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JOSEPH \V. HAMPTOX,- -“The powers granted under the Constitution, bcin" derived from the People of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever perverted lo their injury or oppression.”—Madison.. -Editor and Publisher. VOLUME I, \ CHARLOTTE, N. C., JUNE 2, 1841. NUMBER 13. either 1-tc w W) TERMS The Mccklcnhurg Jeffersonian” is published vvccklv, at Tiro Dollars and Fifty Ce?its, if paid in advance; or Three Dollars, if not paid before the expiration of thrke months from the time of subscribing. Any person who will procure s-/r subscribers and become responsible for their subscriptions, shall havo a copy of the paper gratis or, a club of ten sub scribers may Invo the paper one year for Ticiiiti/ Dollars in adv.'ince. No paper v.iil be uiscontinueil while the subscviber owes any tViing, if he is able to pay ;~and a failure to notify the Editor of a wish to discontinue at least one month before the expira tion of the time paid for, will be considered a new engagement. AihcrlisemmU will be conspicuously and correctly insert ed at One />o//ar per square for the first insertion, and Ticcn- ti/-Jire Cents for each continuance—except Court anti other judicial advcrti^onu nt.'S, which will be charged ticenty-Jiveper ccnt. higher than tiie above rates, (owing to the delay, gene rally, attendant upon collections). A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements sent in for publication, must be marked with the number of inser tions desired, or they will be published until forbid and charg ed accordingly. Lotters to the Editor, unless containing money in sums of Five Dollars, or over, must come free of postage, or tiie amount paid at the office here will be charged to the writer, in every instance, and coll 'cted as other accounts. ——————g——— PROSPECTUS OF THE SrKti'/sontan present is the first oRbrt that has been made JL to establish an organ at the birth-place of Ame rican Indepen.lence, through which the tloctrines of Hie Democratic Party could be treeh promulgated and deienih'd—in which tlie great principles of Lib- «Tty and Equality lor Vvliich the Alexandehs. the PoLKSi, and tlicir heroi«' compatriots perilled their all on tlu* 20th May, 1775, could at all time.^ tiiul an uuijhrinking'advocate. Its success: rc.st.s chietly with tho Republican party ol’Mecklenburg—and lo tiiem, and the Republicans ol' the surrouaduig country the appetd is now made tor support. The Jetler.^onian v.dll assumi' as> its political creed, tiiose landmarks of tlu' Republican Party, the do--- trines set forth in the Kentucky and Virginia R- -o- lutions of 179S—l)elieving. as the undersigned docs, That the tnithors of thesf’ paper.', who bore a cont pic\i- ous part in framing our stL-ni of Government, v. ere best qualilied to hand down to posterity a correct ex- poshion of its true s|.irit—the best judges of what powers were delegated In. and what reserved to, th»' Statf.. It will o])posi\ as dringf-rous to our free institution.^, the spirit ot’ monopoly, v. iiich has been .-tealthily, but steatlily increasing in lie country trom the founda tion of our Government, The most odiou.; tenfii.i^ in this system is. that it rob.-: the ma.ny. iinperc'ptio.'i/, to enrich the few;—It clothes a few wealthy indivi duals with power not only to control the wages of the laborins/* Ol aepres:s iim coimv.ereo anti \)v\smcss ot tlic wUole PROSPECTUS. country—cxciting a spint ot extravagance, which it terminates in pecuniary rain, and too ott.;n the mor- al degradation of its victim'^. This system must be | j^j^^^r'-'of the i thoi'oi'.^hhj refoi'inodj b'dore wc can hope to see sc^t- j tied prosperity smile alike upon all oiir ciiizt'ns. 1 o aid in producing thb^ vefovin. v/ill be one of the main objects of the Jellersonian. It \yill war against ex- ' cl'iaii'c prirUcgf'ff^ oy partial Icsri-^lafion, utuler what ever guise granted by our Legislatures ; and, there- lure, will oppose the chartering of a United States Bank. Internal Improvements by the Federal Gov- rrnment. a revival of the Taritl System, and the new li deral scheme of the General Government as.-um- i:i£T to pay to foreign money changers tico hundred rnUlion.^ of dollars, borroweil by a few States for local purposes. As a question of vital importance to the South, raid one wliich, from various causes, is every day assumiug a more momentous and awful asp'ct, the Jellersonian will not fail to keep it. readers reLmlarly and accurately advised of the movements of the rSi'orthern Abolitionists. It must be evident to all_ candid observers, that a portion of tlie party press ot the South have hith-rto been too silent on this s\ib- ject. We shall, therefore, without the fear of being de nounced as an alarmist, lend our humble aid to as.