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C I. l'H K ATE" :
VOL. in.
TARBORO', N. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1873.
NO. 47.
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VFIRT I.As? FAMILY PAPER DE-vot.-d
to Tempniif-c, Kf-dtnon, Afc'ricui-.r-;,
and the Mechani, Art.
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Tery attroctlTe feature, while all the other
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SATURDAY,
NOV- 22. 1873
AN ADDRE8S
DiTered Not. 8tfi, 1873, In Xh H&U
of the jPriendg of Tempxxac.
T U A. WALK IB, kSv
Mr. I'rttldmi and M$mbrt of A Council :
The abjet I hT cbdMii for to-nif hi Is
" The Mechanic Art aad tbeir relations to
MenUl and Social Culture."
I am well aware that I have chosen a
theme that ofie'S a field for the exercise Of
the greateit intellects the world has erer
produced, and probably to on will ever be
able to solve all the intricate quealions that
would ari in a full and exhauativa discus
sion of thi ubject : hence I do not pro
pose to try cuy nniklllful hand on the most
subtle of tha& mental and moral influences,
but to confine myaelf to the more obrioas
and practical phaaea of the subject.
So intimately are the Mechanic Arts re
lated to every adrance aod decline In the
civilization of every nation, that to gie a
full account of their progreti would require
a review of the hiatory of the whole world ,
and I hit trac - g of ibeir progress would be-e-me
the more difficult from tae fact that
many nations that once played important
parts i:: the world's history em nerer to
hire realized tbe importance of this branch
of .i.'I::tt , au.i Oioat that cat: be learned of
i is ile velojimeLt in their day must be in-
iTre 1 from records that have oaly an indi
re: be.inr, up-in this sabject.
Tbe rirjt accoont we bare of man s triunii.'i
j over tbe material world ia found in the bo- k
; of Gene.'.is Here we are told that Tubal
caui a mail of the seventh generation from
Adara. was an instructor of every artificer in
, brass Ri,d iron , and some intimation of the
.c,te:ej.t we would eel iu this auhject is
: u:.ij :r, the fact of this record of Tnba!
, i a:-., be::. made in connection only with
i Mi-h mutters a.3 were permanently to affect
- the h n man race ; and at a-point in the world's
; history where whole centurlee are left a
I perfect b!a-,k, probably for want of facts of
' K-;tficier,t interest to record.
! c am; then pase on a few peneratioos
u the building of the Ark , heie the details
are so meaner that each odo is left to hia
own iaaagiaatioa to conceive whit prorresa
must have been made in the Mechanic Arts
to have enabled the men of that generation
to construct a vessel that was to battle suc
cessfully for many months with the storms
to be met on thai world-wide eipanae of
waters.
The accounts given of the building of the
tower of Babel and the cities of that day
add but little to our knowledge of this sub
ject ; a no minnte descriptions are given
of the materials and appliances made use of
: n their construction.
Many of tbe article of household nae and
ornament excavated from the oldest rnins,
display an amount of knowledge and skill
we are not in the habit of accrediting to the
ancieota. and it is aaid that torn a of these
articles require in their cons traction a
knowledge of materials and appliance en
tirely unknown to this generation. How
ever this may be we are justified in tbe be
lief that there bas been a general and steady
progress in the development of the Mechanic
Arts, but a little care may be necessary
here to prevent a oonfovion of two ideas
whose boundary line are aAtnetimes no in
distinct and whoee relation are so intimate
that our thoughts easily pass from one lo
tbe other without detecting tb distinction.
