anything else.

There was, however, one characteristic, common to Southern men, which was wanting in folk from other corners of the country.

Richard never met a Southern man who remembered, assuming such to be his official station, that he was in Cabinet or Congress, while he never met a Northern or a Western or a New England man who for a moment forgot it.
This amiable democracy on the Southern part, like other good things, has its explanation.

Your Southern man, like a squab pigeon, is biggest when he is born.

The one first great fact of his nativity is an honor beyond any other which the world can confer.