^i.st in awakening the People of the South to due vigi lance and a sense of their real danger. While a portion of the columns of the .TefTersonian will be devoted to political discu.ssion. the great inte rests of Morals, Litek.vture, Aguiculti re, and the Mechanic Arts, shall not be neglected. With the choicest selections on these subject.s, and a due quantity of light reading, the Editor hopes to render his sheet agreeable and profitable to all classes in Kociety. Orders for the paper, postage paid, addressed to the ‘-Editor of the JelVersonian, Charlotte, N. C.," will be promptly complied w'ith. Postmasters are requested to act as Agents for the paper, in receiving and forwarding the names oj bubscnbers and their subscriptions. The Terms of tlie paper \\ill be foimd above. JOS. W. HAMPTON. Charlotte, March 5, 1841. Catawba Sprin?^s. THE Subscriber would inform the public generally, that he is prepared to entertain Visiters at the above celebrated watering-place, and pledges himself that no efTorts shall be spared to render comfortable and profitable the stay of all who may call on him. Terms of board moderate, to suit the times. THOMAS HAMPTOxN. Lincoln county, N. C., April 6, 1840. The Camden Journal will insert the above 3 w^eeks, and the Charleston Courier, weekl>^to^thc amoimtofS, and forward the accounts to J300ft=33tn5ttis. The publishers of the Globe have recently given to the country an exposition of the motives which prompted the attempt by the Federal party to pros trate their establishment, by the lawless abrogation of their contract as Printers to the Senate. They showed that there were already six Federal news papers—to which a seventh is about to be added— pul)lished at Washington—all devoted to the dis semination of Federal principles, and the defence of Federal measures. And to make this ov'erwhelm- ing battery of Federal presses at the seat of gov'- ernment tell with the more elVcct throughout the Union, the character of the Globe was to be tarnish ed, its means impoverished, and its politica.1 inllu- ence destroyed, by a sweeping denunciation of in famy on the part of the Federal leaders in the Sen ate—by throwing the dead weight of an expendi ture of $40,000 in preparation to do the Congress ional work, on the hands of its publishers, (the prin ters whose contract was violated,) and by having this whole work of defamation and ruin accom])lish- ed by the judgment of the Senate of the Union to give it the sanction of the highest tribunal known to our country. The work was done by a caucus packed majority of Federalists, an»l the Editors of the Globe arc left to sustain their establishment by the patronage they n)ay recieve from ]iolitical friends for the papers they j)ublisli. AVe will not ask or re ceive the sort of lumping contr?buiion by which the banks and Federal politicians sustain their presses. W e will abandon the publication of the Glohe, if it cannot be supported by the reirular subscrijition price of the paper. If such oi’ our DtMiiocratic Iriends whose circumstances do not justify a sub scription to the daily or semi-wee,kly-paper, will pa tronize the cheaper publications issued by us—the Extra Globe—the Congressional Glohc, and the Appendix—we shall be enabled to maintain as here tofore, our corps of Congressional lle])orters at the cost of jB^.OOO per annum, and to draw to our aid some of the ablest ]>ens in our country. We trust, under these circuinstaccs, and at a time when the greatest interests of the country, and its future des tiny, are put at stake upon the events with which the tirsi year of the present Administration is j>reg- nant, that no individual wiio has the can.^e of De mocracy at heart, will hesitate to meet this appeal, vvhen at the same time he will fe(d as.-ure.l that this trilling tax tor his own advama re. will sustain in triumph at Washington the long-tried and laithful press of his party. The extra GLOBE will be pubiishovl weekly lor six months, commencing on Wednesday, ihe r.tth May, and ending on the I9tl\ IS’ovember next, making twenty-six numbers, the last oi’ Vvhich will contain an index. Each mnnber will contain six teen royal quarto jiages. It will contain principally political matter* The political a [)cct and bearing of the measur-'s hv^for-'’ Ct)tigi*f>ss duriirjr tlio special s^.