I refer to tbe Fine Arts and th Mechanic
Arts. The relation in which these stand to
each other may be compared to that be
tween poetry and history. History in its
strict sense is a record of bare facts ; and the
mechanic arts consist in an application of the
facts of natural philosophy to mairafactnree
A poetical idea may embody a historical fact
as a work of fine art may display a knowledge
of philosophy, but tbe essence of both bas its
origin iu the imagination and consists in the
creation of new and beautiful suggestion that
delight tbe mind without adding- to it
knowledge. It is not claimed in thi dis-CLH-ion
that we have improved upon tbe old
models of painting, sculpture and architec
ture ; but accord what we may to rsst ages
in the matter of faociful creations, it can not
be denied that it has been left to the last
lw-0 or three generations to onderstand the
secret workings of Nature's laws and to ap
ply them in snch manner as to enabe man
to make them do his bidding and to err wd
the results of whole days of manual labor
into the space of one bort hour.
For fear of heiDg misunderstood I will
remark here that I do not wish to detract
from the honor due those who bare devoted
their lives to tbe study of pure science, as
distinguished from those persuits that direct
the attention only to tbe application of
sc once ; and justice demand tha t we bould
accord more to the man that can enter
unexplored fields and bring to light the bid
den things of nature, than to him whooe
labor it is lo apply thi knowledge in iu
various useful form. That was a higher
effort of the intellect that discovered the ex
istence of the electric fluid and it power to
forte itself through a mental wire aroond
the world at lightning speed, than that of
conceiving an instrument to record the
flashes of thi iubtle fluid. But onr busi
neas to nigbt is not with the scientist but
with the artisan and tbe influenee of his
calling on tbe world and on blmsetf ; and in
this disctissloai I a hail aaeume that tbe ftp
plication of familiar science to opplying
our daily want ii doe to tbe development of
the Mechanic Art ; for in so far a tbe
scientist baa made these application he has
so fax been a mechanic. .
Tbe influence that ha been exerted on
the world by tbe printing press and tele
graph is so direct aod so erideet to every
one, and the subject bas been worn so thread
bare by innumerable essays ihi I shall
pass by tbeee witheat farther notice.
Tbe nut general proyoelUon I shall lay
down i that the preeeot ciriliMUoo of the
world could nefer hare existed without
Ubor-aaving machinery.
Education, iftfead at all, nanet be
gotten at the eapeose of iiaae and
ineao, and mast be generally denied
to tbvse who have dm mora than
enough of these fte .provide fer tbe daily
rec art-tax1 necessities ot the1' body ; as4 when
tbe labor of prod net fofcas to be carried on
in each a way as te eensame tbe whole
available time of a larf majority of tbe
peopls in producing the feed and clothing
necessary to maintain lbs World, then leis
ure "to devote to the intproveniet of tbe
mind mast be confined to the fortauste
or powerful few, and be forever denied the
populace whose arduous labors make them
even indifferent to tbe advantages of edu
cation. Tbe popular idea on this subject seems
to go bo farther than thi ; if my neigh
bors use labor-aaviag machinery they can
produce tbe necessaries of life cheaper than
I can without it, aod I am forced to use it
to be able to make any profit on my pro
duction at the red need price ; and that
there is 'eventually no benefit to any one,
the price? of all productions having de
clined in proportion to the amount of labor
necessary to produce thern. Tbe fallacy of
this view can be exposed by one simple il
lustration. Suppoee a family, and in thi
case the family might repreeent the whole
human race, to be composed of persons of
both sexss aod of all agea, and on account
of the use of inferior tools tbe members of
the family wbo are able to work can not
produce more than enough of food and cloth
ing to supply the necessities of the family; with
improved tools a larger mumber of the mem
bers of the family conld become producers
and each one be enabled to prod ace more,
thereby giving a surplus to be devoted to
tbe education of some one of their number.
But some one may say that if every one
were to produce thai Srpl there would be
no demand for it and their last state be no
better than their first; in this case they
would only spend sufficient lime is labor to
provide for their daily wants and oould de
vote their leisure time to the improvement
of their minds. -
It may be objected that a siifflcient
... Si
amount of leisure lor eaocation mi) d"
had without labor-aving machinery ; but an
examination of the habits and mole of life
of those nations that retain tbe ue of prim
itive tools will reveal the fact that their
leisure time i not the leisure the thrift r
man enjoys after performing all necessary
labor, but is tbe result of laxinea and in
difference to tbe comfort of life , time
taken rather than sewed from their ordinary
labor , a kind of leisure that never spends
itself in the mental effort of study.
