This is a genuine son of the West; ardent, impulsive and undaunted; thinking, acting and daring with the most perfect freedom. His spirit is youthful and buoyant, and he is ever sanguine of success, though he feels acutely the bitterness of disappointment. The character of the Western men has been greatly misunderstood, even by the other sections of the Union; they have their faults like all the world beside, but they are the faults of youth, and are corrigible, because they proceed not from neutrality, but from exuberance of character; not from the deficiency, but from the abundance of material. If they are hasty and impetuous, they are also generous and forgiving; indifferent to money, but eager of enterprise, patient of endurance, full of courage, regardful of the feelings of others, and above all men they are respectful and considerate to the female sex. They are fluent of speech;, quick in action, and ready in expedients; they are, in fact, the very men required for the position they hold, that of Borderers of the Republic. They are a new power, whose interests, although inseparably blended with those of the other sections of the Union, are yet distinct and individual; the West but now begins to assert herself, to exhibit her strength, and, though yet an infant, to claim her share in the “balance of power;” a political mystery, which exists no less in a Confederation of Republics such as the United States of America, than among the several compact Monarchies of Europe.