-^iim will be fully devrlopevi, ai;d when the j)ro- ceedings are considered of mu>’h inu re^stto the pub lic, they will be given at le ■ tL. I'prN wTtfi tliC extra session ot C ou- rrress. to commcncc on Monday, the 31st oi May be continued diu’ing the session. lONAL Globe will give aji impartial proceedings of both Houses ot Con- nress ; and the ArrENDix will contain all the speech es on both sides of important subjects, at t\dl length, as written out or revised by the members themselves. They will be printed as fast as the business ot the two i louses furnishes matter for a number. It is cer tain that we will publish more numbers oi etrch tluui there will be weeks in the sesson. They will be is sued in the same form as the Extra Cilobe, and a copious index to each. Nothing but the proceedings and speeches ot Congress will be admitted into the Conuressional Globe or Appendix. These works being printed in a suitable form lor binding, with copious indexes, will tbrm a vauable, indeed^a necessary, appendage to the library of the statesman and politician, giving, as they tlo, at an extremelv moderate price, a complete epitonie ol the political and legislative history of the j)cnod. Subscriptions for the Extra Glore shouhl be here by the 2Gth May, and for the Congressional Gi^obe and Aim’endix by the 6th June next, to insure all the numbers. TERMS. For 1 copy of the Extra Globe .... SI “ 6 cnpirS do .... S “ 1> do do 10 “ >0 do do And so on in proportion for a greater nuniher. For 1 copy of the Congressional Globe, or Ajjpeudix '^0 cents. “ G copies of either . . . . -^0 “ 12 do do -25 do do 10 00 And so on in proportion for a greater number. Payments may be transmitted l>y mail, postage paid, at our risk. By the regulations of the Post Office Department, postmasters are auihorized to frank letters contahiing money tor subscriptions to newspapeiv. The notes of any bank, current in the section of country where a subscriber resides, will be recieved by us at par. |I3=* Ao attention will he paid to any order unless the money accompaoies it. BI.AIR & RIVES. WAsniNGTaN City, April 20, 1841. POETRY DEMOCRACY'S FLAG. Fling our flag fi*om the gallant mast— Let the shout of the crew be heard. While the barque tiiat rides is flying fast, O’er the sea like a mountain bird ; Let it rest on the breast of the glorious sun, When the sky grows calm at noon— And let it float when the day is done, In the sheen of the silvery moon. For it breathes a calm in that tender light, 'riirough the skywar^l sador’s eye. While he looks on Peace as she nestles bright ’Mid the stars and stripes on high:— It speaks to the heart of its mountain home, AVhere in quiet it long shall wave. And knows that his sons are free if they roam, If dead, in a freeman's grave. Let it stay through the niL'ht on that lofty spire, And talk with the midn.ght star— For the heavens will glow with a warmer fire To gaze on its lace a!ar ; They will hail its light as kindred all, Long sent from the ])a:r;it sky, To laugh in scorn o\'r th-? tyrant’s fall. And beam when the iyr uits die. Let it float lo the last great day of time, And proud o'er a iall'">_x world, Far up in its congenial »inne, Triumphant hang unturled; And when this fair earth shall no more be given For the liome of its stars so bright, May they turn in love to their native heaven, And dwell in eternal 11 rht. J 1- M C MJ J. . From the Cultivator for May. T.H. \1|^ILLIAM HUNTER would inform his custo- » ▼ mers and the public generally, that he still continues the BOOK-BINDING BUSINESS at his old stand, a few doors south-east of the Brach Mint. He will be happy to receive orders in his line, and pledges himself to sparp no pains to give complete satisfaction. Orders left at his Shop, or at the Office of the “Mecklenburg Jeft’ersonian,’‘ will receive immediate attention. [Charlotte, March 5, 1841. Administrator’s Notice. All persons having clt.ims against the estate of Gilbert Coles, deca., are hereby notified to present them legally authenticated within the time prescribed by law, or this notice wnll be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said es tate, are also notified to make immediate payment, or the services of an officer may be employed. JENNINGS B. KE^R, Admr. March, 26, 1541. INFORMATION W^ANTED. of Isaac Garner of W^’ake County, North Carolina, who left his wife and four small children in August, 1839, stating that he was going to Guilford County to seek eni ployment, which he obtained from Mr. Isaac Pitts of Jamestown, who engaged him in March, 1840, to go to Columbia, South Carolina, to assist in selling a load of Guns or Rifles. Mr. Pills on his return tells his family that he left him in Columbia Jail In January last, young Mr. Pills carries another load of Guns to South Carolina, and v. hilst there, he hears of Garner driving a stage about 100 miles below Columbia. Said Garner is about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high light complection, dark red hair and beard, blue eyes, with a thick upper lip, and inclined to be round shouldered. He cannot read or write, and is very dull of' apprehension; he is also very mucli ad dieted to using profane language. Should this meet the eye of any individual who knows any thing concerning Garner, they will be doing a humane act by addressing a letter to hi distressed wife at Raleigh, N. C. It is the desire of his affectionate and confidential ! companion that he should return to her and their ' tour helpless children. Should it not be Garner’s wdsh to see his w’lfe ao-ain, it is hoped that he is not so depraved, and ]ost to all feeling as not to heed the cries of his chil dren who are now suffering for bread. CINDERELLA GARNER. Raleigh, May 14th, 1841, Warrants, Casas, and Casa Bonds for Sale at this Office. MAXIMS AND PRECEPTS FOR YOUNG FARMERS.