It may also be objected that labor-saving
machinery is one of the remits of our civili
sation and not one of its causes. The an
swer ia that history proves the two have
always gone hand iu hand, and though it
may be difficult, where tats stale of thing
exists, to disxinguiab w lib certainty between
cause and effect, on accoont of their reflex
influence upon each other ; still no one
would be so bold as to say that our civiliza
tion could exist without this improvement
in the mechanic arts, when all experience
shows neither has ever existed without the
other.
Man by nature has a dislike for manual
labor, and to those persons, who realize the
necessity of labor being performed, there is
a great incentive to invent some means of
partially relieving themselves from burden
some toil ; and this very study of one branch
of the mechanic art becomes an educator
itself and successful study here not only
gives leisure for mental Improvement but
offers a great inducement to others to fol
low in the same path.
The influence of works of fine art as a
cirilizer is so obvious to every one that we
never look for specimens if it In the abodes
of the vulgar, but they always strike us as
becoming in the dwellings of tbe refined;
and until the art of picture making by nis
chanical means was brought to sach per
fection a to multiply copies of pictures of
high merit, and until the moulders art re
produced tbe finest works of the sculptor,
their refining influence could be felt only by
the wealthy. Now with a comparitlvely
small expenditure the homes of the poor
cah be enlivened with works of high artistic
taste, that educate the mind by the vivid im
pressions they give of scenes and faces to be
remembered, and soften tbe heart by tbe
ever reminding life-like pfc tores of dear
but absent ones.
It is not denied that men of great .eflne
ment and high culture have lived in agot of
the world that knew nothing of onr modern
machinery ; men whose perceptions were so
keen and whose tastes ware so refined that
the effusion of their minds will be admired
for ages after the works of the brightest
intellect of our day have paised into obliv
ion , bat these facts coutrovert nothing of
the argument, for In those ages the uiany
were made to serve the few and tbe culti
vated were the people of leisure. And it is
not tbe genius of our civiliaatlon to expend
itself in creating one bright star whose bril
liance shall be the combined light of all iu
fellows, but rather to diffuse -he light till
the darkest corner shall feel its genial in
fluence. Having said this mueh of the influence of
the mechanic arts on society at large, let us
now examine some of the influences of me
chanical labor on the artiasa bJmsolt
There is a great deal of msnnsl labor
performed in handling tbe ogauaerce aad
conducting tbe business of the world that
can not well be classified under any particu-
lar bead; leaving ibis out of the account,
labor may be divided into three depart-
me nts ; mechanical, agricultural and domes-
tic. As most of the latter kind is performed
by persons not well fitted to do either of the
other two kinds, and as the influence of do
mestic labor makes but little impression on
the world as compared to that of mechanical
and agricultural labor, the first two only are
generally considered when this topic is un
der discussion. As far as my knowlege on
tbe subject extends it bas been only in tbe
last few years that a calling in the depart
ment of mechanical labor bas been much
preferable to that of agricultural labor.
There were so many hardships to be endured
by the apprentice, so many years to be spent
under instruction before he was allowed to
seek employment of his own choosing, so
mall a remuneration for his labor during
these years and so much of practical slave
ry in his relation to his employer, that many
young men no doubt were deterred from
learning a trade and driven to engege in ag
ricultural labor, where the present freedom
was greater, though the hopn of future re
ward was less.
But now behold the changes that have ta
ken place in our day ; changes so radical, so
sudden that they have shaken society to its
very foundation. But in all of these up
beavings the voice of the farm laborer has
not been heard ; he seems to be counted a
mere cipher in the great questions of the
day. And how are we to account for this
great difference in the influence of two clas
ses of people who seem to have started out
so nearly equal in the beginning of the race 1
We can not answer that one party has used
it power, while the other has been content
to remain unnoticed ; for human natnre acts
too uniformly when the question of personal
aggrandizement is presented,to admit of this
explanation. We can only answer that there
is something in the calling of cne that de
velops his intellect and opens his eyes to the
relation in which he stands to the world,
and enables him to grapple with the notions
and interests of the world that are antago
nistic lo his own ; while the calling of the
other dwarfs'his Intellect and fixes him in a
rtoltd indifference to all else than bodily
comfort.
The influence that mechanics, by their
steadily increasing numbers and intelligence,
might- have exerted on society, was for a
lone time so hemmed in by the meshes craf
ty cap'talists had woven around them, that
they were all unconscious of the power for
good or evil that lay within their grasp ; but
like the waters of a gentle stream, that have
been dammed till no barrier can longer hold
them, they broke their bonds and rushed
headlong, a mighty flood, carrying destruc
tion to all that stood within their reach.
It might not be out of place, in connection
with this subject, to give some account of
Trade's Unions as they exist in this country ;
but the good they have done being the na
tural result of organized effort, and the evil
they are responsible for being the natural
out-growth of the tyranny their members
bad suffered, and neither being attributable
to any influence peculiar to their calling, I
will not discuss tbe mstterhere; but will
proceed to show that mechanical labor offers
opportunities for mental and social culture,
and to consider wherein mechanics fail to
improve these opportunities.
The present high price that skilled labor
commands, and the system of working ten
hours a day, puts the question of time and
means for improvement at rest. Mechanical
labor, unlike mere drudgery, does not tempt
tbe powers of the mind to stagnate, bnt
keeps them in active and healthy exercise ;
nor does it bring that depressing fatigue to
tbe body that produces mental lassitude af
ter the hours of labor.
Here we have a class of people whose pay
is sufficient to insure a comfortable living
and furnish means for tbe purchase of books
and periodicals, with snfflcent leisure time
for study ; engaged in occupations that are
honorable and calculated to foster a manly
Independence, without which there can be
no true development ; but good opportuni
ties are bad companions unless turned to
good account.
To say nothing of the general information
that may be obtained during hours of leis
ure, almost without cost, there is an endlefs
variety of learning, in reach of every me
chanic, bearing directly on his particular
trade. The whole field of architecture is be
fore the carpenter, the science of drawing
and construction is open to the machinist
and a thorough knowledge of the smeltiDg
and combinations of metals would occupy
the life time of the moulder ; and all may
find pleasant and profitable study in that
ranch neglected branch, the nature and
strength of materials.
Each one of these sciences has demanded,
in Its mastery, the life-time energies of our
best engineers ; but the result of many in
vestigations, that cost these men years of
patient toll, may be learned and applied with
but little mental effort. It is not argned
that every one has the ability, time and
u.fsns for original investigation, nor is this
reqimite for a high degree of proficiency in
any mechanical calling ; but only let me
chanics s;,end one half of their leisure in ap
ptopria'e s',udy and they will soon gain such
knowledge and cultivate such habits of
thought and application as will put them on
tbe high road to success in their calling ;
and command the respect of all whose good
opinion is worth tbe getting.
Bat the most intricate and delicate ques
tion connected with this whole subject is met
with In discussing its social relations ; and I
take np thi phase of the subject with a full
conviction of it difficulty, and strongly im
pressed with tbe fact that I must contend
with prejudices of long standing and take a
posiUoQ not very comlimentaxy to either
I party concerned.
! I hope it is no breach of propriety for me
j to remark here that the relations into which
I I have leen thrown for the last few years
; should exonerate me from any suspicion of
unfairness- in aMimini; my position on this
subject.
We often hear the bitterest complaints
from mechanics ajainsl that portion of s)ci
ety whose si route stances laise them above
the necessity ol manual labor ; and i:o one
can deny that there is a strong disposition on
tho part of those, whose hands are never
soiled with what they consider the vulgar
dirt of the workshop, to fee! Ihai'aR labor is
degrading; and these Bentiments show them
selves in a thousand ways, w ell understood
by the intelligent workman. But however
much tbis is to be condemned we should re
member that bitterness between any two
parties Is generally the resnlt of a fault on
both sides ; and the question befora us now
is, where is the fault on tbe part of the me
chanic, and what remedy for the evil lies
within his reach.