—By James M. Garnett. I—Regard all persons whose time and labor are wholly at } our command, as beings for whose health, comfort, and good conduct in this life, you will be held most feartally responsible in the life to come. lI._]Vever forget that both moral and bodily health depend on the same thing; that is temper ance in food, drink, and all sensual indulgences; and temperance in the use oi means to get rich. wish well, is not enough; you must also do well, or your benevolence, like faith without good works, will be dead and utterly worthless. IV.—Ever bear in mind, that useful knowledge, and the proper application of it. are to the health ot the soul, what wholesome food and appropriate exer cise are to the health of the body. V—Value as you ought, the experience of others, and your own will cost }'ou far less than without such aid ; since to use theirs costs only an effort ot memory, whereas the pricc paid for \our ov\n will often be the loss of health. Ibrtune, and charactcr. VI.—The more you strive to enrich your minds with every good thing which men and books can teach, the greater will be your power to gain wealtli, honor, fame, and every rational enjoyment. VII.—Trust not others to do for you, what you can readily and as well do for yourselves. VIII.—The farmer v/ho is ashamed of manual la bor, will very soon find cause to be much more ashamed of himself IX.—If you ever make a business of your pleas ures, they will most assuredly soon make an end of your bushiess. X.—Leave show to spendthrifls and fools, w’hile yon and your families consult only tasteful simplicity, comfort and usefulness, in all your arrangements and expenses. XI.—Love not money for its own sake ; still less for the power it gives you to gratify selfish and sin ful passions. But fail not to regard it as the most efficient means to accomplish all benevolent purposes You w’illthus make it a blessing, instead of a curse, both to yourselves and others. XII . True economy, consists not so much in sa ving money, as in spemling it when made, solely and jiuliciously for purposes really useful. This annually increases, your profits, instead of diminishing or keeping them stationary. XIII.—Avoid debt as you would a pestilence, for it humbles, debases, and degrades a mrn in his own eyes; subjects him to insults and persecutions fioin others; but still worse, it is a perpetual temptation however anxiously resisted, to fraud, falsehood and theft—nay, not unfrequently to despair and self-mur der. XIV.—To take advantage in a bargain, is virtu ally to take money out ot another’s pocket, w^ho is not aware of it. Worldlings call it fair play,^ but honest men call it cheating and sicindling.'^ XV.—The only means of increasing wealth, are constant industry—true economy of time as well as money—well directed labor, and the regular appli cation of a portion of our fair profits to increase our capital. XVI.—Never expect your lands to give you much, if you give them little ; nor to make you rich, if you make them poor. Therefore always manure them to the full extent of your means, and they will ever make you ample returns in rapidly increasing pro ductions. XVII.—Economy, not less than humanity, re quires you to keep all your farming stock in thriving condition ; for a w'orking animal in good order, will do much more w'ork, and eat less than a poor one; while the rest of your stock, well kept, will yield more of every thing, than double their number, if half starved, as such animals often are. XVIII.—To '•'■save at spigot, and let out at the bung,’’^ will soon empty the biggest hogshead; so will economy in small matters, and waste in large one.s, sptiedily squander the largest estate. XIX.—In all your farming operations, never for get that time, like money, if once lost or mis-spent, is ever past recovery. XX.—Constantly arrange beforehand, the daily work of your farms. Then none of your laborers need ever be idle in waiting to be told wdiat he has to do. XXI.—Provide a place for every thing, and mis place nothing. No time will ever then be lost in searching lor what you want. XXII.—Keep double sets of such plantation im plements as are most used, and most exposed to wear and tear. The wdiole cost of extra sets, will be amply repaid by saving the whole time lost in waiting lor repairs, when only single sets are kept. XXIII.—Never resort to what are called “ make shifts,when it is possible to avoid it; for they en courage carelessness and sloth, of which they are almost always sure signs. XXIV'.