Much of the evil complained of arises from
circumstances over which neither party has
any control and for which neither is respon
sible ; a wide difference in people's daily oc
cupations makes a wide difference in their
tastes, and a similarity of taste is, after all,
what makes the society of one person attrac
tive to another. What does the thorough
business man, pouring over his ledger and
watching for every useless expenditure in
his business, care for the giddy fop who
thinks of nothing but pleasure 7 Their social
status may be the same, but each has a con
tempt for the tastes of the other. Nothing
could be more ruinous to the man who has
to labor ten hours a day than to form the
tastes that control the wealthy and fashion
able in their daily rounds of pleasare ; and
this difference in their tastes mcst ever be
an insurmountable barrier to any intimate
relations between them.
The only complaint of this kind that can
be considered reasonable on the part of me
chanics is this ; that people possessing a
competence, but of simple tastes and high
culture, refuse to treat them with that con
sideration that wculd enable them to enjoy
the advantages of intimate association with
intelli2ence and virture ; and here is where
jhe great fault in all society lies , men are
judged too much by the faults of their class,
and society has not the independence to dis
criminate between the good and bad individ
ual of any class ; and tbo only complete
remedy for this evil is, for mechanics, as a
class, to seek for a higher standard of intel
ligence and refinement; and in doing- this
they must do as all classes of advancing so
ciety havo had to do ; that is cut off their
unworthy members.
So long as human nature remains vrbat it
is, individuals of every class of society may
expect to be judged, in a great measure, by
the virtues and the vices of that class ; and
those mechanics, who desire to take the place
in society that every man of intelligence and
refinement is entitled to, should seek to raise
their fellows from ignorance, from vice, from
Sabbath desecration and from the damning
associations of the grog-shop.
A Curtain Lecture.
According to the village journal
published in Bowling Green, Ken
tucky, a member of the city council
of that town, upon returning home
rather late one evening last week,
was regaled by his dear wife, with
an animated address, after the
following style :
" Every night ! Here it is half
past 1 o'clock ! It's a wonder you
came home at all ! What do you
think a woman is made for V 1
do believe if a robber was to come
and carry me oflfyou would not care
one cent. What is it you say ?
44 City Council business must be at
tended to !" How do I know you go
to the City Council ? Does the City
Council meet e-v-e-r-y night ? They
don't meet but once in New York.
But 1 suppose Bowling Green is a
more importont place. Oh, yes
out-e-v-e-r-y night. Twelve o'clock
one o'clock two o'clock. Here
I stay with the children, all alone
lying awake half of the night wait
ing for you. Couldn't come home
any sooner? Of course you couldn't
if vou didn't want to. But I know
something; you think I don't but I
do. I wish I didn't. Where were
vou Monday night ? Tell me that.
The Marshall told me that the City
Council didn't meet that night. Now
what have you got to say ? " Could
not get a quorum !" Well, it you
couldu't why didn't you come home
Out e-v-e-r-y night hunting for
-x quorum. Bet ycu wouldn't
hunt me in this way if I was miss
ing. Where were you Thursday
night and Friday night ? There wa?
a show in town, wasn t tnere : uo
you always put on your best vest
and a clean shirt to go to the
Council ? What did you buy that
bottle of hair oil for, and hide it ?
" Oil for your hone," indeed! Who
ever heard of hair oil for a whet
etone ? So yon think I didn't see
you in the other room, brushing and
greasing your hair, and looking in
the glass at your pretty self? ' A
man ought to be decent!" He
ought, ought he ? Yes, indeed, a
decent man ought to be, and a
decent man will stay at home with
hU wife sometimes and not go oat
e-v-e-r-y night. How comes it th&t
the City Council didn't meeti"bat
twice a mounth last year ? Tryin
to work it out of debt !" Yes, that's
probable very: laughingarrd jok
ing, and" smoking " an'3 "swapping
lies will work a debt off,1 -won't it?
Now I want to know how
much longer you are going
to keep this night business?
Yes, I want to know ? Oat eYcry
night. City Council, Freemasons,
Red Men, Odd Fellows, sfeWFliair
oil and it's brush and brosh until
you've nearly worn out tBetrash
and your head, too. What is it you
say? k It helps our" business to
keep up your social relational-. Ah,
indeed. You've got relations Jexe
at home, sir. They need keeping
some, I think. What .did you.jj say
about "catching it" the other 'night
at a enchre party ? " Fellers, its X2
o'clock, but let's play a while longer;
we won't catch it any worse1 when
we get home." A pretty speech for
a decent man! "Catehit!" Catch
it !" Well, 1 intend you shall catch
it a little. What's that you. say, ?
"If I wouldn't fret you so, you
would stay at home more f'l-J5yS
sir, do you stay at home a P'tew
nights and try it. Perhaps 'the
fretting would stop. Out every
night because I fret you -so
What's that sir ? ' Yoo know
ladies who ain't always scolding
their husbands !" You do, de you?
How came you to know them ? What
business had you to know whether
they women fret or not? That's
always the way. You men think
all the other women are saints but
your wives.
Oh, yes saints, s-ai-n-ts. ;M1
have you to know, sir, that there
isn't a woman in this town that's
any more of a saint than I amw-v I
know them all, sir, a heap better
than you do. You see the honey
rd sugar ;de of them, and they
only e the I o.iey and
sugar side of you. Now, sir, I
just want you to know that if you
don't stay at home more than - you
do, I'll leave these children to "get
burnt up. and I'll go out e-v-er-y
niiht. When a poor women gets
desperate, why, sir,
perate, that's all.
she
is
des
Holding back the Cotton for Paying
Prices. The Rural Carolinian tor
November says : " At the time of
writing this, cotton is not selling nt
such prices as it ought to command.
We hope that before these, lines
meet tha reader's eye, there will be
an improvement. If not it will
come later. Let those whom debt
and liens do not compel to posh ' it
into market, not be in haste to sell
at non-paying prices- Debts must
be paid, even if produce be sacrificed.
but every one is justified in any hon
est effort to get remurerative prices,
for the products of his labor. In
anj event, let all cotton be ginned
and baled as soon as possible, so as
to be able to take advantage of any
favorable condition of the market.
The cotton is safer too in bales than
lying loose in the gin house. A
liberal use of bagging will pay It
is poor economy to leave parts of
the sides and ends of the bales ex
posed. The whole should be neatly
covered, for even in so strictly-, a
non-fancy article as cotton, a tidy
package helps the sale, Having
your crop carefully ginned, well
baled and fully insured, much anx
iety concerning it will be avoided.
The insurance premium is a compar
atively small matter, but it may
save you from pecuniary ruin."
Cost of Living in the South.
The Savannah Advertiser, quot
ing an vugusia couteiuporaxy,
calls for a "marking down
of
prices, saying :
In our Southern cities the rent
rates are enormous, and it is almost
impossible for a man with a moderate
income to get a decent house in a
convenient neighborhood. Market
ing, too, in tha South, is simply
atrocious. Meats are within bounds,
but vegetables are entirely too high.
One reason of this is because the
South, for some inexplicable reason,
has not understood and employed
th fractions" of nickel. At the
North, nobjdy. even during inflated
trices, ever thonrja
it ct eivins more
than two cents it
a souD-bmch
?md four cents for a cabbage. In
our market a soup bunch and a
poor one at that costs ten cents,
and a cappage of ordinary dimen
sions, brings twenty five cents.
There should be reform in these
and other things. Let somebody
start the fractional copper currency
here, if possible, aLd let venders of
small articles understand th:tt"they
must " mark do n" as well as the
venders of luxuries.
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