—The very reverse of the lawyer's max im— “(/e 7nini7nis non curat Ijex^"'—the law regards not the smallest matters—must be the farmers guide, or his larger concerns can never prosper as they might. XXV.—To keep good gates and fo7>cc»4, e^’ves much time and labor in preventmg tresspasses; much loss of crops from depredations; and best of all it saves much wrangling and ill will among your neighbors, about mischievous stock. XXVI.—If you n’ould excel in your profession, the diligent culture of your minds is as indispensa ble as that of your fields. XXVII.—Never commit the self-hurtful folly of looking upon any of the honest trades, professions and callings, as inimical to your own; for there is a natural bond of interest and amity between the whole, which cannot possibly be preserved, without ojieration (jf all. pie, IC ^1*11 It. VT ^ .7 harmony, good will, and social intercourse among j all with whom you deal; it tends to deviate your own cla^s to its proper rank; and above all it ad vances the welfare of your coimtry, by promoting the most important of all her great interests. XXIX.—Never flatter yourselves, as some silly people do, that you know all which can be known, even of the most simple branch of your profession, or you will soon know' much less than thousands of vour more modcsf, less assuming brethren. But al ways act under the firm belief', that there is no as certainable limit to our acquisitions in any art or science whatever; nor any difficulties which con stant, diligent study can not overcome. Your pro gress, then, tow ards the highest attainable point in whichever you prefer, wnll be as sure as fate itsell’. The accidents and vicissitudes of life may possibly interrupt your course ; but only persevere, and you wiU finally conqutr, with absolute certainly, all ob stacles that are not insuperable. less, and then find we are moneyless. We are first sensual, and then must be rich. We dare not trust, our wit for making our house pleasant for our friend, and so we buy ice-creams. He is accustom ed to carpets, and w^e have not sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind whilst he stays in the house, and so we pile the floor with carpets.— ***Let us learn the meaning of economy. Econo my is a highj humane office, a sacrament, when its aim is grand; when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised from freedom or love, or devotion. Much of the economy which we see iu houses is of a base origin, and is best kept out of sight. Parched corn eaten to-day that I may have roast fowl to my dinner on Sunday, is a baseness; but parched corn and a iiouse with one apartment, that I may be free of all perturbations of mind, that I may be serene and docile to w’hat the God shall speak, and be girt and ready for the low'est mis sion of knowledge or good w’ill, is frugality lor gods and heroes.—Norfolk (TJ/ass.) Democrat. TRUTHS ABOUT FARMING. If one half the zeal, energy and expense which have been exhibited for electioneering purposes vrere bestowed upon agriculture—if the people w’^ere half as anxious to improve and beautify their fields, and half as angry with their thistles, thorns and bad fences, as they are with their political opponents, we should have more productive fields, less com plaint of poverty, more ability for charity, and abun dantly more good feeling- From Maine to Georgia, the son ploughs as his father did before him, and the great mass of farmers as stationary in theory as they are in practice;—nine in ten believe at this moment that book farming is the mere useless, visionary dreaming of men that know nothing of practical ag riculture. The real benefactor of mankind is he wdio causes two blades of wheat to grow where one grew before; his fields are his morn and evening theme, and to fertilize and improve his farm is his prime temporal object. All natural aggrandize ment, powder and w’ealth, may be traced to agricul ture as its ultimate source—commerce and manu factures are only subordinate results of tliis main spi ing. We consider agriculture as every w’ay subsidiary not only to abundance, industry, comfort and'health, but to good morals and ultimately even to religion. We regard the farmer, stripped to his employment and cultivating his lands, as belonging to the first order of noblemen; w’e wish him bountiful harvests, and invoke upon him the blessings of God in all his contrary' to most tilings of that kind, aftbrds im mediate relief.— Cin. Chronicle. Asthma—Immediate relief may be had to the vic tims of this distressing disorder by burning iu the room a sheet of wdiite paper, well saturated w'ith. a solution of saltpetre. The relief is but tempora ry, but the frequent use of saltpetre docs net lessen its efficacy. The writer of this has witnessed the relief aflbrded in so many instances, that he hopes the above recipe may be generally circulated fo^ he benefit of sufl’erers. TAKE OFF YOUR POTATO BLOSSOMS. A LITTLE LABOR WELL PAID FOR. It has long been known that crops of any kind which perfect and ripen their seeds before they are removed, take up and appropriate a vast deal more nutriment (which they derive from the soil,) than those crops which are removed before the seeds are perfected. This conclusion looks reasonable at first sight; for the seeds, wdiich are the most nutricious part of the plant, cannot be formed witliout much food being forwarded from the earth for that pur pose. Hence the exhaustion of the soil by tlie ri pening of the crop. When a crop of grass is cut before the seeds are fully developed, tlie ground wdll be found to have parted with a much less por tion of its fertility; and this is the leason of a grain crop exhausting the soil so mtich more than a grass crop. The following curious and important extract from a foreign journal, is a practicaf illustration of the above principle. “M. Zeller, director of the Agricultural Society of Darmstad, in 1839, planted t\N^ plots of ground, of the same size, with pota toes. W^hen the plants had flowered, the blossoms Avere removed from those in one field, w’^hile those in the other w^ere left untouched to perfect their seed. The former produced 47G pounds—the latter 437 pounds.”—Farmers’’ Cabinet. THE FORCE OF CUSTOM—FRUGALITY. We find in “ The Dial ” for Aprd, an able dis course entitled “Man the Reformer, ” by R. Eni- erson; in w’hich are some bold, striking, and origi nal thoughts, well dressed up, and what is unusual for Mr. E., clearly expressed. Custom, says he, runs as in debt. We spend our incomes for a hun dred trifles, I know not what; and not for the things of a man. Our expense is almost all for conformi ty. It is for cake w’e run in debt; ’tis not the intel lect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship that costs so much. WTiy need any man be rich?— Why must he have horses and fine garments, and handsome apartments, and access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for w'aiit of thought. Once w^aken in him a divine thought, and he flees into a solitary garden or garret to enjoy it, and is richer w’ith that dream, than the fee of a co'anty would make him. But we are first thought- From the Dial for Apr;L LABOR. ‘The World dishonors its Workmen, stones its Prophets, crucifies its Saviours, but bows do\\Ti its neck before wealth, how^ever w^on, and shouts till tlie welkin rings again. Long live Violence and Fraud! The world has alw'ays been partial to its oppres sors. Many men fancy themselves an ornament to the w'orld, whose presence in it is a disgrace and a burthen to the ground they stand on. The man who does nothing for the race, but sits at his ease, and fares daintily, because wealth has fallen intc» his hands is a burthen to the world. He may be a polished gentleman, a scholar, the master of ele gant accomplishments, but so long as he takes no pains to work far a man, with his head or hands, what claim has he to respect or subsistence? The rough-handed woman, who with a salt fish and a basket of vegetables provides substantial food for a dozen working-men, and washes their apparel, and makes them comfortable and happy, is a blessing to the land, though she has no education, while this fop ^rilli*his culture and wealth is a curse. She does her duty so far as she sees it, and so deserves the thanks of man. But everj^ oyster or berry that fop has eaten, has performed its duty better than he. ‘ It w’as made to support human nature, and it has done so,’ while he is but a consumer of food and clo thing. That pubJ^C opinion tolerates such men is no small marvel..,-*. The prodacfive closes of the w’orld are those w'ho bless it by their w’^ork or their thought. He who in vents a machine does no less service tlian he who toils all day wnth his hands. Thus the inventors of the plough, the loom and the ship, were deservedly placed among those society was to honor. But they, also, w’ho teach men moral and religious truth, who give them dominion over tlie world; instruct them to think ; to live together in peace, to love one ano ther, and pass good lives enlightened by W isdom, charmed by Goodness, and enchanted by Religion; they who build up a loftier population, making raaii more manly, are the greatest benefactors of the world. They speak to the deepest,wants of the soul and give men the water of life and the true bread from Heaven. They are loaded with contume ly in their life, and come to a violent; end. But their influence passes like a morning from land to land, and village and city grow’ glad in their hght That is a poor economy, common as it is, which overlooks these men. It is a vulgar mind, that would rather Paul had continued a lent maker, and Jesus a carpenter. Now, the remedy for the hard service that ib laid
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